“The mid-year forecast, released Wednesday, estimated that regional entertainment employment will hit 155,300 jobs this year — 137,400 people in the motion picture and sound industries and 17,900 in television and radio. Those numbers are forecast to reach 170,400 in 2011, with 152,400 in motion picture/sound and 18,000 in broadcast.”
Tag: 07.22.10
Restored Chicago Theater Goes Into Bankruptcy
The Skokie Theatre — which has been presenting jazz, cabaret, theatrical and variety events since reopening in 2006 — has gone into receivership after a $1.2 million refurbishment.
Books For $75,000 Anyone?
It’s “a trend that has seen book publishers creating evermore insanely expensive collector’s items – usually very large coffee-table picture books about celebrities or the kinds of luxury items only the very rich can feel devoted to – printed in small batches.”
Super-Reviewers Cultivate Star Status Online
“A cynic might see that as free labor for the corporations that make big bucks from their reviews. But that’s not how the dozens of elite Yelpers see it. Smith, like others here, speaks of his Yelp profile the way a starlet might speak of a planned Hollywood career.”
Cleveland Museum Of Contemporary Art Gets Design Approval
MOCA’s design was one of five presented to the commission for the district, a $150-plus million development project in University Circle.
Agent Opens E-Book Imprint, Provokes Lit E-Rights Issue
“Andrew Wylie opened a new front, and a possible negotiating tool, in a debate over e-book rights for what are called backlist titles. Many traditional publishers have said they own the electronic rights to those books, but some authors and their estates have disagreed, arguing that since the books were published before e-books existed, the digital rights were not explicitly sold to the publishers.”
Indian Movie Producers Find Success On TV (While Still In Theatres
The TV audiences are huge, helping boost movie-house fare that otherwise might not sell well. “Nowadays, people have big TV screens and a whole family can watch a pay-per-view movie sitting at home, eating and drinking whatever they want.”
Stieg Larsson Makes The E-Million-Seller List
“The late Swedish author’s blockbuster thrillers have sold more than 1 million copies in the e-book editions, publisher Alfred A. Knopf said Wednesday, making him at least the second author to join the e-million club. The ultra-prolific James Patterson also has more than 1 million e-book sales.”
Kafka Papers Highlight Issue Of Heirless Jewish Cultural Assets
“The ownership of heirless pre-Holocaust European Jewish cultural assets – not to mention whether Kafka’s papers can first and foremost be placed in such a category – is a hugely controversial issue. The first box opened yesterday appears to contain a handwritten story by Kafka that has never been seen before, making the granting of public access even more significant than scholars must have expected.”
Why Are Museums Allowed To Sell Off Their Work?
“This is not the time to forget the true value of our collections: a historical and aesthetic resource held in care for future generations. Let’s keep the doors open to the public but closed to the salesman. Losing these treasures is too high a price to pay for short-term financial gain.”