Prescreen, the independent film discovery and distribution platform, has suspended operations, reports Rip Empson for Techcrunch. Beginning as a kind of film-of-the-day online distributor and ...

Did you know just 1 percent of the thousands of films at the Sundance Festival get distribution deals? That’s something Prescreen, a new social movie discovery and viewing platform, is trying to ...

This week, eight-month-old online distributor Prescreen sent a “change of service” announcement to its subscribers. Translated: They’re shutting down. The official statement is that the site ...

Movie sites and distributors continue to tout their partnerships with Facebook, allowing their content to be accessed and shared through the massive social networking site. Streaming video on demand ...

While in Cannes this year I moderated a panel on new distribution thinking, and one of the panelists was Shawn Bercuson of PreScreen. I wrote: … PreScreen’s business operates on an entirely different ...

The online movie rental and marketing start-up, launched by former Groupon executive Shawn Bercuson, says it is offering the most comprehensive selection of Sundance trailers online. By Georg Szalai ...

One of the challenges for Indie movies is getting exposure to consumers. Studio films have massive marketing budgets, and are able to use these channels to get traffic. But movies created by ...

It was just last September that we covered the launch of Prescreen, the startup founded by former Groupon and Zoosk execs that aimed to help independent films find the publicity they nearly always ...