07 2025 November
How Long Should It Take Before Something Is Declared a Flop?
The initial ratings for the American reboot of The Office were famously bad. People didn’t love the character of Michael Scott and the entire effort...
Read Now29 2025 October
The Villains on Pre-K TV Are Cuddly, Annoying and Onto Something Interesting
How does the evolution of the way we learn to see “bad guys” evolve as we grow older? That was the interesting question at the...
Read Now03 2025 October
SXSW 2026 Announcement!
SXSW is reinventing itself in 2026! The latest session announcement just came out and I’m excited to share that I’ll be back as a Featured...
Read Now24 2025 September
The Tuna Cans Film Festival: A Perfect Throwback Marketing Strategy?
Would you make a movie about a can of tuna? Inspired by the Cannes Film Festival, Bumble Bee launched the Tuna Cans Film Festival – a search...
Read Now12 2025 September
“Vibe Movie Making” and the Real Future of AI In Movie Production
Can AI make a good movie? That question will soon be put to the test as Open AI announced this week that they are backing an...
Read Now04 2025 September
The Death of Articulate Criticism
No one cares what you hate on social media. Or at least they shouldn’t. But as the anonymity of the Internet offers up permission to...
Read Now11 2025 August
The Rise and Fall of Drive-In Theaters
The year 1933 brought the world’s first drive-in theater. Since that moment, it’s become one of those iconic American-style exports of entertainment. Today it’s a...
Read Now29 2025 May
The Future of Animation Will Be 90% Faster Than Before
A few years ago, lip-syncing one minute of animation used to take about four hours. Now it can be done in 15 minutes. That’s just...
Read Now17 2025 April
Google Uses AI to Reimagine The Wizard of Oz (and Maybe the Future of Hollywood)
This past week, a closed group of attendees at a private Google event got a first look at an ambitious project that has been in...
Read Now20 2025 March
Unnecessary Enhancement and the Upscaling Backlash Against Netflix
What if everything doesn’t need to be better? A series of 80s shows originally released at a 4:3 aspect ratio and with non-HD level filming have been...
Read Now13 2025 March
What Entitlement Looks Like? Adrien Brody’s Oscars Award Acceptance Speech
When the Best Actor award was announced and Adrien Brody took the top honor for the second time, he headed toward stage and abruptly stopped....
Read Now12 2025 March
The Ultimate Movie Brand Partnership: Kleenex and IMDB Launch “The Kleenex Score”
There aren’t many brands that define their entire category so much that people literally use the brand name interchangeably to describe the product. Kleenex has...
Read Now27 2025 February
Why Directors Are Only Casting Actors with Lots of Instagram Followers
A big presence on social media may have seemed like a nice-to-have for creators but in the case of Hollywood films, there’s growing evidence that...
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