“Hollywood 4.0: Coming Soon to a Browser Near You”

My friend screenwriter-photographer-teacher Tom Benedek appears to be adding “techno-journalist” to his list of credits as he’s got an article today in The Wrap, discussing what sounds like a great new feature called Little Shoot:

Very soon, all computers will be easily connected to big home LCD TV screens,. And everybody is going to be downloading entertainment content from the internet. Who will they download from? How will they pay for it? Will they pay for it?

Enter Adam Fisk’s creation, Little Shoot. It is unlike most other peer to peer file sharing software because it lives right on your Firefox or Internet Explorer or Safari browser. Little Shoot downloads and stores music, movies, any media files with one click. It is as easy to use as… AOL Mail. This interface simplicity allows it to blow away all the other lines of access to content on your computer. With Limewire, Bit Torrent, Pirate Bay etc.. there are small, but, for many, insurmountable technological hurdles.

The Little Shoot Add-on operates as simply as Flash on the browser. Tech grandmas who barely manage Yahoo mail will very easily add Little Shoot to their browsers, do a Little Shoot search, click on a music file(or a movie, TV show, book, whatever) AND the content will automatically be added to their ITunes Music Library or another folder. Much too simple.

Here’s a video re Little Shoot:



And while you’re at it, check out Tom’s art at his website. My favorite still is his “Shot By The Writer” series which features actual unproduced scripts Tom has written that Tom literally shot with bullets like this one.

Tom’s screenwriting credits include Cocoon (1985), The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996), and Zeus and Roxanne (1997).