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Humor and what makes people laugh in general are very difficult qualities to quantify. Often, the
very thing that makes Joe howl makes Jane groan (and maybe re-assess her opinion of Joe). It's that
personal.
2010 is coming
up roses for Christoph
Waltz. The once unknown actor is not only the Oscar-winning charismatic highlight of Quentin
Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, he's also setting out to become a feature film director.
The Hollywood Reporter posts that the Austrian actor is gearing up for his directorial
debut with the German-language flick Auf
Und Davon (Up and Away).
Loosely based on the book by Meike Winnemuth and Peter Praschl, the story focuses on a ruthless
female dating show host who "finds herself in over her head when the show's romantic storyline
bumps into her own feelings for a contestant." Waltz has been writing the script for some time, and
Fox International's Gabriela Bacher says it "reflects Christoph's formidable sense of humor." Heck,
he might even star in the film as well.
Unfortunately, there's some bad news. First: "The film will not necessarily be seen outside of
German-speaking countries." Second: He has so many projects on the way that there's a good chance
he won't get to this one until next year (at the earliest). Here's to hoping he finds a way to
slide this in between his other higher-profile work. In the meantime, look out for him in The
Green Hornet and Water for Elephants.
We're reprinting this review from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival to coincide with the VOD release
of Lovers of Hate today.
By: Erik Davis
Lovers of
Hate is built around a gimmick that you either buy into or you don't. A colleague
had suggested that the film feels like one Hollywood would buy just to remake it with more well
known actors, because the premise is one that you'd so expect to find splattered across the next
Will Ferrell movie. That's not to say the actors in this version are horrible at what they do;
they're not. Nor is writer-director Brian Poyser (Dear
Pillow), who, in a very emotional moment prior to the film's premiere, said that it was
dedicated to his father who passed away one week after it was accepted to Sundance. Poyser
definitely has an eye for the strange, uncomfortable comedy, and when things are strange and
comfortable, Lovers of Hate really slips into the type of film you want to high five.
However, its slower moments and refusal to fully commit to a particular tone drops it down a few
notches, but not enough to skip it all together.
Rudy is a disheveled loser who's sleeping in his car and stalking his ex-wife hoping that maybe --
just maybe -- she'll forget, forgive and take one more shot at what once was a successful and
meaningful relationship. Problem is, Rudy is a complete mess -- and part of this may have to do
with the fact that his younger brother kinda-sorta stole his thunder by becoming filthy rich off
the Harry Potter-like story Rudy used to entertain him with when he was a kid. Now, all grown up,
Rudy's brother Paul is a hero novelist who has everything he could ever want, while Rudy is the
exact opposite and a sorry excuse for a man. When Paul learns of Rudy's crumbling marriage and
invites his brother's ex-wife Diana out to a fancy mountain cabin to "talk things over", the film's
central storyline -- which involves one of the most awkward, uncomfortable love triangles I've ever
seen -- soon kicks into high gear, and that's when Lovers of Hate turns into a film you
either love or you hate.
Love/hate my
Pitch of the Day articles? Either
way, you should definitely check out this blog called Movies They Should Make, which Risky Biz turned me onto last night. Similar to my pitch posts, the blog comes up with
ideas for movies that should be made -- in case you couldn't figure that out from its name. But
they've got Photoshop skills I lack and so all their pitches are in the form of perfectly designed
movie posters. The casting they come up with is pretty great, too. Geoffrey Rush starring in a
Rupert Murdoch biopic? I wish I'd come up with that.
Unfortunately, the site isn't as consistent as you might like. Since its first post, dated July 11,
2009, there have only been six posters put up on the blog. Hopefully after the Hollywood
Reporter and Cinematical props, though, they'll make more. Current ideas, though you
really do need to see them for yourself, include a Nosferatu remake with Christoph Waltz,
Kate Winslet and, in some role, Dakota Fanning.
There's also an Oliver Stone-directed film about Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, which
would actually make sense and fits in with a current trend in MLK movies (including Selma and
Spielberg's biopic). And another great idea: Don't Ask Don't Tell, starring Robert
Pattinson and Shia Labeouf in what appears to be a cross between Brokeback Mountain and
The Hurt
Locker.
The fun part of the site involves a poll where we get to vote on whether we think the proposed film
will make back its production cost. Each has the option of selecting "no!," "just about" and
"definately!" [sic]. So now I ask you to vote on the blog. Should it make more posters? No1? Just
about? Or Definately!?
Hollywood (the movie studios, the record labels, etc.) sure does have a knack for causing its own
problems. You’ll recall that it’s en vogue to call copyright infringers
“pirates,” which is an insult to legitimate pirates like William Kidd and Henry
Morgan. Just because you can fire up uTorrent doesn’t mean you can take on a
Spanish Armada. But, whatever, it’s simply easier for Hollywood and its acolytes to call
you kids “pirates” than it is to have an adult discussion about the subject.
The word is nothing but trouble. Using it is akin to calling someone “Hitler” or a
“Nazi” in a debate: it’s basically an
intellectual shortcut to a ready-made conclusion. Those guys? Bad. Us? We’re good.
Or in fancier verbiage:
To say that X is a pirate is a metaphoric heuristic, intended to persuade a policymaker that the
in-depth analysis can be skipped and the desired result immediately attained… Claims of
piracy are rhetorical nonsense.
Said by “noted copyright scholar” William Patry.
Now, had Hollywood, when the likes of Napster and Kazaa first came out, taken the time to explain
the difference between wholesale theft and copyright infringement, rather than rushing to sue
everybody, throwing around meaningless terms like “piracy” and
“stealing,” well, this is the consequence.
Show me one 16-year-old who has a problem with downloading Lady Whatshername and I’ll
finish this stupid sentence.
Splinter Cell:
Conviction is having a little premiere on April 1 at ten GameStops across the US -- no,
this is not an April Fool's joke; we made sure. Before the game hits stores (and the head ...
and heads) on April 13, a premiere event will take place in Los Angeles on the high holy joking
day. GameStop will concurrently host "first-to-play co-op demo events" at select stores.
The LA event will take place at the Les Deux Nightclub in Hollywood. First-to-play sessions will
occur between 2-6PM, prior to the "celebrity red carpet premiere" at 8PM. The event will feature
the "Search for Sam Fisher" live interactive game, in which 15 attendees (21+) who attend the co-op
event earlier in the day will be invited to participate. Grand prize is an "Xbox
360 Splinter Cell Conviction Special Edition Bundle and a library of Ubisoft Xbox 360
games."
The non-LA co-op demo events will be held from 9PM until midnight in Boston, Orlando, New York City
(two locations), Denver, Chicago, San Francisco, San Jose, Dallas and New Jersey. Specific
locations will be listed on GameStop's website or at SplinterCell.com. The first 100 attendees at
each location receive a "free Splinter Cell Conviction beanie." Honestly, we have no idea
what to say to that.
Splinter Cell:
Conviction is having a little premiere on April 1 at ten GameStops across the US -- no,
this is not an April Fool's joke; we made sure. Before the game hits stores (and the head ...
and heads) on April 13, a premiere event will take place in Los Angeles on the high holy joking
day. GameStop will concurrently host "first-to-play co-op demo events" at select stores.
The LA event will take place at the Les Deux Nightclub in Hollywood. First-to-play sessions will
occur between 2-6PM, prior to the "celebrity red carpet premiere" at 8PM. The event will feature
the "Search for Sam Fisher" live interactive game, in which 15 attendees (21+) who attend the co-op
event earlier in the day will be invited to participate. Grand prize is an "Xbox
360 Splinter Cell Conviction Special Edition Bundle and a library of Ubisoft Xbox 360
games."
The non-LA co-op demo events will be held from 9PM until midnight in Boston, Orlando, New York City
(two locations), Denver, Chicago, San Francisco, San Jose, Dallas and New Jersey. Specific
locations will be listed on GameStop's website or at SplinterCell.com. The first 100 attendees at
each location receive a "free Splinter Cell Conviction beanie." Honestly, we have no idea
what to say to that.
Denzel Washington and Scarlett Johansson head list of talent heading to Broadway amid Hollywood
economic crisis
New Yorkers will not need to go to their nearest multiplex cinema to catch the latest
performances by stars such as Denzel Washington, Scarlett Johansson or Christopher Walken.
Instead, they will soon be able to see some of Hollywood's A-list in the flesh.
A flock of famous movie talent has swapped the sunshine and glamour of making films in Los
Angeles for the more artistically rigorous demands of New York's theatre world.
Washington is starring in a new revival of Fences, a play by American writer August Wilson, which
opens next month. Johansson and Liev Schreiber are already starring in Arthur Miller's A View
from the Bridge. Walken's performance as a deranged killer in Martin McDonagh's new play,
A Behanding in Spokane, is also drawing in big crowds. Other current or recent big names
appearing on stage include Laura Linney, Daniel Craig, Hugh Jackman and Jude Law.
Many Hollywood stars claim that appearing on stage represents a purer form of acting than
celluloid and boosts their credibility as thespians, not mere film stars. "The first thing I want
to do is more theatre. The second thing I want to do is direct movies. Acting in movies is now No
3 on the list," Washington told the New York Post tabloid recently.
But there may be a more prosaic reason. Hollywood studios are currently in the middle of an
economic crisis. Studios have been hit by the lingering impact of the 2008 Hollywood strike and
then the deep bite of the recession. Despite recent mega-hits such as Avatar, many studios are
cutting costs and binning new film projects. MGM, for example, released just one movie last year,
and some industry watchers think it is teetering on the verge of collapse. The famed independent
movie studio Miramax is up for sale after huge job losses. It too slashed the number of films it
is releasing.
At the same time many top Hollywood stars have seen a drop in their ability to demand massive
wages for a movie. Lucrative deals where stars took a first cut of a film's box office have all
but disappeared.
In short, a lot of film stars are finding work and cash a little harder to come by. No wonder a
spell on Broadway suddenly looks good.
New York's theatre world is, however, welcoming them with open arms, despite a little
behind-the-scenes grumbling from some of the city's thousands of perennially under-employed
actors. Attaching a big name to a play guarantees press attention and a healthy public interest.
If the names are big enough it can even make a production "review-proof" as audiences will flock
to see the stars whatever the reviews. Many New York theatres and producers are now basing their
business model around short-run plays with big star names.
"It is nice to have such an influx of stars coming to Broadway. It does help the business. They
can help draw an audience and that will help any producer," said Dan Bacalzo, managing editor of
Theatremania, a leading New York-based
theatre website. Certainly some plays clearly do much better with star names than without. When a
recent production of God of Carnage opened with an all-star cast, including James Gandolfini and
Marcia Gay Harden, it played to packed houses. But when its cast switched to a group of highly
praised but lesser-known actors, its take dropped and during the usual bonanza of Christmas week
the once packed-out play was showing in front of a house at only 69% capacity.
Lucy Liu, star of the Charlie's Angels movies, has now been brought into the show.
Of course, being a famous movie star does not always mean someone can act in the theatre,
especially when swapping the pampered movie world of multiple takes and reshoots for the brutal
and unforgiving arena of live performance.
Yet many recent film stars have also drawn rave reviews, especially Walken, Law and Johansson. "I
think if anybody was annoyed that Scarlett Johansson was here, they should go and see A View From
The Bridge. She has been excellent in that part," said Bacalzo.
Future and current productions include:
Denzel Washington is starring in an upcoming production of the play Fences.
Scarlett Johansson is earning rave reviews in a View From The Bridge.
Laura Linney is playing a war photographer in Time Stands Still.
Lucy Liu is appearing in God of Carnage.
James Spader is starring in David Mamet's Race.
Christopher Walken is the lead role in the gruesome new play A Behanding in Spokane.
Anthony Mackie, who starred in the Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker, is playing opposite Walken.
Those who have watched a lot of Hollywood movies over the past few years may have noticed a trend:
many of these films sport a
uniform palette of teal and orange, a result of the availability of digital colour-grading.
Originally derived from applying complementary colour theory to human skin tones to make them stand
out more, the teal-and-orange rule has spread, and is now being lazily applied across the board,
whether appropriate or not.
I caught up with Kieran Hannon the other day. He was in the Bay Area for a meeting with the Irish
prime minister (he's on the board of Enterprise Ireland) and I realized it had been a good few
years since I had last seen him.
He used to be co-managing director of Grey Advertising, then had gone off to Texas to work as VP
of Marketing for Radio Shack, and then moved to Santa Monica, in Southern California. He's now
working as COO at a promising startup called Sidebar, which has
an interesting mobile technology that recommends content based on what people like, very useful
for online retailers and others.
Kieran and his family had spent 18 years living in San Francisco, and I was curious what life in
Southern California (SoCal) was like.
He said life was good, and that the startup scene was healthy and that there are a lot of
media/technology centers there. I often write about how Silicon Valley has become Media Valley,
because of all the media companies here (Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter, etc) so it makes sense
that SoCal, with its rich media history, would be a fertile breeding ground for media technology
startups.
...LA [is] the second largest city in the country with a population if 16 million. We have
universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and many more. We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have
built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. But LA is
not Silicon Valley and we don't need to aspire to be so. We will never be Silicon Valley in the
way that Toronto will never be Hollywood. But we have a great city for building technology
companies.
He goes into details about how LA is not like Silicon Valley.
- Funding is different, there are smaller "A" rounds of around $3m rather than $10m here.
- Recruiting is different. There aren't huge pools of engineers, but it is possible to build 100+
sized teams.
- Commuting isn't as bad as people think it is, most people live close to where they work. And
hey, commuting isn't that easy here.
- Lots of content creation skills. This is an interesting point to make because software
engineers can be found almost anywhere in the world today, but content creation skills are very
culture specific, you can't outsource this work.
- There are now larger numbers of successful entrepreneurs, many are on the their second and
third successful company.
Here are a few success stories:
There is a lot of innovation happening in LA from places like Eqal, Deca.TV, DemandMedia's
studios, Clicker, Filmaka and other initiatives.
. . .
The whole category of "sponsored search" came from a successful LA company, Overture. (my firm,
GRP Partners, was an investor). LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought
by Google. We were also an investor in the early local listing company, CitySearch - an LA
company. LA was a leader in lead generation (LowerMyBills), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber,
Shopzilla), social networking (MySpace ... I know, I know - Facebook won - but it was still a big
business). If we extend a bit North up the coast line we have many affiliate marketing innovators
including ValueClick, Commission Junction and FastClick. They also produced GoToMeeting and
CallWave.
. . .
A great team from MySpace has created Gravity. Gil Elbaz from Applied Semantics has now created
Factual. Zorik Gordon is tearing it up at ReachLocal. TechCoast Angels backed GreenDot should be
a major IPO this year. Frank Addante has created Rubicon Project. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO
of Google, is building his next company in LA. Scott Painter, founder of
CarsDirect has created two new generation LA startups (Zag and TrueCar, both backed by GRP
Partners). Brett Brewer (ex MySpace) has AdKnowledge, there is Adconian, Legal Zoom and many
more. Hautelook, Gogii, Magento - all very high potential companies building in LA.
Mr Suster is one of the organizers of Launchpad LA V2, which was announced today. This is a project aimed at helping
first-time entrepreneurs and helping to educate them and guide them in building successful
companies.
We will be selecting 10 startup companies to participate. There is no cost but you must
physically be based in or move to Los Angeles for the 6 months of the program. Applications are
due April 6th, 2010, the form is on the website and the Twitter address is@launchpadlad
A West Coast corridor of innovation...
It won't be long before we have a West Coast corridor of innovation stretching from Silicon
Valley to Southern California, and beyond.
In fact, if you fly from San Diego heading north along the coast you pass over tons of innovation
centers:
- The communications and biotech industries of San Diego;
- The electronics industries of Orange County;
- The media centers of Hollywood and Santa Monica;
- Then you reach San Francisco/Silicon Valley with its electronics, software, media tech,
biotech, cleantech industries;
- Then Portland with its thriving startup scene plus Intel's big presence there;
- Seattle with a thriving tech scene mostly spun out of Microsoft, and Amazon;
- Vancouver and its software industry.
Wow. 1400 miles of innovation. There's no other region like it, hundreds of
miles of world-class, industry leading, innovation and creativity.
Interestingly, it's all built on top of one of the most unstable fault lines in the world. A
disruptive reality. Is there a connection?
I've always said that innovation has to be disruptive otherwise it's not innovation.
There wasn't a big-screen hero with a gun to his head or a Hollywood beauty in harm's way, but
Washington was caught-up in a cliffhanger this week -- and President Barack Obama was at the center
of it.
The Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards celebrated its 10th year this March. On the night before SXSW
took over Austin, a number of local and Hollywood celebrities gathered at Austin Studios, in a
soundstage decked out to look like a fancy party venue, to induct new members into the Texas Film Hall of Fame and to raise money for
the Texas Filmmakers Production Fund. I've got photos and video to share after the jump.
The event always includes my favorite red carpet to cover. The great thing about their red carpet
(which was pink this year) is that it's also the main entrance to the event, so everyone has to
walk past our cameras. Sometimes there's heavy traffic on the carpet, but it also means getting to
snap photos of all kinds of people who are not on the honoree list. That is, assuming you know who
they are. I saw one unassuming guy scoot down that carpet and thought he looked an awful lot like
Jason Reitman, but what would he be doing here? Found out the next day that he was in fact at the
ceremony, a last-minute decision (and then we kept spotting him at SXSW, too). But Thomas Haden
Church, the evening's emcee, slipped in through a back door.
The 2010 honorees included actor and San Antonio native Bruce McGill, who received his
award from Tim Matheson
-- a D-Day and Otter reunion more than 30 years after Animal House. They had a lot of fun
horsing around on the red carpet. When accepting his award, McGill did the one thing you know the
audience all wanted: "The William Tell Overture" on his throat.
It was
already a ridiculous notion when the news hit in December. An
Overboard remake?
Really? As a young kid I loved the flick -- not because it was good, mind you (I had terrible
taste), but because I was enamored with the chemistry between Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell. It was
charisma that nicely glossed over the scary premise. It worked in the '80s, but the thought of a
woman with amnesia who gets lied to and taken home by a man who hates her, becoming his obedient
caretaker and "wife" in every way -- not so cool.
Regardless, it's really happening; The Hollywood Reporter posts that Overboard is definitely in
the works, and Jennifer
Lopez is in talks to star. Leslie Dixon worked on the script, which is now in the hands of Adam
Cooper and Bill Collage for another polish. So much for notions of Katherine Heigl or Kate Hudson
(Ms. Hawn's daughter, don't forget) showing up as amnesia lady. It just goes to show you -- when
you think one casting choice is bad, remember how much worse it can be.
While the nostalgic part of me wishes this will never get made, the rest of me wants them to go for
it. Ignore the obvious stupidity and jump right in, Columbia! Let's throw a lot of money into this
and have it flop... Flop bigger than J-Lo's Gigli. I want to see this flounder and fry
like a freshman fishie. How about you?
First Canadian to be sentenced under country’s new anti-CAM law.
If you’ve been a member of the P2P world for at least a few years then you’re well
aware of the illustrious body of work compiled by the infamous Canadian Gérémi
Adam, 28yo, better known as maVen. He was well known for producing some of the highest quality
CAMs around.
A few days ago Adam was sentenced to nine weeks behind bars plus 100 hours of community service.
He’s also prohibited from entering any movie theatre for two years.
It’s the first of its kind sentence under a revision to the country’s Copyright Act
that introduced tougher anti-camcording laws back in 2007.
The new law makes recording a movie without permission a crime punishable by two years in jail,
and taping a film for future sale or rental now carries a maximum five-year jail term.
He pleaded guilty to two counts, under the Copyright Act, for distributing copies of the
Hollywood films “Invincible” and “How to Eat Fried Worms” on the Internet
under the alias maVen in 2006.
He was nabbed again in 2008 while recording the movie “Street Kings” at another movie
theatre, and was charged a third time, this time under the Criminal Code.
Adam’s attorney, Richard Brouillard, told the court his client had a difficult past and
noted several times during the trial that Adam made virtually no profit from his illicit
activities. Instead, he devoted himself to pirating only because he wanted to become an Internet
celebrity.
“(The FBI) knew the movies were coming from Montreal. That’s why they worked hard to
grab him,” he
added.
Canadian prosecutors were happy with the ruling.
“I think it’s a strong message that if you try to do something like Geremi Adam did,
you will face the consequences. You could go to jail,” said crown prosecutor Josee
Belanger.
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Una de las comedias de culto y que más reconocimientos ha obtenido en los últimos
años es ‘Extras’, la serie que Ricky Gervais y Stephen
Merchant crearon después de ‘The Office’, y que le
valió a Gervais el Emmy y el Globo de Oro a mejor actor de comedia. Mañana
sábado, a las 20, Canal+ la estrena en España, con algo de retraso, para
que podamos ver de primera mano el peculiar sentido del humor que se gastan Gervais y Merchant,
aplicado aquí al mundo del cine y los actores.
Su protagonista es un extra de cine que sueña con conseguir algún día un
buen papel con diálogo y, eventualmente, con crear su propia serie de televisión.
Él y su amiga (interpretada por Ashley Jensen, ahora en ‘Ugly
Betty’) participan en los rodajes de grandes estrellas de Hollywood como Kate
Winslet (un capítulo imprescindible y divertidísimo), Samuel L. Jackson, Ben
Stiller, Ian McKellen o Daniel Radcliffe. Todos interpretan versiones exageradas de
sí mismos con resultados hilarantes pero, a veces, también un poco
incómodos y de vergüenza ajena. El tercer personaje más habitual de la serie
es el desastroso agente del protagonista.
‘Extras’ tiene dos temporadas de seis episodios cada una. Co-producida por la BBC y
la HBO, era la última incursión en televisión de sus creadores hasta este
año, cuando la HBO ha estrenado una versión animada del podcast que grabaron hace
unos años, ‘The Ricky Gervais Show’.
Conservative Hollywood Screenwriter Andrew Klavan says “Alice” -- and Hollywood in
general -- is sending the wrong message to young women. (PRWeb Mar 18, 2010)
With blogging as hot as it is, and the fact that Julie & Julia earned itself an Oscar
nomination for Meryl Streep, it was only a matter of time before another big name grabbed a
bloggerific pic.
Deadline Hollywood posts that Columbia Pictures has grabbed the rights to The Pioneer Woman, and will develop it as a "potential
star vehicle" for Reese Witherspoon.
Unlike Julie Powell's blog, which focused on one very specific thing, there's a wide range of
themes and quirks to choose from this time around. As the story goes, Ree Drummond was on her way
to Chicago (from LA) when she detoured to Oklahoma, met "the cowboy of her dreams and transformed
from spoiled city girl to domestic ranch wife." In other words, the opposite of Sweet Home
Alabama. Drummond's blog is pretty cool, detailing food/home/garden blogging, photography, and
even homeschooling. (I've been in love with her Action
Sets for CS4 for a while now.) She's a bit of a movie fan as well, having recently devouredThe Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation, and offering movie line
questions as part of her "Smartypants
Quizzes."
Unfortunately, Deadline says: "The film will explore the fantasy of trading big city living for a
wholesome simpler life," but I'm really hoping they put some solid focus on the wickedly wide range
of interests and experiences she has. Otherwise, we've seen it all before. A lot. We don't need
Blog Hollywood.
Beyond being a world famous musician, engineer, producer and journalist, Steve Albini has long been
pretty outspoken about the music business itself -- and while I don't always agree with him, I
appreciate that he speaks his mind and often presents his arguments in ways that make me think and
reconsider some of my own positions. herodotus points us to the news of some
comments Albini recently made at a conference about the music business, with a great quote about
the focus of so many on royalties: "Royalties are a means to pay producers in the future -- and
in perpetuity -- based on record sales," said Albini, who is also a music journalist. "If a band
does a show, blows a whole bunch of minds and a bunch of people become fans and go out and buy
millions of records, the producer gets paid. I think that's ethically unsustainable.
"I don't think you should pay a doctor extra because a patient doesn't die. I think the doctor
should be busting his ass for every patient. I don't think I should get paid for someone else's
success." I'm guessing that we'll get a fair amount of disagreement in the comments, but I
think it's a point worth considering. So many creative industries get really hung up on royalties
and collective licensing and other aspects -- when those are basically lottery tickets, relying
very much on what other people do, not on the work you actually do. And it leads to this
entitlement mentality that we see all the time, where certain content creators feel they need to
get paid every time their content is used -- even if they didn't do any additional work on it. This
is what all the ongoing legal battles about collective licensing and royalty rates are about. This
is what the Hollywood writers' strike from a few years ago were about. They're ongoing attempts to
keep getting paid over and over again for one thing you did in the past. Most jobs don't work that
way -- and that's the point that Albini is making.
Now, some will argue, of course, that the entertainment industry is "different," because it
involves more speculation: no one knows if the content you create will be a hit, so the concept of
royalties is a way to deal with that. But that assumes a rather static market, and pays little
attention to the entitlement mentality that it creates. If you have a hit, charge more for future
work -- rather than focusing so much on getting paid over and over and over again just for that one
piece of work you did in the past.
For the third week in a row, the Comics Store will be updated with more vintage issues starring the
superheroes before they were Hollywood icons. This week, the Sub-Mariner cameos as he joins the
Evil Mutants, while
Believing the Cheltenham Race has more drama than the whole of Hollywood
combined, online betting site Paddy Power erected a Hollywood-sized sign of their own for the
event.
Column about how Cisco's new and blazingly fast CRS-3 router could potential the traditional
business models in Hollywood and the film industry as it can stream every movie ever made in just 4
minutes.
Mark Stern, le président de SyFy, a laissé entendre au Hollywood Reporter
que la chaîne serait en train de réfléchir à la création d'une
troisième série pour la franchise Battlestar Galactica.
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