Movies


Opinion

Bitcoin Is 'Big Barbie' Energy

Director Greta Gerwig's reimagined and self-empowered Barbie would love Bitcoin, author and influencer Aubrey Strobel writes.

Director Greta Gerwig's reimagined and self-empowered Barbie would love Bitcoin. (Elena Mishlanova/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Web3

First Animated Film Funded by a DAO Brings Nouns NFT Collection to Life

Led by former animators for Pixar, Netflix and Marvel, “The Rise of Blus: A Nouns Movie” has a budget of $2.75 million and is said to be the first animated film funded by a DAO.

Images from “The Rise of Blus: A Nouns Movie.” (Atrium)

Web3

NounsDAO Approves Proposal for Feature-Length NFT Movie

The decentralized autonomous organization will move ahead with plans to produce an animated film based on its popular 8-bit NFT characters.

Nouns NFT collection (OpenSea)

Web3

Warner Bros. Is Transforming the Original ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movie Into a Web3 Experience

The entertainment company has big plans to create a WB ‘Movieverse’ and adapt other films in its archives into multimedia NFTs.

Warner Bros. tiene grandes planes para llevar sus producciones a la Web3. (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment)

Finance

Quentin Tarantino Reaches Settlement With Miramax in ‘Pulp Fiction’ NFT Lawsuit

The director’s copyright infringement saga is finally being put to rest.

Director Quentin Tarantino settles a lawsuit with Miramax over NFTs. (Noam Galai/Getty Images)

Finance

(Crypto) Action! Indie Movie Studio Received $10M in Bitcoin for Shares in October

Angel Studios’ 2021 fundraise featured Uncorrelated Ventures and Gigafund, the Elon Musk-aligned VC.

(Alex Litvin/Unsplash)

Finance

Julie Pacino: Eliminating Middlemen in Film

“The market is going to decide what’s good, not some dude in a suit.”

(Julie Pacino, modified by Kevin Ross/CoinDesk)

Finance

Bored Apes Go Hollywood With Coinbase-Produced Movie Trilogy

The trio of films will tie into the launch of Coinbase’s long-awaited NFT marketplace.

Inside the Bored Ape Yacht Club–themed pop-up burger restaurant in Long Beach, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Finance

Kevin Smith to Issue ‘Comedy-Horror’ Film as NFTs on Secret Network

Quentin Tarantino, another filmmaker, released his “Pulp Fiction” NFTs on the same Cosmos-based blockchain in November.

Kevin Smith (Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images)

Finance

Quentin Tarantino to Release ‘Pulp Fiction’ NFTs, Flouting Miramax Lawsuit

The famed director is moving forward with his Secret Network NFT sale later this month.

Quentin Tarantino speaks during a panel discussion at NFT.NYC on Nov. 2, 2021. (Amir Hamja/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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