Category: media

“No firm date has been set to shut down print operations, but the move will happen at some point this spring, according to a source with knowledge of the deal. Crain’s Chicago Business reported Tuesday that Mansueto was selling his stake for $4 million.”

“Cable TV’s delivery model is under siege from Intel, Amazon, Netflix, Apple, Microsoft, Google and a host of others. Which makes it abundantly clear that cable and satellite need to do something to stop bleeding subscribers.”

“We’ve all been turned into marketers and brands. . . . You’re basically running your mom-and-pop film business, but the name of that business is your name, and the idea is to build the brand. It’s very bizarre, and it’s certainly not anything we talked about in film school.”

Manohla Dargis: “Watching Heaven’s Gate for the first time in February I understood how it could mean so many seemingly contradictory things to so many people and why so many dissimilar conclusions could all feel true.”

“The central journey in Girls is how immature people fumble their way toward maturity. The parallels to world politics here are surprisingly strong – after all, sovereign states are a relatively recent phenomenon in human history, so national polities also possess some immaturity.”

“Whereas their predecessors shot lavish celluloid spectacles largely underwritten by European checkbooks, the younger generation of Burkinabé filmmakers are making low-budget movies shot on HD cameras with local funding and geared toward local audiences. Instead of thatched huts in the bush, they’re set in living rooms in the ‘burbs.”

“Tarantino is frustrating to work with, Morricone said, observing that the two-time Oscar winner ‘places music in his films without coherence’ and ‘you can’t do anything with someone like that.'”

“Tellem said she saw opportunity for XES to expand into ‘all things entertainment–from games, music and fitness to news, sports, live events, television series and movies.'”

“It’s the fastest growing Kickstarter ever, hitting $1 million in just over four hours.” (Well, for now – the previous record was set just last week.)

Richard Brody: “The kind of recipe for success that a soft-drink company might guard with fierce vigilance, a movie company puts online for all to see. Emma Coats, a former storyboard artist at Pixar, sent out a list of the company’s ’22 Rules of Storytelling’.”