Martin Scorsese promotes 'cinema,' but he's in the streaming business now
Martin Scorsese ranks among the greatest directors of the last half-century, with no mountains left to climb. Yet he appears to remain in denial about changes in the movie business that he loves, and the fact that with his last two films, "The Irishman" and "Killers of the Flower Moon," he has graduated to directing what are, for all intents and purposes, limited series for streaming.
2023-10-20 20:59
Network TV, already struggling, limps into a strike-hobbled fall season
As symbolism goes, a fall TV season whose highest-profile new series is "The Golden Bachelor" -- a retirement-age seniors version of ABC's dating franchise -- is a pretty good metaphor for a network TV business that was already fading into the sunset, and risks getting there that much faster because of the twin writer and actors strikes.
2023-09-19 01:56
As Hollywood's strikes hit Labor Day, how studio chiefs misread the writers room
If Hollywood studio chiefs have a reputation as skilled dealmakers, a Labor Day that finds their key employees still out on strike after four months underscores just how badly they misread the writers room.
2023-09-04 22:50
Strikes and flops: Hollywood's cruel summer has become a time of reckoning
For Hollywood, 2023 will be remembered as a cruel summer, a dead reckoning of a different kind. That's because bad news has piled up, highlighting a reshaping of the entertainment industry that has fueled uncertainty and triggered eruptions in labor unrest.
2023-07-15 23:26
'WarGames' anticipated our current AI fears 40 years ago this summer
Forty years ago this summer, a new movie floated the prospect of the world being destroyed by artificial intelligence run amok -- anticipating current anxieties about where the technology could potential lead -- a year before the "Terminator" introduced the futuristic threat known as Skynet.
2023-07-11 03:15
'The Flash' and 'Elemental' flash warning signs for the summer box office
Watching the coming attraction for "Blue Beetle," the next movie adaptation of a DC comic, a thought emerged almost reflexively: "There's one to stream."
2023-06-20 02:57
'Succession' looked like the Murdochs, but it owed a major debt to 'The Godfather'
"Succession" viewers are entitled to process the show however they see fit. Yet those of us who primarily approached the
2023-05-31 02:22
Writers strike: Studios want writers to trust them on streaming. Here's why they don't
When Indiana Jones tells Marion Ravenwood "Trust me" in "Raiders of the Lost Ark," she tries to punch him in the face (again). Writers striking against the major studios have a pretty good idea how she felt. Because when studios say, "Trust us," Hollywood's talent has a long history that explains why they don't.
2023-05-11 03:22