If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. | | | | "The Righteous Genstones" premieres August 18 on HBO. Funny as hell. Look for a completely batsh*t crazy awesome performance from Scott MacArthur.
(HBO) | | | | | |  | "If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people."
| | | | | | rantnrave:// It has never been easy to make a movie. And it's only getting harder. The herculean efforts involved to bring a fictional story from someone's imagination onto the silver screen are as fantastical as any AVENGERS movie. The size of collaboration is truly a miracle. Audiences could hardly conceive of it. Every film, no matter how "four-quadrant" and "consumer products-oriented" takes courage. You hoist your product up in front of millions for explicit or implicit review. And yet, it seems more and more and more movies – including great ones, the long-running ones, the anointed ones – are disappointing at the box office, if not bombing. Where are the audiences? In our newest REDER ORIGINAL, MATTHEW BALL walks through what he thinks is happening – from where the audience has gone, whether the box office is truly polarizing, and why "franchise fatigue" isn't real. Replete with incredible charts. Another day, another box office disappointment. Or record. Or franchise hit. Or franchise RIP. Or indie sleeper. Or indie sleep-with-the-fishes. What's going on? If you want to understand film, SVOD and franchise filmmaking: "The Absurdities of 'Franchise Fatigue' and Sequelitis (Or, What Is Happening to the Box Office?!)"... We have abdicated our responsibility for curating what is worthy of a fellow human's attention to A.I. which, in turn, is optimizing only for immediate engagement and advertising margin. JOE MARCHESE explores in "The Attention Economy Crisis: The Future of Content, Commerce, and Culture"... Happy Birthday to MATTHEW HUTCHISON, NOAH SCHWARTZ, CORINNE ALMIROL, and SCOTT A. SCHECHTER. Belated to JASON RAPP, MARK CUBAN, BEE SHAFFER, JOANNE BRADFORD, BETSY FRANK, and CELESTE SUNDERLAND GOTTFRIED. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator | | | |  | REDEF | | Another day, another box office disappointment. Or record. Or franchise hit. Or franchise RIP. Or indie sleeper. Or indie sleep-with-the-fishes. What's going on? | | | |  | Vox | | "It felt like, well, once that was done, then we've done what we needed to do, and we forgot to pause and think about, ethically, what was going on." | | | |  | The Verge | | The classified artificial brain being developed by US intelligence programs. | | | |  | Variety | | Months after AT&T agreed to buy Time Warner, senior leaders from HBO, Warner Bros. and Turner flew out to the telecom giant's headquarters in Dallas to meet their new bosses. They sat in a cavernous conference room configured like a classroom for a series of "AT&T University" presentations. | | | |  | Jacek Złydach | | A detailed explanation of why I keep saying that advertising is a cancer on modern society. | | | |  | The Washington Post | | CNN's reality-show atmosphere and rigid response times don't serve the public -- or the candidates. | | | |  | Foreign Policy | | Chinese stars are spinning off in their own orbit as politics gets in the way of profit. | | | |  | Newsweek | | In a new book, Virginia's former governor, Terry McAuliffe, gives a behind-the-scenes look at the deadly 2017 Unite the Right Charlottesville rally and how the violence could have been avoided. | | | |  | Eater | | Stop putting your restaurants in historically black neighborhoods if you can't respect the culture. | | | |  | Wired | | The call came on January 2. It was early enough in the morning that Natalie Levy probably shouldn't have been awake-she had recently left a high-stress job at a private-equity firm in San Francisco, and was determined to relax a bit-but her dog had woken her up. | | | | | The Washington Post | | Part corporate-surveillance engine, part democratic free-for-all, this is what it feels like when a video site takes over our listening lives. | | | |  | Zocalo Public Square | | Federal agencies embraced the polygraph in the 1950s to reassure the public that they could unmask spies. | | | |  | The Atlantic | | My family is a success story. We're also evidence of the long odds African Americans face on the path to success. | | | |  | Slate | | The Swedish left is getting tough on crime to fend off the far right--and an American rapper is caught in the middle. | | | |  | Narratively | | We climb glaciers and take minute measurements to understand the threats to our future. This is the story of my last, and most dramatic, trip to the Arctic. | | | |  | The Next Web | | Vertical dramas are what Chinese producers call their scripted content made especially for vertical mobile play. But they're not just any video content cropped for a vertical aspect ratio. These shows are specifically imagined for the mobile screen from the ground up. This is evident in three features they all share. | | | | | Vox | | A doctor explains how our brains can trick us into making bad choices - and how to fight back. | | | |  | Pacific Standard | | Without the fanfare of a bill signing or a Supreme Court decision, the first state without an abortion clinic is in sight. | | | |  | Nieman Journalism Lab | | When Patrick Soon-Shiong bought the "Los Angeles Times" out of its tronckian purgatory last year, it was an occasion to consider where it sat on the increasingly barbell-shaped spectrum of American newspapers. | | | |  | Outside Online | | Alt meat isn't going to stay alt for long, and cattle are looking more and more like stranded assets. | | | |  | VICE | | When you're deep in it, sometimes you can't drag yourself out of bed to pee. | | | |  | Literary Hub | | Christopher Forth on religious and utopian figurations of the human body and disgust. | | | | |  | | YouTube | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | © Copyright 2019, The REDEF Group | | |
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