ScreenPro comment: Panellists:
Simon Britton (ScreenPro.tv), Grant Scicluna (pictured, The Wilding), Katharine Thornton (Distribution Manager Sharmill Films), Claudette Godfrey (Short Film Programmer & Film Festival Coordinator at SXSW) and Kristian Connelly (Cinema Nova General Manager).

ScreenPro comment: Quote: Target is currently testing a service called Target Ticket. According to a Web site running a beta version of Target Ticket, the service is providing “instant access to 15,000 titles,” including new releases, classic movies and “next-day TV” shows.

ScreenPro comment: Quote: FreeStyle Games' most recent efforts were seen in Sing Party for Wii U, so the Activision-owned developer hasn't strayed too far from music-based games

ScreenPro comment: Quote: The contest is MSN’s way of searching for “ Bold , fresh, buzz-worthy and of-the-moment concepts.”

ScreenPro comment: Quote: “This new channel gadget will enable shoppers to seamlessly move from browsing how-to videos and featured products to finding which retailers carry them, check availability, compare prices and make a purchase,”

ScreenPro comment: QUOTE: "Zach Braff has contacts..He can get in a room with money people. He is represented by a major talent agency. But the poor schmoe in Mobile, Alabama, or Walla Walla, Washington, has none of those advantages."

ScreenPro comment: There has never been a better time for most creative individuals to be both a truly independent filmmaker and/or a collaborative creative person.

ScreenPro comment: Quote: The #nitTWITS YouTube channel is similarly inspired by the ubiquitous social media site, but its creators have no time for other people’s tweets. Instead, they craft offbeat sketches based off of two or three line tweets from their own feeds.

ScreenPro comment: Quote: The new companion series to The Lizzie Bennet Diaries is allowing fans to move to a fictional California town, creating an entire community around the show.

ScreenPro comment: Quote: But Google's biggest challenge to TV may be in its sheer size. WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell said Thursday that Google is about to become its biggest recipient of global ad dollars, unseating News Corp. in the coming year. Google has 12,000 salespeople knocking on doors of all TV advertisers big and small.

ScreenPro comment: Quote: Netflix plans to lead the shift to delivering television-style programming over the Internet and has developed sophisticated technology to support that transition.

ScreenPro comment: Quote: Our goal is to move the interaction to where it matters; making it a property of the file, versus the distribution framework; giving artists real data about, and real access to, their fans.”

ScreenPro comment: Quote:YouTube said Thursday that it wants to make subscriptions available as a self-serve feature to select partners soon.

ScreenPro comment: Quote: You can get lots of stuff for free now, and so the trick is to get people to pay for stuff they can get for free.

ScreenPro comment: Quote: Video streaming giant Netflix believes that making content available is the best way to beat online piracy, and the company has data to back this up.