bow before the sci-fi nativity (and other adventures in social networking)
Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Hollywood Reporter
male film critic is affected by misogyny, so now it’s news (and other adventures in social networking)
Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw yesterday…
question of the day: Which film directors would you like to see move to TV (as Soderbergh says he’s doing)?
And what would you like see to him/her do with TV that he/she isn’t doing with movies?
question of the day: Do film and TV production subsidies provided by local governments make sense?
Subsidies bring in jobs, right? Or are they a convenient windfall for projects that would have happened anyway?
why The Avengers opened a week earlier outside the U.S. and Canada (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
question of the day: How big can a movie get? (Or: How huge will Avengers open in North America?)
What would it take for a movie to have a $200 million opening? Will it ever happen?
question of the day: What is Hollywood’s problem with Red Tails?
Is it “merely” racism trumping easy profit? Is it just the typical Hollywood bigotry that keeps anyone who isn’t white and male and straight from dominating the screen?
AWFJ announces 2011 awards
So happy that The Artist is Best Film for us…
question of the day: What was the most sexist movie or movie moment in 2011?
Yesterday’s QOTD was about a feminist net positive: the most kickass female action character of 2011. Today, we go the other way…
question of the day: Famous creative types pushing back against corporate greed: hot new trend or momentary pissing into the wind?
Jesse Eisenberg sues a DVD distributor for misleadingly suggesting he’s the star of a film. Elvis Costello tells his fans not to buy a ridiculously overpriced box set. Are these two instances just a coincidence? Or might something bigger be afoot?
