“According to a study by the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University, women directed some 29 percent of documentaries and 18 percent of domestic features screened at nearly two dozen film festivals nationwide over the last year. Women also accounted for a third of the producers of narrative feature and documentary films shown at those festivals, the study found, numbers that remain unchanged from last year.”
Category: media
TV Is Losing Ad Dollars. Meanwhile The Internet…
“Mobile advertising and social gaming will see steady double-digit growth. Other media, like the global music market and magazine publishing, will grow less than a percent annually on average. The only decline will be in newspaper publishing, which will see advertising drop roughly 3 percent a year through 2019.”
Amy Schumer, John Oliver, ‘Serial’ – Unorthodox Winners Of 2015 Peabody Awards
“[The] eclectic bunch … ram the gamut from documentarian Alex Gibney to NBC News correspondent Richard Engel to Serial podcaster Sarah Koenig to comedians Amy Schumer and John Oliver. The Serial award struck one of the most intriguing notes of the evening, as it is the first podcast to win a Peabody.”
Folks Behind ‘Big Bang Theory’ Create Scholarships For Needy STEM Students
“The Big Bang Theory Scholarship Endowment has already raised $4 million to support undergraduate students at UCLA who are studying the sciences. Starting in the fall, 20 Big Bang Theory grants will be awarded to UCLA science students who have gotten in on academic merit but need extra support to supplement their financial aid … Every year, five more students will be added.”
A Conspiracy Of Movie Theatres? US Justice Department Investigates
“New Securities and Exchange Commission filings by cinema giants AMC and Regal confirm earlier reports that the government is investigating potential anti-competitive activity on the part of America’s biggest movie theater chains. The filings disclose the Department of Justice is looking into whether those companies used joint ventures and exclusivity agreements with movie studios in violation of antitrust laws.”
Jerry Seinfeld Becomes A Serious Force In Web Video
Says the impresario of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, “I’m a pimp. I’m a pimp.”
No, David Oyelowo Is Not Going To Play A White Man’s Black Friend
“‘Don’t send me your script if you want me to play the black best friend,’ he said. ‘I just won’t do that. You can feel when it’s literally an afterthought; you can feel when it’s like, “Oh quick, let’s get some colour in here.” That I won’t do.'”
Hollywood’s Most Famous Monster-Making Guy To Retire Because, Well, CGI
“He said his work on recent fantasy Maleficent, starring Angelina Jolie, which was CGI-heavy, could have been done ‘in a garage’ and suggested studios are increasingly looking to use technology to replace handcrafted work.”
Reese Witherspoon And The Quest To Make Movies Starring And About Adult Women
“‘Women make up 50 percent of the population, so we should make up 50 percent of the [roles and stories] in movies,’ she added. ‘It’s not a crazy thought, it’s just a representation of reality.'”
Chicago Residents Have Mixed Feelings About Spike Lee And ‘Chiraq’
“The film, Mr. Lee has said, is focused on gun violence on the South Side; some reports, unconfirmed by Mr. Lee, offer the intriguing possibility that the film is a comedic reimagining of ‘Lysistrata,’ the ancient Greek tale by Aristophanes in which women withhold sex to force the men to end the Peloponnesian War.”