Links - Death of Cinema

After Peter Greenaway's comments on the present state of cinema at the Pusan Film Festival.  Here's a series of relevant links regarding the present state of flux in cinema starting with various tangential links. All hopefully food for thought.

Here's the original reports on Peter Greenaway's feelings on the state of cinema. The Variety and Independent articles.

FREE REVENUE MODEL
Here's a series of links referring to the Free Revenue Model.
Mike Masnick discusses basic model here and the grand unified theory on the economics of Free.
Here's Free Music Models and arguments to open up content to combat piracy.

Here's Hollywood attitudes to piracy and downloads.

Here's the slow death of DVD rentals and Netflix and the appearence of DVD kiosks.

Director/writer/actor Ed Burns new movie is premiering on itunes.

THE CONVERGENCE OF TV & NET
Fusion of net and TV is coming technologically here and here. What will be the social effects?

NICHE CINEMA & AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION
Local audiences decides what is on a single screen in multiplex cinema - Theatrical-on-demand system
and the future of niche cinema here with the whole cinema experience rethought here.

Hollywood is disrupted - It's no longer the epicentre of creative culture against the internet.

Lastly , professionally generated content competing against user generated content. It's the case for all the old forms of distribution.

Anyone care to comment or please email me damiano at rsafilms dot co dot uk