The New Frontier

The latest film and TV-related technologies, gaming news, and articles on how the internet and broadband are changing the film and television landscape.

Mobile video downloads mature

Cricket, a provider of unlimited wireless services, recently announced a flat-rate unlimited mobile video service that allows users to view one-to-four-minute-long video clips directly from select handsets. Videos available include music videos, artist interviews, music documentaries, sports clips from FUEL TV such as soccer and mixed martial arts, entertainment news from Hollywood Insider, movie trailers, ….

The Crash TV series widget

The Crash TV series premieres exclusively on Starz, on Friday, October 17, 2008 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Starring an ensemble cast led by film icon Dennis Hopper, the series looks at the way different lives intersect and collide in the melting pot of LA, and will be quite different from the movie portrayal. From the ….

Paramount buys ‘Scene It’ interactive game creator

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Paramount Pictures has purchased Screenlife, creator of the Scene It? interactive DVD game franchise. The studio bought the Seattle-based company with the intent to delve deeper into digital content initiatives. The acquisition of Screenlife advances Paramount Digital Entertainment’s multiplatform strategy and will enable us to create new digital content that ….

Fringe and Terminator shows will stream to college campuses on premiere days

Fox is planning to stream the premiere of J.J. Abrams’ new thriller Fringe, along with the season premiere of action series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, online at the same time they screen on TV, according to a report by Variety. This is said to be the first time a major network has decided to ….

Eagle Eye, Mission: Impossible and other films to get Manga treatment

Variety reported yesterday that Paramount Pictures is prepping a string of mobile comics based on a number of it’s movie properties. The studio’s Digital Entertainment unit has contracted Singapore-based animation outfit Omnitoons, to deliver a series of Manga-styled comics, the first to be based on the Gurinder Chadha-directed U.K. hit movie Angus, Thongs and Perfect ….

Interactive content series launches for Dead Space

EA has premiered noknownsurvivors.com, an evocative, experiential site that allows visitors to explore the narrative world of the new survival horror game, Dead Space. Over nine weeks, the site employs interactive components, 3D animations, voice acting, original video, and Papervision 3D technology to tell two tragic four chapter stories. The First, Misplaced Affection, is the ….

MTV to offer exclusive on-demand content on Amazon

MTV Networks will use Amazon’s CreateSpace DVD on Demand technology to make popular MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and VH1 shows – including “Newport Harbor,” “Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew,” “Drake & Josh” and “Hey Arnold!”, available on Amazon.com. All of these newly released DVDs will initially be available exclusively on Amazon.com, and today marks the ….

Help Wanted: video game testers

Governor Bobby Jindal and Electronic Arts recently announced a partnership that includes Electronic Arts, Louisiana State University and the Louisiana Department of Economic Development, that will lead to the creation of a new global quality assurance center in Baton Rouge. The facility will be the first of its kind in the United States and will ….

Taking motion pictures from script to screen

Signiant, a leading developer of digital media distribution management solutions, announced that Deluxe has chosen its Digital Media Distribution Management Solution to automate, accelerate and secure the distribution of post-production materials for motion pictures from major Hollywood studios and broadcast companies. Post-production and distribution of films has become more complex, especially as releasing films simultaneously ….

Opera and a movie

National CineMedia, operator of the largest digital in-theatre network in North America for cinema advertising and alternative entertainment events, along with the Metropolitan Opera are partnering to bring a third season of the critically-acclaimed The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD series transmitted live, in high-definition, to more than 440 movie theatres and performing arts centers ….

Intel and Yahoo to bring internet to TV

ntel Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. today previewed plans for the Widget Channel, a television (TV) application framework optimized for TV and related consumer electronics (CE) devices that use the Intel Architecture. The Widget Channel will allow consumers to enjoy rich Internet applications designed for the TV while watching their favorite TV programs. The Widget Channel ….

Sidney Lumet and I Spy now on iTunes

Image Entertainment has expanded its digital distribution business by making films and television programming available on the iTunes Store. A wide assortment of Image programming is available on iTunes for purchase or rent, including feature films, episodic television, stand-up comedy specials, music and special interest programs. Jeff Dunham: Spark of Insanity and Jim Gaffigan: Beyond ….

Download fantasy football feature film for free

What the F… From award-winning filmmakers, Hunter Weeks and Josh Caldwell, comes the offbeat feature-length film about the world of fantasy football 10 Yards: Fantasy Football releases worldwide today, August 21, 2008. Two websites will host the unique online worldwide premiere: OurStage.com, a community supporting independent artists will offer a free iTunes download of the ….