2020 was tough! Sure, we watched Outbreak and Contagion last year, but no one really took this whole pandemic thing serious until mid-to-late March when Tom Hanks announced he and his wife, Rita Wilson, tested positive for COVID-19 while he was in Australia filming an Elvis Presley biopic. Suddenly, people were saying, “Holy S*** this…
Early in the Spring the upfronts – where networks talk big spenders into getting theirs first – were basically cancelled because no one knew what (if any) shows were going to be ready for the fall season. The Euro football championships were cancelled. The Olympics were pushed to this year…maybe. Then things got bad. Networks…
While growing up in the US’s west coast, a big deal every fall was going to the annual county fair, every day. We became enthralled one year watching a barker hawking knives or pots/pans or something. What intrigued us was that he would have this crowd gathered and then would switch to looking at/talking to…
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Getting in to Jurassic World Pinewood studio now looks a lot different than entering before production was shut down in March!
“Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night!” – Margo, “All About Eve,” 20th Century Fox, 1950 Like the M&E industry, what is considered acceptable and what is frowned upon is constantly evolving. We’re not certain if the changes are good/needed or we’ll simply become numb and ultimately accept it as the “new…
The M&E industry as well as what is acceptable and what is frowned upon is constantly evolving. We’re not certain if the changes are good/needed or we’ll simply become numb and ultimately accept it as the “new norm.” Comedian, social satirist Lenny Bruce was thrown in jail in 1964 for obscenity. In the early ‘70s,…
Give us a hint, please! What are all the market analysts and experts measuring when they track Warner’s Tenet in theaters and Disney’s Mulan streamed in the US and in select overseas theaters? Or how about Warner’s Wonder Woman 1984 and Netflix The Midnight Sky? Both drew about the eyeballs and sales you’d expect ……
Covid-19 just might have been the kick the studios needed to smash the window and make way for a new relationship with exhibitors, creators and consumers. Hundreds, probably thousands of very good, very expensive titles with great actors are stacked in warehouses, gathering dust, looking for a screen to be seen.
AI, Personal Touch – AI technology can significantly advance AV and Pro AV solutions as long as they constantly have the human touch. At the end of last year, the more cautious industry analysts were recommending that Pro AV folks (hardware/software/integration/service) diversify into “more economically insensitive market segments” to ride out the economic downturn they…