We were lucky enough to bag a spot at the Empire-Magazine-Film-Quiz-at-the-Jameson-Apartment last night, and what an excellent film quiz it was too. Joining Saf and I as Team Glass Eye 1.21 Quizawatts was a formidable formation of film fact fetishists, taking the form of Mr Lee Thomas (AKA @londonfilmgeek), Mr Antony K. Antoniou (AKA @_AKA_) and Mr Fraser Bensted (AKA Fraser Bensted), whose combined knowledge of all things cinematic was enough to propel us to a mighty 3rd place in the final figuring, scoring 68 out of an available 100.
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The Empire Magazine Film Quiz
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Too big to fail?
You wait months for an infographic, then two come along at once. Couldn’t resist posting this, especially given my own view that we’ve recently reached ‘Peak Face’. Facebook’s total subscriber base will continue to grow, but my guess is we’ll start to see larger and larger numbers of long-term users concentrated in countries that saw the earliest adoption of the service starting to lose interest and drift away.
[ Update: 10:18 18/10/11 ] Within hours of posting this Sean Parker tells the Web 2.0 summit that all Facebook’s ‘power users’ are leaving for Twitter or Google+, Chris ‘moot’ Poole (founder of 4chan) tells the same audience that Facebook AND Google are getting it all wrong by having us believe we’re mirrors when in fact “we’re more like diamonds” AND someone directs me to TakeThisLollipop.com, definitely the single creepiest use of Facebook Connect I’ve ever seen. Peak Face people, I’m telling you.
Rest of infographic follows (or click here to open a higher quality version):
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Taking the law into your own hands
With the May launch of the @thefirerises Twitter feed and an accompanying first glimpse of Tom Hardy’s Bane (above), the campaign for Christopher Nolan’s third Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises, is officially under way.
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Distribution Redistributed
Feels like things are moving even quicker than usual in the motion picture business right now. More than once since I started this post I’ve had to rework something I’ve just written in response to news breaking somewhere in one of my feeds.
With so much great reporting and commentary already out there (much of which I’ve linked out to) it would be pointless, not to mention futile, to try and offer a remotely comprehensive account of the past, present and future of film distribution.
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Mystery box
This is still one of my favourite TED talks. It’s good value for all 18 minutes, but for the crux of it (and of this post) skip to 4′ through to 6′:
The talk might be four years old now, but if proof were needed that the mystery box is alive and well, look no further than the teaser trailer for Abrams’ SUPER 8 (which originally went out with prints of IRON MAN 2 in its own sealed, yup, mystery box).
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No trailer is an island
Behold, the newly-released trailer for zombie FPS DEAD ISLAND:
As is the case for 95% of All-That’s-Good-In-The-World, the first I heard of this was from Sizemore, who’s apparently done some deal with the devil entitling him to first dibs on anything set to whet the appetite and wet the pants of the Internet proper.
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Kill two pigs with one bird
I blogged back in August about a piece in Variety offering a speculative glimpse into Rovio’s plans to expand their staggeringly popular Angry Birds game into a full-blown entertainment franchise.
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“It’s not, strictly speaking… legal.”
This popped up on Slashfilm some time last week:
Ever since it broke the Inception trailer seems to have been getting remixed and mashed up, although this stands out as a favourite of mine – maybe because I just love Ghostbusters so damn much.
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Sharing in 2010
AddThis have just published an infographic – full image after the jump – visualising a few headline insights from 2010.
It’s not the prettiest infographic we’ve ever seen, but the data itself is premium stuff. AddThis operate a bookmarking and sharing service pretty much anybody can use to make their content more viral, with implementations ranging from blue chip to home-fried.
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Back to reality
Back in our previous lives Saf and I were both involved in some fairly pioneering work with ‘augmented reality’ (AR), in the context of international online campaigns for Star Trek (above) and Transformers (below).
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