“People [in the industry] are starting to become more conscious of [the importance of discoverability]; there are still a lot of people who are not concerned because they don’t want to see the problem is coming or are too comfortable in the current system. But it’s something that’s coming at a fast speed, and we just need to focus on it and to handle it. It’s just a matter of time.”
Category: media
George Lucas’ Big Fantasy Museum Approved In Chicago
The planned museum, designed by Ma Yansong of MAD Architects, looks like a postmodern blend of the Millennium Falcon, Disney’s (DIS) Space Mountain attraction and the TWA terminal at JFK International Airport.
Local TV Host Molests Female Co-Host On Camera, Sparking Firestorm In Mexico
Last week, during the broadcast of A Toda Máquina on the Televísa network’s station in Ciudad Juárez, Enrique Tovar rubbed against his colleague Tania Reza, fondled her breasts, tried to lift her skirt, and made numerous lewd comments. When Reza finally walked off the set in disgust, Tovar said right into the camera, “I apologize. I think my partner is a little hormonal.” (includes video)
Invaders in Our Living Room: Why We Love The Myth That Most Americans Believed The 1938 ‘War of the Worlds’ Broadcast
“The way we think about media to this day is heavily indebted to the very ideas behind the broadcast and its reception – that radio, and media, can constitute a kind of invasive psychological experiment. War of the Worlds and the panic about its panic are products of the moment when the young fields of social psychology and radio used one another to legitimize themselves. Its significance to American history, panic or not, is bigger than even popular myth allows.”
Remember Last Week, When We Were All Making Fun Of The Idea of A ‘Hunger Games’ Theme Park?
Well, it’s real, and it’s not the only idea from the movie company that thought it up: “Lionsgate also hopes to bring its ‘Twilight’ series to theme parks.”
This ‘X-Files’ Episode Was Basically Banned From TV For Being Too Terrifying
“It just seemed like such a horrifying situation, and I’d been trying to use it. So we had been working out the story where there was another brother under the bed, and Jim Wong one day goes: ‘It’s the mother! The mother’s under the bed!’ And I felt Freud and Joseph Campbell do back flips, and that was that.”
Horror Movies In The U.S. Can’t Succeed Without Latino Audiences
“Edwin Pagan, who runs LatinHorror.com, a website for Latino horrorphiles, has a theory about why Latinos are drawn to the genre. ‘Traditionally, we have always loved ghost stories and the macabre and Gothic tales,’ he says. ‘They’re just sewn into the fabric of who we are as a people.'”
A ‘Moth’ Champion Shares The Tricks For Telling Riveting Stories
Matthew Dicks, a former teacher who became a professional storyteller after winning The Moth’s StorySLAM 18 times, says that the secret is in the stakes. (podcast)
Who Owns “Star Wars”? George Lucas Or The Fans?
Love or hate it — or love it and hate it, as legions of its fans do — the “Star Wars” series is a force to reckon with, less because of Mr. Lucas than the fans who elevated it to cinema’s alpha and omega.
What If You Made A Great Movie And Nobody Came? Why ‘Steve Jobs’ Bombed
“Danny Boyle and Aaron Sorkin’s exhilarating biopic-but-not-a-biopic of the late Apple co-founder sank like a stone in its first week of wide release after promising numbers in major markets and mostly rapturous reviews (ours included). What happened? The Internet, being the Internet, has some theories.”