Broken Hearts Club is the movie that just keeps on giving. I received word today that we’d sealed a deal with FlickLaunch. Flick Launch is in beta and uses the Facebook fan page platform to stream movies. With FlickLaunch, Facebook friends can “LIKE” the film page to gain access to the movie. The first 100 viewings will be absolutely FREE. After that friends will pay $1-5 to stream the movie in a 640 x 360 window (16 x 9) resizeable to full screen. Films follow the generally accepted guidelines of the MPAA. Broken Hearts Club is unrated, but would most likely receive a R rating if it were rated.
Just in: new online platform licensing with Veoh via a 50/50 rev share and they (Veoh) place the ads. There is a 25% cap on the net, so fees and commissions of any sort cannot be over 25% of the total revenue. They appear to be a quality top of the line Online platform. They report quarterly and pay no later than within 45 days of the quarter. We’ll see.
Meanwhile – I am expecting quarterly reports from Fetch TV here shortly.
Also, Flix On Stix apparently had an influx of funding (I hear) and Broken Hearts Club is first on the list. They sound positive that soon BHC will be available …on your Flash Drive!
True to my plan, I’m using a hybrid model of self-distribution. The film has been airing on AMGTV for the past two months as a six-part series. Today the film was officially released on IndieFlix (http://www.indieflix.com/film/the-broken-hearts-club-30432/), available for immediate viewing and for purchase on DVD. Later this month the film will also be available on Amazon for DVD purchase and Amazon UnBox as a video download.
Next month the film will finally go to Western Europe on the Global Broadcast Network. I say finally because Global has delayed its official launch three times in the past four months.
Retro Television Network (RTV) is still in the works. They have a copy of the six-part series version of BHC.
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“Broken Hearts Club” on the AMGTV
Monday, November 2nd at 8PM (EST)
The series continues with episode 2. Look for the next episodes every Monday on AMGTV at 8PM EST.
How Can You Watch? Download the Designated Market Area List (PDF) to find the local station in your area that will air “Broken Hearts Club” on Monday, November 2nd at 8PM (EST).
I responded to a post about the challenges facing indie filmmakers. It was a list of the current industry defects. However I see it as a powershift in the industry as studios back-off from indie film releases and indie filmmakers empower themselves to distribute their films. The post painted a bleak picture. I didn’t quite see it that way. Alas, my comments were then quoted by Filmmaker Magazine the next day. Here is the story:
Filmmaker Angelo Bell commented on the thread about Ted Hope’s “38 American Film Problems/Concerns,” calling it an “overexaggeration of the challenges” and responding to several of Ted’s points by saying that what is really happening now is not that business models are failing but that there is a “power shift” from studios/producers to individual filmmakers committed to exploring DIY approaches. As I said in my blog post, what Ted did was write an amazingly comprehensive list on which every filmmaker will find several points to agree with. That said, many of the points will be ignorable by each individual filmmaker as well. Bell’s comment makes clear that for some filmmakers the mulling over of different business models is an academic exercise to be contemplated after all the work involved with releasing a film is done. I checked out Bell’s site and was led to his blog, 1001 Positively True Stories of an Independent Filmmaker, which discusses his new film, The Broken Hearts Club, premiering at the Hollywood Black Film Festival on June 5. On the blog he’s got a number of posts discussing his application of various social networking and community-building techniques to the grass roots marketing of his film, and he’s pretty honest about the results.
“Broken Hearts Club” on the AMGTV
