Category: media

“Now after years of talk about “cord-cutting” and the collapse of TV as we know it, a new report is suggesting that the rapid growth of the online audiences will fundamentally change not only the way viewers approach video content, but the way that advertisers do.”

“Steven Spielberg is set to bring Stanley Kubrick’s unfilmed screenplay about the life of Napoleon to the small screen.”

“They’re idealistic feminine dreamers whose personalities are irritants. They are not merely spunky, but downright obsessive. And most crucially, these are not minor characters. On each show, the Hummingbird is a protagonist – an alienating-yet-sympathetic figure whose struggles are taken seriously and considered meaningful.”

Why so many fairy tale movies (for adults) now? And what would Bruno Bettelheim think?

“When Rhythm and Hues Supervisor Bill Westenhofer accepted the Oscar for his company’s visual effects work on Life of Pi, he was played off the stage before he could tell audiences the company is bankrupt, and the industry is suffering.”

“With the rise of the second screen comes a new band of villains who pose a serious threat to the entertainment industry’s move to mobile.”

“I think they feel they need to lighten up because they don’t want everyone to think they’re a bunch of grumpy serial killers.”

“The films are an attempt by the creative minds of Japan’s movie industry not only to confront the horrors of the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, but also to empower and serve as a legacy for the victims by telling their stories for international audiences.”

“Is it really more difficult now to imagine a protective father with an honor student daughter being leery of an intellectually and economically downmarket suitor? … [And] there’s another bit of evidence that undermines the thesis that society has rendered rom coms obsolete: rom coms themselves. Not Hollywood rom coms, but rom coms in other media.”