Category: media

“While all-male episodes already filmed will still be broadcast, all future programming will feature at least one female panel member or presenter.”

“Though it was just a game, the 7,548 people who fought the Battle of B-R could not have taken it any more seriously—and not simply because they lost virtual ships worth more than $300,000 in real-world money fighting it. And it all started when someone forgot to pay the rent on a space station.”

“The Film Bureau in Beijing looks set to raise the quota of foreign movies allowed into China by 10 movies to 44 films, a sign of growing openness in the world’s second-biggest box office market.”

When Vine and Instagram entered the instant, social-media-driven, short video game, who predicted that film school grads would soon be making a living from the apps?

During WWII, for instance, filmmakers in the West never showed the complexity and cruelty of war, but “today, it does seem to be possible for film-makers to be brutal and realistic before the conflict is over.”

“Within the industry, movie and video production – which accounts for the bulk of entertainment employment – posted the biggest decline, down by 7,800 jobs, or 7.2%, since 2007.”

“We are projecting significant financial challenges: a weak advertising market across the industry, lower-than-expected schedule performance in the key 25-54 year-old demographic on CBC Television, lower than expected ad revenues from Espace Musique and CBC Radio 2, and the loss of the NHL contract.”

Producer Karim Amer: “You’re entering a space where the dust hasn’t settled in a time when certain groups are trying to rewrite history.”

“Flappy Bird is not difficult to challenge you, nor even to teach the institution of videogames a thing or two. Rather, Flappy Bird is difficult because that’s how it is. It is a game that is indifferent, like an iron gate rusted shut, like the ice that shuts down a city.”

“An executive producer talks about the show’s sendup of the film industry’s illegal-downloading obsession, which earned rave reviews and big viewership.”