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Cannes 2013: Decoding B2B marketing
[Screen Hub Feature]
Screen Hub
Tuesday 21 May, 2013 (Australia)

Even emerging producers fresh from the real world have to understand they are a brand, according to the Cannes Film Market’s Producers Workshop. Screen Hub’s Andrew Einspruch stays idealistic as he contemplates the pitching nitty-gritty of B2B Marketing Tools and Strategies and the invention of the producerial self.

Cannes 2013: What Kind of Producer Are You?
[Screen Hub Feature]
Screen Hub
Tuesday 21 May, 2013 (Australia)

For the third year, the Cannes Film Market held its Producers Workshop, aimed at new and new-ish producers attending the market. One session in the series of workshops was What Kind of Producer Are You? Screen Hub’s Andrew Einspruch reports but keeps any reflections on his own identity to himself.

Ratings: Monday, 20th May 2013
Oztam
Tuesday 21 May, 2013 (Australia)

Hangover day for SBS as it comes back to earth after its Sunday triumph. 3.8%.

LeWeb: Capitalists go hippy, offer Australians discount for key conference
[Screen Hub Feature]
Screen Hub
Tuesday 21 May, 2013 (Australia)

Reed Midem, which runs the MIP conferences, has plunged into the digital world with the purchase of LeWeb, a strand of conferences. The next, in London on June 5th and 6th, is enticing wandering Australians with a fifty percent discount, but only until May 23rd.

SPAA: beaverooing with Canadian association, mutual benefit guaranteed
[Screen Hub Feature]
Screen Hub
Tuesday 21 May, 2013 (Australia)

The Screen Producers` Association of Australia has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to co-operate with Canadian Media Production Association, its North American equivalent.

Gatsby: box office after international release
[Screen Hub Feature]
Screen Hub
Monday 20 May, 2013 (Australia)

Climbing, climbing.. the figures for Gatsby defy the printed insults.

Penne Hackforth-Jones: dead at 64
The Age
Monday 20 May, 2013 (Australia)

Penne Hackforth-Jones has died of lung cancer. She was pretty private, but her public world as a performer will linger in dozens of television programs and a solid bunch of secondary roles in some fine films. Read blog and you start to touch the spirit that endeared her to so many professional colleagues.

Last Dance: beats Gatsby in one crucial way
[Screen Hub Feature]
Screen Hub
Monday 20 May, 2013 (Australia)

Will The Great Gatsby leave Cannes with a prize? No, unless there is some wrinkle we have not heard of. Will The Last Dance? Yes, it already has. Antony I. Ginnane, who knows full well that film producing is made of modest victories, can be quietly pleased.

St Kilda Film Festival: lovely take from The Age
The Age
Monday 20 May, 2013 (Australia)

Yep. It`s not surprising this is good. Craig Mathieson is.

Assange: US documentary Alex Gibney brings a sense of dramatic irony
Salon
Monday 20 May, 2013 (Australia)

Nice thing about long form documentary - they can be complex

Jobs Email: God speaks to Murdoch weenie, leads to legal horror
All Things D
Monday 20 May, 2013 (Australia)

The US Department of Justice is suing Apple over eBook price-fixing. Here is a complete email from Jobs to James Murdoch, and the notes it created, which the government claims supports it case. That is disputable; the email also shows the language and informality and thought processes of the late, great industry titan.

Birth of Special Effects: computers first deployed to degrade images
New Yorker
Monday 20 May, 2013 (Australia)

How Michael Crichton and Westworld started a technical revolution that linked Pacific Rim and the droogy effects to cover lips and faces on news broadcasts.

SBS: triumphant over Eurovision result
Bandt
Monday 20 May, 2013 (Australia)

Best result for Eurovision evah? But, why, why? [no answers here, and SBS is too busy grinning to admit how it really feels]. This is your taxes at work.

Ratings: Sunday 19th May
[Screen Hub Feature]
Oztam
Monday 20 May, 2013 (Australia)

Wonders will never cease! SBS hits double figures.

TV Sport: law and sport in unholy alliance over rights fights
The Conversation
Monday 20 May, 2013 (Australia)

Huge sports audiences induce fringe players to find ways into broadcast game, which leads IP owners to fight more cases, until legal cases over sport look a lot like sports as well. Does this mean we will be allowed to bet on the outcomes?

Make My Movie: the horror, the horror
[Screen Hub Feature]
Screen Hub
Monday 20 May, 2013 (New Zealand)

The successful New Zealand Make My Movie initiative has returned, and reconfigured itself as Make My Horror Movie. It is almost as if the idea itself is sentient, pulling a film community towards the dark side. And the possibility of international sales.

Sam Neill: an ageing actor who can manage his plonk
Stuff
Monday 20 May, 2013 (New Zealand)

Great actors can do well as they age, but the physiog of Sam Neill demonstrates the sheer artistic and economic value of looking after yourself.

Jane Campion: bites carress in Carrosse d`or
Stuff
Monday 20 May, 2013 (New Zealand)

Jane Campion, honoured once more with the prestigious Carrosse d`or award, is trenchant on the lack of female directors.

Gatsby: precision beats hysteria in international assault on Our Baz
London Telegraph
Monday 20 May, 2013 (Australia)

"Under this light-entertainment influence, Gatsby’s yellow car reminds one more of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang than the mixture of suavity and slight derangement that it is meant to represent...."

Cannes 2013: in the jostling, Julie glides with customary aplomb
[Screen Hub Feature]
Screen Hub
Monday 20 May, 2013 (Australia)

What does a Cannes veteran actually think about as she makes her way through the melee of Cannes 2013? Money, goss, official discomfiture.. the Screen Australia saddling paddock, and some useful deals by antipodean players.

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