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Should We Keep Letting the MPAA Fib

June 15, 2008 – 9:59 pm

The MPAA is always going on about how they are losing tons of money in the theaters because of pirates. However a CNN article recently pointed out that
Since the first weekend of May, domestic grosses total $1.46 billion, up 4.6 percent from 2007’s, according to Media By Numbers. Factoring in higher ticket prices, actual movie [...]

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I’m Gonna See This (Darjeeling Limited)

September 8, 2007 – 9:00 pm

Looks like Wes Anderson is finally gonna remind me why I sometimes really want to go to the movies (even if the theaters treat customers like hardened criminals). The Darjeeling Limited is written by Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola and Jason Schwartzman, and Anderson is the Director. It stars Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason [...]

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Ten Things I Hate About Comandments

June 22, 2007 – 10:06 am

Fair use makes great derivative works like this legal. Of course Viacom still had it taken down, even though they legally don’t own it. But now it is back, take a look.

This is just one of the many reasons fair use needs to be protected. The DVD-CCA (the folks is charge of DVD licensing) [...]

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Write Your Movie Script this June

May 10, 2007 – 9:29 am

From the folks that brought you the National Novel Writing Month comes Script Frenzy. They’ve made June the month to write a complete script from start to finish.
The Script Frenzy website has all sorts of tips on how to write a screenplay. From what I understand the site is basically just a support group where [...]

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