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Amazon Launches Online Movie Studio
angry tapir writes "Amazon.com is getting into the movie business by opening Amazon Studios, with the goal of using the Internet to put fresh movies on the big screen. The new Internet movie studio will allow writers to upload screenplays to its website where the global Internet audience can read them and offer feedback, or producers/directors can use them to make test movies. The test movies, which must be at least 70 minutes in length, can also be uploaded."
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ORLY? I already bought the rights.. see you in court.
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Amazon is known for a lot more then books nowadays, and I'm really excited to see what they do with this. The more amazon dips competition into different markets (video game sales for instance) we've seen a lot of good things come out of it. Let's hope this project is just as successful. Also, wow, $100k a MONTH!
That's one kind of feedback, I guess.
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This is dumb. Maybe people can express constructive criticism, but I don't think it will be very successful in the long run.
Wait... there's already been a Star Wars prequel? Since when?
Disregard that, this idea is public domain.
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"John Stalvern waited. The lights above him blinked and sparked out of the air. There were demons in the base. He didn’t see them, but had expected them now for years. His warnings to Cernel Joson were not listenend to and now it was too late. Far too late for now, anyway.
John was a space marine for fourteen years. When he was young he watched the spaceships and he said to dad “I want to be on the ships daddy.”
Dad said “No! You will BE KILL BY DEMONS”
There was a time when he believed him. Then as he got oldered he stopped. But now in the space station base of the UAC he knew there were demons.
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Max Keiser http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Keiser, a film-maker, broadcaster and former broker and options trader offers a vision of what this could really be like.
http://www.piratemyfilm.com/pages/how_it_works shows how funding could work..
"The system automatically creates enough shares to match the funds request and then makes those shares available for PMF members to reserve."
Why just read and offer feedback when you could support a work from day one and perhaps share in some value.
Great funding for a tech movie, drama, historical documentary, extreme sports, romance, cars ect.
Get a forum or core supporters on any topic. No need for some grant, arts council or one person funding.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Disregard that, this idea is public domain.
No it's not. It's actually a Disney property and Pixar is making a movie to be released 2012. The title is "PIG-E" pronounced 'piggy'.
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Pfft. That's just a ripoff of Pocahantas.
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So you can read screenplays of other people? Are you allowed to moderate them up or down? If so, Hollywood could just buy the highest moderated screenplay :P What could possibly go wrong?
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I see in the article that Warner Bros. would have right of first refusal for any script on the site, but does Amazon own the rights to the script or does the author?
We already know movie studios steal for a living. They steal from the consumer, the taxpayer, the director, the actors and anyone else involved. The term - Hollywood Accounting. Would Amazon be any different? Should we be making it easier for them to steal ideas now?
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i can see Todd Solondz slated to direct an internet effort: The Adventures Of Pedobear In A Series Of Tubes
seriously, this has far more potential to go bad than do good.
that said, Snakes On A Plane was pretty cool for what it was.
I'm noticing that recently there has been a growing trend towards independent publication of books, music, movies, and other creative works.
I really hope this continues to take off (with enthusiastic support from our wallets and voices) because it weakens the influence of the *IAAs and various copyright consortia that have an annoying habit of lobbying governments for legislation in no one's favour (not even the artists) but their own.
Feedback is always important with any product. This is a great new way to critique movies, perhaps before they even come out on the big screen
Yes, I think this will be very useful. Especially since feedback will accurately represent the opinions of the movie going public:
OpizzapieO First!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
babygirlz29 This is the most dumbs video Ever how lame losers 2who ever liked this just kiddin
omar29180589 I like this movie
CoolFilmz wtf! GAY!!!
skunkystar9 Who the fuck are you talking to exactly, fucking idiot, and by the way America sucks ass ! oh and fuck Jesus and all your religious bull shite, , hahaha, your a tool ! FUCK YOU
AMERICA1111 Ok idiot, you need a history lesson, are you too LAZY to learn the FACTS! You are probably PAID by me and the rest of the HARD WORKING AMERICAN WORKERS!
turdbugs i hate niggers
flyingcats lol i watch this when im high
.....
(random selection of actual youtube comments)
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
Just filter out all comments with bad spelling, too many CAPS, less than 10 words or more than two consecutive exclamation marks.
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What do screenplays require that RTF can't provide? It seems plenty of screenplay writing applications out there support RTF, and plenty of guides recommend using it to bridge between them, so it doesn't seem to lose formatting.
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"Exploitation"
Having read through the terms and conditions here, it looks like basically Amazon will pay you a token amount if the movie is made, whilst keeping all the millions for themselves.
Just another parasitic middleman in the movie industry. The very last thing the movie industry needs is more middlemen. If you work in the movie industry you will already be very familiar with this type of scam run by all sorts of people and all sorts of websites. As well as many other similar scams run for actors, directors and other movie professionals, or hopefuls.
Having Amazon now join in, adds an air of legitimacy to what is nothing more than a way of scamming writers. It may result in a break for a few amateur screenwriters. However with a bit of research, perseverance, and hard work, those same screenwriters could get a MUCH better deal for a viable screenplay.
That funding scheme would sound a lot more interesting if the industry being funded actually had a reputation for paying a fair return on its profits.
Wonder what happens if you get a tasteful pornographic movie though.
Seriously reduced fappage, for a start.
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Can the scripts be in 3-D? Thank you.
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I sign the rights to my script away to Warner Bros. for the *chance* of winning a lousy $20,000? I don't think so. The only writers this will attract are really shitty ones, really dumb ones, and really desperate ones.
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I was going to reply that it gives an indication of whether it could make a good film. And then I realised it's more likely to tell you that it couldn't.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
This actually sounds a lot like an idea I've had for a different way the film industry could work: moving to a model where screenwriters publish their screenplays, much as playwrights publish their plays, and then anyone who wants to is free to making movies from them (paying appropriate royalties, of course), just as anyone who wants to is free to put on a production of a play. This seems to me like a better match for the internet age, where the equipment needed to make professional quality movies is inexpensive and widely available, and distribution is no longer a major obstacle.
"I'm too busy to research this and form an educated opinion, but I do have time to tell everyone my uninformed opinion."
I don't think Amazon thought through this very well. They could have created a real opportunity to fund films, instead it's just a social and pr stunt. This is not something that is good for filmmakers or will be helpful for film. Here's my full take on it: http://nffty.org/explore/your-say/amazon-the-movie-studio-yeah-right
The radio said “No, John. You are the demons”
It's over Johnny. Nothing is over.
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.