AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

Reuters
Second Life has been touted as a place to market real-world brands, as a teleconferencing tool, and as the future of social networking. But increasingly, Hollywood has been eying the virtual world’s potential as an inexpensive film studio.
Gossip Girl, the CW television network’s popular show about teenagers on New York’s Upper East Side, is filming [...]

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The Los Angeles Times
A two-day conference examines the film capital’s contribution between the wars.
Even as the country went through the prosperity of the Roaring ’20s followed by the economic woes of the 1930s and on into the outbreak of World War II, Hollywood too went through its own upheavals and transitions during those years — [...]

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Reuters
Getting Hollywood actors paid for their smallest performances — video clips on the Internet — is shaping up as one their biggest sticking points in stalemated contract negotiations with major studios.
Whether actors must give consent for snippets of their film and TV work to be displayed online, and how much they should earn for them, [...]

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Future of Entertainment, according to the Hollywood Reporter
A freestanding supplement to today’s Hollywood Reporter (Dec. 26th) includes a bevy of articles about the future of entertainment, concentrating non surprisingly, on all things digital.
It starts with another examination of the digital studio model in the wake of Quarterlife: Race on to create studio [...]

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Screenwriters to Resume Talks — Wall St. Journal online
In the first ray of hope since Hollywood screenwriters began a strike two weeks ago, the Writers Guild of America and their movie and TV studio counterparts said they would resume negotiations on Nov. 26.
The guild’s 12,000 screenwriters walked off the job on Nov. 5 after last-minute [...]

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Time to rewrite their future - LA Times
Why don’t striking writers create original online programming that could bolster their cause and show the medium’s true potential?
LAST week in a CBS Studios picket line, one TV writer referred to the current WGA work stoppage as “the first Internet strike.” And there may be something to that.
Certainly [...]

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