Category: media

“Seizo Fukumoto has been stabbed, slashed and sliced with Japanese swords for over 50 years. He is one of the top kirareyaku actors, stuntmen who specialize in being killed by the hero samurai in period movies and TV shows. A true kirareyaku is one who can make viewers cringe in their seats, … Mr. Fukumoto said.”

“Democratic People’s Republic of Korea commands you to know that the capitalistic pigs at Moneyhorse LLC, are developing Glorious Leader!” In the guise of Kim III, players can shoot down US paratroopers, face down an American tank in front of the Juche Monument, ride a narwhal through a mined harbor, and meet Dennis Rodman on a basketball court. (includes trailer)

“After conducting an extensive crosscheck between their two databases, SAG-AFTRA and SoundExchange identified nearly 2,000 union members who are potentially eligible to receive royalties but haven’t registered to collect their money.”

Actually, we have any one of three, depending on whom you ask …

Netflix is now working to perfect its personalization technology to the point where users will no longer have to choose what they want to watch from a grid of shows and movies. Instead, the recommendation engine will be so finely tuned that it will show users “one or two suggestions that perfectly fit what they want to watch now.”

“Last summer, when CBS signals went off of many Time Warner Cable systems, the network also blocked the cable company’s customers from accessing the network’s websites. CBS went so far as to block all Time Warner Cable subscribers access to their sites, not just those in the cities were there was a feud.”

The four U.S. TV series “were ordered off video streaming websites in China because the popular shows breached regulations on harmful content, according to China’s media watchdog.” (The public was not happy.)

Kevin Fallon: “Trying to sell the classic variety show to toda’’s TV audience is a bit like trying to sell a beeper to someone who already owns an iPhone. But if there’s anyone who can convince me that it’s a good idea to buy a beeper it’s Maya Rudolph.”

“I suspect the real reason big studios no longer make rom-coms is hidden in their nicknames — they went from being “date movies” to “chick flicks” and shortly thereafter I dubbed them dick flicks. The genre devolved from a centuries-old comic form about charming fools fumbling their way through life and became ugly, women-hating screeds.”

Welcome to New York, “Abel Ferrara’s graphic and barely fictionalized film about the sexual assault case involving Dominique Strauss-Kahn” starring Gérard Depardieu, has already occasioned an unusually outrageous premiere party, a lawsuit threat from Strauss-Kahn’s attorneys, and an outraged column from DSK’s ex-wife, newscaster Anne Sinclair.