Category: media

“Of the expensive action and animated movies, we’ve never had a summer where more than nine did well, and often it’s fewer. This summer you’ve got 17 blockbusters coming out between May and July, 19 if you add August. Is this going to be by far the biggest summer box office in history? Maybe, if they’re all great movies, but it’s not likely.”

“After facing criticism for its redesign of Brave‘s Merida – including by Brenda Chapman, the former director of the film – Disney has apparently pulled the new look of the character from its princess website.”

“Talk to the people behind Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, and so on, and it soon becomes clear that they’ve designed these shows to be more bingeable–more propulsive and page-turning–than anything the networks ever pushed on us in the past. How We Watch may be changing. But it’s changing What We Watch as well.”

“Though we now live in an age when films can be viewed via links on computers anywhere in the world, the number of journalists covering this maddening 12-day affair has multiplied by five in the last four decades, to nearly 4,000.”

“Despite the success of recent female-driven movies such as “Bridesmaids” and the “Hunger Games” and “Twilight” series, female representation in popular movies is at its lowest level in five years, according to a study being released Monday by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.”

“It has long been a bugbear of despairing editors: the determination of film studios to maintain regional embargoes for critics’ reviews in an internet age where geographical boundaries are increasingly irrelevant.”

“The most striking aspect of the massacre of existing shows that preceded the annual upfront announcement, was the cancellation of many shows featuring gay and lesbian characters.”

“We wanted to make a pleasurable film out of unwatchable subject matter.”

“France is considering imposing a tax on smartphones, tablets and other devices used to access the internet and using the revenue to fund the creation of French cultural content.”

“What was odd about Harryhausen’s work was that it was obviously ‘fake,’ fabricated – even in its heyday, its invented, articulated falseness was as evident as it was bemusing. One wasn’t convinced by his skeleton warriors; one was amazed by them, a different thing.”