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2012 Festival de Cannes Film Entries Have a Big Act to Follow

ProductionHUB Blog — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:56:00 +0000

Cannes 65th annual film festival is well on its way, and with some of last year’s entries turning into box office gold, this year’s talented filmmakers definitely have a standard to keep. Ever since its creation, the Festival de Cannes has remained faithful to its founding purpose: to draw attention to and raise the profile of films with the aim of contributing towards the development of cinema, boosting the film industry worldwide and celebrating cinema at an international level. With Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris” opening the festival last year, no one would have guessed it would become one of Allen’s highest grossing films ever, getting him his first Oscar in 25 years. With 2012 judges like Jean-Paul Gaultier, Ewan McGregor and few other well known faces, this years Cannes Film Festival seems like one unforgettable, star-studded fest.

Scope out this years 2012 Cannes Film Festival Judges:

Wes Anderson’s film debut at Cannes: ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ to open Festival
There are diehard Wes Anderson fans and then there’s everyone else.

Cannes 2012: Bill Murray takes center stage for ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ premiere

Find a few celebrities, filmmakers and artists in attendance at Cannes today, as well as everyday at this festival

Cannes 2012: Turkey’s Nuri Bilge Ceylan to be given Golden Coach
This means that the award will be given to a filmmaker from the Middle East for the second consecutive year; in 2011 the festival handed it to embattled Iranian director Jafar Panahi.

Cannes 2012: Do you think any film can reproduce ‘The Artist’ magic?
“The Artist” and its acquisition by Weinstein Co. at the start of the Cannes Cannes Film Festival began a journey that would take the movie all the way to the Oscars.

Cannes Film Festival 2012: A Star is Born

Cannes 2012: ‘Bourne’s’ Paul Greengrass to tackle FC Barcelona

Cannes 2012: After the Battle, the Egyptian fight for film

Cannes 2012: Sacha Baron Cohen steals the show at France’s famed film festival

Cannes 2012: Liam Neeson to Star in Long-Awaited ‘A Walk Among Tombstones’

Cannes 2012: Claude Miller’s last film will close festival

The Cannes Film Festival will pay tribute to a recently departed French filmmaker, announcing that it has chosen “Therese D,” the final work from the late Claude Miller, as its closing-night film.

Learn more about one of Cannes best films from 2011: Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris

For more information on the Cannes Film Festival going on now until May 27th:
http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en.html

Info courtesy of: Festival de Cannes, Indiewire, LA Times Blog, Hollywood Reporter, NY Daily News, The Guardian UK.

images courtesy of: Google

How to Get Video Content: Feeding the Beast

Troy Dreier — Fri, 18 May 2012 03:57:25 +0000

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Grant Crowell — Fri, 11 May 2012 21:18:58 +0000

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admin — Thu, 10 May 2012 21:26:00 +0000

Making a film, you learn a lot of lessons—often contradictory lessons, but lessons nonetheless. These are a few of the thousand lessons I learned in the process of making my first feature, A Bag of Hammers. I’ll skip the really obvious ones, like “Write a great, compelling script” or “cast the best actors you can"...

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Troy Dreier — Thu, 10 May 2012 04:35:14 +0000

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Mixed Reviews: The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Music on Film Series

admin — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:04:00 +0000

Nearly 40 years after its initial release, The Rocky Horror Picture Show remains amazingly popular. Still shown at midnight screenings around the world, it has the distinction of being the longest-running theatrical release in film history, having originally opened in 1975. Not bad for a bizarre, low-budget horror-comedy rock musical that introduced “sweet transvestite” Dr. Frank-N-Furter to the general public. The history and influence of this weirdly influential film is recounted in Dave Thompson’s The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the latest entry in the Music on Film series.

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HTML5 or Apps for Streaming Video? Technology Review Says HTML5

Troy Dreier — Wed, 09 May 2012 06:44:07 +0000

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Online Video by the Numbers

Jay Miletsky — Mon, 07 May 2012 20:56:35 +0000

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Avengers Assemble at the Box Office

admin — Mon, 07 May 2012 19:53:00 +0000

So, you might have heard—The Avengers did pretty well at the box office this weekend. If by "pretty well" you mean it shattered the record for best three-day weekend with its $200.3 million haul. Add that to the $441.5 million it's earned internationally since it came out just over a week-and-a-half ago, and the superhero extravaganza has racked up $641.8 million in just 12 days. All very good news for distributor Disney, which definitely needed a post-John Carter morale boost.

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Specialty Pharmacy: Prescription for Job Growth

Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission - News — Mon, 07 May 2012 18:22:24 +0000

While the EDC continues to support the growth of historically strong industries, such as aerospace & defense and digital media, we are constantly looking for new opportunities to diversify our future economy. We believe that one such opportunity lies within our existing specialty pharmacy subsector of life sciences. This $320 billion industry has recently emerged as the most dynamic sector of the pharmaceutical industry and Central Florida has quietly become the nation's leader and distribution hub. Orlando is already home to a handful of the top 15 specialty pharmacies in the nation, including Aetna, CuraScript, Prime Therapeutics and Walgreens. With over 3,000 employees and more specialty pharmacists than anywhere else in the world, the job growth potential for this industry is tremendous. There has been a high volume of recent project activity in this industry. Like any fast growing industry, there are going to be growing pains, including talent availability and recruitment. The EDC, together with academic institutions and other community partners, is first and foremost committed to helping our already established pharmacies succeed. We are hosting focus groups to discuss talent recruitment and development strategy and provide educational support that will lead to the development of a robust workforce. We are engaged in ongoing dialogue with local specialty pharmacy consultant, Therigy, who is producing a white paper focused on Metro Orlando's specialty pharmacy industry. As part of our approach to grow the industry, economic development partners from Progress Energy and the University of Central Florida joined members of the EDC's business development team, representing Metro Orlando at the Armada Specialty Pharmacy Summit. The Summit drew over 2,000 specialty pharmacy stakeholders and attendees from across the nation. The group received a lot of attention, as the first economic development organization to ever attend this summit. Representatives from local pharmacies were thrilled to see Orlando represented and thanked our team for participating. The team's time paid off in new project leads, future projects and a better understanding of what it will take to grow this industry. The EDC's business development team also spent time courting corporate real estate executives and energy executives.

CoreNet Global, the leading professional association for corporate real estate and workplace executives, held its annual Global Summit in San Diego with nearly 2,000 top corporate real estate decision-makers. The EDC was there along with Enterprise Florida to meet with site selection consultants and corporate real estate professionals, including hosting a special "FLAmingle" event at the San Diego Zoo encouraging attendees at the Global Summit to attend CoreNet Global's conference to be held in Orlando this October.

The World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, the world's largest industrial biotechnology event with more than 1,000 business leaders, investors and policy makers in biofuels, bio-based products, and renewable chemicals met. For the first time, the EDC attended the conference resulting in strengthened industry contacts and a deeper understanding of energy issues that will help in targeting this important sector.

Social Video ROI: Why it Matters for Marketing

Grant Crowell — Sat, 05 May 2012 06:41:56 +0000

With online video playing a greater role in marketing initiatives, it's time to get serious about calculating the return on investment.

Super (and Not-So-Super) Hero Flicks

admin — Fri, 04 May 2012 20:38:00 +0000

Superhero movies tend to come in just one of two flavors: Exceptional and terrible. They either work as visually breathtaking, escapist fun… or they don’t. This summer features a slew of upcoming superhero flicks, including The Amazing Spider-Man and The Dark Knight Rises. The latest, Joss Whedon's highly anticipated The Avengers, hits theaters today.

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Troy Dreier — Fri, 04 May 2012 03:46:30 +0000

A smart online video strategy can help you engage with viewers and promote your products without sounding like a commercial.

Water Takes Center Stage in Last Call at the Oasis

admin — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:52:00 +0000

When we started Last Call at the Oasis, our goals were ambitious and the challenge was considerable. We wanted to illuminate the water crisis and its many facets... and there are many, many facets. Generally, when we hear “water crisis” we think “drought”—usually “drought happening somewhere else in the world.” But what’s going on is big, and it is crucial that we understand it. This is water—essential for all life. Could the stakes be any higher?

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