It’s like Amazon or something even bigger (if there is such a thing): “As people are bombarded with more and more entertainment options, quality has become a determining factor for a movie’s success. And moviegoers use Rotten Tomatoes to select films the same way they turn to Yelp to determine what restaurants they visit.”
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It’s Been More Than A Year Since This City In Canada Had A Newspaper, So How’s It Coping?
Despite a lot of new outlets “sniffing opportunity” and opening new offices or expanding coverage, people in Guelph, Ontario, miss their daily paper. there’s “a creeping dread that fact-free U.S.-style politics – enhanced by the canny use of social media by those in power – could be spreading north.”
Director Jane Campion Says ‘The Clever People’ Have Switched From Film To TV
Campion (The Piano, Bright Star), who makes the TV series Top of the Lake, says that “movies have become conservative cash cows,” but “in television, there is no concern about politeness or pleasing the audience. It feels like creative freedom.”
Is It Even Possible To Make A Movie About Eating Disorders That Doesn’t Make Things Worse?
Elizabeth King looks at the worries over the new Netflix production To the Bone and the (none-too-encouraging) previous attempts to deal with anorexia and bulimia onscreen.
If The Confederacy Won: ‘Game Of Thrones’ Creators Plan Alt-History Series In Which Slavery Is Legal And Third Civil War (!) Is Coming
“HBO said that the show” – titled Confederate – “would portray events leading to a Third Civil War and follow ‘a broad swath of characters on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Demilitarized Zone – freedom fighters, slave hunters, politicians, abolitionists, journalists, the executives of a slaveholding conglomerate and the families of people in their thrall.'” (The Twitterverse does not seem to like the idea.)
Netflix Ramps Up Movie Production, Challenging Hollywood’s Primary Business
“Netflix’s bold foray into movie-making and directly-to-couch distribution is an explicit challenge to the traditional Hollywood model, analysts say, although it remains unclear if a company propelled by binge-watching TV at home can alter the future of going to the movies.”
Netflix Now Has 100 Million Subscribers
“Netflix shares rose more than 10% in after-hours trading in New York after announcing its second-quarter results. The firm said it added about 5.2 million members during the quarter, mostly from overseas. International members now account for about half of its subscriber total.”
The 100 Greatest Props In Movie History, And The Stories Behind Them
“While iconic movie props make us laugh, gasp, scream, and/or sit in absolute silence, they rarely start iconic; as a property master will tell you, the best on-screen objects go unnoticed, silently winning you over with truth. Well, call us obsessives, but we couldn’t help but notice. At a time in history when details go painfully overlooked, we slid movie history under a microscope to honor the simple joy of a perfect prop.”
This Summer’s Movie Blockbusters Are Failing Fast. Is Hollywood’s Pursuit Of Young Male Audiences Finally Catching Up To It?
“There’s long been a sense among pundits that the studios’ single-minded pursuit of young males is misguided: As a group, they’re too elusive, and chasing them can too often lead to a race to the bottom aesthetically. But that was just a feeling. This summer is providing hardcore forensic proof.”
‘Meatballs’ – An Oral History Of The Movie That Changed Both Comedy And Summer Camp
“We sat down with several members of the Meatballs cast and crew” – including director Ivan Reitman and producer Dan Goldberg – “to talk about their experiences, both in front of and behind the camera, making the movie that still gives us goosebumps whenever we hear that child choir sing, ‘Are you ready for the summer?'”