Emily Nussbaum: “It would feel good to critique the new version [of the show] with a tolerant smile – to say simply that you shouldn’t judge any sitcom too harshly, early on. … I can’t write that review, though, and it’s because of zingers like the one above, dog whistles that won’t let you stay inside Roseanne.”
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Uh-Oh – After Seven-Year Ban, Lars Von Trier Is Returning To Cannes
“Von Trier was made persona non grata by Cannes after jokingly declaring himself a Nazi and expressing sympathy for Adolf Hitler during a 2011 press conference for his Palme d’Or-nominated film Melancholia. … However, speaking to French radio station Europe 1, festival director Thierry Frémaux suggested that negotiations to lift Von Trier’s outcast status were ongoing and that an announcement regarding his latest film, The House That Jack Built, would be made in the coming days.”
Future Of Movies: Battle Between Cannes And Netflix Is Bad – But It’s Hard To Root For Either
France’s protectionist laws, which require a 36-month window between a film’s theatrical opening and its streaming debut, seem like the last gasp of a rapidly dying era. And the manner in which Frémaux handed down the Cannes ban, at the same time as the festival announced it was putting the kibosh on red-carpet selfies, was high-handed and doctrinaire. (In other words, it was French.) It’s increasingly evident that Netflix doesn’t just want to “disrupt” the business of showing movies in theaters. They want to destroy it. But it’s also increasingly evident that Netflix doesn’t just want to “disrupt” the business of showing movies in theaters. They want to destroy it. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings told reporters last year the company wanted to “unleash film,” but he also spoke of the current state of exhibition with glib contempt.
Future V. Past: The Stakes In The Netflix V. Cannes Battle
By putting its movies online immediately, the streaming service represents an existential threat to the French theater industry’s business; the Cannes rule change is just the latter’s mode of resistance (as the festival director, Fremaux is under tremendous pressure from French exhibitors). In announcing his decision to pull the company from Cannes, which is widely viewed as the world’s most prestigious film festival, Netflix’s chief content officer, Ted Sarandos, framed it to Variety as a battle between cinema’s past and future.
Netflix Spending $8 Billion On Content This Year
The company is competing against a range of traditional entertainment companies around the globe, and of course, against the need to work, sleep and do other things. Speaking at TED in Vancouver, CEO Reed Hastings noted that $8 billion is about what Disney spends. “That’s spread globally,” he said. “It’s not as much as it sounds.”
The Rise Of An Aggressive (And, So Far, Successful) Podcast Network
Though many podcast networks are on the move right now, one has been dominant since its founding, taking advantage of “a quirk of the iTunes chart, which appears to reward an influx of new listeners rather than the overall size of an audience. As Mr. Quah put it, ‘it’s a hotness meter, not a bigness meter.'”
The Astronaut Who Took A Crash Course In Cinematography From Darren Aronofsky
For a National Geographic documentary, astronaut and engineer Paolo Nespoli turned into a cameraman – with a famous trainer. But that didn’t help much when space intervened: “The sensor seemed to be badly damaged, and this is normal when cameras go into space. … We are outside the atmosphere, yet all of us, including the cameras, get an abnormal dose of space radiation.” Oh.
Will Disney’s New Streaming Service Kill Netflix And Movie Theatres Alike?
It’s an ironic question, or rather it could be an ironic result, considering that Disney essentially built the modern cinemagoing experience. “To save the kingdom, however, Disney may have to blow up the castle.”
How Did Traditionally B Movies Get Such A-Movie Budgets – And Attitudes?
What even is “elevated horror,” for that matter?
As Cannes Begins, It Does So Without Netflix – And With Few Films Directed By Women
Oh, Thierry Frémaux, did you really say this? You did. “Cannes artistic director Thierry Frémaux remarked at a news conference Thursday morning that the world ‘will never be the same again’ after sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein boosted the #MeToo movement, IndieWire reported. But he added that the industry’s related gender inequality issues and the lack of female filmmakers represented at Cannes had nothing to do with each other.” Sure, buddy. Sure.