Category: media

“One of the things we know about creativity is that constraints are essential for getting people to do creative stuff. If you come up with the right constraints, that’s a benefit, not a drawback.”

“The company’s stock climbed $43.60 to close at $146.86 as investors celebrated a fourth-quarter earnings report highlighted by accelerated growth in Netflix’s Internet video service.”

“Back on May 23, 1980, when The Shining was first released, audiences saw something slightly different from what viewers obsess over today. That’s because the next weekend Stanley Kubrick did an unusual thing: He re-cut the film, removing about two minutes from the ending, even though it was already in release.”

“[There was a period] when new waves were all the rage in film, from French to Czech to American. The Australian reawakening came at the end of that stretch, and for a cohort of American filmgoers who are now in their 40s and early 50s it was the first of those national flowerings that could be experienced in real time.”

“I think that catharsis is an overly ambitious term. If a film manages to make spectators as viewers reflective for a few hours, if it manages to make them for a short time nicer to each other, more humane, then you’ve achieved a great deal. Catharsis is too ambitious. I don’t think, in today’s society, you can achieve catharsis with a book – uh, film.”

“That Sundance is bustling with distribution deals is not surprising given the expanding options for release, namely video-on-demand services. Some of the prices are surprising, however, given how a batch of Sundance acquisitions fared at the box office last year.”

“This isn’t the job your mother wants for you, O.K.? It’s a roller coaster.”

“The current legislation in Wales makes it impossible to film a lit cigarette as part of a scene. This is problematic for period dramas, which often feature cigarettes as a fact of period life.”

“Spending on movie theater tickets grew 7 percent to $33.4 billion, while rental or purchase of discs fell 3 percent to $23.7 billion.”

“The inaugural Times of India Film awards will be held in Vancouver, lured here by the promise of international exposure for the event and the media company that runs it – and an $11-million investment from the provincial government.”