Step Right Up! iPad’s amazing secret movie distribution tool
Author: Rupert | Filed under: Future of the film industry, Video geekery | Tags: app, distribution, html5, indie, ipad, movies | No Comments »
Some things seem so obvious that you can’t believe they’re the subject of breathless feature pieces speculating about futuristic technology.
The iPad as an indie movie distribution tool, for instance. It’s all about the apps, right?
There’s an article today in The L Magazine, a NY events & culture mag, about how Behind The Scenes Of Total Hell will be the first indie movie released as an app for the iPad this summer, after selling literally dozens of copies on the iPhone.
Total Hell has used a Silicon Valley app developer called Stonehenge Productions, who specialise in getting indie films into the iTunes store and turning them into Apps.
The article weighs up the pros and cons of distributing via Apple apps and some other proprietary storefronts like Netflix and iTunes.
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