11 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...
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29 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...
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09 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...
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17 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...
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13 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....
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12 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...
Read Now31 2024 December
Jamie Foxx and His Family Offer a Masterclass on How to Maintain Privacy
About eighteen months ago, actor and musician Jamie Foxx got sick. Like really sick. He was rushed to the hospital with “life threatening” injuries and...
Read Now14 2024 November
Is All-Blind Narration the Future of Audio Description for Films & TV?
“He looks ahead, his dark eyebrows overshadowing his dark eyes. One of his several gold teeth gleams in the dim light.” This is the audio...
Read Now07 2024 November
Netflix Launches “Moments” Feature to Save Your Favorite Movie Scenes
I have probably watched that darts scene from Ted Lasso a dozen times. If you know the show, you probably understand why I would love...
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