GIGAPIXEL CAMERAS

This kind of ties in with the HD-DVD making the regular DVDs outdated from my
previous post. The resolution just keeps climbing.
-Anup

http://www.gigapxl.org/gallery.htm
http://www.tpd.tno.nl/smartsite966.html

___________________________________________________________________

SCREENWRITER'S RESOURCE

This is a great site by Ted & Terry (screenwriters for 'Pirates of the
Caribbean', 'Shrek', 'Alladin', etc).
-Anup

http://www.wordplayer.com

___________________________________________________________________

MOVIE RELEASE DATES

It's amazing that studios spend millions on making these films and then don't
think about the type of movies for the release time. Who was thinking about
Christmas weeks before Thanksgiving (when 'Polar Express' was released)? It
opened with a mediocre box office. People only want to think about carving
turkey on Thanksgiving, not each other while on a conquest to take over the
world. Alexander opened at only $16M ($21M for all four days during T-day).

Here's an article on possible reasons why 'Alexander' failed.

-Anup

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/fs/20041130/110184800600.html

___________________________________________________________________

CHILD ACTOR DANIEL ZINNA

I met this child actor at a fest earlier this year and was very impressed by his
professionalism and work ethic. I have not seen his work as he still working on
putting together his demoreel, but he has done fourteen films by the time he was
11 and has done VO and a mutlitude of other things (man, I feel like a slacker).
He is going to Bombay and possibly Delhi from 12/17 - 1/07 and is looking to
make contacts in the industry. If you know anyone there, please pass his info
onto them.
-Anup

http://www.geocities.com/danielzinna/1.html

___________________________________________________________________

FILM FEST SUMMIT

Talking About The Modern Film Festival, at a Conference in NYC
Wednesday December 8 9:31 AM ET

Reps from a handful of the more than 600 film festivals in the U.S. kicked off
the inaugural International Film Festival Summit in Manhattan on Tuesday,
chatting about some of the issues facing festivals, from audience development,
rental fees,

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/iw/20041208/110252706000.html

___________________________________________________________________

CASE STUDY: THE PASSION - Oscar Race

Continuing with the case study (you can go back and see the archives titled 'CS'
to see Mel's steps in marketing 'The Passion of the Christ').
-Anup

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/eo/20041119/110091930000.html

___________________________________________________________________

SLAVES AND ENSIGNS

It looks like my doc will screen around 9:30pm tonight in downtown SD. Check
out
http://www.cinemasocial.com for complete info.

Thanks,
Anup