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10/1
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 405
has surpassed the four million views mark on Ifilm.
The short film reached this historic mark in just 16 months. |
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9/22
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Bruce
Branit and Jeremy Hunt were honored by the Directors Board when
they were presented with the Pixie
Award as Best Directors. The Pixies are widely regarded as the
Academy Awards of on-line entertainment.
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6/24
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 The
creators of 405 spent the past week in Singapore and Hong
Kong in order to give a presentation on the creation of 405.
The panel
was well attended and featured step-by-step discussions of digital
independent filmmaking. |
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6/15
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 Look
for a longer interview on the SciFi Channel's Exposure this month.
The makers of 405 were interviewed about the short film around
Los Angeles. |
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6/11
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The
latest Aerosmith video, "Fly Away From Here," has been
completed by Branit and Hunt's Strange
Engine Productions. The video was directed by Joseph Kahn. There
are 199 shots for which Strange Engine contributed 3D effects work.
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6/5
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Today
marks the one year mark since 405 was premiered on the internet.
It has been a long strange trip for this little film and its makers.
We estimate that across the venues of the internet, 405 has been
viewed at least six million times. Thanks to everyone who watched
and enjoyed.
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5/1
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Strange
Engine, the company Bruce Branit and Jeremy Hunt started after 405,
has completed work on a commercial for the Seattle International
Film Festival. Effects work was done by Strange
Engine. The spot was directed by Branit and Hunt.
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4/13
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405
has been honored as Best Short Effects Film at the Vancouver
Effects and Animation Festival this week.
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3/27
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405
will be featured of the SciFi Channel's Exposure this week
between 4/1 and 4/6. The show titled the
Best of Exposure is where 405 will make its debut on
the show.
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3/20
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 405
has swept all of the Ifilm Movie Awards for which it was
nominated. The awards won were Best Picture, Best Director-Live
Action, and Best Film Under 3-Minutes. Thanks to all of you in the
on-line community who voted. |
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3/11
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 Bruce
and Jeremy participated in a panel discussion, 405 The Movie,
A Case Study, at the South by Southwest Film Festival this weekend.
This Austin Texas film and music festival is fast becoming one of
the premiere annual events on the festival circuit. |
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2/22
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 HBO
and the US Comedy Arts Festival have nominated 405 for Best
Live Action Comedy. The nomination is in the Best of the Web
category. The festival is held in Aspen, Colorado.
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2/15
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 405
has become a run-away hit in yet another digital realm. An MPEG-1
version is spreading widely among owners of the palm-sized PocketPC
PDA. You can get this specially encoded color version of 405
for play on the PocketPC at PocketMovies.net by following this
link.
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1/24
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Strange
Engine Productions, Hunt and Branit, and 405 were included
this month as number 46 of the Digital Coast 100. This is
a list of the most innovative or influential internet executives
and companies in Southern California for the past year.
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1/14
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 The
American Film Institute has published a list of 'Five Significant
Moments' of the year 2000. One of the things listed is the Digital
Revolution Continuum. 405 is featured, representing this
digital phenomenon.
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12/29
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Minneapolis Star Tribune, Best Online Movie of the Year
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12/27
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12/26
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 A
segment for Good Morning America on short films and the internet
aired today. It included an interview with the 405 guys taped
back in October. An internet streaming
version of the segment is available from their website.
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12/26
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12/18
|
 Today,
405 registered its three millionth view on Ifilm. This is
the total number of views since June 5th of this year. It is unknown
exactly how many additional viewers have watched the film here at
405themovie.com.
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11/19
|
 Detour
Magazine's annual "Young Hollywood" issue is on newsstands
now. This years issue features a special section on Digital Hollywood.
Jeremy and Bruce are featured with a brief question and answer section
on various obscure topics.
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11/5
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The
405 makers were honered to be on a discussion panel during
the L.A. visit of ResFest.
The panel, titled "Net Cinema" was held at the Directors's
Guild. Also on the panel were Stan (the man) Lee and Joe Nussbaum
(Lucas in Love).
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10/17
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10/14
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405
has won The Merit Award for Exceptional Filmmaking Award at
the Long Beach Film Festival.
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10/13
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 USAToday,
in this weekend's Life section, has dubbed 405 as the most
viewed internet movie in history. Read the article here.
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10/4
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The
405 VHS tape has gone on sale via this website.
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10/1
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 Yet
another benchmark has been reached on Ifilm today. 405 has
surpassed two million views in its four months on the entertainment
portal.
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9/14
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 405
was given an award for Excellence in Digital Entertainment
at the Digital Coast 2000 Awards. Bruce Branit and Jeremy Hunt had
participated in a panel discussion on funding internet entertainment
ventures the previous day of the conference.
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9/12
|
 Bruce
Branit and Jeremy Hunt have signed
as directors for commercials and music videos with A
Band Apart. They will be part of a stable of directors for the
company run by co-executive producers, Micheal Bodnarchek and pioneering
independent feature film producer Lawrence Bender.
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9/8
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Bruce and Jeremy appeared on "Digital Jam," a CNN show
covering internet related topics. The
segment was transmitted via satellite from a studio in West Los
Angeles and aired live on CNNfn today. Branit's last name, as has
been the custom, was misspelled.
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8/25
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 "Hot
Web Movie."
An article on 405 is featured in this week's "What's
Hot" issue of Rolling
Stone Magazine.
Gonna buy five copies for my mother.
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8/24
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1.5 million views and growing on Ifilm to date.
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8/5
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405 has crossed the 1,000,000 viewer threshold on Ifilm
today. 405 is the first film to achieve this mark, and did
so in exactly 2 months.
|
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7/30
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 Bruce
and Jeremy were featured this weekend on a segment of Access
Hollywood. It was a surprisingly in depth piece on 405
and events that have happened to the guys since it premiered.
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7/20
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After
being featured on msn.com last week, a flood of views have poured
in. They were previously not included in Ifilm's total but have now
been tabulated. The corrected total now stands at 650,000. |
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7/18
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405
today passed the 300,000 viewer mark on IFILM. You're growing exponentially,
Lawnmower Man! |
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7/15
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A segment on
405 was featured this weekend on Roger
Ebert & The Movies. The
syndicated program included a segment on the success of web-based
short films and premiered several excerpts of 405 to the
television audience.
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7/13
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405
has passed 200,000 views, on Ifilm, doubling its total in just this
past week and becoming the number one all-time viewed film in the
history of Ifilm. |
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7/7
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On
Ifilm, 405 has passed 100,000 views in less than one month. |
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7/6
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In
the first week of July, 405themovie.com has recorded doubled the amount
of traffic on its website as the entire month of June. |
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6/27
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405
was featured on Fox11's morning news show, Good Day LA. |
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6/26
|
 Bruce
Branit and Jeremy Hunt have reached an agreement with Creative Artists
Agency (CAA) for representation. For more information see coverage
in Variety and
the Hollywood
Reporter. |
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6/25
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With
50,000 views on IFILM in 2 weeks we estimate the total downloads of
405 from various sites on the net to be well in excess of 100,000. |
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6/24
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405
was written up in Steve
Harvey's column in the Los Angeles Times today. |
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6/18
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405themovie.com
usage statistics: Visitors 47,000. 200,000 pages views. 61 gigs of
data. |
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6/17
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The
most active single day to date at 405themovie.com. |
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6/15
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405themovie.com
has received over 30,000 visitors. With so many known and unknown
mirror sites spreading across the internet, as well as other internet
venues featuring 405 we can only estimate a viewing total of
over 50,000 downloads to date. |
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6/14
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405
has quickly become the number one rated and number one viewed movie
on IFILM. |
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6/12
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Bruce
and Jeremy today met with Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan as part
of the festivities welcoming IFILM to their new facility in Hollywood.
405 was screened in front of the Mayor, members of this entourage,
the press, and IFILM employees. |
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6/11
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405themovie.com
has received 17,000 visitors. This is 100,000 page view hits and 500,000
hits - counting pages, images and downloads. The movie itself has
been downloaded 12,000 times. Thanks and keep spreading the word. |
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6/9
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405
premieres on ifilm. The makers of 405 have reached an agreement with
ifilm.com
to present their movie in live-streaming format. |
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6/9
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405themovie.com
has received 250,000 hits to date. With the movie itself being downloaded
over 9,000 times. |
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6/7
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Due
to the amazing response, the larger version of 405 has been
taken down because of the increased server traffic. It will be returned
as soon as possible. |
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6/6
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We
have decided to replace the crude MPEG with a much better DivX version.
Although some will have more difficulty viewing at this format, it
is a necessary risk to ensure that viewers will get to see the detail
we have put into this movie. |
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6/5
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405
has been invited to be a part of the Toronto Digital Film Festival
in October. It is a testament to the internet as this invitation came
less than 4 hours after the film was put online. |
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6/5
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405
is now online. |
405
was shown this morning on the Today Show. Jeremy and Bruce were
in New York to appear live on the morning show. 
