Category: media

The Huffington Post is opening up shop in Germany. How, exactly, is *that* going to work?

“Honestly, my first reaction was not unlike the blowback we’re getting,” Ortiz said. “I understand where people are coming from because, as a Latina and being in this business as long as I have, I was like ‘Really? Devious Maids? What, are we all going to be called Maria?”

“The state’s new Film Production Jobs Program, known as Snowbate, has been voted into law. Minnesota lawmakers recently agreed to increase annual funding for the rebate program to $10 million from $500,000.”

“If your movie features a Chinese villain, change his nationality. If your plot omits a scene in China, insert one – preferably with gleaming skyscrapers. … If Beijing’s censors dislike certain scenes, cut them. Kow-towing to China has become a reflex for actors, writers, producers, directors and studio executives in pursuit of the world’s second-biggest box office.”

Christopher Orr: “The new season of Arrested Development isn’t a season in any conventional understanding of the word, and the episodes aren’t really episodes … but rather a single, eight-hour work of dada televisual art.”

“The owners are seemingly concerned that the trailers before the feature presentation become too long, running anywhere between two to three minutes, which can often add up to 20 minutes of previews.”

“Cable is a great closed system where the masses, now 100 million subscribers of cable, support ESPN that is only watched by 10 percent. That’s a great little plot so long as you can keep everybody inside the closed circle. We’re out to get the centricity moved to the internet.”

“The programs, including a John Goodman comedy about misfit roommate senators and a kids program about a young scientist, will be the online retailer’s first original series as the company follows Netflix Inc. and Hulu LLC into the business of creating its own programming to stream on the Web.”

“This government’s reach into the CBC inner working comes at an odd time. The CBC is a wounded, bewildered beast staggering round, trying to figure out how to survive with a hostile government and an aggressive commercial broadcast sector that wants it dead.”