American Wasteland Entertainment, a Springfield-based production company, attended the LA Webfest that was held March 28-March 31 in Los Angeles, California.

Out of the 200 entries, three were from Missouri.  All three of those were from Springfield, and two were from American Wasteland Entertainment (Drifter: Broken Road and Stage Fright).  The other production from Springfield was Epilogue, a Missouri State University…

The Wachowski Brothers are working on a new 10-episode Netflix series called Sense8 set to premiere exclusively on Netflix.com in late 2014. The project is about the way technology simultaneously unites and divides humans, but many of the details are secret.

Common with Netflix' distribution strategy, all 10-episodes of the series will…

New comedy YouTube Channel JASH created by comedian Sarah Silverman and actor Michael Cera will join the second wave of YouTube Original Channels Initiative funded by Google (YouTube's parent company). 

Google will fund 100% content production and marketing on JASH in hopes of selling advertising through the channel and its…

Comedy series 'Husbands' created by Jane Espenson (staff writer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer) will take to the road starting at Wondercon in Anaheim, California March 29-31, 2013, becoming the first comedy web series to tour the United States and Europe.

The 7-month tour will stop in Anaheim, Chicago, Los Angeles,…

Popular music streaming service Spotify is expanding into the web series and online video market.

It plans to develop its own original serialized video content, competing with the likes of Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Studios, Yahoo, YouTube, Crackle and many other independent digital studios already in the crowded video marketplace. 

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You've got a better chance of pitching for the Yankees than have a web series funded through traditional channels and own the intellectual property. To get a web series produced and have 100% ownership you simply have to pay for it yourself... by any means possible, including crowd-funding which I never…

Under his production banner Platinum Dunes, Director Michael Bay reinvented the wheel by reviving cult classics such as Nightmare on Elm Street and Texas Chainsaw Massacre as profitable low-budget movies budgeted under $20 million with music video and commercials directors helming. 

Now Amazon Studios is looking to follow…

"Sometimes you need a break from TV... so you can go play on the interwebs," writes blogger Perez Hilton. "See which stars have shined in web series... some have even been turned into TV shows!"…

Here's a branded series called DSLR Clueless: All the gear and no idea sponsored by Sony, with probably the cleverest tagline I've seen for a branded series. We can all relate to owning equipment you don't know how to use or have no business owning. Here's a short clip from the campaign. Watch more on their YouTube channel right here (which has gained nearly 2 million views in only 3 weeks). What's your web…

The road that lies ahead for us as creators is wide open. What I mean by this is that the web in still such fertile ground for us as filmmakers. We can do anything we want, whether it be a fantasy western, a high class soap opera,  a horror anthology, a talk show, or a cooking show. The possibilities are endless. 

Of course there is always going to be hurdles. These…

American Wasteland Entertainment is proud to announce, Stage Fright, its latest production,  is now up for viewing at AmericanWastelandEnt.com/StageFright. Produced locally in the Ozarks, this mini series follows Newlyweds Emmett and Laney, after they sign off on an old theater…

I’ll always remember the standing ovation I received at my hometown theater when we finished premiering my hour-long western film, “The Money Maker.” It still brings a smile to my face to see the sold out theater standing to their feet as they clapped.

That was July of 2005 and what I consider my first true filmmaking experience. Though, a year…

Did you know that Machinima.com is constantly looking for directors to join their team? Here's how to submit to their Director's Program!

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The channels will make shows for the Web and offer them on demand. Online, companies can “tap into genres not currently serviced within the television world,” Mr. Seidel said in an email to…

Founder of WSN, Rich Mbariket reading the 4th issue of WSN magazine released January 2012…

Image via USA Today: Elizabeth Banks plays police negotiator to Sam Worthington's (Avatar, Terminator Salvation) suicidal character in 'Man on a Ledge' in theaters this Friday…

Producer-casting director Kim Williams (casting director of Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family and Diary of a Mad Black Woman) and Carlos Ramos, Jr. (prod./dir.) are casting 'The Hill,' a dramatic web series. Shoot starts mid-late February in L.A.…

"With YouTube and the platforms on the Internet, they're in every country and on every device. It means we are instantly global," Machinima Inc. Chief Executive Allen DeBevoise said.…

Is there a market for web series DVDs? Kiefer Sutherland's action-thriller web series 'The Confession' is coming to DVD January 24 on Amazon and other fine retailers. Will you buy? Tell us about your DVD prospects and what you think of…