By: Ruth Vitale
In the mid-to-late ‘90s, the internet was just beginning to enter American homes with the promise of bringing us closer together. This was a world where people read their email – if they even had it – through America Online, connected with strangers in chat rooms, used bygone search engines... Read more
By: Melanie Maupin
Even before your favorite films hit theatres, many were first screened at film festivals. For the past 85 years, festivals have been vital to the global film industry and popular culture at large. They have opened doors for generations of emerging artists, fulfilled dreams, heralded shifts in the kinds of... Read more
By: Ruth Vitale
We have a long and frustrating history on piracy and other copyright matters with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). We’ve said it before – EFF sometimes does good work. That’s what makes their predictable intransigence about piracy so incredibly frustrating and tiresome. Recently, EFF weighed in against efforts by the... Read more
[The] latest piracy threat [is] even more worrisome to the music industry: stream ripping. – Wall Street Journal, September 12, 2016 Recently, Taylor Swift debuted her latest single, “Look What You Made Me Do,” online to great viral fanfare – quickly smashing records in its wake. On YouTube, the song’s... Read more
By: Lucy Sosa
The best film trailers often serve as the audience’s ideal window into a movie’s narrative soul. In mere moments, they must introduce the primary characters and convey a sense of the story’s arc — all while getting filmgoers excited enough to think, “I can’t wait to see that!” One might... Read more
By Hunter Via
I recently traveled to Capitol Hill with CreativeFuture and my team from the FX show Snowfall to speak with Members of Congress. As a film and television editor, I’d hoped to give our elected officials a more complete picture of the growing constituency working in entertainment— one whose employment depends... Read more
By: Gregg LaGambina
Most afternoons, you’ll find songwriter Michèle Vice-Maslin sitting poolside at a club in Marina del Rey. She comes here during the day, armed with sunblock and a laptop, to market herself to anyone who needs music – recording artists, television shows, films, advertisers, app developers, game developers, etc.. At night,... Read more
By: Ruth Vitale, CEO, CreativeFuture
Summer holidays are upon us! And it seems the right time for all of us at CreativeFuture to thank you, our friends and followers, for the success we’ve had in the last year or so. When we asked for your help, and needed you to #StandCreative, you were there –... Read more
By: Lucy Sosa
Filming a realistic version of the “Miracle on the Hudson” in Sully was no easy or cheap feat for Warner Bros. They had to buy two retired Airbus A320s, place them in an artificial lake, soften the California light by hanging a massive silk drape from a crane, and hire... Read more
By: Lucy Sosa
When Lost first came out on iTunes back in 2005, when it was one of just five shows you could buy for $1.99 an episode, I remember thinking it was the best thing ever. Gone were the days of begging my Mom to drive me to Best Buy for the... Read more