Category: media

Last week Tarantino called off his project The Hateful Eight after copies of the screenplay were leaked an began circulating around Hollywood. Within two days, Gawker Media’s site Defamer revealed plot points and posted links to the complete script. So the furious director is taking Gawker to court.

John Cook lays out a five-point response to Quentin Tarantino’s lawsuit over the public leak of his screenplay to The Hateful Eight, arguing that the filmmaker made the affair into a news story himself.

Rear Window, The Graduate, Pulp Fiction – they may hold up through the years, but their trailers most definitely do not. Could this be why there’s now a fad to remix them, like The Sound of Music as a horror flick and The Shining as a rom-com? Adrienne LaFrance explains.

“Even the largest arts organisations cannot hope to achieve this exposure on their own. The potential to link up individual artists and arts organisations with the BBC’s multiple platforms is huge, driving place-based and digital engagement, and thought should be given as to how this can be better enabled.”

“People are still talking and arguing about the relative merits of artistically ambitious films such as ’12 Years a Slave’ and Alfonso Cuaron’s ‘Gravity,’ both released in October, as well as more recent party-joiners such as David O. Russell’s ‘American Hustle’ and Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Wolf of Wall Street,'”

“‘Maybe we are stronger because we have nothing to lose,’ [director Louise Archambault] says. ‘We can’t compare, so we don’t feel we have to compete with Hollywood. We do it in French and hope it will find an audience. We just dive in. We don’t think.'”

“What remains to be seen is whether the Academy, even if it is inclined to honor Cuaron, like the other groups, will also honor his film. “

Or actors, screenwriters, costumers … “The number of black nominees through history stands at about 125.”

And if so, what does a year-round schedule mean for actors?

“The true threat to HBO and the cable business model is that NetFlix can transcend the television itself, offering you shows on all your devices.”