FanTrust’s Catherine Warren will be attending ICE 2008, Canada’s pre-eminent conference on interactive media in Toronto, March 26-28. Catherine will play double-duty at the conference - as ICE advisory board member and panel moderator. As always, here are FanTrust’s “Top 3” picks for ICE 2008: Making It: Building entertainment properties outside the system Why: This master class session (moderated by Catherine Warren, Fan Trust President) will explore the strategies and tactics taken by the creator of a successful, nontraditional 360-degree multiplatform property. Brent Friedman’s ...

Hollywood Reporter article by Nellie Andreeva and Kimberly Nordyke Sci Fi Channel has greenlighted "Sanctuary," the first television series to use live-action actors against virtual sets in the style of the features "300" and "Sin City." Sci Fi has ordered a full 13-episode season of the new scripted drama series, which originated online as the first high-definition sci-fi Web series. "Sanctuary" hails from the "Stargate SG-1" trio of star Amanda Tapping, writer-producer Damian Kindler and producer-director ...

FanTrust is a digital management consultancy. We work with entertainment and technology companies and investors to grow businesses around digital markets. We also serve universities and professional associations, partnering them with industry for research, talent and capital. In essence, we are digital matchmakers helping bridge different media and build innovative companies and IP. The value that we bring is a laser focus on the fans, the digital audiences and committed consumers that interact with multi-platform content. While we work with large public companies, start-ups and everything in between, the FanTrust approach is to build highly customized ...

The FanTrust blog goal is to unite entertainment fans and entertainment professionals and inspire new kinds of collaboration. Share your fandom and your fan strategies. Riff on the blur between user generated and professional content. Grapple out loud with your rights issues versus your open source ethic. Above all, please join us as the story unfolds. To kick off the FanTrust blog, "where fans and entertainment meet", it had to be The Simpsons. There is no better example of multiplatform success, gigantic demographic appeal and a Mobius strip of life-imitating-art-imitating-life in licensing deals. The characters got their start as video ...

Microsoft and Disney announced at the E3 Media and Business summit that a selection of films are available for download on Xbox LIVE Marketplace. Classic films and new releases from fifteen of Disney's partners will be available for download in high definition and standard definition based on Microsoft's points system. This announcement marks yet another collaboration on digital delivery and cross-platforming of HD entertainment, not to mention, the increased partnering of video games and films. This was a no-brainer for Disney given that in seven months Xbox Marketplace has seen 10 million downloads and the game platform already ...