Watch: "Life After Pi" documentary

A new short documentary has been released called "Life After Pi" that follows the bankruptcy of VFX studio Rhythm & Hues 2 weeks before winning the Oscar for their work on Life of Pi. More specifically it looks at the crooked state of VFX studios trying to survive against unrealistic and self serving business models made by movie studios, thus ultimately possibly crippling the movie effects industry forever. 

The 30-minute film directed by Scott Leberecht, a employee of Rhythm & Hues, is actually a "trailer" or Chapter 1 of a much larger documentary entitled "Hollywood Ending" . The movie hits home to those not just in the movie industry but highly relateable industries such as video games, the music industry and contractor/freelance workers.

 

Video: Troma Films Collection

For years Lloyd Kaufman, a filmmaker, has funded and helped low budget directors create movies under his Troma brand. Troma has released a ton of films over the years from the cult classics like The Toxic Avenger and Class Of Nuke’em High  to Trey Parker and Matt Stone‘s musical, Cannibal. This weekend Lloyd unleashed over 150 of their movies on YouTube for absolutely free! They even posted some vintage, films from the 1930s that they own the rights to, like the Bela Lugosi classic White Zombie. You can enjoy it all HERE.

Aaron Horkey and Vania Zouravliov: The Devil’s Backbone poster

The Alamo Drafthouse will release this stunning poster of Guillermo Del Toro's The Devil’s Backbone by two of my absolute favorite artists Vania Zouravliov and Aaron Horkey today. It’s a 24″ x 36″ screenprint, has an edition of 350, and will cost $60. The variants have editions of 90 and will cost $90 each. These go up today (Friday, June 17th) at a random time. Visit Mondotees.com.

Netprix

State lawmakers in Tennessee have passed a groundbreaking measure that would make it a crime to use a friend's login — even with permission — to listen to songs or watch movies from services such as Netflix or Rhapsody.

I have actually been using a friends Netflix password for the last couple years, always wondered what the deal is with this. Only looks as if Tennessee will be effected for now but soon we might all be restricted from streaming a poor selection of really crappy movies no one wants to see.

via The Tennessean