“Two or three years ago, she would have had an unanswerable case. Now, thanks not least to her own exertions, ‘grey cinema’ is booming, with a string of successful films, many British-made … They have done well because they are well-written, well-acted, do not patronise their audiences and tackle serious themes in an intelligent, nuanced way.”
Tag: 10.16.12
Why Would You Run A Kickstarter Campaign For $1?
“What good does running such a small campaign do you? Publicity, for one thing. An almost guaranteed success, for another.”
How Patent Trolls Are Killing Innovation
“Patent ‘trolls,’ as they are called, purchase large numbers of patents in the hope of using the threat of a patent-infringement suit to extort a patent-license fee from a company that makes a similar product; the product may or may not infringe, which is often very difficult to determine, but the alleged infringer may decide to pay the licensee fee, if it is not too large, to avoid the cost of litigation.”
Indian Movie Effects Companies Set Up In Hollywood
“Hollywood studios for many years have farmed out basic visual effects and animation work to India and other countries to take advantage of a pool of low-cost workers skilled in software engineering and computer graphics. But well-heeled foreign companies such as Reliance are no longer waiting for work to be parceled out to them from thousands of miles away.”
Why Branding Is Important For Non-Profits
“I believe branding is more important for nonprofits than for-profits because nonprofits are in the business of cooperating, more than competing. Each nonprofit has to find an irreplaceable niche. A branding process helps you figure out what that is. That seems healthy to me.”
Anatomy Of A Meme
“Marketing taps into shared ideals between brands and customers to encourage trends, ideas, and behaviors to spread. If we understand what makes a meme stick–inspire a purchase, encourage word-of-mouth, or change behavior or opinion–we can repeat that stickiness.”
Denver Mayor’s Plan For $57 Million For The Arts
“Much of the bond money became available because a plan to spend $38 million overhauling Boettcher Concert Hall, which voters approved directly, fell through. That proposal called for the CSO to match the funds but it was unable to raise the money.”
Seattle Symphony, Opera Musicians Authorize Strike
“After months of contract negotiations with the managements of the Seattle Symphony and Seattle Opera, the vote is in response to a contract offer Wednesday that called for musicians to take a 15 percent reduction in compensation in the 2012-13 season.”
FBI Arrests Man At Center Of Broadway Rebecca‘s Collapse
“A Long Island stockbroker defrauded the producers of the Broadway musical Rebecca with an elaborate scheme that included a fictitious loan and phantom investors who were conjured up as part of a sham plan to rescue the financially ailing show, federal authorities charged in a criminal complaint Monday.”
Fabio Luisi: Don’t Count On Me To Step In For Levine Again
The Italian maestro saved the Met’s bacon – sometimes breaking contracts to do so – repeatedly over the past couple of seasons when ailing Met music director James Levine withdrew from performances on short notice. Now that Levine seems to be back, Luisi indicates that he will have to honor his existing commitments, even if Levine should fall ill again.