Category: media

“Spotify is selling a lie. In this post-Napster world, the pressure is on for new independent artists to have their music sit alongside massive acts – but we’re not getting anything back.”

Seriously, America? We’re giving more money and attention to cheap little movies like ‘The Conjuring’ while ‘Pacific Rim’ stumbles? (Yes, and we have our reasons.)

“BBC4’s programmes were regarded as fresh and new with ‘much higher reach and a growing reputation’ among viewers. But the channel will have to further that reputation without homegrown drama, which has been axed, with big cuts to its history, entertainment, documentary and science programming.”

Buyers dish about which films should get U.S. distribution and which will earn Oscar nominations at July buyers-only previews.

“Beyond the simple and depressing economic facts, ‘Juliette’ also speaks of a moral and cultural malaise nobody has found a name for. Bergès-Frisbey sums it up: ‘We live in a vacuous world, yet we do so with a feeling of urgency.'”

The critically beloved show that never found its audience or got any major awards has changed the face of TV, movies, and even Broadway.

“Summer movies are often described as formulaic. But what few people know is that there is actually a formula–one that lays out, on a page-by-page basis, exactly what should happen when in a screenplay. It’s as if a mad scientist has discovered a secret process for making a perfect, or at least perfectly conventional, summer blockbuster.”

Netflix’s strong showing in this year’s Emmy nominations — including a best-drama series bid for “House of Cards,” the first digital-originated program to enter that prestigious company — won’t change the TV industry. But it does underscore, as Academy Chairman Bruce Rosenblum noted, how our understanding of “television” is evolving.

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“Foreshadowing a new challenge to entrenched cable and satellite providers, Google is one of several technology giants trying to license TV channels for an Internet cable service.”