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Archive for May, 2008

FilmStew: The B-Side of Boffo BO

Posted by Chris Hyams on May 26th, 2008

Well, this is officially the first time the word "Boffo" has been used in conjunction with B-Side. Richard Horgan of FilmStew wrote a nice piece last week on B-Side’s Roll Your Own Screening program for Super High Me. The very generous subtitle reads:
Although Super High Me’s grassroots exploits are of an entirely different […]

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Netflix makes ‘the last 10 feet’ leap

Posted by Chris Hyams on May 21st, 2008

One of the key reasons we all don’t have 100 megabit broadband connections to our homes is what is known in the telco industry as the last mile. The last mile is the gap between the fat, fiber-optic network pipe that runs through every city and your home.
In the digital entertainment world, the big […]

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Cannes basics and the Short Film Corner

Posted by Chris Holland on May 20th, 2008

Looking for my coverage of Cannes? You won’t find it. I can’t afford to go to Festival de Cannes any more than the average indie filmmaker, and it isn’t one of the festivals on the travel docket for B-Side, so here I sit in my living room reading the internet coverage. Not that I’m complaining […]

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Planting the Seeds on the Lake of Dreams at CineVegas

Posted by Chris Holland on May 16th, 2008

Variety’s “The Circuit” column revealed the news that renowned animator and multimedia artist Takashi Murakami will show his short animation piece Planting the Seeds at Cinevegas on June 16th. Murakami is the man responsible for hundreds of wacky googly-eyed mushroom creations, including a 2003 installation at Rockefeller Center (pictured above).
What Variety didn’t mention is that […]

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I smell a franchise

Posted by Chris Hyams on May 14th, 2008

Audre Lord said, "there are no new ideas." This idea is rarely more depressing than when reading about the brilliant new ideas Hollywood has for re-using old ideas.
When Iron Man blew the roof off two weeks ago, the big story was how its opening was the second-highest grossing opening weekend ever for a non-sequel. […]

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G4: ‘Super High Me’ Opens Big

Posted by Chris Hyams on May 9th, 2008

A nice little piece from G4 on our Roll Your Own Screening program for Super High Me:
Since this was a smaller, independent film with little to no advertising budget, the innovators over at B-Side Entertainment decided to approach distribution of the film differently. […] If you had a projector, a DVD player, and a few […]

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