“Not only has subscriber and distribution revenue come under pressure as viewers choose not to pay for traditional cable and satellite service, but so, too, has ad revenue in the face of huge declines in TV ratings.”
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This Year’s List Of Highest-Paid Actors
No women crack the Top Ten. And “for the first time, the list also includes actors who work outside the US movie industry, meaning the top 10 includes three Bollywood stars.”
G.I. Jane Is Missing In Action: Why Does Pop Culture Never Show Women At War?
“In Afghanistan, women in uniform are widely seen in the airports and across bases heading to work. But watch a war movie and the roughly 300,000 women who have deployed in America’s post-9/11 wars are largely missing in action. These untold stories have consequences both for how America sees its women in uniform and how they see themselves.”
‘You May Know Me From Such Roles As Terrorist Number Four’ – Muslim-American Actors In Hollywood
“You’ve heard of actors getting typecast. But there is no group more slighted, more narrowly cast, than the Muslim-American actors who earn virtually their entire livings pretending to hijack planes and slaughter infidels. Jon Ronson embarks on a soul-searching odyssey with the bad guys of Homeland, American Sniper, 24, and every other TV show and movie in which the holy warriors get mowed down before they even get to finish one good ‘Allahu Akbar!’“
It’s Time To Start Liking Tom Cruise Movies Again
“Somewhere along the way Cruise went from being the biggest star on the planet to his own films’ worst enemy.” (We all remember the Oprah Couch-Jumping Incident.) “There was something about Tom Cruise’s … well, Tom Cruise-ness that felt like it needed to be brought down a peg.” But Bilge Ebiri, after watching all of his movies for an assignment, argues that Cruise is an underrated, and sometimes ingenious, actor.
An Open Letter From A Copy Editor To Hollywood Title-Makers
When you’re giving a movie its title – say, Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation, or The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2, or Crazy, Stupid, Love. – punctuation is not your friend.
Animation Is Thriving In The Digital Age
“It’s become so natural to be in a movie, say, flying over an impossible landscape at a speed that no human has ever gone and see realistic-looking creatures that have never existed and will never exist but do exist in these alternative worlds.”
The Difference Between Movies And Video Games
“It surely must be tempting to think that this compulsion for games and movies to feed into and off each other is a sign that they are artistically tied together, that they are both destined to lift one another to higher and better things and that they have something important in common that means they can both learn from each other. But no; games are games and movies are movies.”
How Netflix Is Disrupting TV
“It’s less than three years since Netflix debuted its first original series — Lilyhammer, recently cancelled after three seasons — and Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos said the service expects to roll out 16 scripted dramas, nine original documentaries, three documentary series, 12 comedy specials and 17 children’s series in 2015 for a total of 475 hours of original programming in the United States.”
Will Star Rolling Stone Movie Critic Leave The Magazine?
“Two people who work at Rolling Stone parent company Wenner Media said that Peter Travers had been asked to move from a staff position to a contractor by company founder and chief Jann Wenner. Travers, a 26-year-veteran of the magazine, bristled at the suggestion and threatened to leave the publication entirely.”