Anyone can make a movie, but not everyone will receive distribution. Advances in technology enable individual content creators to make high-quality films at an extremely low cost, but who will watch the content if it is not siphoned through the right distribution channels? Read more »
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is portrayed in the new movie The Social Network as being obsessed with impressing a girlfriend and getting noticed by an exclusive club at Harvard, but early Facebook employee Matt Cohler says the character is nothing like the Mark Zuckerberg he knows. Read more »
“The Social Network” comes out today (Mathew and I are playing hooky to see it this afternoon). The publicity tour is in full swing, leaving us with tons of videos to watch. It’s time for a little Friday video fun. Read more »
The Facebook Movie trailer wasn’t half bad, and the creepy choir, web site overlays and voice overs depicting young men’s ruthless ambition are easy enough to mimic to make it a meme. Today, the best parody so far came out for an imagined Twitter movie. Read more »
In a draft script for “The Social Network” that I obtained from sources in the movie industry, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is portrayed as vindictive and naive. A spoiler alert seems strange given the movie is supposedly based on real events, but now you’ve been warned. Read more »
They say history is written by the victors, but the reality is Hollywood goes for a sexy story. The upcoming movie “The Social Network” is based on the semi-fictionalized accounts of those jilted during the founding of Facebook. Its popularity could make it popular truth. Read more »
