“Changing Canadian broadcast and content regulations is a hellish task. The public feels very differently from the industry, and the creative side of the industry, especially in TV, doesn’t really want creativity – it wants jobs. It is implausible that all sides will agree on a paradigm that benefits everybody. Even more unlikely is the sudden emergence of great Canadian television.”
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Odd: Why Are Our Actors Of A Different Color A Different Color?
“You don’t see Leonardo DiCaprio, Sandra Bullock, and Tom Cruise painting their faces to win roles, but this color-changing gambit has practically become required of black dramatic actors who want to appear in big-budget movies.”
Gay-Themed Bollywood Films Challenge Indian Taboos
“Bollywood has a long history of portraying gay characters with clichés or using them as an ostensibly comic sideshow. Often they are sexual predators whom the male leads, epitomes of heterosexual masculinity, must be wary of. But several recent movies have challenged those stereotypes, suggesting that attitudes in India’s movie industry, or at least within an influential section of it, may be changing.”
Counterintuitive: The Rise Of Pirate Radio Stations In The Age Of The Internet
“Helped along by cheaper technology, the rogue stations can cover several blocks or several square miles. Most broadcast to immigrant communities that pirate radio defenders say are underserved by licensed stations.”
The Way We Release Movies In Theatres Hurts Independent Films
“A policy that’s centered on the concept of week-long theatrical release leaves out movies of significant artistic merit (such as “Losing Ground”) that don’t get a week-long run at all.”
Why Comcast Wants To Buy Dreamworks For $3 Billion
“Comcast could make use of DreamWorks’ IP-rich vault in its theme parks as well as to feed its global film and TV pipelines. It’s understood that the deal on the table envisions bringing DWA into the Universal Pictures fold.”
Scorsese, De Niro, Foster Et Al. Talk About ‘Taxi Driver’, 40 Years On
“[Robert] De Niro reunited with director Martin Scorsese, co-stars Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd and Harvey Keitel, screenwriter Paul Schrader, and producer Michael Phillips for an onstage chat moderated by the director of the New York Film Festival, Kent Jones. They talked about everything from how they came up with Bickle’s mohawk to Foster’s fear of hot pants and Keitel’s improvisations with a pimp. Then Vulture typed it all up for you.”
The Award-Winning Radio Show Broadcast Live From A Women’s Prison
Palabra Libre (“Free Speech”) is “hosted and produced by female inmates from a studio inside the Center for Social Rehabilitation. The prison, which holds approximately 700 inmates, is in Latacunga, nestled close to Cotopaxi, the world’s most monitored volcano.”
How America’s First Movie Megastar Became A Studio Mogul (PS – She Was Canadian, Too)
She negotiated herself a high salary from D.W. Griffith while she was still a teenager, made dozens of films in a huge variety of roles, co-founded one of today’s major studios, and was the first Hollywood producer to bring over a major European director.
Eurovision Expels A Country For The First Time In Its History
The European Broadcasting Union says that the country’s broadcaster has accrued more than $16 million in unpaid dues since 2007. To drive the point home, the EBU announced the decision just a few weeks before the finals of the Eurovision Song Contest.”