Category: media

“The Australian dollar traded close to 47 US cents in 2001, but has risen to above parity against the American currency in recent years, which is deterring foreign film makers from coming to the country.”

“For the latest episode of his Web series Serious Jibber-Jabber, [Conan] O’Brien reunited with four of the original writers of the show – Al Jean, Jeff Martin, Jay Kogen, and Mike Reiss – to reminisce and to discuss the evolution of the beloved family from Springfield.”

“Bisexual omnivores. Echoes of Occupy. Time-travelling terrorists. Plus razor-sharp plots and wildly blurred boundaries. A Canadian industry once known for staffing geek-pleasing U.S. productions is redefining the genre with home-grown mashups that are garnering outsize audiences and out-of-this-world buzz.”

“Psy released the new song on Saturday after performing it during a concert in Seoul, South Korea, where he is an established star. Gentleman had been viewed 20 million times in the first 24 hours, dwarfing the previous record of 8 million views in a day, held by Justin Bieber for his Boyfriend music video.”

“The micro-blogging site has held talks with the entertainment giants about hosting TV clips and selling ads alongside them, it said. Under the proposed content partnerships, Twitter would stream videos and split the resulting ad revenue with the networks, according to the report.”

“Hollywood is Netflix’s biggest supplier of content. If Netflix is the enemy, then why is Hollywood more than happy to arm it?”

“Jon Stewart has decided, as he put it this week, that he might be working the wrong continent. In a segment called ‘Big Ratings in Giant China,’ Stewart expounded on his recent discovery that he is racking up millions of hits, and thousands of favorable comments, from Chinese viewers, who see the show in scattered subtitled clips posted on Chinese sites.”

“This is known as doing nothing. And yet people pay money to subscribe to Book Television. Most subscribers probably have no idea they’re paying to get it, because it is bundled with other channels they want to see. This is known as getting money for doing nothing.”

The architectural centerpiece of the 290,000-square-foot complex, just west of the campus of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, would be a giant glass-enclosed dome, which Piano refers to as the “sphere” and the “soap bubble.”

Some say the humane association’s “resources and authority are too limited in an era that has brought the proliferation of smaller productions — like indie films, cable TV and even Internet productions — as well as a sharp rise in public expectations regarding animal safety”