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“Even as the rules of financing and distribution are rapidly changing, with the rise of Internet fund-raising services like Kickstarter and video-on-demand distribution via the likes of iTunes, film distributors are still following an unoriginal playbook.”

The cable bundle “keeps the entire ecosystem alive, which is why it is so heavily and successfully defended. But there are hairline fractures beginning to appear, and you are seeing alliances shift.”

“One person who was briefed on plans for the film said late Friday that it would undergo additional cuts to qualify it for the Chinese film market, following some slight earlier changes to its presentation of bloodshed.”

“You have to stop worrying about good taste. There is an intellectual timidity when you don’t want to deal with things because they will become very colourful, but you can’t be ashamed of big emotions if you make movies.

The social media giant uses a scarcity model to roll out a new feature that may transform the way we discover and buy music.

“Just a few minutes after the lights dimmed and the credits rolled, Chinese censors on Thursday yanked Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained from cinemas around the country.”

“Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained looks set to be released in China with minor retouches to tone down the colour and impact of the film’s ubiquitous use of blood and gore, it has been revealed.”

“Individuals working in home entertainment, production, distribution and marketing, as well as the company’s music and theater business in New York City are feeling the brunt of the impact, with only a small number of employees leaving the animation division.”

Aereo “scoops up the free signals of local television stations and streams them to the phones and computers of paying subscribers. Because Aereo cuts off the stations from the retransmission fees that they have grown to depend on, they are determined to shut down the service – even, the station owners say, if they have to take their signals off the airwaves to do so.”

By slashing state funding and eliminating a postwar tax on box office receipts, she completely transformed the workings of the British film industry. Her government inspired an entire genre of oppositional films by the likes of Ken Loach, Mike Leigh and Peter Greenaway – yet her ministers also created Channel Four.