“The six-part series, starring Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell, Damian Lewis as Henry VIII and Claire Foy as Anne Boleyn, had an average of 4.4 million viewers a week, a 15.8% share of the audience.” (The series will be broadcast in the US on PBS beginning April 5.)
Category: media
YouTube Is Ten Years Old. Uh-Oh – Here Come The Competitors
Some disgruntled partners aren’t convinced the No. 1 vidsite will be able to fully retain its share of eyeballs moving forward. A top exec at one large multichannel network puts it more bluntly. “YouTube has positioned itself to potentially blow the biggest halftime lead in the history of sports,” he says.
Netflix Is Heading To Spain (Probably)
“Since last year, when Spain was left out of Netflix’s launch in six new European countries, at least two factors have changed.”
Drones Will Completely Change How Directors Make Movies
“Filming with a camera-equipped drone isn’t hard at all. The controls, familiar to anyone who ever used a remote-control car, are easy to operate. The hardest part is keeping and eye on the drone and another on the smartphone displaying its video feed.”
Who’s Counting The Real TV Audience?
Not advertisers – and TV executives are fed up with that. They’re “pushing advertisers to pay for all viewers as measured by Nielsen up to a full week after the original airdate. That might sound like inside baseball. But tens of millions of dollars are at stake.”
Netflix Wants Simultaneous Release Of Movies Online And In The Theatre, But Movie Chains Are Freaked Out
“This week, Netflix announced that it paid nearly $12 million for the worldwide distribution rights for [Beasts of No Nation]. The movie already has a lot of Oscar buzz, but to qualify for an Academy Award nomination, it has to be shown in theaters before or on the same day it plays on TV, online or other platforms.” But the big chains have already said no.
Yay? A Third Comic Book Universe Joins The Cinematic Fray
In case you’re feeling like there aren’t enough superhero movies out there, Valiant “has a library of 2,000 characters, including X-O Manowar and Harbinger, and films based on the titles Bloodshot, Shadowman, and Archer & Armstrong were already in the works.”
“An Otherworldly Experience Not Quite Like Anything Else In The History Of Cinema”: The Maysles Brothers’ Masterpiece, “Grey Gardens”
Andrew O’Hehir: “The world it captures, with its mother-daughter pair of aristocratic castoffs and their crumbling, weed-choked East Hampton mansion infested with cats and raccoons, is now so utterly vanished as to seem fantastic, an allegorical dream concocted by Scott Fitzgerald and Flannery O’Connor more than real people who existed within living memory.”
“Fifty Shades Of Grey” Blocked In India By Censors
“The theme of the movie is such that it could not be cleared in the first viewing. In the second step, a wider committee will review the film.”
Documentary On Delhi Gang Rape Banned In India Following Media Outrage
“An Indian court blocked the broadcast of a documentary about a 2012 gang rape and murder that sparked national outrage and tarnished the country’s reputation, saying an interview in the film with one of the perpetrators could ’cause huge public outcry’.” (The BBC went ahead with a UK broadcast.)