{"id":12709,"date":"2011-08-16T06:23:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T05:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=12709"},"modified":"2011-08-16T23:19:49","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T22:19:49","slug":"abu-dhabi-media-summit-2011-james-cameron-james-murdoch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/08\/16\/abu-dhabi-media-summit-2011-james-cameron-james-murdoch\/","title":{"rendered":"Abu Dhabi Media Summit 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12710\" title=\"Abu Dhabi Media Summit 2011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Abu-Dhabi-Media-Summit-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abu_Dhabi_Media_Summit\">Abu Dhabi Media Summit<\/a> took place with some key Hollywood figures talking about issues facing the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, director <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Cameron\">James Cameron<\/a><\/strong> spoke with News Corp&#8217;s European CEO <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Murdoch\">James Murdoch<\/a><\/strong> about a variety of topics affecting the film business including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The future of 3D<\/li>\n<li>Technology and risk taking<\/li>\n<li>The nature of business in Hollywood<\/li>\n<li>Dealing with crisis<\/li>\n<li>Exploration and the environment<\/li>\n<li>The future of entertainment<\/li>\n<li>Breaking down the barriers of reality and film<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The conversation runs for 41 minutes and can be seen here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FShPDe-znQY\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The second panel was called &#8216;Hollywood Power Shifts&#8217; and dealt with the wider issues facing the entertainment business.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Dan Sabbagh of The Guardian, the guests included: <strong>Mohammed Al Mubarak<\/strong> (Chairman, Imagenation Abu Dhabi); <strong>Skip Brittenham<\/strong> (Senior Partner and Founder, Ziffren, Brittenham LLP); <strong>Ari Emanuel<\/strong> (Co-CEO WME Entertainment); <strong>Jim Gianopulos<\/strong> (Co-chairman &#038; CEO, Fox Filmed Entertainment) and <strong>Walter Parkes<\/strong> (Former DreamWorks president and currently co-head of Parkes-MacDonald Productions).<\/p>\n<p>The discussion covers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The relationship between the consumers and content<\/li>\n<li>Piracy and the role of Internet Service Providers<\/li>\n<li>How social media affects studio marketing<\/li>\n<li>Sequels and remakes<\/li>\n<li>The possible power shift from West to East<\/li>\n<li>How text messaging is helping movies with subtitles<\/li>\n<li>How Muslim culture is represented in Hollywood movies<\/li>\n<li>The changing nature of content (movies, TV and the web)<\/li>\n<li>Brands and movies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Skip to 6.05 to get to the discussion:<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0X5GPIiEv-E\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There is was also an interesting talk called &#8216;Content and the Cloud&#8217; by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/globalnerding.blogspot.com\/\">Charlie Boswell<\/a><\/strong> (Director of Digital Media and Entertainment at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Advanced_Micro_Devices\">AMD<\/a>) and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/jules-urbach\">Jules Urbach<\/a><\/strong> (Founder and CEO, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.otoy.com\/\">OTOY<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>They discuss how how filmmakers and game companies can benefit from using <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cloud_Technology\">cloud technology<\/a> to make and deliver content.<\/p>\n<p>Although it may seem a little technical, the implications of what they say could be profound for movie studios and games companies.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WGcyyTZfXTE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>They discuss how:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Production houses can shift heavy duty work to the cloud (e.g. Avatar and The Social Network)<\/li>\n<li>How the cloud could revolutionise how movie studios deliver content<\/li>\n<li>The possible end of optical discs (DVD and Blu-ray) and the rise of streaming via the cloud<\/li>\n<li>Bandwidth issues<\/li>\n<li>The relationship between games and movies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Given the direction Apple are moving in with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/icloud\/\">iCloud<\/a>, this is an area worth watching closely.<\/p>\n<p>> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/adms\">YouTube channel for the 2011 Summit<\/a><br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abu_Dhabi_Media_Summit\">More on the Abu Dhabi Media Summit at Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year the Abu Dhabi Media Summit took place with some key Hollywood figures talking about issues facing the industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2168,2169,574],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}