Category: media

“Toronto-based Cineplex doubled its profits in the third quarter as the movie exhibitor countered a decline in moviegoers with higher priced tickets and more sales at its concession stands.”

“The software then assembles a group of scenes that its video and audio algorithms have decided are semantically similar, and therefore hopefully represents the same plot line. In the same way, if you are interested in a certain actor, you can choose their face and only their scenes will be compiled into a summary.”

“The convicted California scam artist behind a crude anti-Islam film that stoked protests against the United States across the Muslim world was sent back to jail for a year on Wednesday over probation violations stemming from his role in the video.”

“The DVR is allowing shows to grow year-to-year. People like finding shows that are still on so they can catch up and watch live.”

“The college said movies directed by graduates from CalArts’ famous animation programs have generated $26.4 billion in box office revenue since 1985.”

“Netflix now accounts for 33 percent of peak residential downstream traffic in North America.”

“Though characters may discover a shared humanity with the other side, it is not enough to overcome the weight of history, culture and group dynamics. There remains only one path to relief, these movies seem to suggest – escape – and for those tightly bound to their homeland, that turns out to provide almost no relief at all.”

“One of the first items on Hollywood’s agenda will be revisiting SOPA. In the most recent attempt to write new federal anti-piracy regulations, the Obama administration essentially sided with Silicon Valley, which is wary of further digital restrictions.”

“One of the many astonishing paradoxes about life in the Islamic republic is that transsexuality has been legal since a fatwa was issued in 1987 by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.” It’s still very much a taboo subject, though, which makes Facing Mirrors, about a young woman who wants to become a man, a daring project.

“Studios de Paris is part of a €180 million, or $230 million, project called Cité du Cinéma, which has transformed a formerly gritty part of the Paris suburb of Saint Denis. It is centered on a decommissioned and renovated power plant, which houses a film school, a movie studio with nine stages and the headquarters of EuropaCorp, one France’s biggest television and film producers.”