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Download charge/cost isn't mentioned in the article, but Freeman is definitely on the brink of revolutionizing new movie watching....
"10 Items or Less" Trailer: http://www.cstar.com/preview10Items.html
ARTICLE EXCERPT:
Just two weeks after "10 Items or Less" opens in theaters Friday, it'll be available for digital download from Clickstar, a company that Morgan Freeman's production company and Intel have founded to bring small movies to those who live far from boutique cinemas.
What's Freeman doing rethinking Hollywood's business models?
"I'm just a firm believer that things continue to grow, get better," the 69-year-old actor says in his deep, distinctive voice.
The film, directed by Brad Silberling, is a short, independent movie about independent movies. Freeman's character is an actor who has been out of the movie biz for four years who's considering signing onto "a little independent thing."
He researches the prospective part by observing a grocery store checkout girl (Paz Vega). The two quickly forge a friendship and spend a pivotal day together.
While "10 Items or Less" a modest film of 82 minutes, shot in 15 days is best viewed on the big screen (like all movies), its smallness makes a computer screen a reasonable viewing station. Perhaps more importantly, it's not a film that will play at most multiplexes or in rural areas.
It's a familiar problem to Freeman.
"Where I live, in my town, there's no movie house," he says. "There are many, many, many, many people who don't have access."
Freeman and his production partner, Lori McCreary, founded Revelations Entertainment in 1996 three years after Freeman's lone directing effort, "Bopha!"
"I want to have control over making films. I really do," says Freeman.
After Napster and online downloading changed the music industry, Freeman and McCreary began considering how Hollywood could head off similar problems discussions that Intel eventually joined.
"And we came up with the idea of distributing movies via the Internet on a stable platform, on something that you can control," Freeman says.
The idea isn't new; Movielink.com, for one, offers movies digitally for purchase and rental (with a viewing period of 24 hours). What makes Clickstar unique is that it's offering first-run movies.
"10 Items or Less" will have a two-week window of a purely theatrical release, then will be available from ClickstarInc.com on Dec. 15. Freeman says its next first-run digital release will be "Lonely Hearts" (starring John Travolta and James Gandolfini) in the spring.
Full article: http://entertainment.tv.yahoo.com/entnews/ap/20061130/116493600000.html
"10 Items or Less" Trailer: http://www.cstar.com/preview10Items.html
ARTICLE EXCERPT:
Just two weeks after "10 Items or Less" opens in theaters Friday, it'll be available for digital download from Clickstar, a company that Morgan Freeman's production company and Intel have founded to bring small movies to those who live far from boutique cinemas.
What's Freeman doing rethinking Hollywood's business models?
"I'm just a firm believer that things continue to grow, get better," the 69-year-old actor says in his deep, distinctive voice.
The film, directed by Brad Silberling, is a short, independent movie about independent movies. Freeman's character is an actor who has been out of the movie biz for four years who's considering signing onto "a little independent thing."
He researches the prospective part by observing a grocery store checkout girl (Paz Vega). The two quickly forge a friendship and spend a pivotal day together.
While "10 Items or Less" a modest film of 82 minutes, shot in 15 days is best viewed on the big screen (like all movies), its smallness makes a computer screen a reasonable viewing station. Perhaps more importantly, it's not a film that will play at most multiplexes or in rural areas.
It's a familiar problem to Freeman.
"Where I live, in my town, there's no movie house," he says. "There are many, many, many, many people who don't have access."
Freeman and his production partner, Lori McCreary, founded Revelations Entertainment in 1996 three years after Freeman's lone directing effort, "Bopha!"
"I want to have control over making films. I really do," says Freeman.
After Napster and online downloading changed the music industry, Freeman and McCreary began considering how Hollywood could head off similar problems discussions that Intel eventually joined.
"And we came up with the idea of distributing movies via the Internet on a stable platform, on something that you can control," Freeman says.
The idea isn't new; Movielink.com, for one, offers movies digitally for purchase and rental (with a viewing period of 24 hours). What makes Clickstar unique is that it's offering first-run movies.
"10 Items or Less" will have a two-week window of a purely theatrical release, then will be available from ClickstarInc.com on Dec. 15. Freeman says its next first-run digital release will be "Lonely Hearts" (starring John Travolta and James Gandolfini) in the spring.
Full article: http://entertainment.tv.yahoo.com/entnews/ap/20061130/116493600000.html
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