“Women who are doing criticism and commentary have made their advances in formats other than day-of-release, up-or-down reviews in big outlets, which is essentially what interests Rotten Tomatoes and other aggregators that try to come up with a number that represents “critical opinion.'”
Category: media
Why Hollywood Will Flourish When Five Billion More People Get Online
“The American system produces the greatest storytellers. In a globalized market, it is the storytelling that wins. The scripts, the production value, the storytelling is how, was, is and always will be the solution to such problems.”
Location-Aware Radio – Script Changes Depending On Where You’re Listening To It
For instance, it could make reference to local places which would differ depending on where in the world you were. Or it would mention weather conditions that were dependent on what was happening in the real world – such as replacing the phrase “it’s sunny outside” with “it’s raining”.
Turning Timeless Film Classics Into Two-Minute Trailers
“Of late, though, Criterion has brought its touch to the trailer business with an entertaining and thoughtful series of online promotional teasers that interpret, rather than simply hype, their films – in less than two minutes.”
Alec Baldwin Says Movies Are Abandoning Great Acting To Television
“When I started out in the early 80s, two-thirds of the movies made were very cast specific, meaning: ‘We need that woman to play the psychiatrist and that man to play the judge.’ Now that’s down to one quarter. … Cable TV is the bastion of great acting now.”
Reality TV Is The New Family TV
They make performance more exciting, or they game-ify aspects of adult life, like cooking or traveling or making money. And though “appropriate” is a relative term, they tend to do it in relatively clean terms.
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo Is ‘Exactly The Kind Of Cultural Product America Should Be Exporting’
“The Thompson/Shannons are the anti-Kardashians – an unprivileged and guileless family that gets along. … They’re not in denial of their problems, but they’re not defined by them, either. … Their antics offer a counterweight to the jealousy, striving, and backstabbing of the Housewives. And they defy the tropes assigned to their many female reality-show peers: the slut, the fame-seeker, the betrayer.”
Hollywood Studios Anxious As Blockbuster-Heavy Summer Approaches
“With U.S. ticket sales already down 11 percent this year and the number of big-budget movies sharply up, summer 2013 is turning into a nail-biter for Hollywood.”
Video On Demand Is Finally Catching On
Some shows, like Fox’s “The Following” and ABC’s “Scandal,” now gain hundreds of thousands of viewers every week because of VOD, part of a decades-long shift from television on a linear schedule to television on viewers’ own terms.
CBS Wins US TV Season Ratings
“CBS had a hefty 4 million-viewer lead over its closest competitor this season — the largest margin of any network in 24 years. The network also claimed its first win in 21 years among the 18- to 49-year-old viewers who are the currency of broadcast-TV ad sales.”