SHOOTonline will publish a Special Directors >e.dition on Monday, October 21, that will contain the entire Directors Series section from SHOOT‘s October 18th print issue.
The lineup of Director Profiles includes several Oscar contenders, including Paul Greengrass for Captain Phillips, Brian Percival for The Book Thief, J.C. Chandor for All Is Lost, Scott Cooper for Out of the Furnace, and Ben Stiller for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
Also in the Profile mix are: Drake Doremus of B-Reel, a lauded feature filmmaker (Like Crazy, the 2011 Sundance Grand Jury Dramatic Prize winner) whose The Beauty Inside for Intel/Toshiba went on to earn three Grand Prix honors (Film, Branded Content & Entertainment, and Cyber) at the 2013 Cannes International Festival of Creativity; Nicolai Fuglsig of MJZ who directed this year’s primetime commercial Emmy Award winner, Canon’s “Inspired” for Grey NY; and John X. Carey, who recently joined Tool of North America, scoring impressively at Cannes this year with Dove’s “Real Beauty Sketches” which garnered the Titanium Grand Prix and an Integrated Gold Lion for Ogilvy Brazil, as well as more than 56 million views on YouTube.
Our Directors section also includes the latest installment of our Cinematographers & Cameras Series which this time around features Barry Ackroyd, BSC, who shot Captain Phillips; Anthony Dod Mantle, ASC, BSC, who lensed Rush, the Ron Howard-directed feature generating early Oscar buzz; and Adam Arkapaw who won the primetime Emmy for Best Cinematography in a Miniseries or Movie on the strength of BBC/Sundance TV’s Top Of The Lake.
And our featured Up-and-Coming Directors rundown includes: an actress/writer who has successfully diversified into filmmaking; a SHOOT New Directors Showcase helmer who just landed his first production company roost; another director who just missed the Showcase cut but has seen his career continue to progress; a music video director who shows promise as a commercialmaker; a spot director Down Under who has moved stateside; a production company principal who initially served as a DP to his shop’s roster of directors only to later gain momentum as a director himself; a comedian, radio show host and former producer of the TV series Monk who recently gained his first commercial production house representation; and an artisan from Spain who’s extending her creative reach into the U.S. market.
Plus we have two sponsored content profiles in which directors Jay Patton of Dictionary Films and James Lipetzky of Foundation Content reflect on their most significant, creative challenging work this year, as well as lessons learned about the business and/or themselves based on their experience/projects in 2013.
Also appearing in the 10/21 >e.dition will be the Street Talk, Flash Back, and Rep Report columns.
Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance
Apple and Google aren't giving consumers a genuine choice of mobile web browsers, a British watchdog said Friday in a report that recommends they face an investigation under new U.K. digital rules taking effect next year.
The Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Apple, saying the iPhone maker's tactics hold back innovation by stopping rivals from giving users new features like faster webpage loading. Apple does this by restricting progressive web apps, which don't need to be downloaded from an app store and aren't subject to app store commissions, the report said.
"This technology is not able to fully take off on iOS devices," the watchdog said in a provisional report on its investigation into mobile browsers that it opened after an initial study concluded that Apple and Google effectively have a chokehold on "mobile ecosystems."
The CMA's report also found that Apple and Google manipulate the choices given to mobile phone users to make their own browsers "the clearest or easiest option."
And it said that the a revenue-sharing deal between the two U.S. Big Tech companies "significantly reduces their financial incentives" to compete in mobile browsers on Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones.
Both companies said they will "engage constructively" with the CMA.
Apple said it disagreed with the findings and said it was concerned that the recommendations would undermine user privacy and security.
Google said the openness of its Android mobile operating system "has helped to expand choice, reduce prices and democratize access to smartphones and apps" and that it's "committed to open platforms that empower consumers."
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