Category: media

“China’s movie box office topped $3.6 billion in 2013, up about 27% over 2012, with home-grown fare drawing particularly large crowds and driving down Hollywood’s share of the market.”

Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer was to have its first showing in Russia last Sunday at Moscow’s Gogol Center. Then the authorities telephoned on Saturday afternoon.

It seems the imagery on the posters was trying to obscure the fact that this is a movie about black people.

“Clearly, gender-based award categories are essential to maintaining even a tenuous presence for talented women in Hollywood.”

Second Life founder Philip Rosedale: “There is nothing magical about the real world. There is no magical ether. There are no magical particles that enable us to be connected to each other only when we’re face to face.”

“Fueled by politicians doling out generous tax breaks, filmmaking talent is migrating to where the money is. The result is an incentives arms race that pits California against governments around the world and allows powerful studios –with hundreds of millions of dollars at their disposal– to cherry-pick the best deals.”

This was a fantastic year at the box office, but “Hollywood did it largely by serving more of the same. The five leading films at the global box office were all sequels.”