Long considered a staple of the movie market, the romantic comedy appears to be dead. Well, maybe not dead. But it has taken a beating and seems to be mutating. The new variation could be called the anti-romantic comedy with an emphasis on mismatched lovers...
Everybody is looking for the next game changer -- something radically new that is pretty obvious and doesn't necessarily alter anything, but that is still a clear indicator of future developments and concisely changes the whole structure of the industry while not exactly changing anything....
Who exactly goes to movies these days? It's an important question, and the current answer is a tad murky. It is especially murky when you are trying to pinpoint the modern representative model for the movie audience. More than fifty years ago the answer seemed pretty...
Rudyard Kipling never worked in Hollywood. That's why no one is paying much attention to his old advice. China is now the new market that everyone wants to own. Odd thing, the Chinese seem to view China as being their own turf, and the current...
Stop the press! Paramount Pictures has just crossed the billion dollar threshold, and the summer has barely begun. Oh whee! They are rolling in it and everything is beautiful (at least along their legendary gates on Melrose Avenue). Hollywood loves the smell of success, and Paramount's...
There's a lot of co-evolution going on. Changes in one thing produce corresponding changes in many other things. The term is most commonly used in biology, but it is also applicable to the current state of film and media. It's more than applicable. It is...
In the old days, publicists were often ex-reporters who mainly switched jobs so they could deduct the booze as a business expense. This was back in the mythic heydays when promoting a movie was viewed as an art rather than a science, and a well-oiled,...
It must be something in the water. Every indie filmmaker on earth is totally convinced that the key to success is the use of the social media. Countless blogs have been posted hammering away at this point. Numerous self-appointed experts have emerged to guide people...
Like Napoleon playing with a map of Europe, Hollywood is toying with the globe. At least that is the gist of a recent New York Times story. In a report on the upcoming ScreenSingapore 2011 festival, the Times finds that the foreign market is becoming...
Film making is a very expensive hobby. Even in the days of Super-8 (which existed between the Jurassic period and the Great Flood), the cost of film and lab work depleted the budget of many teenage directors. And that was minus any fancy thought of...