Either 3D printing has totally jumped the shark, or it's hitting the mainstream.
Maybe both.
The Black List is network that connects scripts with the people who turn them into films. Three out of the past five Best Picture winners and seven of the past 12 screenwriting Oscars were on The Black List before they went into production
The Creative Artists Agency is raising a $20 million venture capital fund.
Editor's Pick In the aftermath of the announcement, I caught up with Pixar's former CTO, Oren Jacob, for a conversation about the reunion of Lucasfilm and Pixar, two great production houses under the same roof once again.
Twitter cofounder Biz Stone has asked millions of Twitter users to submit inspiring photos, which he will use as inspiration in a short film that he'll direct under the tutelage of Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard.
Hollywood super-agent Ari Emanuel has a temper. The tech industry better get used to it, because he’s looking north toward Silicon Valley.
Emanuel has built a respected and feared reputation as one of the leading power brokers in Hollywood. The …
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As the battle between Hollywood and high tech reaches a fever pitch, serial entrepreneur Stephan Paternot has an idea that strikes at the lifeblood the movie biz: funding from independent producers.
Inspired by AngelList, Paternot founded Slated, a private marketplace …
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Northern Five Entertainment and Airsoft GI recently released their joint Left 4 Dead short film to the world.
Sporting Hollywood-level production values but produced on a shoestring, the video quickly surpassed half a million views on YouTube, and the teaser …
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Each week, VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi writes a column on videogames called The DeanBeat, while executive editor Dylan Tweney is writing a technology and business column called Dylan’s Desk. They are available to newsletter subscribers a whole day before …
Amazon is expected to ship a powerful 10-inch tablet in the first quarter of 2012, while its 7-inch tablet will make its way to consumers in October, according to Digitimes.
That timing isn’t exactly surprising: Amazon needs a cheap tablet …
Laser Light Engines, which develops super-bright laser-driven light sources for projection devices, announced today that it raised $13 million for development of a 3D-movie light source.
Imax, a strategic partner, joined existing investors in the round.
The funding will help …
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“War Games” was the seminal geek hacker movie that inspired many a young cyber sleuth when it debuted in 1983. The movie told the story of how a kid found a back door into a military computer and accidentally set …
