The politics of Hollywood — National Banana, Film Department redux
This video-content sector is getting silly, not just because it’s overcrowded.
Last week, we wrote about National Banana, a somewhat mediocre Santa Monica-based video site, where Hollywood producer Jerry Zucker, creator of Airplane! and Naked Gun, is leading the company’s production. The company received $1 million from a Silicon Valley venture firm, U.S. Venture Partners.
We’ve since been informed of another connection. Turns out, Steve Krausz, who led the investment, is Zucker’s brother in law (Krausz’… Continue Reading
Mideast quagmire affects new Hollywood film start-up
Updated
A top Hollywood producer with a new movie company backed by General Electric has killed a script about agents trying to stop a terrorist attack — allegedly due to political pressure from two of his board members.
This blog doesn’t normally cover Mideast politics, and its influence on Hollywood. But the producer company concerned, Film Department, is one we’ve covered (link; scroll down), and the writer of the script, Jason Ressler, has told us more.
Of course,… Continue Reading
Roundup: Solar-motorbike, Webwag, Marchex, Google Gadget Ventures, more
Here’s the latest (updated) action:
The solar-powered motorbike from SunRed in Spain — Read the little story about how the company hopes to make a prototype soon, and needs venture capital to do so.
Marchex launches huge Web site — The public company said it has launched more than 100,000 local and vertical Web sites, publishing more than one billion pages of content for hoping to bait people surfing online. These are third-rate sites, originally filled with advertising, but… Continue Reading