The original Star Wars (aka Episode IV: A New Hope) is a classic – cheesy acting and all.
But the crowd-sourced Star Wars Uncut may end up challenging the original for the position of second best Star Wars movie ever.
Organizers cut the original movie into 15-second clips and 473 indie moviemakers are recreating the scenes, low-budget [...]

The Escape From City 17 short film series is based on the Half Life computer game saga by Valve Corporation.
Originally envisioned as a project to test out numerous post production techniques, as well as a spec commercial, it ballooned into a multi-part series. Filmed guerilla style with no money, no time, no crew, no script, [...]

ZDNet’s Tech Bits is declaring Blu-Ray dead:
Blu-ray is in a death spiral. 12 months from now Blu-ray will be a videophile niche, not a mass market product.
With only a 4% share of US movie disc sales and HD download capability arriving, the Blu-ray disc Association (BDA) is still smoking dope. Even $150 Blu-ray players won’t [...]

Netflix today announced it has released its 2nd-generation media player, based on Microsoft Silverlight, which brings the company’s Internet video service to subscribers with Intel-based Mac computers for the first time. The deployment, which will initially touch a small percentage of new Netflix subscribers, is the first step in an anticipated roll-out of the new platform [...]

Home Movie Day, a celebration of amateur films and filmmaking held annually at many local venues worldwide, is Saturday October 18, 2008. 
Home Movie Day events provide the opportunity for individuals and families to see and share their own home movies with an audience of their community, and to see their neighbors’ in turn. It’s a chance to [...]

In July, we reported on the open-source movie community A Swarm of Angels – a group that hopes to update “the current filmmaking models of Hollywood and independent film to create cult cinema for the digital age.”
They’ve announced what they are calling the world’s “first open source film trailer,” for The Unfold, a sci-fi thriller being made open-source [...]

Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore is going the route of Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead and others and releasing his latest work, Slacker Uprising on the Internet as a free download. According to Moore, it’s the first major feature-length film by a noted director to debut for free via the internet.
Slacker Uprising traces Michael Moore’s 62-city tour of the [...]

Snagfilms, a new site that offers free online distribution of documentary films, is now live, offering instant streaming of movie like Super Size Me.
The site’s embed code takes you to the Snagfilms site, instead of letting you watch the film onsite. Snagfilms needs to get this fixed to work as a true embed.
At launch, more [...]

A Swarm Of Angels – an open source movie community – is looking for people to contribute images for their movie The Ravages:
We want to find an easy way for members to contribute to the content of the Swarm project at every stage. The easiest way we could think of for you to contribute visually [...]

YouTube has announced The YouTube Screening Room, a dedicated area on YouTube that will showcase an international selection of films.
The YouTube Screening Room will feature four new high-quality short films every two weeks, as well as feature-length films on a case-by-case basis.
Filmmakers will have the opportunity to submit their work for consideration through an online [...]