Altavod, a new platform pledging to help indie filmmakers more easily distribute and profit from their movies, launched Wednesday. The company’s founders say that it will allow moviemakers to cut out third parties who they usually turn to in order to find distribution platforms. With Altavod, they can upload films themselves and keep more than 90% of revenues. Movies are available to rent and own.
The service is the brainchild of Robert Schwartzman, the director of “The Argument” and “Dreamland,” and the co-founder of Utopia Distribution. Cole Harper, who works at Utopia overseeing product and strategy, helped launch Altavod and will serve as its head of growth.
In an interview, Schwartzman said he was inspired to create the service after conversations with fellow filmmakers who were frustrated by their inability to monetize their work.
“There are a lot of people who are building a new world of how to reach...
The service is the brainchild of Robert Schwartzman, the director of “The Argument” and “Dreamland,” and the co-founder of Utopia Distribution. Cole Harper, who works at Utopia overseeing product and strategy, helped launch Altavod and will serve as its head of growth.
In an interview, Schwartzman said he was inspired to create the service after conversations with fellow filmmakers who were frustrated by their inability to monetize their work.
“There are a lot of people who are building a new world of how to reach...
- 9/2/2020
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
The new distribution platform Altavod is about to give filmmakers — especially independent filmmakers — more control of their work.
With Utopia founder and filmmaker Robert Schwartzman and Cole Harper founded the new platform launches which launches today. Altavod provides distributors and independent filmmakers with full control to upload, manage and distribute their movies directly to consumers.
In addition, the platform provides transparent back-end data and analytics around consumer engagement to allow filmmakers to have real-time access to page impressions, sales and conversions related to their campaign — which is a first for a platform of its kind.
“Altavod was created to give filmmakers better opportunities for self-distribution,” said Schwartzman. “With Altavod, filmmakers have full control over rental and purchase pricing, release dates, location availability and creative marketing aspects. We are excited to introduce this service to the filmmaking community, especially during a time when digital consumer engagement is at an all-time high.
With Utopia founder and filmmaker Robert Schwartzman and Cole Harper founded the new platform launches which launches today. Altavod provides distributors and independent filmmakers with full control to upload, manage and distribute their movies directly to consumers.
In addition, the platform provides transparent back-end data and analytics around consumer engagement to allow filmmakers to have real-time access to page impressions, sales and conversions related to their campaign — which is a first for a platform of its kind.
“Altavod was created to give filmmakers better opportunities for self-distribution,” said Schwartzman. “With Altavod, filmmakers have full control over rental and purchase pricing, release dates, location availability and creative marketing aspects. We are excited to introduce this service to the filmmaking community, especially during a time when digital consumer engagement is at an all-time high.
- 9/2/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on Wbgr-fm on August 6th, 2020, reviewing the new films “I Used to Go There” and “Creem: America’s Only Rock ’N’ Roll Magazine.”
Rating: 3.0/5.0
I Used to Go Here Directed by Chicagoan Kris Rey, and featuring Gillian Jacobs (“Community”), “Go Here” is a look at sorta mid-life crisis, as Jacobs portrays a 35-year-old novelist going back to her alma mater for a reading. There she encounters her first writing instructor (Jermaine Clement of “Flight of the Concords”) and some college kids giving her a taste of her own school day partying and nostalgia. It’s currently available on streaming platforms through “Virtual” Theaters and Limited actual theaters. 3/5 stars. Locally, it’s available for virtual download through MusicBoxTheatre.com.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Creem: America’s Only Rock ’N’ Roll Magazine This “Rock Doc” focuses on an upstart magazine from the 1960s and ‘70s called Creem,...
Rating: 3.0/5.0
I Used to Go Here Directed by Chicagoan Kris Rey, and featuring Gillian Jacobs (“Community”), “Go Here” is a look at sorta mid-life crisis, as Jacobs portrays a 35-year-old novelist going back to her alma mater for a reading. There she encounters her first writing instructor (Jermaine Clement of “Flight of the Concords”) and some college kids giving her a taste of her own school day partying and nostalgia. It’s currently available on streaming platforms through “Virtual” Theaters and Limited actual theaters. 3/5 stars. Locally, it’s available for virtual download through MusicBoxTheatre.com.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Creem: America’s Only Rock ’N’ Roll Magazine This “Rock Doc” focuses on an upstart magazine from the 1960s and ‘70s called Creem,...
- 8/13/2020
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Serving as the antithesis to the relatively upscale rock reporting of their main competitor, Rolling Stone, Creem magazine is given a delightfully brisk survey in Scott Crawford’s “Creem: America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine.” That outlandishly hyperbolic subtitle serving as a central tenet of both the magazine and film, as Crawford tracks the rise and fall of the Detroit based underground magazine that championed the likes of The Stooges and MC5 long before hardcore and punk were acceptable musical genres.
Continue reading ‘Creem: America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine’ is a Fun and Breezy Introduction [Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Creem: America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine’ is a Fun and Breezy Introduction [Review] at The Playlist.
- 8/8/2020
- by Christian Gallichio
- The Playlist
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week […]
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The post This Week In Trailers: Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies, Fried Barry, Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, Creem: America’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll Magazine appeared first on /Film.
- 7/11/2020
- by Christopher Stipp
- Slash Film
Creem Magazine music critic and editor Lester Bangs once remarked, “Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.” This driving principle, while it should be behind all forms of criticism, especially drove the work Bangs and others did at Creem Magazine during the famous rock magazine’s twenty-year stint. Started as an alternative to the more famous Rolling Stone, Creem allowed critics to take an edgier approach to criticism that matching the energy of the rock music which they wrote about.
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Now, more than thirty years since the magazine’s last issues (not considering the short run Creem had in the ’90s), a recent trailer for the documentary from Greenwich Entertainment titled “Creem: America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine” has been released.
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Now, more than thirty years since the magazine’s last issues (not considering the short run Creem had in the ’90s), a recent trailer for the documentary from Greenwich Entertainment titled “Creem: America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine” has been released.
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- 6/27/2020
- by Reid Ramsey
- The Playlist
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