1. Nintendo's Wii changed the gaming world, but the firm hasn't, to date, suggested any information at all about its successor--much needed, as the Wii looks very aged. But now multiple sources are suggesting that the Wii's follow-up console is in advanced prototyping stages, and the firm is showing it to game publishers.
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TV and film industries treated 3-D like any other premium tech, pumping it full of marketing dollars. Everyone lost money
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Call it the comeback car.
Read More »Morgan Spurlock on His Doc Sponsors: "We Should Have Asked for So Much More Money"
At the photo shoot for our April feature , the director of Pom Wonderful Presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold talks about the process of scavenging for cash in exchange for blatant product placement in his film ... about product placement.
Read More »Paramount Movie World Premiere on BitTorrent: PR Stunt or the Future?
The world premiere of Paramount Pictures The Tunnel will happen in a few months, but not in a theater--it's going to be released on BitTorrent, for peer-to-peer distribution. Yup, that's the same tech video pirates utilize. The movie is set in a network of abandoned rail tunnels that really exist underneath Sydney, Australia, and from the teaser trailer the film proceeds as a real-life feeling horror/thriller with a nod to the Blair Witch Project
Read More »Super Sell Out: Morgan Spurlock’s "Greatest Movie Ever Sold" Bows at SXSW
This is a promotional blog post. I was asked to cover the SXSW Film Festival screening of Morgan Spurlock's new documentary, POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold , which attempts to take a meta-look at the concept of product placement via a documentary funded entirely by product placement, because of promotional considerations: Fast Company, my employer, is featuring Spurlock, his movie, and his take on the concept of "selling out vs. buying in" as a story in the April issue
Read More »Most Innovative Companies: Charles Best of DonorsChoose.org on Fixing Education
This year DonorsChoose.Org made our list of The Most Innovative Companies . We speak to CEO Charles Best on how he applies a "best of breed e-commerce" approach to transforming public education.
Read More »"Water for Elephants": new trailer [VIDEO] released
Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson and Christoph Waltz star in the film based on the best-selling novel by Sara Gruen
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