jason hirschhorn's @MediaREDEF: 08/01/2019 - Franchise Fatigue and Sequelitis, Cambridge Analytica, Future Spy System, Warner's Stankey, Debates, Lie Detectors...

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"The Righteous Genstones" premieres August 18 on HBO. Funny as hell. Look for a completely batsh*t crazy awesome performance from Scott MacArthur.
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Thursday - August 01, 2019 Thu - 08/01/19
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
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MUST READ: The Absurdities of 'Franchise Fatigue' and Sequelitis (Or, What Is Happening to the Box Office?!)
by Matthew Ball
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
Cambridge Analytica made 'ethical mistakes' because it was too focused on regulation, former COO says
by Kara Swisher and Julian Wheatland
"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
Meet the US's spy system of the future — it's Sentient
by Sarah Scoles
The classified artificial brain being developed by US intelligence programs.
Variety
Inside CEO John Stankey's 'Action-Oriented' Approach to Reposition WarnerMedia
by Cynthia Littleton and Brent Lang
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
Advertising Is a Cancer on Society
by Jacek Złydach
A detailed explanation of why I keep saying that advertising is a cancer on modern society.
The Washington Post
The debate format is an embarrassment. Here's how to make it better
by Margaret Sullivan
CNN's reality-show atmosphere and rigid response times don't serve the public -- or the candidates.
Foreign Policy
K-Pop's Big China Problem
by Lauren Teixeira
Chinese stars are spinning off in their own orbit as politics gets in the way of profit.
Newsweek
The inside story of Charlottesville--and how the violence could have been avoided
by Terry McAuliffe
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
Dear Gentrifiers
by Ryan Hughley
Stop putting your restaurants in historically black neighborhoods if you can't respect the culture.
Wired
Now Even Funerals Are Livestreamed--and Families Are Grateful
by Paris Martineau
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.
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The Washington Post
How did YouTube become the most popular music streaming site? By sounding like the world itself.
by Chris Richards
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
Lie Detector Tests Have Nothing to Do With the Truth
by John Baesler
Federal agencies embraced the polygraph in the 1950s to reassure the public that they could unmask spies.
The Atlantic
American Wealth Is Broken
by Maura Cheeks
My family is a success story. We're also evidence of the long odds African Americans face on the path to success.
Slate
A$AP Rocky Has Unwittingly Stumbled Into a Bitter Debate Over Race and Crime in Sweden
by Anders Walker
The Swedish left is getting tough on crime to fend off the far right--and an American rapper is caught in the middle.
Narratively
The Secret Life of a Scientist at the End of the World
by Sarah Boon
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
Chinese vertical dramas made for phone viewing show the future of mobile video
by Henry Sung
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
The science of regrettable decisions
by Robert Pearl
A doctor explains how our brains can trick us into making bad choices - and how to fight back.
Pacific Standard
How Health Officials in Pro-Life States Are Quietly Dismantling Abortion Access
by Rosemary Westwood
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
'The L.A. Times'' disappointing digital numbers show the game's not just about drawing in subscribers -- it's about keeping them
by Joshua Benton
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
This Is the Beginning of the End of the Beef Industry
by Rowan Jacobsen
Alt meat isn't going to stay alt for long, and cattle are looking more and more like stranded assets.
VICE
'Euphoria' Is Honest About the Painful, Unglamorous Realities of Depression
by Alex Wexelman
When you're deep in it, sometimes you can't drag yourself out of bed to pee.
Literary Hub
On the Evolution of Fatness in Society
by Christopher E. Forth
Christopher Forth on religious and utopian figurations of the human body and disgust.
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