“China’s obsession with a South Korean television show about a 400-year-old Harvard-educated alien who falls in love with an arrogant actress reached such a frenzy last year that online streaming companies here began racing to snap up licensing rights for other South Korean television programs, inflating their prices almost tenfold.”
Category: media
Um, Really? A Contest For Women Filmmakers … Set In The Twilight Universe?
“The contest — sponsored by Lionsgate, Women in Film, Volvo and crowd sourcing platform Tongal — was created to help women break into the frat house of film. Aspiring female writers and directors were invited to submit scripts and pitches for short films set in the ‘Twilight’ universe. Winners received up to $50,000 each to produce their 5- to 10-minute flicks.”
Why Don’t Bigger Budgets Always Make For Better Movies?
“It’s hard to make a movie that’s very expensive and not be thinking of the results all the time. … The creative process is hurt if you’re thinking about the end as opposed to focusing on day-to-day decisions.”
Bilingual Millennials Are Changing The Look, And Sound, Of TV
“‘We cater all our content now to not only linear, but digital,’ says Alberto Ciurana, president of programming and content for Univision. ‘It’s clear that this demographic is growing and their viewing habits are all over the place. It’s not something that can be ignored anymore.'”
‘Selma’ Director Ava DuVernay On Hollywood: “Follow The White Guys”
“Women have been trained in our culture and society to ask for what we want instead of taking what we want. We’ve been really indoctrinated with this culture of permission. I think it’s true for women, and I think it’s true for people of color. … But that time has passed.”
Rethinking The BBC – What Should It Become?
“This is a consultation that is very much about the BBC’s place in the broadcasting and media market. To what extent should the BBC, which has expanded enormously over the last 20 years, stay as it is?”
Wow – Did The Emmys Suddenly Become Relevant Again?
“The full list of Emmy nominations is very long. As always, the snubs are bizarre – what about HBO’s The Leftovers? But what’s truly bizarre is that the list looks almost up-to-date with the vast amount of great TV, and legitimate.”
How This Year’s Emmy Nominations Reflect (Or Don’t) The New TV Landscape
“It’s a curious situation—though the Emmys should be commended for acknowledging the wide landscape of quality TV available online, the awards seem to have lost interest in the kind of primetime network dramas that would have been mainstays in the 1980s and ’90s.”
Emmy Nominations Open Up – And Neglect The Networks
“With a handful of rule changes and a general sense of acceptance that Internet-based TV isn’t going anywhere, Thursday’s announced nominees included acclaimed niche shows like Amazon’s Transparent and Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, while creaky ratings-winners like The Big Bang Theory fell off the map. This year’s Emmy nominees embraced progress by recognizing TV’s ever-growing landscape, but at the cost of major recognition for network television’s newfound focus on diversity.”
The Pixar Theory Of Life And Labor (It’s Really A Silicon Valley Company At Heart)
“In film after film, Pixar presents narratives chiefly concerned with characters trying to be the best at what they do, or otherwise prove their usefulness … resulting in a filmography that consistently conflates individual flourishing with the embrace of unremitting work. … This excess, epitomized as the complete entanglement of an individual’s private life with their employment, is at the core of Pixar’s conceptualization of what it is to be a person.”