August

It seems that Hollywood has taken an interest in what we do!

Check out the film “August”: – Synopsis below:

“AUGUST follows Tom Sterling (Josh Hartnett) as an aggressive, young dot-com entrepreneur who fights to keep his start-up company afloat during the dot-com crash of 2001. Tom finds himself on a personal and professional downward spiral as he struggles to reunite with girlfriend, Sarrah (Naomie Harris), regain control of his company from his apathetic investor Ogilvie (David Bowie), and deal with age-old family wounds with his father, David (Rip Torn) and his brother Joshua (Adam Scott)”.

The film also features Jason Calacanis playing himself – founder of Techcrunch, Malhalo, Weblogs, and Rising Tide studios.

The film has already been released in the states, but doesn’t have a release date here. Rotten Tomatoes gave it 35% and IMDB awarded it only a 5.8/10.

Still I’m curious to see a Hollywood glorification of this subject matter, and whether we can learn anything from it – I doubt it. The only meaning I have taken of late from recent Hollywood films is to watch more YouTube instead.

It begs the question though – when will they make a film about our latest impending dot-com crash?

Will it be 2008 or 2009?