Moneyball: First Look at a Sports Game-Changer
Billy Beane changed baseball management with the Oakland Athletics, and there’s a movie to boot following the bestselling book by Michael Lewis. The adaption stars Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill with a script by Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian. Pretty good pedigrees with a little comic foil.
Not sure if this will be The Blind Side meets baseball, but it has critical success and audience sleeper potential (“sleeper”s a good Hollywood word for non-tentpole movies that perform over a long period, like Blind Side, fyi). Love the Jonah Hill line about the undervalued players being like “an island of misfit toys.” Everyday extraordinary.
Socially Networked: The Plugged-In Producer
I’ll be moderating an interesting panel this Saturday am at the Producer’s Guild “Produced By Conference 2011″ on the Disney Lot at 9:45-11am.
Socially Networked: The Plugged-In Producer
Social media outlets are now an essential component of a project’s overall production plan. Even if you’re a low-budget indie that doesn’t have millions for traditional P&A, you can now build a strong target audience through savvy use of social media sites and tools. Whether your project is a traditional feature or television program, or expressly created for digital media, this session gives you the answers: What do producers need to know and do when navigating social media for production, marketing and distribution? What are the best social practices for film, television and online? Most importantly, what methods give producers more control, and what approaches should you avoid? Jump into the debate and tweet questions: #sociallynetworked
MODERATOR: Adrian Sexton, CEO, New Medici (former EVP, Digital at Participant Media; Head of Digital at Lionsgate)
SPEAKERS:
- Brent Weinstein, Head of Digital Media, United Talent Agency
- Bedonna Smith, Producer, Stand Up To Cancer, Digital Media Producer, 83rd Academy Awards, Co-Developer, BMW Film Series ‘The Hire’
- Nick Turner, Senior Vice President Digital Media, Relativity Media, LLC/ROGUE, Limitless, The Fighter, Catfish
- Elias Plishner, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Digital Marketing, Sony Pictures Entertainment, The Social Network, 2012, Battle: Los Angeles
TEDxTercek: Reclaiming Personal Narrative via Social Media
Via TEDxMarin, Robert Tercek is a master of digging beneath the surface of media. His recent TEDx talk about story expression and acknowledgment or validation on a global level is a must-view.
“For the past 60 years, we’ve outsourced our storytelling through professional media” … and now it’s time for us to do it via social media… “It’s like a great lover, and why we’re falling out of love with television.”