Basically, “if you’re someone who cherishes international and art house cinema, it’s a good time to have Roku.” (And AppleTV. And maybe a Chromecast? Then there’s the Indian movie channel on Amazon … )
Category: media
The News Station That Was Home To Millions Of Immigrants In L.A. Has Flipped To English
The station provided coverage of the Seoul Olympics in Korean, covered the 1992 L.A. riots in a variety of languages, and in general, “offered content in 14 Asian languages, including Japanese, Vietnamese and Tagalog, along with Spanish, Hindi, Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Hebrew, French, German, Hungarian, Italian and Russian.” Why the switch to English? The internet.
Hawaii Five-O Producers Won’t Give Asian American Stars Equal Pay To White Stars, So They Leave Series
What year is this, again? “CBS’s final offer to Kim and Park was believed to have been 10-15% lower than what O’Loughlin and Caan make in salary. O’Laughlin and Caan each have deals that also provide them percentage points on the show’s back end.”
Mainstream Movie Culture Has Bowed Down To Fervent Fans – And Is All The Worse For It
Used to be, you could go to a movie without having to rifle back through books, check out Wikipedia entries, and maybe do a rewatch of the whole canon so far. Not so now. “Sequels and remakes have been around for more than a century, but the past decade has seen their takeover of the multiplex (in most of America, the only kind of theater around) — and a corresponding rise in the exclusionary nature of mainstream film culture.”
How Japanese Film Auteurs Riffed On The Tropes Of The Country’s ’70s Softcore
Mike Hale writes about the Roman Porno Reboot Project, in which the Nikkatsu studio asked five directors to put a contemporary spin on roman porno (short for “romantic pornography”), the rigidly formulaic genre that saved the studio when it hit hard times 46 years ago. (Among the results: Aroused by Gymnopédies – yes, the Satie piano pieces.)
The Academy – The ‘OscarsSoWhite’ One – Adds Hundreds Of People In An Attempt To Diversify Its Ranks
The Academy added The Rock, Jordan Peele (director of “Get Out”), Barry Jenkins (director of “Moonlight”), Gal Godot (um, Wonder Woman), and even Betty White (of “The Golden Girls,” which rather brings up a question of why she wasn’t in it before now). Good work, good work, but “even with the big names and numbers, the overall change in the demographics of the academy has been incremental.” Whoops.
Why Jon Hamm Hasn’t Become A Movie Star (Yet)
Angelica Jade Bastién analyzes Hamm’s post-Mad Men work and finds a possible reason why his particular gifts haven’t transferred so successfully onto the big screen – and looks at the new movie that may change this.
Oscar Voting Pool Becomes (A Bit) More Diverse As Academy Adds Largest New Class Ever
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced “that it would increase the Oscar voting pool to 8,427 people – a record high – by extending membership invitations to 774 entertainment industry professionals … If all the invitations are accepted, female membership would rise to 28 percent, from 27 percent. The percentage of minority members would climb to 13 percent, from 11 percent.”
What Is A Gaffer And Why Is That Boy “Best”? A Guide To All The Credits At The End Of A Movie
“Have you ever sat through the end credits waiting for the post-credit teaser and wondered what exactly do all those people do? We’ll break down the positions in that sea of credits and explain who’s who on a major film production.” (video)
Vimeo Gives Up On The Subscription Video Idea
“The video streamer, which is owned by Barry Diller’s IAC, announced last November that it planned to spend “tens of millions” to build out a competitor of Netflix, Hulu and the newly launched YouTube Red. … The company already has a subscription business in which it sells professional tools to its more than 750,000 creators” – and it will refocus on that business instead, according to the announcement.