how not to do streaming: ABC screws up the Oscars
“Unexpected demand” brought down the stream. Unexpected? It’s the Oscars. The Oscars. No amount of demand can be unexpected.
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Jeff Robinov, who decreed that Warner Bros wouldn’t make movies with female leads, wants to not make women-led films elsewhere, probably
Not that this won’t be a mark in his favor with the other studios.
all movie news is inside-baseball now
Used to be, the only people who cared about box-office returns were studio execs and filmmakers who had a movie opening that weekend. Now, no film geek worth calling a film geek cannot rattle off what the biggest opener of the year so far has been…
Tom Hanks knows what Doctor Who is (and other adventures in social networking)
Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
even Variety thinks critics should be objective (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
translating Hollywood: the greenlighting of the Lego movie
You may have read the Variety article this week about the Lego movie Warner Bros. just greenlit. But did you understand what it was really saying? Here’s a translation…
Doctor Who thing of the day: Hollywood threatens a Doctor Who movie from Harry Potter’s David Yates
Last year we faced the prospect of a Disneyfied, Johnny Depp-starring Doctor Who movie. That bullet was dodged, but now there’s a new reason to be afraid.
question of the day: Leonardo da Vinci, action hero: is the prospect terrifying or awesome?
Mathematician, architect, sculptor, writer, scientist, inventor, action hero: Leonardo is James Bond and Q all in one no doubt devastatingly handsome package.
Hollywood is just trolling us now: Disney exec says story doesn’t matter
Obvious troll — Walt Disney Animation Studios chief technical officer Andy Hendrickson — is obvious.
ungodly numbers of people watched the ‘Doctor Who’ premiere last weekend
Though some of the numbers are getting spun in interesting ways…
