Category: media

On the eve of next week’s World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle, Los Angeles’  film industry loudly sounds warning bells about shipping its jobs out of country.  LA Weekly

The US sells 70 percent of the world’s TV programming. Next is Britain, with 12 percent and a big drop after that to the rest, says a new report.  BBC

And then there’s the one about … The art of pitching movie/TV projects.  San Francisco Chronicle

Trove of some 15,000 items of movie memorabilia found in LA after being in storage 70 years.  BBC

Australian-made movies only account for four percent of movies on commercial movie screens. Yet Australians figure prominently in American movie projects. What’s the bias against home-grown? Sydney Morning Herald

Here’s an international list, with nods to each decade and many countries.  Chicago Tribune

“See this?” asks one director. “It’s a new, state-of-the-art digital camera. Costs about $3,000.” In case you had any doubts that digital cameras and production would change the artistic world of making movies … New York Times

Associated Press film reviewers pick 25 best movies of the century. The most recent to make the list was 1977’s “Star Wars.” The Oregonian

On the other – basement radio geeks. Debating the FCC’s proposal to allow thousands of low-watt radio stations. On paper, the NAB ought to be able to squash this quixotic, power-to-the-people issue like a bug…  New York Press

Movie theaters are on track to rack up 1.6 billion admissions this year, the most since 1959.  Variety