Hollywood hits the stop button on high-profile Web video efforts - Los Angeles Times

June 15, 2009

In 2006, Shane Felux was on a makeshift set near his home in northern Virginia producing a Web video when he received an out-of-the-blue phone call from Barry Jossen, who was then executive vice president of production for Disney's ABC Studios.

"I thought it was some friends of mine screwing around, but my wife said the caller ID read 'Disney' and I should take it," recalled Felux, who was already a minor celebrity on the Web for his "Star Wars" fan film "Revelations," but had never earned a penny doing it...