Madonna’s new film Filth And Wisdom: straight to video (or the internet as it’s called now)

madonnaciccone Madonnas new film <em>Filth And Wisdom</em>: straight to video (or the internet as its called now) Ahhh Madonna. Never one to sit still eh? First you conquered the world of pop. Then you made a rubbish book with your busters on every page. Then of course you starred in some appalling films. Then you went back to singing and ~~stealing~~ acquiring the occasional child from a poor African country… And now? Now you’re making films.
That’s right, Madge is to release her directorial debut Filth And Wisdom straight onto the web - because she doesn’t want to rely on her pop superstardom to make her filmmaking career a success. Sorry… I nearly spat my tea out then. Going straight to the web is the 2008 equivalent of going straight to video.

Madonna believes that her low-budget flick, which is about a Ukranian immigrant in London, will be a bigger hit as an internet download, and has already started negotiations with iTunes service providers to bring her plans to fruition. She says, “I’m a beginner so I think I should start off in an understated way. Just because I’m established in one field doesn’t mean that’s how I should approach anything else I do. I’ve been speaking to iTunes about releasing it through them. I want the most amount of people to see the film as possible. I don’t do anything conventionally.”
The news comes just days after Filth And Wisdom premiered at the Berlin Film Festival last Wednesday to mixed reviews, with The Times saying that the film contains “a string of scenes that are so stagey they would fall over if they weren’t propped up by the cinema screen.” However, The Telegraph said “The movie is - disappointingly, perhaps - not an outright embarrassment”.
[via Yahoo]