A groundbreaking interactive music video for music icon Bob Dylan's 1965 single 'Like a Rolling Stone' has been released. The video, built as a multi-media experience, allows fans to connect with the song like never before.
Created in partnership with Interlude and produced by Pulse Films and Walter Pictures, the video allows viewers to play an active role in the story of the music video. The experience begins as soon as the user presses play where they are instantly given the ability to surf 16 difference 'TV channels' within the video in real-time–no one version of the video is the same.
The interchangeable 'channels' are made up of iconic American TV formats and recognizable talent including 'Pawn Stars' from the History Channel, Derrick Ashong of Fusion TV, comedian Marc Maron, 'The Price is Right' with Drew Carey, Jonathan and Drew Scott of 'Property Brothers', 'Girl Code' on MTV, actor Simon Rex, eccentric Detroit rapper Danny Brown, and 'EXTRA' with Mario Lopez.
The video corresponds with the Columbia/Legacy Recordings release of Dylan's The Complete Album Collection Volume 1. This CD boxed set contains 35 studio titles (including the first-ever North American release of 1973's "Dylan" album on CD), 6 live albums, 2-CD "Side Tracks," and a hardcover book featuring new album-by-album liner notes by Clinton Heylin with a new introduction by Bill Flanagan. "Side Tracks" brings together for the first time two discs worth of previously released non-album singles, tracks from "Biography" and other compilations, songs from films and more.
Vania Heymann directed via Pulse Films.
To connect with the video, click here.
Lessons From A Theater Near You; What The Box Office Taught Us In 2024
Movie ticket sales took a bit of a hit in 2024. The annual domestic box office is expected to end up at around $8.75 billion, down more than 3% from 2023, according to estimates from Comscore.
It's not as dire as it was in the pandemic years, but it's also not even close to the pre-pandemic norm when the annual box office regularly surpassed $11 billion.
This is the year the business felt the effects of the Hollywood strikes of 2023, the labor standoff that delayed productions and releases and led to a depleted calendar for exhibitors and moviegoers. And yet it's not as bad as it could have been, or at least as bad as analysts projected at the start of the year.
"This has been a really incredible comeback story for the industry," said Paul Dergarabedian, the senior media analyst for Comscore. "Just a couple of months ago it was a question of whether we would even hit $8 billion for the year."
Hollywood continues to learn lessons about what moviegoers really want, what works and what doesn't. Here are the biggest takeaways from 2024.
The strike fallout was real
The Hollywood strikes might have ended in 2023, putting productions back into full swing and sending stars out on the promotional circuit again — but the ripple effect of the work stoppages and contract standoffs showed their real effects on the 2024 release calendar.
The first two quarters were hit hardest, with tentpoles pushed later in the year ("Deadpool & Wolverine," for one) or even into 2025 (like "Mission: Impossible 8"). With no Marvel movie kicking off the summer moviegoing season, the box office was down a devastating 27.5% from 2023 right before "Inside Out 2" opened in June.
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