Sony Mulling Internet-Based Alternative to Cable TV
Faster, please:
“According to Wall Street Journal sources, Sony is mulling the launch of an Internet-based alternative to cable TV service in the US. Per the report, Sony has approached several big media groups seeking to negotiate rights to beam their TV channels via the Web.
“Sony’s proposal would see the channels go out to Sony-made devices like PlayStation consoles, TVs and Blu-ray players.”
Update on ‘Star Trek’ Sequel Production
What will Hollywood do if this franchise peters out? Clone the original cast? “Star Trek Babies”?
What the ‘Community’ Hiatus Says About the Current State of TV
You buy this?
Community creator Dan Harmon attempted to explain why his NBC show continues to get low ratings despite outstanding marks from critics. “Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that’s the least objectionable to them,” Harmon said. “So they don’t regard the television as an appliance that’s supposed to spiritually satisfy them, they regard it as a thing that’s supposed to comfort them and be a little stupid. It’s not because they’re stupid, it’s because that’s what TV has given them all their lives and it’s hard to go out and do the work of finding a show.”
I can’t judge the show because I’ve never seen it, but this actually seems to be the decade for intelligent television — from “The Sopranos” straight through to “The Shield,” “Mad Men,” and “Breaking Bad.”
An NBC show obviously has to pull in more viewers than those cable shows, so maybe that’s the answer. Move to cable.
Celebrating 40 years of ‘The Omega Man‘
This is one of those films I keep watching again and again hoping I’ll like it better. But as much as I want to like it, to say I prefer Will Smith’s remake would be quite the understatement. Maybe it’s watching Heston enjoy the dirty, filthy hippie movie “Woodstock” or those silly sunglasses Anthony Zerbe wears. There’s something about “Omega Man”‘s tone that doesn’t work for me, and it gets worse as the film rolls on.
The 10 Best Behind the Scenes Film Books
Making a film is so difficult and intense and (usually) filled with larger-than-life personalities that I have yet to learn about what happened behind the scenes and find it any less fascinating than whatever the picture was that came out of it.
New Poster released for ‘Titanic 3D’
Couldn’t Rose and Jack have both survived by alternating places on that slab?
Just a thought.
I do love the movie, though. Its flaws are obvious in the department of screenwriting but Cameron’s epic moviemaking is extraordinary.
Tom Hanks Offered Presidential Action-Thriller ‘Patriot Down’
Let me guess, this President will be a liberal Democrat who served his country in the military but opposes “Bush’s wars.”
Just the thought of Tom Hanks playing a President bores me.
Visual Cool: The Title Design of Saul Bass
No doubt Saul Bass was cool but these never-ending tributes that started online over a year ago are starting to get tiring.
Could filmdom’s Website group-thinkers consider “discovering” someone else who’s “cool,” please?
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Last Night’s Screening
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) — John Ford’s final masterpiece always surprises me by how poignant it is. After a screening, as time passes, my takeaway is John Wayne’s confrontation with Lee Marvin: “That was my steak, Liberty.” and of course Jimmy Stewart’s. What I forget, though is that Wayne’s Tom Doniphon is the real hero of the story, and not just because he saves Ransom Stoddard’s (Stewart) life.
By killing Liberty Valance (the awesome Lee Marvin), Doniphon effectively kills off his own way of life along with it. He not only loses the love of his life (Vera Miles) to Ransom but also elevates the man into a political force who will help end the frontier in favor of civilization. Effectively, through his selfless act, Doniphon sacrifices everything that made him who he was and, in the process, creates a safer world that no longer wants any part of men like him.
Whenever I put the DVD in, it’s with the expectation of a good, ole-fashioned “town” Western. When it’s over, though, I’m blindsided by how profoundly sad and moving the story is, and it stays with me for days afterward.
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SCOTTDS’ EPIC LINK-TACULAR
YES, REALLY: PETA TARGETS ‘SUPER MARIO BROS.’ OVER MARIO’S RACCOON SUIT
‘MAN OF STEEL’ SEQUEL ALREADY PLANNED
TRAILER FOR THAT OTHER SNOW WHITE MOVIE
TIM BURTON IN TALKS TO DIRECT ADAPTATION OF ‘MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN‘
‘WEST SIDE STORY’ STARS CEMENT THEIR PLACE IN HOLLYWOOD HISTORY
AMC ORDERS UFO DRAMA SERIES ‘THUNDERSTRUCK‘
DVD EXTRA: BLU CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE
NEW ‘MUPPETS’ POSTERS TARGET ‘THE TWILIGHT SAGA’ TRIO
HBO AND ‘SPORTS ILLUSTRATED’ TEAM UP FOR DOCUMENTARY SERIES
STELLAR SCIENCE-FICTION ‘STACHES
COMING TO BLU-RAY IN 2012: WILLIAM WELLMAN’S ‘WINGS,’ THE FIRST BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER
NEW TRAILER FOR PIXAR’S ‘BRAVE’
WHAT ‘THE CROW’ REBOOT MIGHT’VE LOOKED LIKE
“NI!” 20 FACTS ABOUT ‘MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL‘
ARE SOME CONCEPTS JUST TOO SILLY FOR MOVIES?
FILMMAKER LYNNE RAMSEY DISCUSSES HER UNFILMED VERSION OF ‘THE LOVELY BONES‘
THE TRAGIC HISTORY OF THE BEATLES’ MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR
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CLASSIC PICK FOR THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17
11:15 AM EST: Ice Station Zebra (1968) — A sub commander on a perilous mission must ferret out a Soviet agent on his ship. Dir: John Sturges Cast: Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan. C-152 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
Men. Commies. Submarines. Any questions?
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