There is a lot of hype these days encouraging filmmakers to offer content for free online. Not sure how much I'm buying into it all at this point, although there are several people who have already done it. I definitely don't think that the net at this point is the best exhibition format for feature length movies, but if you are a short filmmaker (I'm not a big shorts guy anymore but several others are), maybe you can take a page out of the book of 50 Cent in promoting a future release by giving away legit content for free first. And during the music business' current total deconstruction, this is the latest way musicians are seeking to find new ways to successfully release music. If you are a big believer that the film industry is currently going through what the music industry recently has, this Rolling Stone recent news may sound interesting to you.
As promised, 50 Cent dropped his new mixtape LP "War Angel" as a free download last night on his ThisIs50 Website. The mixtape is the first of three that 50 is plotting to release before his oft-delayed "Before I Self Destruct" comes out in September. War Angel includes the gritty “Redrum” and a sequel of sorts to Wu-Tang Clan’s “C.R.E.A.M,” fittingly called “C.R.E.A.M. 2.”
50 himself boasted that War Angel is “the best body of work I put out in the mixtape circuit, period,” and even if you’re not a fan of the Queens MC, you have to admit that the rapper brought his best to an album that’s being given away for free (65,761 people have downloaded the album through ThisIs50 at press time). 50 Cent also has his ’90s-music-based Sincerely Southside Part 2 due out on the Fourth of July, plus a G-Unit mixtape in the works.
Check it out for yourself HERE. Something to think about and at least consider on your own.
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