Category: media

“The number of entertainment shows aired during prime time each week has dropped to 38 from 126, said the watchdog. The news came as the president warned of the influence of Western culture.”

“The stereotype of a guy living in his parents’ basement on a diet of Cheetos and soda is long gone. The average gamer is 34 years old, gainfully employed and around 40 per cent are female. They play, on average, 8 hours a week and not just on consoles; around half of the gaming activity today is on smartphones.”

While some industry analysts have blamed high ticket prices and long-term factors such as competition from Netflix, Jaffray said “poor scheduling, over-reliance on sequels and underwhelming release schedules” were to blame for the anemic box office performance of such films as “Happy Feet 2,” “Arthur Christmas” and “Hugo.”

Demand pricing exists for all sorts of tickets, from theater to airline. Why doesn’t it cost more to see a popular blockbuster than a little-known foreign film? There are reasons, it turns out …

“Yes. Sesame Street and its production company the Sesame Workshop do make a lot of money from product licensing, but not nearly enough to cover expenses.”

“A change in the counting mechanism by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the Oscars, has sharply diminished the impact of second-place, third-place and other votes down the ballot, while allowing a film with as few as 250 first-place votes, in a group with almost 6,000 members, to capture a nomination.”

Series co-creator Carrie Brownstein: “I guess that they are ridiculous, but at the same time they’re things that I embrace – it’s a set of behaviors and an ideology that I enact, and that I think many of us sort of perform or follow. … [But] it takes a certain amount of good fortune, privilege and entitlement to have those things be what you’re worried about. And I think that most of us know that.”

“The goal is to attract new viewers to PBS and make audiences think of public television more like the top-tier programming of HBO, Showtime and other channels they are willing to pay for.”

“The message I get is that Americans love the movies as much as ever. It’s the theaters that are losing their charm.”

“The danger is that in moving from one medium to another, the adapter neither preserves what’s distinctive about the original nor discovers anything fresh in a new form.”