Soderbergh: Burn, Hollywood, Burn

Interesting story from Wired covering a panel at the Tribeca Film Festival callled "Downloading at a Theater Near You". The main panelist were Steven Soderbergh and Todd Wagner (who I blog about often).

"The economic model of the film business is broken," said Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh during a panel discussion Monday night...

"We learned this from the music industry -- you've got to give the people what they want or they'll figure out how to get from other means," Wagner said. "People like Steve Jobs (now the largest shareholder at Disney) will turn one revenue stream into three revenue streams. We need to rethink and get creative about how to exploit revenue streams in the digital (filmmaking) world."

Read the entire piece:
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,70795-0.html

-Blake


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