Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age

Eric Kohn: '"Dredd 3D" may present a dreary vision of the future, but it offers a promising encapsulation of the modern action movie.'

Chaunton: "Big summer movies mean big viral campaigns. And nowadays these can be just as good as (and sometimes better than) the movies themselves."

Nuno Bernardo: "Transmedia is a buzzword that the film industry has used quite a lot in the last couple of years, from independent movies that have a companion web site and a Facebook Fan page, to the multi-million dollar interactive experience that involve games, web sites and live events"...

"ESSAY: A combination of technological advances and financial pressures has ushered in a new style of movie making, which, to many viewers raised on the grain and texture of film, looks like a bug that is well on its way to becoming a feature."

Jon Spaihts: "Ridley is a creative volcano and it was a major part of my job just trying to keep up with him. He's a marvel."

DRC: Also interesting is Spaihts on why Hollywood & the video game industry take such a different approach to producing science fiction properties.

The cinema technology industry is working to give moviegoers the opportunity to see The Hobbit: An Unfinished Journey in 3D projected at 48 frames per second when it hits theaters in December.

JOSS WHEDON does not consider himself an assertive person. “I’m not fierce,” he said. “I’m grouchy as hell.” But one subject that evokes the passion he has self-diagnosed as crabbiness is the decadent state of contemporary Hollywood entertainment...

"Let’s imagine what our movie theater experience might look like if every movie screen was connected to the Internet in the same manner as our computers, tablets, smart phones and TVs."

Alex Garland: "Dredd moves, his character changes, but he’s like a glacier, you don’t see it change, maybe retrospectively you think ‘hang on, that’s a foot further down the valley than it used to be,’ but it’s kind of it. So that traditional story arc doesn’t apply in Dredd."

Zachary Wigon: "Hollywood’s appetite for adaptations, remakes and sequels is growing. But the absence of mid-budget films from lists of the world’s highest-grossing films, which has become increasingly conspicuous in recent years, indicates that Hollywood’s model is changing."

Ari Karpel: "The plot of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi film Prometheus--a sprawling exploration of the origins of man--may have raised some questions but the movie’s marketing campaign was, unquestionably, one of the most original and absorbing in recent memory" ...

Jason Silva: "These are films that immerse us while also unsettling us. They are multi-layered experiences that suck us into their narrative on one level, while at the same time making unsettling suggestions about our own perception of reality"...

John Hiscock: "In the first film, the unlucky crew of the space freighter Nostromo finds a derelict spaceship with a “space jockey” – a giant humanoid with an exploded chest in the pilot’s chair. Who he was and what he was doing there was never explained and the question has dogged Alien buffs ever since"...

Brent Lang: "Peter Jackson responded to criticism of his preview of "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" at CinemaCon this week, saying that audiences will eventually "settle into" the hyper-realistic look of the film shot at a higher frame rate."

"The downward trend in movie attendance and DVD purchases are really the result of one, simple catch-all word: “technology.” Technological advances in home theater, especially since 2005 have shrunk the difference between watching movies in the home and watching in the theater."

"James Wolcott's Vanity Fair article "Prime Time's Graduation" isn't the first to argue that television has now surpassed film as a medium"...