Category: media

A sample: “Big Bird@FiredBigBird 47 percent of Chic-Fil-A chickens think theyre victims. I will never convince them to take personal responsibility”

“A key reason for the increase in delayed viewing is that the penetration rate of DVRs has increased overall, to 46% of U.S. homes this fall vs. 42% last year. Among viewers in the 18-49 demo, the rate is 51%. And they have clearly learned how to use their machines to full advantage.”

“In an exchange with President Obama on tightening the federal budget, the GOP nominee for president said that one thing he’d do to save cash is pull the plug on federal support for the Public Broadcasting Service.”

The BFI Player should be available to the public by the end of 2013, “and the BFI said it was committed to digitising 10,000 films by 2017, with experts and a public vote helping to decide which films should be included.”

“The TV syndication business has doubled its value over the past decade to an estimated $20 billion this year.”

“[The] critically acclaimed indie drama that Fox Searchlight is positioning as a major awards contender, has been ruled ineligible for the Screen Actors Guild Awards because it was not made under the terms of SAG-AFTRA’s Low Budget Feature Agreement, which mandates the use of professional actors.”

“The big cross in the diary has been ostensibly marked in for 3 May 2013, 100th anniversary of when Raja Harischandra, directed by DG Phalke, was first exhibited to the general public in Mumbai.” But a different, shorter film was shown at the same venue a year earlier – though some say that one doesn’t count.

“Censorship is a relatively simple process in modern control rooms. A censor views two separate video streams: the live action and the feed that is going out to viewers on a delay, typically of between 5 and 10 seconds. If the producer sees or hears something objectionable in the live feed, he or she calls out “dump” or a similar command.”

“There are compelling economic reasons for Hollywood to embrace the Good Book.”

“There was no film-making culture here at all under [the late dictator],” says one director recently returned to the country. “He didn’t want anybody to be more famous than him. Even the football players had just numbers on their shirts, because he didn’t want anyone to know their names. He certainly wasn’t going to let anybody be a film director.”