“Tobacco use on the silver screen peaked in 2005 and has been on the decline since, according to research that looked at the most popular films from 1991 to 2009.”
Category: media
So Twitter Isn’t Driving Buzz On Movies After All?
“Few films this summer have been hits or flops that Twitter trends indicated. All the more surprising since Twitter users increases from 50 million to 125 million over the year.”
Average Briton Spends Half Their Time Consuming Media
“The statistics from regulator Ofcom suggest people in the UK spend seven hours a day watching TV, surfing the net and using their mobile phones. However, the average person actually squeezes in the equivalent of nearly nine hours of media and communications by multi-tasking on several devices.”
China: No Movie Ratings (And We’ll Still Censor)
“China said Thursday that it will not introduce a ratings system for movies any time soon and reiterated the central government’s role in the reform and development of the cultural and entertainment sectors.”
BBC Holds Competition To Diversify Talent
“BBC comedy executives have launched a competition to discover writers with ideas for multicultural sitcoms, in a bid to break the notion that the Corporation only works with white, middle class creatives.”
The 15 Most-Popular Movies Of All Time (Sort Of)
If you jkust count box office, Avatar wins, hands down. But calculating the most popular movies is a bit more complicated…
How Ernst Lubitsch Loosened Up Hollywood
“What Lubitsch did, more than anything, was bring a sophisticated European sensibility to an American cinema that was essentially about Victorian values. … Here were films – dozens of them, both silent and with sound – that were all about flirtation, sex and sometimes love, but also biting and witty.”
The Great Moral Questions, Now Available for Xbox and Wii
“In the past, videogames have often been blood-thirsty and amoral, but a new generation of popular games are asking players to consider the moral consequences of their actions.”
Google TV Worries Hollywood Execs
“The prospect of Google getting into television frightens many in Hollywood, who worry that Silicon Valley will upend the entertainment industry just like the Internet ravaged the music and newspaper industries.”
Lost BBC Anna Karenina With Connery and Bloom Resurfaces
The 1961 adaptation, with Claire Bloom in the title role and Sean Connery as Vronsky, had been broadcast only once and was thought to have been destroyed.