http://www.artsjournal.com/media.shtml Copyright 2009 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:47:30 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Critic Armond White wrote, "Not since The Birth of a Nation has a mainstream movie demeaned the idea of black American life as much as Precious." Responds the novelist Sapphire, "With Michelle, Sasha and Malia and Obama in the White House and in the post-Cosby Show era, people can't say these are the only images out there."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/is_precious_ghe.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/is_precious_ghe.shtml media Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:52:58 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_secret_of_o_1.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_secret_of_o_1.shtml media Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:53:55 -0800 Forbes has made a list based on studios' return on investment.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/hollywoods_ten.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/hollywoods_ten.shtml media Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:36:41 -0800 The titles will make it possible for deaf users to read videos. "The machine-generated captions will initially be generated in English. At first they will only be found on 13 channels."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/youtube_to_prov.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/youtube_to_prov.shtml media Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:26:43 -0800 "Most of the top-grossing and critically praised documentaries of the year [are not on the list], including Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story, Chris Rock's Good Hair, the struggling rock band chronicle Anvil! The Story of Anvil and R.J. Cutler's inside peek at Vogue magazine, The September Issue. (The Michael Jackson doc This Is It was released too late to be eligible.)... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/best_documentar.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/best_documentar.shtml media Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:20:57 -0800 Patrick Goldstein: "Let's be honest. Is there really anyone who is up in arms over Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story being left off the Academy's 15-title short list for the best feature documentary? In fact, I would argue that when it comes to a snub of a much-ballyhooed film, the Academy has never managed to make more people happier."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/how_michael_moo.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/how_michael_moo.shtml media Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:19:18 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/oprah_to_end_he.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/oprah_to_end_he.shtml media Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:15:30 -0800 "A medium-sized popcorn and medium soda at the nation's largest movie chain pack the nutritional equivalent of three Quarter Pounders topped with 12 pats of butter, according to a report released today by the advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/one_medium_popc.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/one_medium_popc.shtml media Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:53:45 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/this_years_the.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/this_years_the.shtml media Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:53:25 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/nude_scenes_in.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/nude_scenes_in.shtml media Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:40:52 -0800 "Studios make dumb decisions all the time. But ... the real underlying issue behind these kinds of gaffes" is homogeneity among the higher-ups. "The decision-makers at studios are virtually all white, so they don't see potential racial slights in the same light as they would if they had someone -- anyone! -- of color in the executive suite."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/when_universal.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/when_universal.shtml media Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:46:54 -0800 "The lack of depth has led to a slew of awards-season chatter, from the expected downplaying -- all categories are cyclical -- to blanket explanations about studios making fewer awards movies in general. If the latter explanation were a factor, best actor also would be weak this year. It's not. ... So what's really going on here?"... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/why_is_this_yea.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/why_is_this_yea.shtml media Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:40:19 -0800 "More than 200 directors, producers and screenwriters withdrew 52 films from the [Thessaloniki Film Festival], undermining the state awards, which selects winners from Greek films that unspool at the fest." Filmmakers were protesting the nation's film funding laws.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/after_protest_g.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/after_protest_g.shtml media Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:41:01 -0800 "The WGA West's 2009 Hollywood Writers Report finds 'little if any' improvement in employment and earnings for women and minority writers. The report ... found that women scribes remain stuck at 28% of TV employment and 18% in features while the minority share has been frozen at 6% since 1999."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/report_white_gu.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/report_white_gu.shtml media Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:34:47 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_most_antiwa.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_most_antiwa.shtml media Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:11:13 -0800 "As DVD sales decline, Hollywood studios are looking for ways to get movies straight to consumers' living rooms. This has some industry insiders worried that Hollywood is jeopardizing its most valuable asset: the theatrical release date. The movie industry is looking to change the way it distributes content."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/if_we_get_first.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/if_we_get_first.shtml media Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:33:34 -0800 A "former head of Paramount Motion Pictures certainly sounded like the right man to build a huge movie and TV studio in Massachusetts," but his $650 million plan for "14 sound stages and a virtual entertainment city in the woods of Plymouth" has been "marred by over-the-top claims, broken promises, legal infighting, and the chronic lack of one crucial ingredient: money."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/beneath_buzz_ov.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/beneath_buzz_ov.shtml media Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:10:02 -0800 "Cable TV operator Comcast Corp. is expected to buy a controlling stake in NBC Universal, perhaps as early as next week, bringing the network of Johnny Carson, Jerry Seinfeld, Bob Hope, Milton Berle and Tom Brokaw under the corporate control of the company that owns the Golf Channel and E! Entertainment Television."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/switcheroo_cabl.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/switcheroo_cabl.shtml media Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:49:31 -0800 "The slick cop drama Flashpoint was the big winner at Saturday's Gemini Awards as it snagged three of the night's top honours in Canadian television, including best drama."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/cop_show_wins_t.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/cop_show_wins_t.shtml media Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:43:03 -0800 "The studio just paid $20,000 to the Alaska Press Club as part of a settlement with several Alaska newspapers after the studio, in the course of promoting its current release, The Fourth Kind, created an elaborate series of online news stories that professed to be from real Alaska news publications."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/universal_pays.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/universal_pays.shtml media Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:44:16 -0800 "Console sales crashed 23% to $380.7 million last month, from $497 million in October 2008. Game software sales fell 18% to $572.7 million, down from $698.4 million a year earlier. The grim numbers represent the seventh monthly decline in U.S. video game sales."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/video_game_sale_4.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/video_game_sale_4.shtml media Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:00:45 -0800 "More than 5,000 movies have come and gone and been reviewed in The Times, most of them still living somewhere in the lucrative zombie limbo of DVD or cable programming. Some landed noisily on thousands of screens at once, gobbling up as much attention and money as the marketing machinery of the studios could buy, at least for a weekend or two. Others bloomed quietly in big-city art houses and were smiled on (if they were lucky) by ardent critics and die-hard cinephiles."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/what_movies_def.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/what_movies_def.shtml media Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:13:59 -0800 Activision Blizzard Inc. said it sold 4.7 million copies of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 , or $310 million (U.S.) of sales, on its first day, setting a new record for the video game industry.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/a_little_market.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/a_little_market.shtml media Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:52:36 -0800 Almost 30,000 people across the UK still tune into their favourite programmes on black and white TV sets.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/forget_the_inte.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/forget_the_inte.shtml media Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:03:05 -0800 "Current TV's retrenchment shows the difficulty of grafting the freewheeling culture and sensibilities that have thrived over the Internet onto established mediums like television.... [J]ust as advertisers have shied from supporting websites that feature amateur video, so too they appear no more willing to support user-generated content on TV."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/gores_current_t.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/gores_current_t.shtml media Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:03:27 -0800