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PLEASURE PROMO

As you might have noticed from Scott’s post yesterday, we really like Joshua Safdie‘s The Pleasure of Being Robbed. So we have no shame in letting you know again. Head over to our Filmmaker Videos section where Evan Louison and David Woolner of Coin-Op Pictures have sent us a promo they co-directed for the film. It opens today at the IFC Center in New York. But in all honesty, Robbed was one of our favorites from this year’s fest circuit and hope it does well.

by Jason Guerrasio on Oct 3, 2008

A PLEASURE IN RED

Coin-Op Pictures’s Evan Louison and David Woolner direct this short promo for Joshua Safdie‘s debut feature, The Pleasure of Being Robbed, which is out in limited release this weekend. Click here to see video.

by Jason Guerrasio on Oct 2, 2008

THE PLEASURE OF BEING ROBBED IN THIS WEEK’S NEWSLETTER

Every week newsletter subscribers receive an email from us in which we link to key stories from the blog and the website from the previous seven days, highlight various pieces of news and festival deadlines, and in which I write a brief Editor’s Letter. I tend to write stuff that I don’t post elsewhere on the site or in the magazine, and it’s free to join — just subscribe by typing your email address in the box at the left. I’m posting below the letter from this week’s newsletter as I used it to plug two great movies opening this […]

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 2, 2008

MUSIC ROYALTY RATE LEFT UNCHANGED; iTUNES LIVES

Rex Crum at Marketwatch reports: The Copyright Royalty Board on Thursday left unchanged the amount record companies will pay songwriters for the sale of CDs or digitally downloaded songs. The three-judge panel said the record companies will continue to pay 9.1 cents a song, while the National Music Publishers Association had sought an increase to 15 cents a song. Apple Inc. and other online music stores had opposed the potential price increase. Additionally the CRB set a payment rate of 24 cents each for songs sold as ringtones for cellphones.

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 2, 2008

FILM TAX BREAKS INCLUDED IN BAIL-OUT BILL

Nikki Finke points to this Los Angeles Times piece that reveals that pro-movie biz breaks are included in the bail-out bill that just passed the Senate and which is headed for the house. Specifically, the bill extends the film production cost deduction included in the 2004 Jobs Creation Act to December, 2009, and it lifts the budget cap on eligible films. Now, instead of being limited to films budgeted at up to $15 million, the deduction is capped at $15 million for any single film no matter what the budget.

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 2, 2008

APPLE: TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY…

The Fortune article entitled “Digital Music Showdown” is linked all over the web today as it contains a seemingly bombshell-like piece of news: that Apple is threatening to shutter the iTunes music store over the Copyright Royalty Board in Washington, D.C.’s proposal to increase the royalty rates for digitally-sold music by six cents a song. The story is grabber, and it grabbed me — I playfully lifted a page from Keith Olberman to protest what I called Apple’s “preposterous piece of brinksmanship.” Of course, the devil is always in the details, and as a number of posters to the original […]

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 2, 2008

APPLE… WORST COMPANY IN THE WORLD!!!

I’ll steal a page from Keith Olberman as I link to this CNN article on Apple’s threat to shut down its iTunes movie store over a dispute over artist royalty rates. From the piece by Devin Leonard: The Copyright Royalty Board in Washington, D.C. is expected to rule Thursday on a request by the National Music Publishers’ Association to increase royalty rates paid to its members on songs purchased from online music stores like iTunes. The publishers association wants rates raised from 9 cents to 15 cents a track – a 66% hike. Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) declined to discuss […]

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 1, 2008

TRUST NO ONE

The plot thickens in Jamie Stuart‘s second episode, NYFF6 Part 2, from the New York Film Festival. In this short, Jamie finds his contact at the festival, sits in on the Steven Soderbergh press conference and rescues a woman being harassed in a dark alley with some slick Bourne Identity moves. Tune in next week for Part 3.

by Jason Guerrasio on Sep 30, 2008

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Examining the record of past research from the vantage of contemporary historiography, the historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a new paradigm, scientists adopt new instruments and look in new places. Even more important, during revolutions scientists see new and different things when looking with familiar instruments in places they have looked before. It is rather as if the professional community had been suddenly transported to another planet where familiar objects are seen in a different light and are joined by unfamiliar ones as well. Of […]

by Scott Macaulay on Sep 29, 2008

NYFF46 PART 2

Jamie Stuart continues his series of shorts from the 46th New York Film Festival with an appearance from Steven Soderbergh and a chance encounter with a woman in distress… or is she? Approximate running time: 6:02. Download the short here by right clicking and choosing Save Target or Save Link. (35M) Please visit Jamie’s site at www.mutinycompany.com. To see all the videos in this series please go to https://filmmakermagazine.com/nyff46.php.

by Jason Guerrasio on Sep 29, 2008

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