Tweet The Producers Guild joined the WGA this past weekend and honored original web programming. As Tubefilter notes, the nominees were usual suspects, a mix of web-grown originals (Ask a Ninja, The Guild), derivative programs (Parks and Recreation, 30 Rock) and web-to-TV success (Web Therapy). 30 Rock‘s Jack Donaghy: Executive Superhero won. Another of its series, [...]
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’30 Rock’ Charms Producers Guild By Mocking TV — On the Web
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on January 25th, 2012
Video Awards: Making a Market?
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on January 20th, 2012
Tweet Originally posted at Hacktivision! Why have awards? Award shows help media creators establish norms and values for audiences. They adjudicate quality, innovation, diversity and help raise awareness. The past two weeks have seen two big awards developments for professional web video: the IAWTV Awards held at CES January 12 and the WGA nominations. What [...]
Why TV Still Loves Books
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on November 12th, 2011
Tweet The final version of this post has been published at Sparksheet. Comment there! From Sherlock Holmes to Gossip Girl, television has always loved books as source material. But recently it seems like every new series announced comes from the hottest novel or work of pulp fiction. Of course, there are deep historical connections between [...]
Is ‘Enlightened’ Enlightened? The Strange, Quiet Brilliance of HBO’s Dark Comedy
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on November 8th, 2011
Tweet I recently texted a friend to complain about how overwhelmed I was by my lengthy to-do list — which included, incidentally, writing this blog post. Me: “My to-do list is never ending bleh.” Friend: “It always has been Marps. I’ve never met you when you told me ‘oh I’m so chill I got nothing [...]
Hollywood Needs Will Smith. Why Doesn’t It Make Another One?
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on October 27th, 2011
Tweet In yet another great exclusive report on the industry, New York‘s Claude Brodesser-Akner writes today that Fox has been having a bit of trouble starting production on two possible sequels to Independence Day, in part because Will Smith is not yet signed on to star. Money problems. Smith, who’s been absent for years but is [...]
This Summer, Restrained Films with Bombastic Trailers
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on September 13th, 2011
Tweet In the summer that gave us fairly unimaginative superheros in the Green Lantern, Thor and Captain America – are superhero films, post-Batman and Inception allowed to be this earnest? — and a slew of predictable money-grab sequeels in Cars, Pirates, Transformers and Kung Fu Pandas, it was exciting to go into the theater and be surprised. If you saw [...]
Web Video Wrap-Up: Looking Back As Fall Approaches
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on September 7th, 2011
Tweet Around the end of June I stopped publishing my weekly updates on web video because I was far too busy. Once again I think my schedule has become so packed, I don’t know if I can continue at that pace this fall, perhaps moving it to monthly. Still, I tried to keep up with [...]
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1 Comment »‘New Year’s Eve’ and the Celebrity Conundrum: One, None or All of Them?
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on July 27th, 2011
Tweet Some people swear there’s no celebrity left in the world, no magic. Then how do you explain all of Hollywood coming together for one movie to celebrate the hope of a new year? If star power is a declining asset, and you’re a Hollywood studio, you have a few options. One is to make [...]
‘Potter’ Embraces, Then Fights, The Darkness
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on July 14th, 2011
Tweet Thanks to Deep Research for linking! The Harry Potter series is a strange phenomenon: this week, 10 years into its run, it stands as one of the most profitable, popular and critically adored movie franchises in history. And yet, aside from a harrowing coming-of-age tale, it has never really been able to communicate a clear sociological [...]
In Film, Classic Feminism Fights For A New Generation
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on April 18th, 2011
Tweet UPDATE: Pixar’s Brave seems to be following in this tradition. Talk to any feminist over the age of, say, 40 or 50, and you’re likely to hear a sigh of resignation at the state of women in Hollywood, in front and behind the camera. Young women today just care about Sex and the City, [...]
