Category: media

“To me, digital projection is just television in public. People leaving their houses to watch a DVD with a bunch of strangers, in a room other than their house.”

“‘A slanderous farce.’ No, not The Great British Bake Off‘s ‘bincident’, but Pyongyang’s response to Channel 4’s newly announced 10-part drama Opposite Number, about a British scientist captured in North Korea. … It wouldn’t be the first fictional TV show to create a political firestorm …” (includes video clips)

This could be because big-name films like Reese Witherspoon’s “Wild” opened at Telluride – and were thus banned from the first four days at Toronto.

“Was it a comedy? Was it a tragedy? A historical romp or an existential drama? Nobody, it seems, could quite explain Roy Andersson’s bizarre picture A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting.”

“Other artists, he said, can choose from among a variety of options, such as selling individual tracks, albums only, streaming only or downloading only. ‘The difference is,’ Brooks said, ‘is that the copyright owner gets to make that decision.'”

“If it did turn out to be rubbish, I wouldn’t have had anything to do with it. But if it were great I could take some of the credit.”

“TIFF’s move has cast a shadow over the fall festival season, prompting anxiety among distributors who feel they need as much critical attention for their films as they can get, while offering a rare glimpse at the sharp elbows and gritted teeth behind the red carpet smiles.”

“The faster paced TV seemed to distract viewers more, contributing to mindless eating, said Cornell researcher Aner Tal, the study’s lead author. The results, published today in the American Medical Association’s journal Internal Medicine, suggest that a steady diet of action TV could raise risks for packing on pounds.”

“Despite the major box office success of female-led films like Gravity, Maleficent and The Hunger Games series, women made up just 15 per cent of protagonists in the top 100 movies last year.”

“Over the last few decades, especially in Western Europe, dubbing has emerged as something close to an art form, with actors making a living speaking for cherished global movie stars. In Germany, dubbing, or synchronization, as it is known, has also become a big business.” Dietmar Wunder, who voices the likes of Daniel Craig, Don Cheadle and Adam Sandler, is one of the field’s stars. (includes video)