Hollywood doesn’t play nice… (and other adventures in social networking)

Wed, Mar 13, 2013

What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today:
• Doh! Broadcasters Warned: New Movie Trailer [for Olympus Has Fallen] Uses Actual EAS Alert Tones

• I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: Embargoes make sense only if they’re universal and global, applying to every critic everywhere on the planet, and lifted at the same time. Why so serious about review embargoes?

• Hollywood doesn’t play nice… An ‘Oz’ clash of the titans

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RogerBW

Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:51am

It’s 2013 and we’re still using in-band signalling.
I suppose there may be some publicity considerations pointing to staggered international releases – you can only fly the stars to one opening night at a time – but I rather suspect that once that system finally collapses (and I believe it’s long overdue to do so) the embargo system will look like even more of a joke than it does now.