Category: media

“Advertisers are moving more cash to cable, cutting into the networks’ quarterly profits. New technologies are making it easier to skip those ads, anyway.”

“Known as Watch ABC, the app will launch in New York and Philadelphia this week before rolling across all markets in the coming months.”

“It’s really where Star Wars was kind of born I suppose, and it’s nice that it’s coming back.”

“With adapters no longer inhibited or intimidated, works totalling over 1,000 pages are tamed by gleefully drastic slashing and/or exploiting the ampler air-time available in TV series.”

“They claim they are overworked, underappreciated and claim talented artists could leave the industry.”

“The Outs started as an alternative to television’s treatment of same-sex romance. With its final episode posted, can a show like this find a wider audience offline?”

“The Google owned property launched a pilot program whereby 30 channels will charge as little as 99 cents a month to subscribers who want more content than is offered up free.”

“[Michel] Hazanavicius, who won the best picture and director Oscar for his silent comedy The Artist in 2012, took to the pages of Le Monde to lambast what he sees as a well-meaning but outmoded system of French film production. ‘Today our responsibility is to denounce the failings of a once virtuous system that is being devoured by gangrene’.”

“If you’re looking for an enemy of creativity, even assuming a zero-sum game where looking for financial success can only harm the art, is the enemy script evaluation, which is a method of guessing at how much a movie will make, or is it the decision at the studio level to care only about how much the movie will make?”

“The real news here is that algorithmic analylsis pioneer Vinny Bruzzese charges “as much as $20,000 per script.” That’s nothing. By the standards of a Hollywood feature film, it’s a joke.”