StartupRealities

StartupRealities No 96 ShakespeareCube is a musical and movie production company which develops modern productions by merging three classical works of the same author into one. The company's first production was an agglomeration of Shakespeare's Hamlet (set in Denmark), Othello (set in Italy) and King Lear (set in Britain) into an interconnected plot. This gave the name to the company. The resulting plot was a modern trans-European movie under the invented portmanteau title Hamothlea (Hamlet-Othello-Lear). CEO QUOTE "Our movies and musicals help introduce the younger generation to the classics of world literature. We intertwine the original plots creatively, so that there is smooth flow between characters and locations from the three original works. My big inspiration for this model is the 1999 ABBA musical 'Mamma Mia!'  The real challenge for us are authors who have left fewer than three major works, e.g. Harper Lee with 'To Kill A Mockingbird' and ...

StartupRealities No 39 LearnFromMovies is a ratings company that evaluates the educational and learning content of films. The company's assessors rate the number of educational topics and depth of explanations contained in a movie, and also to what degree a movie may nudge the viewer to explore topics further. CEO QUOTE "The inspiration to create LearnFromMovies came from listening to actor Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) talk on BBC radio about how much he had learned from watching The Simpsons. If Homer Simpson can teach Harry Potter anything, surely a good movie can teach your kids a lot too," said company founder and CEO Leo Mowett. "Why can't every movie be a Sesame Street? Or at least Aladdin's Cave?" - asked Mowett metaphorically. Michelle Obama and Big Bird in Sesame Street, 2013 (Source: Wikipedia )

StartupRealities No 32 ModernMovieMaker is a film modernisation company which converts old movies with expired copyright into modern productions. The company typically uses a narrator woven into the storyline. The narrator scenes are shot in a way and style that resembles the original movie, creating an artistic continuum. Narrator scenes allow cutting out superfluous original scenes and speeding up the pace of the movie to suit modern audiences. COPYRIGHT ModernMovieMaker works with two lists of movies which are indisputably in the public domain: 1) All motion pictures  made and shown in the USA before 1925 are now free of copyright, as the 75-year copyright (extended by a further 20 years) has now expired. 2) Movies whose copyright has not been renewed in accordance with past intellectual property statutes. CEO QUOTE "The narrator is everything in our productions: a guide, a pace-setter and a pace-maker," said company founder and CEO Mo Mokin. "We make sure...