Entertainment Business

Netflix and User Data

February 18, 2013 | Cinema & New Media Arts

Andrew Leonard, How Netflix is Turning Viewers Into Puppets

For years Netflix has been analyzing what we watched last night to suggest movies or TV shows that we might like to watch tomorrow. Now it …

Breakthrough Year for Online Movies

February 12, 2013 | Cinema & New Media Arts

Dan Cryan: Breakthrough Year for Online Movies

Signaling the beginning of the end for physical media, Americans will likely spend more on legal, Internet-delivered movies than they spend on DVDs and Blu-ray Discs for the first …

Houston Filmmaker Grant

February 8, 2013 | Cinema & New Media Arts

Today a press release announced an opportunity for Houston filmmakers:

Applications are now being accepted for Houston Filmmaker Grant 2013, a $30,000 matching grant for the production of a narrative feature-length commercial motion picture produced in …

Netflix Pushing Original Series

January 30, 2013 | Cinema & New Media Arts

Founder Reed Hastings seeks to turn Netflix into a major force in original programming

On February 1, all of Hollywood will be watching the debut of House of Cards, David Fincher’s drama starring Kevin Spacey, for …

The New Renaissance

January 7, 2013 | Joshua Sikora

Where have we been and where are we going? Valuable questions in times of change — questions I think we all too often forget to ask. We talk about what is happening, rather than what has …