“Even as the movie awards season accelerates here, studio chiefs and major producers have been fretting less about Oscars than about job security. A rolling realignment has knocked out top executives, broken apart old alliances and shattered assumptions about corporate loyalties and the industry’s pecking order.”
Category: media
Fans And Funders Convince Bill Moyers Not To Retire
“It’s been only three weeks since I announced that Moyers & Company would end, as originally planned, on January 3. … What I could not anticipate was the response of our viewers … We received thousands of well-written and heartfelt messages. … Our funders also weighed in with an equally simple but passionate message: keep going.”
Can Podcasting Ever Be A Moneymaking Proposition?
“Producing a podcast can cost as little as the price of a good computer. But the amount of labor that goes into the production can be the equivalent of a full-time job.”
Exotic Foreigners Would Like To Make It In Bollywood
If only there were more roles for the (blond, blue-eyed) actors/dancers/models.
The Low-Key Ceremony That Became An Important Oscars Preview
The Governors Awards “now has a full-blown red-carpet walk and has evolved into a free-for-all campaign stop for those who want to be seen as candidates for the current round of Oscars, though almost no significant film awards or nominations have yet been conferred.”
Even J.J. Abrams, Now In Charge Of Star Trek *And* Star Wars, Thinks He Has Too Much Power
“I was insanely flattered, but felt like it was too much. … [But] it was such a once-in-a-lifetime chance to do something completely thrilling and wildly challenging.”
Once You Raise $800,000 For Your Blog, Why Not Publish Magazines?
“The new monthly magazine will be exclusively for subscribers. ‘Free-riders can’t see it,’ [Andrew] Sullivan’s email said. ‘We’ve erected a real paywall to keep them out, unlike our leaky meter system on the blog.'”
Is Facebook Fading?
“As it has become nearly universal, Facebook may have lost some of its edge — or, at the very least, it may no longer feel novel or original to some of its users,” especially the younger ones.
How Exactly Did A Long-Dormant, 40-Year-Old British Sci-Fi Show Revive Itself So Thoroughly?
“At the risk of sounding glib, basically ‘Doctor Who’ became ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer,’ speaking to its self-referential audience in a hip shorthand of knowingly cheesy dooms and pop lingua franca.”
Zapruder’s Kennedy Footage, At The Moment When Film And TV Converged
“While the Zapruder film holds an important place in the evolution of media … it also belongs to the story of cinema. What Zapruder made, after all, was not a Vine or a YouTube post, but a film.”