Mideast quagmire affects new Hollywood film start-up

Mideast quagmire affects new Hollywood film start-up

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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

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