“Iron Man 3 writer and director Shane Black explained that although he had written the film with a female villain, there wasn’t one on screen because Marvel feared it would hurt toy sales.”
Category: media
Public Radio Station Manager Drops ‘This American Life’ Because Ira Glass Put It On Pandora – And Ira Fights Back
Mike Savage, general manager of WBAA in West Lafayette, Indiana, made the announcement on LinkedIn’s Pulse; in the comments, Ira Glass, TAL reporter Ben Calhoun, Audible.com SVP Eric Nuzum, and several other public radio execs debate the issue.
Britflix And Chill
“It’s just a rumoured working title. It’ll be great. The government has given the go-ahead for the BBC to develop a subscription streaming service and it’s going to partner with ITV and loads of others to make it happen.”
CBS Was Going To Get A Nancy Drew Show, But Then Too Many Women Liked It
“The reason for the nix? Apparently, ‘the pilot tested well but skewed too female for CBS’ schedule.'”
How The Toronto Symphony Conquered Digital Marketing
“For example, the TSO introduced online chat functionality to its website, enabling patrons to receive real-time customer support in both official languages as well as other languages including Mandarin. Its first week in operation produced more than 200 chat sessions.”
The Toast Is Closing, And Here Are Some Of Its Finest Moments
“The Internet wept. It’s hard to believe that The Toast has only been in our lives for three short years, but in that time it has become a bastion of hilarity, comfort, and understanding.”
(Here is the announcement by the Toast’s owner/editors.)
Data’s In: Movies With Women Make More Money. So Why Is Hollywood Resisting?
“These are just a few of the many, many studies that all prove the exact same thing: Movies that have women in them make money. In fact, years with the healthiest total box office revenue also tended to be the most female-friendly. Despite these findings, Hollywood has been very slow to change—whether it’s in terms of gender diversity, racial inclusion, or LGBT representation.”
Amazon Already Runs Its Own Version Of Netflix; Now It’s Starting Its Own YouTube
“With the launch of Amazon Video Direct, open to any video creator, the e-commerce giant will compete head-to-head with Google’s YouTube for video-ad dollars and views as well as other big Internet video distributors like Facebook and Vimeo.”
Dark Cloud Hangs Over Opening Of This Year’s Cannes Festival
With France remaining under the state of emergency that began after the November Paris attacks, the city of Cannes has hired a top Israeli consultant to beef up security, but people are still worried. “I’d be happy,” Sony Pictures Classics co-president Tom Bernard told the Hollywood Reporter, “to see dogs roaming the lobby of the Carlton.”
Today’s Hot Trend In Website Design? ‘Web Brutalism’
“All of these sites – some years old, some built recently – and hundreds more like them, eschew the templated, user-friendly interfaces that has long been the industry’s best practice. Instead they’re built on imperfect, hand-coded HTML and take their design cues from ’90s graphics.