Category: media

“The animation park is clearly a priority for the central government, which included animation production in its current five-year national economic plan. Having rapidly increased its political and economic might globally, China is eager to boost its so-called soft power — its cultural appeal and influence — overseas.”

“‘Being paid by a celebrity to take pictures of a celebrity was unusual,’ said Vitaliano Napolitano, a 20 year, moped riding veteran of Rome’s celebrity circuit. ‘And it became surreal when paparazzi not involved in the film showed up on set to snap us paparazzi as we played paparazzi in the film’.”

“The CBC is chronically underfunded and over-mandated: Canadians want it to do everything and please everybody, but would rather not pay for it.”

Aarakshan, a “controversial Bollywood film which touches on the highly-sensitive subject of affirmative action for the Dalit community (the caste formerly known as ‘untouchables’) in the country’s education system, has been banned in three Indian states.”

“Over the last decade, re-appropriation and reworking of other people’s creative work has become endemic. Whether it’s for musical kicks, belly laughs or to make political points, digital delinquency is rife – and it’s incredibly popular.”

“Sales of consoles and games plunged 26% last month to $707.7 million, down from $961.3 million a year earlier, according to the NPD Group, a market research firm.”

“And so, yet again, for what seems like the zillionth time, a heart-tugging Hollywood film transforms a harrowing and magnificent period of African-American life into a story of once-blinkered white people becoming enlightened. The black characters’ struggles are sensitively rendered, magnificently acted, and sometimes heartbreaking sideshows. This sort of thing just keeps happening and happening and happening.”

“There is a vague but widespread belief that the traditional network, or “broadcast television” industry, is fading. Every new advance in technology – from the growth of specialty cable channels to the spread of Internet access to the iPad to the success of Netflix – causes a small army of pundits to suggest that the end of old-fashioned television is nigh.”

The Sesame Workshop said in a statement: “Even though they are identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics (as most Sesame Street Muppets™ do), they remain puppets, and do not have a sexual orientation.”