Monday, April 25, 2005

Dry Heaving Allergies

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As can be seen in any of their official websites, the 20th Century Fox invests in productions with a success at the box office secured beforehand. Uses the topics of greatest interest to the audience at all times, the genres that get more attention and most awarded actors and admired throughout the industry.

genres or themes that are more fashionable are the stories of heroes comics, movies computer animation, the musical and movies historical heroes. Then there are the sagas of great films, the second, third, etc., parts of the blockbuster: Star Wars, Taxi, Alien vs Predator, etc.

From comic book heroes are two productions of 20th Century Fox: Elektra on DVD and Fantastic 4 on the big screen. In computer animation we Ice Age and on DVD and poster Robots made by the same as above. Were an attempt to build on the success of Moulin Rouge and Chicago the musical De-Lovely . And finally, as for films of heroes, which we always have more than one in our cinemas (Gladiator, Troy, King Arthur ,...), will premiere next May 6 The Kingdom of the Heaven , starring an actor with more hook of the moment: Orlando Bloom.

And is that the actors are another of the strengths of this production, in many cases are the best and only claim a movie. You can be the case Be Cool, the only thing we know is that it stars John Travolta and Uma Thurman , who have already worked together in Pulp Fiction, and it is turning all its promotion . Luckily

these productions have already secured profits and occasionally can afford to do less commercial things that usually work well. For example: Sideways.

In the area of \u200b\u200bdistribution in DVD and VHS , tend to choose movies already blockbuster, although some are not own productions, as is the case of English Sea Inside, light hours and Murder.

dvds also edited numerous additional content and even images of the film have not been seen on the big screen. We supposed that aim to prevent piracy. They do this especially with the phenomenon that creates a very strong fans and collectors, as was the case of Star Wars, which have brought in addition to the trilogy, with its extras, new adventures: Star wars clone wars (in drawings animated) and Star Wars, Ewoks .

So we know that to continue working at the box office success of these commercial formulas insured, both this and other producers and distributors will continue to saturate the movie market with more of the same, but, thank God, with some notable exceptions .

Román María del Carmen Martín

Monday, April 18, 2005

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Large manufacturing companies are studying the system of renting movies over the Internet, which is known as " pay per view " (also used in broadcasting cable TV). The service is no effective alternative to piracy.

This system was launched in the United States in late 2002, first in the hands of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Universal and Warner Brothers. Later, Disney and 20th Century Fox sent their proposal to the service Movies.com. The service for movies on demand is done via cable television and through the network. On the day Peter Chernin, president of News Corporation (Studies in 20th Century Fox) stated that the service would ensure easy access to content and serve to " protect the integrity of intellectual property in the Internet age . "

The implementation of such services by the film producers respond to the growing concern of these companies due to piracy of films on the Internet ( digital piracy.) According to the Motion Pictures Association of America , movie piracy cost the studios more than 2,500 million dollars just in the Americas. The global data are also worrying. Today most of the population in developed countries have high-speed Internet, eight out of ten users download movies from the network.

is logical to think that all this seemingly harmless activity harms the entire film system, exhibitors, distributors and producers blame the losses assumed that activity.

We are in the early digital age and is becoming easier to acquire audiovisual material from the Internet free through programs file sharing P2P (e-mule, kazaa, etc). There is a lack of control and means to prohibit the occurrence and distribution of such programs. Some future media and other developments and existing may favor the decrease in piracy.

The digital television is almost a given, it is estimated that in 2006 there will be about 240 million people using the services it offers television. The technological evolution aims to complete a merger between TV and Internet. In fact, Internet protocol television is a reality, but companies in the sector of communication put resistance. The distribution of film and entertainment in Spain in 2006 reached 2,750 million euros. The rise announced a drop in the piracy of these products, yet the need to impose laws and propose new services remains latent.

The seven major studies investigate the possibility of exploitation and exhibition of film itself through the Internet, and thus constitute a new type of service-based film market " pay per view." Currently, technology, bandwidth, content compression and protocols that are used for viewing video (" webstreaming ") are not capable enough to play a consistent picture quality for television, film or video. Digital TV help in advancing this goal was imposed and necessary moderate to piracy, along with it, prohibition of exchange programs on the network mentioned above.

know too well to think of fighting piracy is absurd. Some of the companies that suffer losses arising from the market participants piracy devices and formats that support it, in many cases is "the dog chasing its tail." Currently many of us rather little matter losses that piracy is our future audiovisual industry, but soon have to decide and act accordingly film industries, television, record labels, and all those who are affected or are Part of the problem.

Pedro Sánchez Márquez

Sunday, April 10, 2005

Duty Service Compution Date

cyberpiratería against Fox and joined Heineken for political confrontation


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expenses generated by the films are not limited to the production process, once there is the period of promotion and advertising of films and at this point all the strategies are worth to recover the capital invested.

Perhaps the best known phenomenon in this regard is that of Merchandising, merchandising a movie played a dual function, generate significant benefits for the study and also promoted movies.

However, not all the movies enjoy the potential to extract the same products that may have some relevance in the market.
In these cases the studies looking for other types of promotional strategies.

One such system is the partnership with other companies, often feeding, which will include publicity of the film on their packaging.

As we read in this article . The 20th Century Fox has reached an agreement with the well-known beer brand Heineken , so that the latter promotes and their product, the release of the movie Be Cool "starring John Travolta and Uma Thurman, to change the beer company made sure that the product appeared and was used in the film.

This type of mutual benefit association has been doing for years in the world of cinema, a popular example would be the movie Matrix whose protagonists wore glasses and wore Rayban Nokia phones . These companies, once the film released, they quickly make their respective advertising campaigns that included images of the film which featured their products.

It seems inevitable that advertising will become involved in the audiovisual, and it is not only limited to the film market but in the video game industry are beginning to bet heavily. You can enjoy Burger King ads when you travel circuits Need for Speed \u200b\u200bUnderground 2 or view ads Axe on the facades of buildings Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory to put just a couple of examples.

However, this phenomenon is causing discontent in certain sectors of the population. Some say that when they pay a movie ticket or buying a game they do to see a product that will serve as advertising platform for other companies.

studies on the other hand say it is the only way to reduce risk in certain products and also achieves a greater "realism" in the productions.

F º Javier Espinosa Enriquez

Sunday, April 3, 2005

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Travolta vs technological

People's Party calls on the Board Andalusia put measures brake to implementation of the Bill of the Government to impose measures to urgency the TDT (DTT) , and that does not meet minimum requirements, ie there is no consensus and dialogue with all media companies. According to the PP

this measure has no other background than the rush to solve the problem of a particular group, the Prisa Group . So the PP asks for a clear and concise statement to stop this favoritism.

Looking back to history would be remembered as the PP, which arose during his tenure DTT, and the switch-off was scheduled for 2012. We also recall that ends merging Via Digital, after the economic failure for not having paid enough with their enemy Canal Satellite Digital, Digital + creating. Polanco, then wins PP, in a symbolic battle. The government responds with a transfer of more than 50% to Berlusconi (which was forbidden). The PSOE came to power, they meet twice RTVE's debt. The PSOE accelerates the analog switch 2010.

far so good, the urge to impose DTT would have its justification and approaching the time when it is no longer broadcast in analog. But the real problem begins when Canal + hopes issue in open , if this happens, Antena 3 and Telecinco would lower their income, as their contents become obsolete and would be unable to compete with offerings from Canal + .

Is this really the dialogue and consensus does not exist, or is it that certain measures are of no interest to business groups and political communication?

The truth is that separate communication economics and politics is very difficult. They control the economy and therefore communication and policy accordingly.

But still poses a problem for prospective licensees will fall "terrestrial digital mogul Murdoch? Since the other hand it seems that one of the intentions of Polanco is to get rid of everything but Canal +, and sell to Murdoch.

position is difficult for some u others, in a swarm of political and economic interests, as they all fight against all and yet are together. A leave us the hardest part, deciding whom to lean, but before that we should think carefully about why the input forward DTT, and why others criticize this, why Canal + want to issue an open and why the PP is so concerned about this.

DTT sell us on the one hand it's good: wider choice of programs, better picture and sound quality and new services and interactive experiences on the other alert us all the trouble would mean a change of this kind short term. But while we focus discussion on this, the technology advances, and it is known that this new television system will be obsolete soon give way, possibly, the internet TV.

Damaris Perez-Revert