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Alberta Badly Wants TV And Film Productions To Film In The Province

MEDIA Posted: March 29, 2021 6:30 am

The province used to have a cap “that limited film and television productions to a maximum $10-million tax credit claim.” That cap is now gone. – CBC

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MEDIA Published: 03.26.21

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The Booze-Fueled Battle For Oscars Buzz

MEDIA Posted: March 29, 2021 5:00 am

The streamers battled it out with crates of artisanal food, top-drawer scotch, and other gifts to draw voters’ attention to their movies. When Nomadland “premiered” (or rather re-premiered) on Hulu, for instance, “Fox Searchlight announced a virtual global premiere. … Invitees to the event were sent the aforementioned crate—stuffed with gourmet cheese, ‘humanly raised’ salami, and trail mix—to enjoy while watching the film.” – Fast Company

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MEDIA Published: 03.27.21

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Hey Amazon, What’s Your Problem Admitting That Leonardo Was Gay?

MEDIA Posted: March 28, 2021 12:30 pm

Amazon Prime Studio’s use of a fictional woman (“a complete piece of tosh, invented by a 19th century Romantic”) to bring Leonardo and his life to the small screen isn’t just fiction, it’s flat-out wrong. Suggestion: “Why not go to the National Gallery when it reopens and look at Leonardo’s Virgin of the Rocks. The most hypnotic figure in it is an angel whose long curly hair matches Vasari’s description of Salaì and whose tender pale face is magically androgynous. This angel is the most beautiful and most queer bit of painting in Britain. The Leonardo I want to see on screen is the man who painted this.” – The Guardian (UK)

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MEDIA Published: 03.26.21

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Hint To BAFTA: You Can’t Fix A Diversity Problem With Racist Casting Directors

MEDIA Posted: March 28, 2021 9:30 am

Yikes: “India Eva Rae, who joined Bafta’s Elevate programme in 2019, told the BBC that a casting director told her she was an ‘exotic talent,’ and that they ‘can’t understand the English coming out your mouth.’ Rae also said that she had been told not to report the incident by a ‘mentor’ on the scheme: ‘This mentor told me and other members of the group that we will never work again if we speak up.'” – The Guardian (UK)

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MEDIA Published: 03.26.21

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Hollywood Stylists Want Their Zoom Oscars Back

MEDIA Posted: March 28, 2021 7:30 am

Some of the fashion world is really not happy with the guidelines for the in-person Oscars. One fashion writer, echoing many stylists who enjoyed their freedom: “Honestly, all it’s done is make me wish that all the invitees would show up en masse in flannel nightgowns and Ugg slippers, just to thumb their noses at it.” – The Guardian (UK)

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MEDIA Published: 03.26.21

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Hollywood Has Failed Asian American Women For Decades

MEDIA Posted: March 28, 2021 6:00 am

And, they say, it’s past time for a change. Netflix has been particularly good at offering changing depictions this year, but the history of Asian women’s depictions in Hollywood is far from fixed. Film scholar Celine Parreñas Shimizu: “The notion of a self-sacrificing, suicidal, servile, suffering, sexually available Asian woman is a prison from which we need to be liberated. … I’m looking forward to the vast expanse of other characters and other stories we can see.” – Washington Post

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MEDIA Published: 03.26.21

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Regal Theatres Owner Cineworld Posts $3 Billion Loss

MEDIA Posted: March 26, 2021 2:29 pm

The U.K.-based company also said it has secured binding commitments for $213 million in additional cash via a bond to boost its financial flexibility “in the event of continued disruption as a result of COVID-19.” The funding and an expected $200 million U.S. CARES Act tax refund “will provide the group with a liquidity runway to year-end in the event that cinemas remain closed,” it said, but it also warned of continued challenges and questions marks caused by the pandemic. – The Hollywood Reporter

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MEDIA Published: 03.25.21

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Google Podcasts Has An Extremism Problem

MEDIA Posted: March 26, 2021 10:02 am

“Even in the world of podcasting, Google Podcasts … stands alone among major platforms in its tolerance of hate speech and other extremist content. A recent nonexhaustive search turned up more than two dozen podcasts from white supremacists and pro-Nazi groups, offering a buffet of slurs and conspiracy theories. None of the podcasts appeared on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher.” – The New York Times

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MEDIA Published: 03.25.21

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How The Pandemic Has Changed Audio Quality On Public Radio

MEDIA Posted: March 26, 2021 9:29 am

Producers and engineers have come to rely on specialized apps, and they’ve developed workarounds for the shortcomings of Zoom’s recording functions, among other solutions. – Current

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MEDIA Published: 03.25.21

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Spain’s Drive-In Movie Theaters Plead For Exemption From COVID Curfew

AUDIENCE, MEDIA Posted: March 25, 2021 8:02 am

The country is already one time zone ahead of where it should be geographically (Spain is on Central European Time rather than GMT), so after clocks spring forward an hour this weekend, the sun won’t go down until almost 8:30 pm. That’s not enough time to show a movie and get the audience home before the 10 pm curfew, so the drive-ins will have to close unless the government makes an exception for them, and that has not (yet) been granted. – The Guardian

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AUDIENCE, MEDIA Published: 03.25.21

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Warner To Start Theatrical Release Of Its Movies Again

MEDIA Posted: March 24, 2021 11:26 am

But the window between theatre debut and release to streaming will be shortened. The shortened theatrical window matches recent changes from other studios instigated by the COVID-19 pandemic’s devastating effects on the film business. – The Verge

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MEDIA Published: 03.23.21

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COVID Shutdown Has Wiped Out Entry-Level Hollywood

MEDIA Posted: March 24, 2021 9:32 am

“While the pandemic overturned the lives of workers industrywide, those just beginning to establish their careers in an industry that is notoriously difficult to break into were disproportionately impacted. The production shutdowns in L.A. and New York eradicated on-set gigs that PAs and extras rely upon, while furloughs and layoffs at agencies decimated entry-level office jobs.” – The Hollywood Reporter

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MEDIA Published: 03.23.21

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Advertisers: If We Can’t Put Commercials On Netflix And Amazon Prime, We’ll Just Have To Make Our Own Movies

MEDIA Posted: March 24, 2021 9:05 am

“With more people home and glued to their streaming services, many of which don’t allow advertising, companies are finding they need to be creative about the ways they get in front of audiences no longer seeing 30-second commercials. More are turning to traditional Hollywood production companies like Imagine to partner on feature films like The Day Sports Stood Still, which is infused with Nike’s ethos but carries none of the traditional branding audiences are used to seeing.” – The New York Times

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MEDIA Published: 03.23.21

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The Best Character Actors In The Business (Well, Most Of Them)

MEDIA Posted: March 24, 2021 8:03 am

“[Here are] the results of an industrywide survey we conducted to answer one simple question: who are the most memorable character actors working today? To find out, we polled nearly 60 directors, showrunners, casting directors, and critics — and when we tallied the results, 32 names had emerged from a field of more than 300 suggestions.” (The only problem: anyone who has been nominated for an Oscar or won an Emmy was disqualified, thus leaving out the likes of J.K. Simmons and Melissa Leo.) – Vulture

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MEDIA Published: 03.22.21

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COVID Has Changed The Way Hollywood Works For Good

MEDIA Posted: March 23, 2021 7:05 am

“‘People are fooling themselves if they think we’re going back to a pre-pandemic work lifestyle,’ says Arianna Bocco, president of IFC Films. … To get a sense of the new contours of a business that has been battered by the pandemic, Variety spoke with dozens of entertainment industry players, almost all of whom predicted that the nature of office life and how movies and television shows are made, marketed and distributed will be fundamentally changed.” – Variety

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MEDIA Published: 03.18.21

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Will The NFL’s New Media Deal Kill Local TV?

AUDIENCE, MEDIA Posted: March 22, 2021 8:44 am

“The loss of broadcast exclusivity is going to accelerate cord cutting as younger viewers gravitate toward the streaming platforms. The loss of coveted younger viewers will reduce total local TV viewership. Still worse, as local TV stations fall into an inescapable vortex toward irrelevance to advertisers, it will become tougher and tougher for them to negotiate with their cable and satellite overlords.” – Shelly Palmer

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AUDIENCE, MEDIA Published: 03.21.21

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Good Luck Watching The Oscar Contenders In The UK

MEDIA Posted: March 22, 2021 7:00 am

How “democratic” are these streaming Oscars when they’re almost impossible to find, and expensive to subscribe to, in the UK? The coronavirus, and attendant openings and lockdowns, is mostly to blame, of course, but also: “Streaming infrastructure in the UK is less well-established than in the US, so outside major players such as Netflix, Amazon, Disney+ and Apple, distributors do not have the deals in place for straightforward online premieres.” – The Guardian (UK)

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MEDIA Published: 03.19.21

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The Push For Ever More Content For Shondaland

MEDIA Posted: March 22, 2021 6:30 am

At Netflix, Bridgerton (at least the first season) succeeded beyond executives’ wildest dreams. But the Shondaland production team wants a lot more than just Netflix success. No surprise, they need a lot more content, at all times. Podcasts, articles, behind the scenes snippets, TikToks, Instagram Stories, rebranded books (since the series comes from a book series). Welcome to 2021.- Variety

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MEDIA Published: 03.19.21

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Trying To Scout Locations During A Pandemic

MEDIA Posted: March 22, 2021 5:15 am

It’s not easy for film and TV production location scouts at the moment. There’s a lot of digital photography, and a lot of after-the-big-Zoom-meetings adaptation. One location manager “wonders if she’ll soon be using her new iPhone 12, which has Lidar light detection and ranging capability, to scout locations.” – Variety

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MEDIA Published: 03.19.21

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Looking Back At The Oscars Of Two Decades Ago

MEDIA Posted: March 22, 2021 4:45 am

The final pre-9/11 Oscars (can that be real?), the Oscars where Gladiator beat Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and where Marcia Gay Harden won (deservedly! but perhaps cursedly?) for Pollock … what else should, or could, have happened? – Los Angeles Times

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MEDIA Published: 03.21.21

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The Outsize Impact Of Celebrity Documentaries

MEDIA Posted: March 21, 2021 11:00 am

The intense responses to the R. Kelly, Britney Spears (who, unlike the others on the list, is not portrayed a predator but rather a woman much preyed upon), Michael Jackson, and Woody Allen documentaries have surprised filmmakers – after all, most of the info was already part of the public record. One producer: “The loudest and most impactful documentaries … [have] something that can connect to the viewer on a personal level, which makes all the difference.” – Washington Post

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MEDIA Published: 03.19.21

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Producers, Actors, And Publicists Are Keeping Pressure On The HFPA

MEDIA Posted: March 21, 2021 9:00 am

Even weeks after the Golden Globes, Hollywood isn’t relenting; this reckoning has been a long time coming. “Now, with the very survival of the Globes hanging in the balance, some in Hollywood remain unconvinced that the insular and notoriously fractious group has the capacity, or perhaps even the self-awareness, to undertake the sort of transformational reforms it has vowed.” – Los Angeles Times

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MEDIA Published: 03.19.21

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A Return To Episodic TV

MEDIA Posted: March 21, 2021 8:00 am

Is the binge better? Or is it OK to let episodes marinate for a week before returning to a story? When Netflix first dropped entire seasons, it blew everyone’s mind. But now, perhaps, the choices are simply “one more set of storytelling tools — like shooting in front of a studio audience, or not — creatively suited to different kinds of stories.” – The New York Times

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MEDIA Published: 03.19.21

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The New Rules Of Moviegoing

MEDIA Posted: March 21, 2021 6:30 am

Start with an “electrostatic disinfectant sprayer,” add in a seat buffering system, and don’t forget prepackaged condiments for your popcorn. (But … what about air flow and vaccine requirements? Hm.) – Variety

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Warner Studios Cancels Plans To Build Tram To The Hollywood Sign

MEDIA Posted: March 19, 2021 2:28 pm

The effort, dubbed the Hollywood Skyway, would have cost the studio an estimated $100 million. The tramway would have taken visitors on a six-minute ride more than 1 mile up the back of Mt. Lee to a new visitors center near the sign, with pathways to a viewing area. – Los Angeles Times

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MEDIA Published: 03.18.21

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