Can the movies – “orphaned” because of the terrible behavior of their company’s founder – get any U.S. release? Hm, maybe … on Netflix. “Streaming and other digital-only releases appear to be an increasingly attractive distribution option for these titles, since it offers producers a revenue stream minus the media attention that comes with a traditional theatrical release.”
Tag: 09.16.18
Marilyn Strauss, Tony Winner And Founder Of Kansas City’s Shakespeare Festival, Has Died At 91
Strauss, who grew up and lived much of her life in Kansas City, was an independent Broadway producer who won a Tony for the Irish play “Da,” which ran for nearly two years. Then, “with the encouragement of the late Joseph Papp, founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival, Strauss returned to Kansas City to found a festival.” She built the 26-year-old fest from the ground up.
When You’re About To Finish A 900-Plus Page History Of The United States, And Then It’s Election Night
Historian Jill Lepore on writing a history of the entire country in less than 1000 pages, but still having to change the ending thanks to the presidential election of 2016: “It was just a watershed political moment. To not adjust to end there just seemed wrong, like a dereliction of duty as a historian.”
The New York Phil Dismisses Two Players For ‘Misconduct’
The dismissal of its principal oboist, Liang Wang, and associate principal trumpet, Matthew Muckey, is on hold while the union investigates, but the musicians are on unpaid leave. “The orchestra said in a terse statement only that after it had received reports that the two players had ‘engaged in misconduct,’ it retained Barbara S. Jones, an attorney at Bracewell and a former federal judge, to investigate. An orchestra official said the investigation took five months.”
Amazon Is Investigating Its Employees Over Internal Corruption
Some employees may be leaking data, and there are definitely entities trying their damnedest to bribe employees as well, say brokers. (One solution: Raise Amazon employees’ salaries in China.)
Streaming Services May Start Showing Films On IMAX
Domestic theatre attendance fell to a 25-year low last year, partly, or maybe mostly, because of streaming – so theatre chains are not exactly friendly to services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime. But the IMAX CEO says they’re all talking to him. “It’s inevitable that these big blockbusters that people are spending all this money on … are going to have a theatrical release and I think almost certainly an IMAX release.”
It’s Time For A Reckoning Of Harassment In Photojournalism, Too
Even beyond the bombshell article from July accusing prominent men in the field of harassment, the “male-dominated field creates a ‘toxic culture’ that silences women in the profession and has kept a full reckoning from taking place. … 85 to 90 percent of the news imagery we consume is created by men. Last year, 90 percent of the images that The New York Times ran on their front page was made by men.”