“As anyone who has ever used a Game Genie could tell you, there are things that developers don’t want you to see … Recently, I discovered that many of these discarded concepts and ideas not only remain on the cartridge or disc after their release, but that there’s a fairly significant community working to find these missing items, with the goal of bringing them to life.”
Category: media
Facebook Exec: FB Will Likely Be All-Video Within Five Years
“I just think if we look already, we’re seeing a year-on-year decline on text. We’re seeing a massive increase, as I’ve said, on both pictures and video. If I was having a bet, I would say: video, video, video.”
Mobile Armageddon: The Future Of News In The Balance
“In a sentence, digital is eating legacy media, mobile is eating digital, and two companies, Facebook and Google, are eating mobile. It wouldn’t be such a bad thing that advertising is declining as a share of the economy if news publishers held a steady or growing percent of the market. But the opposite is happening.”
Netflix Has Created A Whole New Media World – Can It Survive In It?
Joe Nocera: “At the moment, Netflix has a negative cash flow of almost $1 billion; it regularly needs to go to the debt market to replenish its coffers. … And for all the original shows Netflix has underwritten, it remains dependent on the very networks that fear its potential to destroy their longtime business model in the way that internet competitors undermined the newspaper and music industries. Now that so many entertainment companies see it as an existential threat, the question is whether Netflix can continue to thrive in the new TV universe that it has brought into being.”
The Hollywood Blockbusters That Are Making Their Millions In China And Not The U.S.
Warcraft: The Beginning made only $24.4 million on its opening in the States – but more than six times that in China, “a record-breaking five-day total of $156m, the highest ever debut for a foreign release.” And that’s just one example.
Why A Movie Version Of “Hamilton” Will Take A Long Time
” ‘Hamilton’ is a show that will make more than ‘Star Wars.’ Why do they have any incentive to try to be like ‘Star Wars’?” asked one Broadway producer who declined to be identified because they were speaking about a rival production.
Hollywood Guilds Back Bill To More Rigorously Enforce Foreign Work Visas
“For years, the guilds have complained that they are not adequately involved in the process and that applicants aren’t properly evaluated. The new bill would require the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide appropriate organizations with copies of the Citizenship and Immigration Services’ O visa application decisions.”
The Lost Masterpiece Of Pakistan’s Avant-Garde Cinema (?)
“Pakistani cinema is assumed to have been untouched by the 20th century’s avant-garde film movements. But, with its documentary treatment of village life, labour and capitalist exploitation bearing recognisable traces of socialist realism, Italian neo-realism and Indian parallel cinema, Day Shall Dawn proves otherwise. The intimate involvement of revered poet [Faiz Ahmad] Faiz – credited with story, lyrics and dialogue – adds gravitas to an already intriguing endeavour.”
Fans Are Telling Movie Studios How To Make Movies (Danger, Will Robinson!)
“Studios are now stuck. They can’t be seen as completely capitulating to the whims of fans, but they also can’t purposefully dampen the enthusiasm of their paying audience. Prepare, then, for a world of creative compromises.”
The 50 Best Foreign Language Movies Of The 21st Century So Far
“To spread the love, we’ve stuck to one movie per director, and don’t take the absence of documentaries as anything but a promise that they’ll have their own Best of the Century list soon. Those are about the only rules we had, and other than that anything predominately in a language other than English qualified.”