“It feels like we’re leaving this decade light years ahead of where we entered it. In 2010, salacious stories about queer people were still routinely seen in tabloids and on TV. Today, LGBTQ+ people are heralded for being themselves, and our stories are being normalized and told with a broader range of diversity and experiences than ever before.” Writer Jill Gutowitz talks with four leading queer media creators about how it happened. – them
Category: media
Even With Mega-Franchise Movies In 2019, Box Office Declined. Now What?
“The slide in revenues is still disappointing because it occurred at a time when Walt Disney Studios put nearly all of its major franchises on the field — a show of firepower that enabled the company to pulverize records, racking up more than $11 billion at the global box office. With an arsenal that includes Lucasfilm, Marvel, Pixar, and — thanks to its $71 billion acquisition of much of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire — 20th Century Fox, Disney was able to control roughly 40% of the domestic marketplace.” – Variety
Best TV Of The Decade? Try Best Types Of TV
“I know readers only have time anymore to read lists, but bear with me. Here are the best kinds of shows we watched over the past 10 years. Many of them belong to more than one category — a sign of their greatness.” – Washington Post
On The Internet, Anyone Can Be A Catfish
But a new show (not so ironically called the same thing as Dave Eggers’ book satirizing social media) displays exactly how much we’re all implicated in a world filled with flurries of hashtags, emojis, and GIFs. – The New York Times
At The Beginning Of The Decade, Celebrities Were Worried About Paparazzi
In 2011, “the industry itself was broken, transformed from a system of honor and veneration into one of shame and denigration, which treated its products as little more than commodities to be bought and traded.” Then Instagram happened. “In the end, the solution was so straightforward. Celebrities simply became their own paparazzi.” – BuzzFeed
Are These Los Angeles Stereotypes A Silly Pastiche Or An Affectionate Sendup That Goes Deep?
On the Netflix show You, a character from New York moves to L.A. – and you can guess what happens next. (Macrobiotic coffee shops! Stand-up comedy moments! “Aspiring Instagrammers live-streaming on the streets!”) – Los Angeles Times
Using Big Data To Compare The Various ‘Little Women’ Adaptations
Right off the bat, you can say that Greta Gerwig’s version will make the most money. Then there’s the height of the actors playing the little women. – Slate
How Are Two Small Canadian Films Making A Splash In Hollywood?
Partly it’s by letting Canada be Canada. “While movies and TV series are shot across the country, the Canadian locations rarely stand in for themselves. Toronto might be New York. Or Vancouver is meant to be L.A. It’s less common to have uniquely Canadian stories — and cities — stand on their own.” – CBC
Vampires Are ‘So Over’ Right Now, But Their Return May Be Imminent
They’re so early 2010s, basically. But culture is cyclical, or so it appears in tastemakers’ plans, and – according to a vampire literature scholar – “updated versions of these monsters cycle in when we don’t know how to confront something as a society or when we need to find a metaphor to help us understand a situation.” – HuffPost
Distilling The Essence Of Princess Margaret
When Helena Bonham Carter got the call to play Princess Margaret in Season 3 of The Crown, she wasn’t sure she could follow the tall Vanessa Kirby, who had just won a BAFTA for the role. Then she began her (nearly endless) research. – Los Angeles Times