“Mr. Goldsman, who won an Oscar for ‘A Beautiful Mind,’ has persuaded other top writers to join him in adapting seemingly cheesy Hasbro brands like M.A.S.K., a short-lived ’80s toy line and TV series about secret agents whose cars and trucks turn into weapons. Among those he attracted to this year’s Hasbro room are Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon and ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ screenwriter Nicole Perlman.”
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Changing Up Late-Night On A New Channel
“‘Desus & Mero’ is loose, cheerful and profane. ‘Late night as a structure of programming does not matter,’ Mero said. ‘It shouldn’t feel like ‘Yo, here’s the news.’ It should feel like you’re looking on the internet with your friends. ‘Yo, you saw this video? That’s wild!’'”
Ang Lee Pleads With Critics – And The Audience – To Give High-Frame Movie A Chance
“It felt different than a movie. … It felt like a kind of virtual reality.”
Critics Are So Over High Frame Rates
“Critics are now grappling with the particular ‘hyper real’ look of [Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk], a visual experience that apparently gives both clarity and immediacy to the film’s battlefield scenes, and an odd stiltedness to the everyday life. (And that’s not even getting into their thoughts about poor Steve Martin’s face.)”
Claim: 90 Percent Of Movies Made Before 1914 Are Lost
“We estimate that in the U.S. 90% of movies made before 1914 have disappeared,” Nicolas Seydoux cautioned. “In France we don’t know the amount we’ve lost, but I think the fact we can reproduce them [digitally] gives us new hope,” he added. French film journalist Fabrice Leclerc in a presentation noted that, by his count, “one fourth of America’s cinematic heritage is now preserved outside the U.S.”
This Should Be A Perfect Time For Nancy Grace, But Her Show Just Got Cancelled. What Happened?
“The past few years have been dominated by headlines about criminal justice and sexual assault – the latter has lately consumed even the coverage of the 2016 campaign. The cultural appetite for grim true crime storytelling, meanwhile, has never been so keen. We are seemingly more susceptible than ever to both Grace’s material and her method, to narratives about sexual violence and to blunt outrage. What happened to Nancy Grace?” Laura Bennett figures it all out.
American History, Captured In GIFs
“Ernest Hemingway having a drink, astronaut John Glenn in his Mercury spacesuit, even the US Constitution are among the GIF glimpses of American history released by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) on GIPHY. The collection launched last month as a shareable portal into the National Archives Catalog.”
Lost Film From 1904 Turns Up In Prague
“Researchers at the Czech national film archives said Tuesday they had found a film by early cinema pioneer Georges Méliès that was thought to have been lost forever. The silent two-minute Match de prestidigitation (‘Conjuring contest’), dating from 1904, was found on a reel given to the archives by an anonymous donor, labelled as another film.”
They’re Remaking ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ – Can They Even *Do* That?
This new Rocky Horror, airing Oct. 20 on Fox, “is its own strange experiment. It will test whether a decades-old musical about science-fiction B-movies and all kinds of sexual awakenings is still relevant or has grown quaint, and whether a Rocky Horror movie made with some polish and preparation is still Rocky Horror at all.”
Indie Films Are Increasingly Video-On-Demand. That’s A Problem When We Don’t Know How Many People See Them
“Because neither indie distributors nor streaming services release audience numbers for VOD movies, our hands are tied: We have no idea what constitutes a hit or a flop on VOD — how many thousands, or maybe it’s tens of thousands, or maybe it’s hundreds of thousands — of people will watch a movie during its VOD run.”