By Justin Sanders
Google, and its parent Alphabet, have always shown a remarkable ability to maintain consumer goodwill – their reputation remains strong and their market cap immense despite a litany of misdeeds that would likely have seriously bruised, if not floored, most other companies. What kinds of misdeeds? Harvesting user data en... Read more
By CreativeFuture
From nostalgic front-runners like Super Smash Bros. and The Legend of Zelda to mainstream favorites like Destiny and Fortnite, the video game industry’s hottest properties were a perfect match for live streaming – a widely popular trend that allows gamers to broadcast their gameplay to millions of people. However, the exponential growth... Read more
By Justin Sanders
The science-fiction genre has a way of painting the term “artificial intelligence” (A.I.) with doomsday-tinted strokes, but the more immediate hazard posed by our future machine overlords seems not existential but occupational. A 2017 study released by the McKinsey Global Institute predicted that by 2030, as many as 800 million... Read more
By Justin Sanders
Do the words “Federal Trade Commission filing” suddenly make you really tired? We can’t say we blame you. We just filed one of these things ourselves and believe us, it wasn’t a walk in the park. FTC filings are dense, they’re dry and not for the faint of heart –... Read more
By Justin Sanders
The talented individuals behind film festivals tend to be able to spot a good submission a mile away, but when Slamdance Film Festival President Peter Baxter first laid eyes on the work of Japanese animator Shunsaku Hayashi, he knew he had something that was more than good. “I felt transported... Read more
By Justin Sanders
If there was a sign early on that Matt Miller would go on to start his own production company, Vanishing Angle, it probably occurred in high school – where he had the chutzpa to ditch class and head into the city to audit college filmmaking courses at New York University. Or... Read more
By Kristina Ensminger
As a child of the ‘80s and ‘90s, playing video games meant eating 8-bit mushrooms and collecting gold coins as Mario or Luigi. These days, video games are recognized as a competitive sport (yes, eSports is a real thing), and professional gamers have salaries, health benefits, and retirement plans. In... Read more
By Justin Sanders
Freed of many of the regulations that govern other American industries, internet companies such as Google and Facebook have grown in wealth and power to a degree that boggles the mind. Along the way, they have toyed recklessly with our private data, turned a blind eye to criminal acts such... Read more
By Justin Sanders
Alfred Hitchcock once said, “To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script, and the script.” But what do you need to write the script and get paid to do it? While there are probably tens of thousands of aspiring screenwriters in Los Angeles alone, only... Read more
By Justin Sanders
If you are a musician or a composer, you probably have a basic understanding of how one makes money in your profession. However, as one very successful professional musician once said, “The times they are a-changing.” The good news is that music revenue is rising again in the age of... Read more