This year, we’re watching more movies streaming over Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and iTunes than we’re watching on DVD – and the movie companies aren’t real happy about that. “In total, online stores and services will account for 57% of movie consumption in 2012, but only 12% of spending.”
Tag: 03.23.12
Are Book Critics Simply Too Mean?
Maybe, sometimes. Ron Charles: “There’s no need to be cruel, but sometimes the exasperation of slogging through a dull, stupid or monumentally over-hyped book gets the best of even the nicest person.”
Want More Culture In Wales? Good Luck, Thanks To Arts Cuts
Cuts in 2010 left large swaths of Wales bereft last year, arts groups say. “The Wales Association for the Performing Arts said ACW’s funding decisions had left arts cold spots in Wales and affected young people disproportionately. It stated: ‘You cannot withdraw funding to 32 arts organisations and expect participation not to be affected.'”
Threat Level Absurd: Facebook Tries To Trademark The Word ‘Book’
Seriously. “Facebook was successful in trademarking ‘Face,’ but might have a tougher time gaining rights to the word ‘book.'”
What We Learned About Creativity From Broadway
“The new social science of complex networks is addressing a different kind of problem, a deeper and potentially more important one. This research is concerned less with how to construct teams to maximize their creativity than with the question of what kind of society maximizes everyone’s creativity.”
Global Movie Box Office Up (But Down In North America)
“Globally, ticket sales reached $32.6 billion in 2011, only a 3 percent gain. That’s due to a marked downturn at the North American box office, where revenue reached $10.2 billion, down 4 percent over 2010. International revenues made up nearly 69 percent of the pie.”
London Book Fair’s China Problem
“Over the last three decades, at least 100 books have been banned by the Chinese government. They are books that never see the light of day; books that alter lives of writers and publishing houses; books that were published and then retracted and destroyed.”
The Most Popular Art Exhibitions Of 2011
“When we beÂgan our annual surÂvey of the best atÂtended exhibitions in 1996, to make the top ten a show needed to attract around 3,000 visitors a day. In our survey of 2011 shows, to make the top ten required almost 7,000 visitors a day.”
D’Oyly Carte Opera To Be Revived After Ten Years
“The company, famed for its Gilbert and Sullivan operas, stopped producing work in 2003 after it was unable to secure funding to enable it to continue. Since then it has operated a music hire library, which supplies the orchestral parts for Gilbert and Sullivan operas to professional and amateur societies.”
Arts Council England Chairman Won’t Be Reappointed
“Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota today criticised the decision by Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt not to reappoint current Arts Council England (Ace) chairman Dame Liz Forgan when her term ends in January.”