Sundance

Viral Video: I Dare You Not to Cry “Like Crazy”

Kara Swisher in Media on August 3, 2011 at 12:44 am PT

If this movie trailer for an upcoming indie film and Sundance favorite “Like Crazy” doesn’t make you relive the exquisite agony of every doomed relationship you have ever had since puberty, then you must be a robot.

YouTube Rents Movies You’ve Heard Of. Did You Know YouTube Rents Movies?

Peter Kafka in Media on May 3, 2010 at 3:30 am PT

Last month, YouTube quietly expanded its movie rental program to include titles you’ve actually heard of before. But perhaps they’ve been too quiet about it.

Weekend Update 02.06.10–The Winter Ain’t Over Edition

Drake Martinet in News on February 6, 2010 at 12:30 pm PT

Torrential rain in the west and blizzard of death in the east can mean only one thing. Using a fat rodent to divine the weather is at at least as accurate as $100 million in geosynchronous weather satellites. So as AllThingsD battens down the hatches on both coasts, Weekend Update is here to be the perfect accompaniment to hot tea and power-outage candles. So charge up the laptop while you can, and read on for a full week’s tech trends straight from our intrepid team.

YouTube’s Trip to the Movies Nets Enough for Popcorn, and Another Visit

Peter Kafka in Media on February 2, 2010 at 7:58 am PT

YouTube has finished its first attempt to charge customers to watch Web video. The good news: Some people paid up. And from YouTube’s perspective, that’s all that matters. Good thing, since the video site’s Sundance experiment netted less than $11,000.

The One-Year Report Card of Yahoo's Carol Bartz–Deal-Making: Incomplete

Kara Swisher in News on January 25, 2010 at 9:24 am PT

Sorry for the break in grading Yahoo’s Carol Bartz on her one-year anniversary as CEO. But BoomTown was swanning around the Sundance Film Festival in Utah this weekend, went partying with those boozy Hollywood types and ended up in Provo with the crazy gals from “The Runaways”! I wish! Actually, running away from issuing any grade for deal-making for Bartz is a pretty good way to put it. Because today, after much thought, I have to give the Yahoo leader an incomplete for deal-making.

Will a Web Video Star Shine at Sundance?

Peter Kafka in Media on December 7, 2009 at 2:55 pm PT

The next wave of media stars is supposed to rise up from the Web, but so far, examples have been few and far between (how’s that Fred movie coming along, by the way?). But here’s another Internet success trying to make the leap into the big time, which is still, like it or not, defined by traditional media outlets: Next New Network host Bobby Miller, who is going to try to dazzle the judges at the Sundance Film Festival.

Scripps, Rainbow Join the Authentication Bandwagon

Peter Kafka in Media on June 24, 2009 at 3:17 pm PT

Comcast was mum about other cable networks it has persuaded to join its “OnDemand Online” program, which will offer TV shows over the Web to its customers. But word is getting out anyway. The people who bring you Food Network and AMC, for instance, have signed on.