Last week Tarantino called off his project The Hateful Eight after copies of the screenplay were leaked an began circulating around Hollywood. Within two days, Gawker Media’s site Defamer revealed plot points and posted links to the complete script. So the furious director is taking Gawker to court.
Tag: 01.27.14
Gawker’s Response to Tarantino’s Lawsuit: He Totally Wanted This
John Cook lays out a five-point response to Quentin Tarantino’s lawsuit over the public leak of his screenplay to The Hateful Eight, arguing that the filmmaker made the affair into a news story himself.
Great Classic Movies and Their Godawful Trailers
Rear Window, The Graduate, Pulp Fiction – they may hold up through the years, but their trailers most definitely do not. Could this be why there’s now a fad to remix them, like The Sound of Music as a horror flick and The Shining as a rom-com? Adrienne LaFrance explains.
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Cultural Sites: Taking Stock In Syria
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“Dirt Always Wins” — A Story in Six Parts
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Global alert: reward offered for 100 string instruments stolen in Bremen
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Morbid Curiosity – Culture Is Dead (Move Along…)
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Welcoming A New AJ Blogger Whose Art Is The Audience
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Indie Musicians Won Half Of All This Year’s Grammys
“This year marked the sixth consecutive year that independent labels and artists led the industry with 50% of all nominations, earning 199 of 398 non-producer nominations.”
Real Lesson From The Grammys – Musicians Have To Sell Other Stuff
“Nobody’s buying recorded music anymore, and musicians still need to eat. So why get ruffled when a favorite rapper or beloved rock band resorts to licensing their songs to the corporations holding the cash? We don’t sweat it anymore. We don’t even blink.”
Who Cares About The Classical Grammys? (But We Still Keep Paying Attention)
“The real takeaway message about the classical Grammys, in a trend that’s been continuing for some time, is that major labels are as irrelevant as the awards themselves.”
Libraries As Museums (We’ve Got To Preserve Printed Books)
“The role of libraries is essential here, as secure repositories for the written word. And here I must admit a fear. In their rush to digitisation – an enthusiasm I find in most librarians I meet – there is the danger that libraries may too quickly abandon their crucial historical role.”
Arts Council England Appeals To The BBC To Make More Arts Partnerships
“Even the largest arts organisations cannot hope to achieve this exposure on their own. The potential to link up individual artists and arts organisations with the BBC’s multiple platforms is huge, driving place-based and digital engagement, and thought should be given as to how this can be better enabled.”
Research Suggests Artists’ Eccentricity Boosts Perceptions Of Quality
At least to an extent, judgments about art “depend on the displayed eccentricity of the artist,” the researchers write, “so long as the art is unconventional, and the displayed eccentricity seems authentic.”