OTT & Transmedia

The place to discuss, share content and offer tips and advice to OTT - "Over the Top" streaming and Transmedia – the technique of telling a single story or story across multiple platforms including, but not limited to, games, books, events, films and television. 

Tomorrow's AMA - Kenneth Lui, Visual Effects Artist & Filmmaker

Tomorro'w's ASK ME ANYTHING (AMA) is going to be awesome!

Kenneth Lui, Filmmaker, Editor, and Professional VFX Artist (BATMAN V. SUPERMAN, CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY), will be hosting a 24-Hour Ask Me Anything ("AMA") from 2/7 to 2/8 in the Post-Production Lounge, focused on...

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Geoff Hall
U.K. Broadcaster Channel 4 Confirms 200 Layoffs, Reveals Plans for Becoming ‘Digital-First Public Service Streamer by 2030’

Is it just me, or does this sound like C4 is moving into the streamer market, when it speaks of moving away from the linear to embrace the digital market?

Just a thought...

“While getting ourselves into the right shape for the future is without doubt the right action to take, it does involve making di...

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Sam Sokolow

It's hard to stop progress - the industry has always shifted and advanced - who would have ever dreamt of Satellite TV when cable was taking over. I agree that more bandwidth means more opportunity, h...

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Geoff Hall

Sam Sokolow does 'lower cost of delivery' mean a better market for truly independent productions?

James Hoey

Geoff Hall and Sam Sokolow I hope that is the case, making it better for creators. When I think of these kinds of changes I think of newspapers, and news outlets, and the terrible degradation of quali...

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Geoff Hall

James Hoey Thanks. I know Sam talked about us not being able to stop progress, but I think we should be careful not to confuse movement, with progress.

In another conversation, Shadow Dragu-Mihai ment...

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Geoff Hall

Sam Sokolow what do you think about this, Sam?

Geoff Hall
Netflix Scraps Halle Berry’s Sci-Fi Film ‘The Mothership’ After Multiple Post-Production Delays

Does this seem kinda weird to anyone other than me? How can you make it through to Post-Production and then pull it?

The movie finished filming in 2021, but it couldn’t be completed after multiple del...

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Netflix Scraps Halle Berry's Sci-Fi Film 'The Mothership' After Multiple Post-Production Delays
Netflix Scraps Halle Berry's Sci-Fi Film 'The Mothership' After Multiple Post-Production Delays
Netflix has scrapped the release of "The Mothership," a science-fiction film starring Halle Berry. The movie finished filming in 2021, but it couldn't be completed after multiple delays in post-produc…
Shadow Dragu-Mihai, Esq., Ipg

When you are over $14 billion in debt and not expected to make good on the $5b coming due in the next 3 years.... finishing funds tend to dry up. This could be a symptom of the fact that NetFlix in it...

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Geoff Hall

Maurice Vaughan anything is possible, Maurice. I’ve read of streamers buying the rights to an incomplete project and then doing exactly as you say.

Geoff Hall

James Hoey I would love to have been a fly on the wall and know what these insurmountable delays were all about!

Geoff Hall

Shadow Dragu-Mihai, Esq., Ipg so, over the next three years can we expect more of this, as they increase the value of their tax right-offs? It doesn’t make it an attractive proposition to have a produ...

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Sam Sokolow

Sometimes a tax write down is worth more than an over budget product... it just stings when it's a movie from a great artist. But that's Wall Street running things in the creative arts. Another call for more independent production.

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