Category: media

“One of CEN’s specialities – as with the naked Russians – is to offer its clients a story to accompany a particularly compelling image.”

“The role of Malcolm, a good kid caught up in a bad drug deal, refutes stereotype. The performance of Mr. Moore, a young actor who came up through Atlanta’s hip-hop dance scene, refutes typecasting.”

“The policy of basing profit participation on 20 percent of home video revenues derives from the rise of VCR in the 1980s. The studios would pay independent companies to produce and distribute VHS copies of their films and would receive 20 percent of the revenue, which they would then divide out to the profit participants. When studios opened their own home distribution divisions, they continued calculating the profit participants’ earnings from 20 percent of the home-video revenues.”

“Increasingly, Facebook is America’s news editor. Only it’s an editor with a vague and amorphous set of value—news judgment that is tailored to every reader’s own behaviors and likes.”

“Sex has always served as ample inspiration for comedy – every awkward encounter in bed is a potential gold mine for an observant writer or actor. But this summer, more than any other in recent memory, filmmakers are focused on what’s going on in hotel rooms, taxi back seats and anywhere else two people (or more) are getting it on. … Here, the stars and filmmakers from those films talk about what embarrassed them, what might embarrass audiences and what’s so funny about sex. These are excerpts from the conversations.”

“You know that if you re-release a cult show like the X-Files that the big fans of those shows are going to tweet that … And all of a sudden you’re getting all this kind of free publicity that’s aimed at exactly the audience you need.”

“At top U.S. film schools, women and men are almost equally represented. … Yet between the day these women graduate and the day, a few years later, that their male college peers begin showing up in film credits, most women filmmakers vanish into obscurity.” Here’s a look at the ways it happens.

“Of the four reporters who won the public service Pulitzer for the Oregonian in 2001, two have left journalism – one for a government communications job, one to teach journalism to college students. It’s hard to count how many of the other reporters who were doing high-value work back then at the paper – which gave me my first job out of college, in 2000 – have also left the business.”

“The Seattle public TV station KCTS-9 has laid off most of its production staff, including employees who have spent 30-plus years with the station, as part of a plan to shove locally produced series off the television screen and onto digital media.”