Monthly Archives: July 2011
Wk30: Live Forever – Sequels, Reunions, Franchises and the never ending story.
Disturbing numbers coming out of Hollywood. There will be a record for sequels this year – a whopping 28. It’s a figure that has rising steadily in the past few years. More disturbingly, things like Harry Potter 7b (essentially an 8), Fast Five, X-Men First Class (essentially another 5), etc makes the average sequel number […]
Wk28: Here’s To the Future: Extreme Computing Today
Computers are becoming part of our every day lives. What seemed unachievable and high sci fi, we now carry around in our pockets. Be it video chatting like the Jetsons or a Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy in an iPad, it seems like the future is here. But there is more future to find. So […]
Wk27: DC Comics and Doing Digital Right
Looking back, as an industry, the music industry made awful decisions when the digital revolution came along and have been catching up ever since. It happened, and there’s only one reason to dwell on it – to learn from those mistakes. Looking at the film and TV industry, one wonders if they are learning those […]
