Category: media

“Once everything is in focus it requires a lot more staging, and a lot more sophistication in visual effects, and more attention to prop work, set design, and costuming.”

“In giving [Shonda] Rhimes the key to Thursday, which remains a lucrative night as film studios promote weekend releases, the alphabet network is acknowledging how big a draw her name has become with her patented style of traditional procedural meets emotional roller coaster — and showing that it sees her as a vital figure in helping them crawl out of a three-year spell in fourth place in the advertiser-preferred 18-49 demographic. “

“She’s looking at the pictures, the perished, the fallen, trying to match them up to the people in the photo, and the whole time she’s been keeping this photo safe in her favorite Ernest Hemingway novel.”

“A&E said it pulled the plug on ‘Longmire’ because it appeals primarily to older viewers—the median age of the show’s viewers is 60 versus 48 for the network as a whole.”

“It’s no secret that Facebook and Twitter can help classical musicians promote their work outside of traditional news media outlets. But when artists cross certain boundaries or get overly political, they can quickly find their careers at risk.”

“Television is getting better, especially cable, and using a Sherlockian level of analysis, I’d conclude TV is better because it isn’t always catering to the young, many of whom are known flibbertigibbets.”

“Maybe it’s time for a break. TIFF has gotten too unwieldy, too Hollywood, too focused on the dozens of film junkets attaching themselves, barnacle-like, to the festival itself.”

“About 100 anti-Japan films and nearly 70 TV programs were produced in 2013, according to Reuters, which estimates that the genre holds as much as 70 percent of the market.”

“Angelenos live longer (81.5 years) than average Americans (78.7), especially if you live in Beverly Hills, Pacific Palisades or Santa Monica (84.9). But when it comes to mental health and sexually transmitted diseases, the health stats for Tinseltowners don’t stack up so well.”

“Robert Nitsch Jr, a former visual effects worker at DreamWorks Animation, has became the latest to go to court over an alleged conspiracy to deny workers in the visual effects community better work opportunities.”