Category: media

“We on the film team were shocked to learn this week that the paper has not allocated a single one of its Oscar tickets to a reporter.”

“Racism in the entertainment industry is a complex, multifaceted beast, with much blame to go around, from discriminatory hiring patterns on the part of the industry to the casual commercial indifference of audiences to films about the black experience. But, having noticed a lot of changes in the way the academy has gone about its job over the last fifteen years, I think on balance that the criticism of it has gotten into the realm of the irresponsible.”

“Chinese cinemas took a record 6.87 billion yuan ($1.05 billion) in ticket sales in February, about $250 million more than the North American market.”

“In Canada and the United States, there’s a clear push to give more power to viewers over what they pay to see and, while that sounds good in some respects, TV executives recognize that it is delivering the business to a crossroads.”

“People who ‘travailed a vast ocean’ to find a new life turned starving and paranoid, surrounded by their dead, uncertain of their identities or their missions. To put it bluntly: People living through those first settlement years often lost their goddamn minds.”

“A show that’s pushing four hours should be cut down to about two-and-a-half. Cutting the fat and speeding through those technical awards in the middle is how you do it, so that you make it back to the awards that are given to famous people without feeling like you’ve weathered your own harrowing Revenant to get there.”

“They made millions and they created scandals, and unless they had a special gift, they ruined their children.”

“Located in a converted piano factory where it sits above state parole offices, Ghetto Film School aims to provide teenagers a foundation in filmmaking that can jump-start careers in the entertainment world. The organization’s founder, Joe Hall, likes to say that ‘if you weren’t born in the Coppola family, we’re your Coppola family.'”

Everything that was nominated and all of the winners, including at least one or two partial surprises.