So our beloved, bloody teen horror-comedy TORMENTED is now out on DVD at good (and bad) shops everywhere. If you haven’t already been persuaded by the 80% positive score on Rotten Tomatoes, and presence of a clutch of fabulous teenagers being beautiful, naked and dead (normally in that order) then check out the first 12 minutes, which we are making available absolutely free through The Sun online (click on the image below to be taken to it), and then buy it, buy it, buy it. We thank you.
There’s rather nice coverage in yesterday’s Guardian; and we are in very good company – including companies I love like Spotify, my friend Brent Hoberman’s MyDeco, MoonPig and Mind Candy. I blogged a while ago that Richard Wray, the Guardian’s communications editor had interviewed me about innovation. Turns out this is why. Here’s the soundbite:
“In the film industry, Arvind Ethan David, chief executive of Slingshot Studios, can see the same changes coming: “There exists a large and widening disjunction between how audiences want to consume films – when, where and how they want – and how the film industry insists on providing them, according to rigid windowing patterns, fixed price points and non-coordinated marketing between the platforms. Companies that actually work with consumers can reap benefits.”
The full piece is here; and here’s a funny image that the photo editor has chosen to represent what early adopters look like!
A piece I wrote last month in this week’s Comment Page in Screen International. The topic is the worrying state of Digital Literacy in the UK Film Industry – even in its twenty-something, purportedly “digital native” recruits.
I’ve been fretting recently as to whether we have the right incentive structure at Slingshot. In this talk, Dan Pink suggests not. I’m rethinking the situation, as my friend Fagin would say.
