Over the past few years, the convenience and personalization of Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video have led to the rapid expansion of streaming services. Audiences are becoming accustomed to more niche film and television programming tailored to their interests, and independent films have seen more mainstream attention. Parasite brought in more than $200 million […]
Among all of blockchain’s pragmatism, the level of transparency it supports is one of its most appealing features. Businesses in all sectors are adopting the technology to facilitate growth and expand opportunities. Many are finding great success in using transparent, immutable platforms to add value to markets that had become complacent, mostly due to strangling […]
We are currently in an age where technology is advancing exponentially and changing our lives for the better. It’s difficult to imagine what comes next, but in the last decade we’ve mainstreamed technology that allows us to transfer money from one bank account to another with the click of a button, have face-to-face interactions with […]
Movies are meant to be magical. They provide a sense of escapism rarely matched by other activities, and a good one can make viewers believe that just about anything is possible. When audiences reach the suspension of disbelief every screenwriter aims for, nothing else in the world exists. It would be an insult to the […]
Most people know that going into business means inevitable hard work and roadblocks. No one, though, knows the frustration of — and banking fees associated with — waiting a week or more for funds to show up in an account until he or she personally experiences it. This is the pace at which money traditionally […]
Have you ever watched a movie and thought, “How did that script ever get approved?” Really, though, how does any script get approved? The fact is that most of what happens in Hollywood occurs in a black box. Partnerships and deals are made. Budgets get created. Money moves to and fro. But only a select […]
What do you picture when you think of Hollywood? Beautiful stars, flashbulb-filled red carpets, fancy awards — and money. Lots and lots of money. Glamour and wealth have been part of Hollywood’s larger-than-life image as long as the studio system has existed. But the reality behind the veneer is more complicated. Each movie Hollywood makes […]
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases has reached more than 2 million globally. People are reported to be infected in nearly every country and nearly 140 thousand have died. Though those figures are devastating, they only paint a small portion of the picture. New reports indicate that the pandemic’s impact on the global economy is […]
Satoshi Nakamoto presented the first blockchain application to the world in 2008 in the form of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. The network supports peer-to-peer transactions that are not controlled by a single, central server. Instead, every transaction is verified across a network of thousands of servers called nodes and recorded on a public ledger. The security […]
Hollywood has come a long way since its early days when it was reinforcing a one-dimensional worldview that cast a restrictive, exclusionary net. The most notable progress has been made in the last few years since the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative shone a spotlight on representational shortcomings throughout the entertainment industry. While it’s heartening to see […]