Category: media

“Kristen and I met with the Warner Bros. brass, and they agreed to allow us to take this shot. They were extremely cool about it, as a matter of fact. Their reaction was, if you can show there’s enough fan interest to warrant a movie, we’re on board. So this is it. This is our shot.”

“Does a new wave exist if there’s no one around to hear it crashing to shore? Festival audiences and international arthouse buffs [have] certainly marvelled at the high quality of the Romanian new wave.” Romanian moviegoers? Not so much – they prefer the product of the country’s nascent commercial film industry.

The US public radio network “chose a bar hovering above Sixth Street [at SXSW in Austin] to kick off Generation Listen, a campaign to make public radio cool in the minds and ears of young people.”

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy [unveiled] Labor’s long-awaited media reform package, which includes a public interest test for media mergers and a toughened self-regulation system for print and online news media. … It would be backed by a public interest media advocate, which would rule on proposed media mergers and oversee the operation of the Australian Press Council in enforcing media standards.”

“When excerpts of the script leaked out in 2010, they prompted the headline “US reshoots cold war movie to demonise China” in the Beijing-based, 1.5m-circulation Global Times. Buyers told MGM that distributing Red Dawn in China would prove problematic. So the studio decided on a change of tack.”

“Disney, the Hollywood titan which brought the world classics such as Fantasia, Bambi and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, has admitted it has no current plans to make hand drawn animated films.”

“The defining feature of video games is interaction, the three-way conversation among designer, machine and player.”

Itself, of course. And its imagineers.

Arrested Development has new episodes coming out on Netflix, but that’s in no way enough for its devoted fans.