Category: media

Pew Research Center’s Home Broadband 2015 study found that 24% of all American adults do not subscribe to cable or satellite TV service. Of those, 15% have become cord cutters in recent years while 9% qualify as “cord nevers.”

But the advertising contractor Digital Cinema Media (DCM), which handles commercials for the Odeon, Vue and Cineworld chains, has now ruled out showing the film.”

The previous record, $525m (£352m), was set by Jurassic World in June.

“Ford has reportedly been paid £16.7 million for reprising the role of Han Solo and will also get 0.5 per cent of the film’s gross earnings, estimated to be £1.3 billion.”

James Poniewozik: “At some point during Netflix’s Sense8 … I had to ask myself: What am I watching? I didn’t mean that the way I usually do when reviewing a baffling show. I meant what, in a definitional sense, was this maximalist, supersized, latticework story? A mini-series? A megamovie? To put it another way: Is Netflix TV?”

“The soul of television has escaped the box, and is now flowing and taking on a whole range of different shapes, each with its own unique characteristics.”

The problem is ESPN: “Richard Greenfield, media analyst with BTIG Research, said in a report released Friday that Disney has overpaid for sports rights ‘based on overly aggressive multichannel video subscriber projections.'”

“One former executive, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of confidentiality strictures, says this would be an ‘optimum time to sell’ the company, because it is in fairly good financial shape. But Harvey dismissed that idea out of hand. ‘We’re not going to do that,’ he said.”

“Though there’s nothing like seeing Shakespeare live on stage, the magic of cinema can bring new light to the Bard’s classic works—and can allow us to view timeless performances over and over again.”

“As the fans and the publicists conspire to drown the rest of us with information, it can become difficult to honestly experience the film on the screen. The irony here is that the bigger and busier the conversation about movies becomes, the more it tends toward consensus; it’s the paradox of the Internet where infinite information is channelled through oligopolies.”