03 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 Now19 2025 September
The Clever Secret Message Behind South Park’s Delayed Episode
There was a new episode scheduled for South Park on Comedy Central last night. It never aired. When the announcement was made, it came alongside this...
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 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 Now09 2025 May
The Irrelevantly Entertaining Details of the Met Gala Are Hard to Miss … Or Care About
Every year around this time I face a similar struggle as I read all the stories about the Met Gala. I wonder why people care...
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 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...
Read Now12 2025 February
The Intrigue and Lessons of Canceled TV Shows and Abandoned Pilots
I find the idea of canceled TV programs to be intriguing. I always have. It’s not that I enjoy reading about the creative misfortune of...
Read Now23 2025 January
Flash Superhero Movie Director Proves We’re Not Great at Learning from Failure
The Flash movie came out in 2023 and by box office standards, it was a flop. A story making the rounds in entertainment trade publications...
Read Now09 2025 January
The Long Game of the Kardashians May Be Smarter Than You Think
Most of us know that reality TV is often heavily scripted and edited to tell an intentionally melodramatic story. Usually the on-screen participants have little...
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