As the entertainment industry grew into a national business, states and municipalities competed to lure productions out of Hollywood, and the balance of power among city governments, police departments and the entertainment industry seriously shifted over the past century.
Category: media
Ground Zero Of Film Noir: ‘The Maltese Falcon’ At 75
Phil Hoad looks back at John Huston’s 1941 classic and its artistic progeny, from Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil through Chinatown, Blade Runner, David Lynch’s oeuvre and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – and even Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary
The Act of Killing.
Report: Cable TV Subscription Price Increases Have Exceeded Inflation Every Year For 20 Years
For US cable TV in particular, price increases have outpaced inflation for every single one of the past 20 years, according to a recent FCC report surfaced by CordCutting.com. Every one! In 1995, cable cost $22.35 per month, on average. In 2015, it was $69.03. And the climb has been steady.
Just-Discovered Ingmar Bergman Screenplay To Be Filmed By His Old Enemy
Sixty-Four Minutes With Rebecka was planned as part of a joint project with Federico Fellini and Akira Kurosawa that never panned out. Now it’s going to be filmed by Suzanne Osten, a director with whom Bergman feuded from the 1960s until his death.
Big Powerful Hollywood… But Perhaps It’s All An Illusion?
“Titles are a case in point. Once upon a time, there were merely presidents and vps; now there are senior vps and executive vps and senior executive vps and chairmen and co-chairmen and co-CEOs. Each of these ranks is minutely graded, there to remind us of the place we hold in the Hollywood constellation. Fixed in our orbit, we’re so obsessed with moving closer to the sun, we blinker ourselves to what might happen when there’s another Big Bang.”
Meeting The Enemy In Virtual Reality – Art And VR As An Affecting Means Of Communicating
It holds the promise of opening up new frontiers for the integration of journalism and art in a socially oriented 21st-century performance piece poised at technology’s cutting edge.
The Director Of Half Of The Harry Potter Movies Says Just Leave The Play As Theatre
“There’s something unique and special keeping it as a play. … It’s a shame to then say ‘Let’s turn it into a movie.'”
Who Won BAFTA’s Britannia Awards?
“Ewan McGregor, who received the Britannia for his philanthropy, said, ‘This really should go to the volunteers of Unicef, not me.’ He started working with Unicef after seeing the work the organization did during a motorcycle trip across Asia. There is a great need with so many displaced in the Syrian civil war, he said, and urged attendees to support a charity.”
How To Have Your Novel Win Over All Of China: Don’t Publish It
Actually, don’t publish it *in print.* Media execs “are mining a once-secluded corner of the internet that has become a booming billion-dollar business: a flourishing online literary world that bypasses ink and paper entirely to grab readers by their smartphones, with subjects like tomb raiding, science fiction, fantasy, romance and martial arts.”
How Hollywood Eagerly Enlisted In The War On Drugs
“The prospect of foreign drug traffickers invading American shores gave pop-culture cops a new and more dangerous enemy to fight, one that justified fast driving, explosive shootouts and all sorts of audience-thrilling rule-breaking. In return, Hollywood promoted the idea that drugs posed a grave threat that justified new, frightening police tactics and the erosion of basic rights.”