Will this be the summer – yes, this summer, even though you’ve heard it a million times before – when Hollywood finally realizes that people over 30 love to go to the movies?
Category: media
Actors, Studios Fight Over Classic TV Shows
“Cast members, noting the continued visibility of their shows on everything from slot machines to action figures to, of course, DVD box sets, are pursuing legal action against studios, often claiming the latter are concealing the amount they’ve made off the actors’ likenesses.”
Make Haste, Slowly: Hollywood Has At The WikiLeaks Saga
“Movie studios are jostling to be the first to bring the story of WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, to the big screen. But when Hollywood attempts to harness a swift-moving news story – particularly one lacking a finale – the task can be more complicated than simply casting a look-alike.”
Documentary Arguing That Princess Di Was Murdered Is Withdrawn
“The Keith Allen directed documentary Unlawful Killing, that claims that Diana was murdered in a plot involving her father-in-law Prince Philip, will not be released after producers failed to secure insurance to protect distributors against legal action” under UK and French libel laws.
Jerry Seinfeld’s Utterly Seinfeld-ish New Web Series
“Seinfeld, famously, was a show about nothing. Jerry Seinfeld’s new show, on the other hand, is clearly a show about something; it’s right there in the title: Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. The meaning of something, of course, is relative.”
Report: Big Increase In Big-Screen Movie Theatres
“The tally of digital large screens in movie theaters around the world is set to hit 2,600 by 2016, up from the 653 installed by the end of 2011.”
European Parliament Kills Anti-Global Piracy Bill
“More than three years in the making and open for signing until May 2013, ACTA exports on participating nations an intellectual-property enforcement regime resembling the one in the United States. Among other things, the accord demands governments make it unlawful to market devices that circumvent encryption, such as devices that copy encrypted DVDs without authorization.”
MGM Sues To Stop Sequel To Raging Bull
“Claiming breach of contract and four other counts, MGM put the legal gloves on today with Jake LaMotta and the producers of Raging Bull 2.”
Film Censorship Increasing In Once-Liberal Lebanon
“With a new government dominated by allies of Hezbollah, long a proxy of Syria, censorship has been on the rise. Four new films have been banned this year – a record for the … censorship bureau … Intellectually and artistically, Beirut has long been freer than other places in the Middle East; some now fear that that is under threat as never before.”
BBC’s New Director General A Promising Choice
When George Entwistle was editor of the flagship BBC television program Newsnight, colleagues applauded him for “re-establishing [the show’s] reputation as a ‘significant place for political debate’. … Entwistle, it is said, had ‘a huge amount of energy, oodles of enthusiasm and was very hands-on’.”