“YouTube, which is owned by Google, has been reorganized around ad-supported “channels” on everything from cooking to cars to women’s drama series.” Some of the channels Are Starting to get real audiences.
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Preview Creep – Movie Theaters Pile On The Trailers
“In a decidedly unscientific pool, The Wall Street Journal sent six reporters to the movie houses around the country, armed with timers. They found trailer times ranging from eight minutes to 25 minutes, not including “prepreview” ads for cars and TV shows and gift ticket books. One showing of “Savages” at the AMC Loews Lincoln Square 3 in New York in August hit 25 minutes.”
Méliès’s Lost 1903 Robinson Crusoe Film Resurfaces
“For more than a century, all we have been able to see of [Les Aventures de Robinson] Crusoé is a short black-and-white scrap, but last year a near-complete hand-coloured version was found in a donation of nitrate reels made to the Cinémathèque Française.”
The Women Of TV Worry Less About Weight
“Self-acceptance has become a new form of defiance on television, especially among younger female comedians. Partly that’s because it’s refreshingly unusual. There’s little comic shock value left in profanity, obscenity or intolerance, but it’s still quite rare and surprising to see a woman not obsess about her waistline.”
Variety Acquired By Parent Company Of Deadline Hollywood
“The Hollywood trade paper Variety has been acquired by Penske Media Corp. and its financial backer, hedge fund Third Point, for about $25 million … Santa Monica-based Penske already owns Deadline.com.”
Film Festival In BC Evicted From Venue Over Documentary
“Controversy over a documentary about bestiality has forced a Kelowna film festival” – the Okanagan Film Festival International – “to try and secure a new home on the eve of its scheduled opening.”
The TV Acting Careers Of US Mayors
Professional actors generally play presidents, senators and the like, but big-city mayors sometimes appear as themselves. Here’s a look – from Kurt Schmoke to Rudy Giuliani to Mike Bloomberg to Rahm Emanuel (and even London’s Boris Johnson) – at another way politicians pretend.
YouTube To Begin Charging Fee For Some Video
“You will see us offer an option to all the channels that are our partners to start charging subscriptions for their content.”
At Long Last, Movie Houses Come To The Rio Favelas
“Less than two years ago, Complexo de Alemão was a fiefdom, a district of 60,000 people ruled by drug gangs notorious for their brutality. … In its first full year, CineCarioca sold 74,000 tickets, an estimated 91% of those coming through the doors having never been to the cinema before.”
Collapse Of The Video Game Market
“The gaming world has found itself teetering at the edge of a financial cliff. In the first eight months of this year retail sales of video games plummeted 20 percent in the United States.”