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Marc Fusco
April 12th, 2007
Dang it must be fun to flex your muscles as the 800 ton gorilla. MySpace, the largest social content “sharing” website in the universe has recently blocked yet another one of a rival company’s content from being embedded by its users. Here’s the blacklist so far: Imeem, Revver, Vidilife, Stickam and now Photobucket. Again, what a blast it must be…
Truth is, these sites aren’t necessarily trying to compete, but as the little guy, they need MySpace in a big way. In fact, it’s safe to say that MySpace is a big part of their business models. The short of it: MySpace claims that what they were truly blocking were advertisements streaming with the content and that they contacted Photobucket to remove the ads, but no one returned their call. Well, Photobucket says that they were never contacted. If you ask me, I’d have to believe the little guy.
Here’s what sparked the ban. It’s a Spiderman slideshow offered by Photobucket — those bastards.
Of course in this case there is an obvious conflict with MySpace parent corp Fox being in direct competition with Sony’s Spiderman this summer. Could Fox be anymore transparent?
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Marc Fusco
April 6th, 2007
Meet The Robinsons just gave us a big clue…
Everyone knows that technology right now is pushing our little personal worlds to change on a daily basis. It’s bringing upon us a new way to look at just about everything connected to our senses, expect maybe smell (unless you count the smell that your overly-abused iPod Nano takes on after the many sweaty places it’s been). So here’s a line of thinking that is pretty clear to follow, yet I’ll be the first to brand it. Hmmm, let’s call it the “magic box theory.” As a filmmaker it makes me sad, but I’ll explain:
In the 1950s, there was this ‘magic box’ that seeped its way into just about every household in America. On it, you would get magical moving pictures, news and advertisments of your favorite kitchen appliances and soap powder. I’m not sure if you’ve ever heard of this ‘magic box’ but trust me when I say, it changed the world. When it did, the movie studios were paranoid as hell and planned a massive counter attack. They created wide screen formats like CinemaScope, VistaVision and Cinerama and launched a primitive 3-D process so as to offer people something they couldn’t get in their living rooms on their brand new 10- and 12-inch black & white screens. And never guess what? It worked. People still kept going to the movies.
So what about now, you ask, when the ‘magic boxes’ turned into ‘magic picture frames’ in the form of 40-60 inch Hi-def plasma screens as the centerpiece of home theater systems fully equiped with digital suround sound? And what about the small screens we can carry in our pockets anywhere and the ability to watch high-quality video on our computers? The answer: digital, theatrical 3-D. And yes, it too is working.
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April 4th, 2007
Okay, I know this is fluff, but I couldn’t resist. And as the British say…”brilliant.” Future pirate Keith and I need to hook up and write some black comedy. First, thank God Reuters, one of the most respected news organizations in the world, every UK newspaper, TV and online outlet, and every other wire service throughout the world actually printed this story.
“LONDON: April 4, 2007 — Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards said in a new interview with a British music magazine that he once snorted his father’s ashes mixed with cocaine during a drug binge.”
Then Richards came out and said he was joking and Reuters retracted it, conveniently blaming the source NME as seen in this article and the first one was taken down.
Keith Richards
I’m not going to harp on this, but the media was so ready to pounce on the sensational side to the story, they forgot to ask themselves if it is supposed to be funny or not. NME, a leading respectible source for music news uses interviewer Mark Beaumont’s attemp to explain himself as NME’s defense as to why the egg is still dripping off its chin.
Keith has long been known as a prankster, someone interviewing the rockstar could’ve known perhaps a little about him before the interview. Let me quote Keith from the article:
“He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn’t have cared, he didn’t give a shit. It went down pretty well, and I’m still alive.”
Do think Keith really did it? Was it really an April Fools joke? You decide. Let us know.
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April 1st, 2007
Gotta hand it to Bob and Harvey (Weinstein), they know what they’re doing. On April 6th, Dimension Films–genre arm of the Weinstein Company (formerly Miramax) will release Grindhouse, the umbrella title for two back-to-back throwback features directed by Robert Rodriquez and Quentin Tarantino. Combined, both movies cost a total of $53 million to to produce, are directed by two of the hottest directors in town, have a ridiculously foreign-friendly genre (Tarantino big action), and did I mention they cost $53 million to make? Can you say no-brainer? This will be the Weinstein Company’s grand opening in my humble opinion and will most likely breakeven on the foreign revenue alone with domestic and DVD being the gravy. Grindhouse is gonna clean up, that’s all there is to it.
What is the Grindhouse you say? It’s a genre brought forth in the 1970s described in the trailer as “featuring uncensored sexuality and hardcore thrills.”
My favorite trailer is here:
GRINDHOUSE
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March 29th, 2007
Okay, I’m a sucker for anything having to do with the Ocean’s franchise. I know some of you think the second one sucked and at any moment I would throw down to defend the honor of my friend George (yes in the Hollywood book of name dropping if you party with a celebrity at least thrice, he/she is officially your friend), but here’s a link to the recent trailer of Ocean’s Thirteen and it doesn’t look half bad. Perhaps not entirely original, but who cares. You Tube doesn’t have it yet so here it is at Yahoo exclusively.
OCEAN’S THIRTEEN TRAILER
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Marc Fusco
March 22nd, 2007
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You sniffed my DVDs. Prepare to die.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 (Reuters) - Malaysian movie pirates have put a bounty on the heads of two sniffer dogs who busted a fake DVD ring with a seizure of discs worth about $3 million, media and officials said on Thursday.Lucky and Flo, two female black Labradors deployed by Malaysian authorities in their crackdown on pirated movie DVDs and music CDs, carried out their first major successful operation in Johor state on Tuesday.
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Marc Fusco
March 17th, 2007
Memo to: Peter Bart
Hi Peter, perhaps you know who I am, or perhaps the indie filmmaker who chops down a tree at a time as an entrepreneur wouldn’t be in your sites whatsoever. As a fellow insider, a film company owner (though small it may be), and working writer/director/producer who must also take advice and criticism with many grains of salt, I represent a sobering voice from the streets of movie town USA. And I must say one thing before I read another “memo†from the Desk of Peter Bart: your memos are stupid.
Whew, that felt good. Now a fool like myself would never revile someone of your veteran prowess as a journalist, nor really care to pick apart any of your fascinating editorials, but let me give it a shot. Pete, when you are trying give public advice to a very successful and famous businessman, someone who is at the top of arguably the most competitive business in the world, someone who has the vast resources and wide reach of influence you wouldn’t even come close to knowing, make sure it’s at least advice that isn’t stating the laymen’s obvious.
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