Category: media

“One of the strangest sequel projects in movie history is no longer a sequel. In a joint statement, MGM Studios and Dahlia Waingort, the producer of the film originally known as Raging Bull II, declared on Wednesday that Waingort’s film now has the working title The Bronx Bull, and is in no way associated with Martin Scorsese’s 1980 film Raging Bull.”

“They (and the rest of the TV industry) actually do get that change is coming. It’s just that right now, it’s not profitable for them to radically overhaul their business models to reflect that change”

“Koch, who replaces Tom Sherak, has been a member of the academy since 1977 and has served on the 43-member Board of Governors for the last eight, most recently as first vice president. As president, he will serve only one year, because governors face a nine-year term limit.”

“Sexism, racism, homophobia and general name-calling are longstanding facts of life in certain corners of online video games. But the Cross Assault episode was the first of a series this year that have exposed the severity of the harassment that many women experience in virtual gaming communities.”

The most absurd restriction can be found on the official Olympics home page, in a completely unenforceable section of its terms of use, saying Internet users can’t even link to their site unless they agree not to portray the Olympics “in a false, misleading, derogatory or otherwise objectionable manner.”

The British Film Institute’s worldwide poll of experts and critics, conducted every ten years, has seen Citizen Kane come out on top every time since 1962 – until now, as Orson Welles gets bumped down to runner-up by Alfred Hitchcock.

“Dutch director George Sluizer has finally finished Dark Blood, the movie actor River Phoenix was working on when he died at age 23 of a heart attack on Halloween night 1993 … Sluizer will present the film for the first time at the Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht in September.”

“The statement has been widely interpreted as a threat against Iranian filmmaker Kianoosh Ayari, whose The Paternal House was set to screen in the Horizons sidebar in Venice.”

“The Indian network, New Delhi Television, or NDTV, says the manipulated data cost it nearly a billion dollars in advertising revenue, and the suit is seeking several billion dollars in damages.”

“For Olympics organizers who pride themselves on putting on a carefully choreographed — obsessively controlled, some would say — 17-day show, the bursts of Twitter activity are like gamma rays escaping from a solar flare. They’re impossible to stop and spellbinding to behold.”