The movie project billed itself as a professional quality fan “Star Trek” project. “To the purpose and character of the use, the judge writes that Axanar attempts to “stay faithful” to the Star Trek canon with nary any criticism, seemingly shrugging off defendants’ arguments of staging a ‘mockumentary.’ To the nature of the copyrighted work, the judge writes that after 13 Star Trek motion pictures and six television series, these types of works “are given broad copyright protections.”
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New Film Features A Marine Le Pen Character, And France’s Front National Flips Out Over Trailer
“Chez Nous (AKA This Is Our Land) stars Émilie Duquenne as a nurse who becomes a political success in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region after becoming involved with the Patriotic Bloc, a thinly disguised fictional version of the Front National. … The trailer briefly features a character apparently modelled on Le Pen, played by veteran performer Cathérine Jacob.” The movie doesn’t open for another seven weeks, but already party leaders are using words like “scandalous.”
How To Get More People Into Movie Theatres? Start Screening TV Shows!
“Television companies are looking for ways to build hype for their new shows and make them stand out amid a glut of high-quality original programs. This year there could be as many as 500 scripted shows on TV and streaming services, compared with about 300 in 2015, according to estimates from the cable network FX. Theater owners, meanwhile, are eager to fill seats during slow periods including the autumn months, and hoping to diversify their businesses as the box office becomes increasingly unpredictable.”
Dividing Movie Types Between “Coastal Elites” And “Ordinary Americans” Is Tempting But Dangerous
Thoughts of “the bubble,” and of its rhetorical cousin “real America” kept coming up as I tried to organize my feelings about the year’s movies. The phrases are both booby traps—labels that, when applied to culture, seek to impose a divide between art that is oblivious and art that is aware, or between movies that are about and for honest plain-spoken Americans (current example: Patriots Day) and movies that are for “coastal elites” who think rural white dudes are scary as hell (I don’t know … Nocturnal Animals?
How “Reality” TV Is Struggling To Portray Real People
“Television has long had a fraught relationship with the ‘regular’ person. Many of its shows, from Leave It to Beaver on down, have relied on the power of aspiration—the ideal family, the ideal group of friends, impossibly beautiful people inhabiting impossibly beautiful places—to amplify the appeal of the ‘normal’ worlds they’ve served up to their viewers… Those shows and their many, many counterparts claimed to embrace averageness; they also, however, scene after scene, treated averageness as something to be overcome.”
In 2016 Movie-Goers Went For Fantasy Over Reality
Unlike in recent years, when films like “American Sniper” and “The Hangover” broke through, not one movie rooted in a real-life setting was among the top 10 box office performers.
The Top-Grossing Movie In 2016 Made $463 Million In A Record-Setting Year
“The North American box office closed out the year with $11.4 billion in ticket sales, ComScore said Sunday. That marks a new record for the industry, bypassing the previous high-water mark of $11.1 billion that was established in 2015.”
How Technology Has Transformed Cinematography
“In modern times, cinema became the tenth muse. Why? Because it’s nourishing itself from literature, from architecture, music, philosophy… What that means is that even if you don’t know it, you have to deal with those elements. New technology brought to us the consciousness of making images. Today you have any still camera, any video camera, you push a button, things happen automatically. Today film students don’t know anymore how to realize an image. At the beginning, the so-called photographers had to practice, they had to study how to do it. The same thing was for cinematography. You grow up in learning how it’s possible to use a piece of mechanic and some chemistry to turn an idea into a realized image. Today, nobody knows. You don’t need to know. You push a button and get an image.”
Mapping Our Political Divide By The TV Shows We Watch
“When we looked at how many active Facebook users in a given ZIP code “liked” certain TV shows, we found that the 50 most-liked shows clustered into three groups with distinct geographic distributions. Together they reveal a national culture split among three regions: cities and their suburbs; rural areas; and what we’re calling the extended Black Belt — a swath that extends from the Mississippi River along the Eastern Seaboard up to Washington, but also including city centers and other places with large nonwhite populations.”
As The Year Ends, The Oscars Race Heats Up
Who, and what, will get nominated for Academy Awards – and what’s still in the running even as the discussion narrows?