David Bloom is a Deadline contributor. The market potential for entertainment-oriented smartphone and tablet apps is wide open, a top market analyst said today at the Entertainment Apps Conference in a Universal City hotel. “I think it’s just starting with entertainment,” said Jarah Euston, director of analytics with Flurry, which closely tracks the app-creation industry. Already, Flurry’s share of the so-called “iGen Audience” of daily app users is larger than the one for top primetime TV shows. Sales in Apple’s App Store passed $6.5 billion in about two years, nearly 20 times the rate in the first two years of Apple’s then-music-only iTunes store. Now, both Apple’s operation and Google’s Android app marketplace have more than 700,000 apps, panelists said. Microsoft says its recently launched mobile-app marketplace for the Windows 8 operating system has more than 100,000 apps. “It’s very exciting. It’s a little bit of a Wild,...
- 11/30/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
DreamWorks Animation Skg today announced that head of animation technology Lincoln Wallen has been named Chief Technology Officer. “With pixels replacing paint as the artistic medium for animation, cutting-edge technology has become key to creating films that are ever more visually spectacular,” COO Ann Daly said in a statement. “As our Head of Animation Technology, Lincoln helped get us to this transformative moment and as Cto, he will be instrumental in leading us to exciting new possibilities for our company.” In his previous role, Wallen was responsible for the strategic vision, creation and deployment of the studio’s CG production platform and software tools. He was a winner of InfoWorld’s 2012 Technology Leadership Awards. Wallen joined Dwa in 2008 as Head of Research and Development. The role of Chief Technology Officer was previously held by Ed Leonard, who is now serving as CEO of Ptch, a new mobile app incubated at DreamWorks Animation.
- 10/3/2012
- by NIKKI FINKE
- Deadline Hollywood
DreamWorks Animation Skg today announced that head of animation technology Lincoln Wallen has been named Chief Technology Officer. “With pixels replacing paint as the artistic medium for animation, cutting-edge technology has become key to creating films that are ever more visually spectacular,” COO Ann Daly said in a statement. “As our Head of Animation Technology, Lincoln helped get us to this transformative moment and as Cto, he will be instrumental in leading us to exciting new possibilities for our company.” In his previous role, Wallen was responsible for the strategic vision, creation and deployment of the studio’s CG production platform and software tools. He was a winner of InfoWorld’s 2012 Technology Leadership Awards. Wallen joined Dwa in 2008 as Head of Research and Development. The role of Chief Technology Officer was previously held by Ed Leonard, who is now serving as CEO of Ptch, a new mobile app incubated at DreamWorks Animation.
- 10/3/2012
- by NIKKI FINKE
- Deadline TV
It's a well known fact that the Paranormal Activity franchise takes care of its fans, and now with Paranormal Activity 4 on the horizon, they've taken things to an entirely new level of cool. Read on for details.
From the Press Release
Paramount Pictures, a division of Viacom, Inc., has teamed up with iPhone app Ptch (pronounced “pitch”) to give fans of the upcoming Paranormal Activity 4 an exciting new way to interact with the popular horror franchise. Starting today, Ptch app users will have the ability to integrate filters, sounds, clips and images from all four Paranormal Activity movies into their own videos and share them with friends on Ptch, Facebook, Twitter and email. This unique promotion with Ptch is the first time fans are able to add the films’ terrifying style into their own videos using Ptch. Paranormal Activity 4 opens in theaters nationwide on October 19, 2012.
Starting today,...
From the Press Release
Paramount Pictures, a division of Viacom, Inc., has teamed up with iPhone app Ptch (pronounced “pitch”) to give fans of the upcoming Paranormal Activity 4 an exciting new way to interact with the popular horror franchise. Starting today, Ptch app users will have the ability to integrate filters, sounds, clips and images from all four Paranormal Activity movies into their own videos and share them with friends on Ptch, Facebook, Twitter and email. This unique promotion with Ptch is the first time fans are able to add the films’ terrifying style into their own videos using Ptch. Paranormal Activity 4 opens in theaters nationwide on October 19, 2012.
Starting today,...
- 9/28/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Paramount Pictures has teamed up with iPhone app Ptch (pronounced .pitch.) to give fans of the upcoming Paranormal Activity 4 an exciting new way to interact with the popular horror franchise. Starting today, Ptch app users will have the ability to integrate filters, sounds, clips and images from all four Paranormal Activity movies into their own videos and share them with friends on Ptch, Facebook, Twitter and email. This unique promotion with Ptch is the first time fans are able to add the films. terrifying style into their own videos using Ptch. Paranormal Activity 4 opens in theaters nationwide on October 19, 2012. (@TweetYourScream).
Starting today, fans that create and share their own Paranormal Activity inspired vignettes could win tickets to be among the first to see Paranormal Activity 4 in their local theater, as well as, other movie merchandise. Winners will be chosen from a variety of categories including Most Popular (i.
Starting today, fans that create and share their own Paranormal Activity inspired vignettes could win tickets to be among the first to see Paranormal Activity 4 in their local theater, as well as, other movie merchandise. Winners will be chosen from a variety of categories including Most Popular (i.
- 9/28/2012
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
But startup stresses that it's not just trying to become a movie marketing tool for its parent company
Ptch is guaranteed to get app-sceptics hot under the collar. It's missing a vowel, launching on iPhone alone, and is the kind of social videos'n'photos app that generates talk of "Instagram meets Viddy meets Animoto meets a mashup contest" before it even launches.
Yet Ptch, which launches in the Us today, is interesting. Not least because it's a startup incubated within film studio DreamWorks Animation, its sole financial backer.
Alongside the two obvious questions for any new social app – is it good, and will it be successful? – there's a third question about why a Hollywood studio is incubating an app startup.
Is it good? Yes. The free app aims to get its users sharing animated slideshows of up to 60 seconds in length, pulling in photos, videos, music and comments from social networks including Facebook,...
Ptch is guaranteed to get app-sceptics hot under the collar. It's missing a vowel, launching on iPhone alone, and is the kind of social videos'n'photos app that generates talk of "Instagram meets Viddy meets Animoto meets a mashup contest" before it even launches.
Yet Ptch, which launches in the Us today, is interesting. Not least because it's a startup incubated within film studio DreamWorks Animation, its sole financial backer.
Alongside the two obvious questions for any new social app – is it good, and will it be successful? – there's a third question about why a Hollywood studio is incubating an app startup.
Is it good? Yes. The free app aims to get its users sharing animated slideshows of up to 60 seconds in length, pulling in photos, videos, music and comments from social networks including Facebook,...
- 7/19/2012
- by Stuart Dredge
- The Guardian - Film News
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