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Jul. 9th, 2005 01:21 pmI don't have much to say about London--it's all been said--but this made my heart warm. Ok, actually, there is something else. Perhaps Mr Bush should keep in mind stuff like this.
In better news, The Sting is finally coming out (heh) on DVD properly!
Also, moderately interesting article on the current state of queer cinema:
Roos:...In a way, gay cinema has grown up. Our movies have become just as tedious as theirs. [laughter]
Robinson: "Queer as Folk" and HBO and "The L Word" are doing what movies used to be responsible for. Complex relationships — intimacy — are being played out on TV. Gay people don't need to come to the theater to see a gay movie because it's going to be on video in two months, and besides, they can stay home and watch "The L Word."
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Roos: In Hollywood, the news is terrible. I don't want to say the real world, but in the world of films that Hollywood produces, it's just as lousy as ever.
Another interesting movies article, this time on the change of film-going practices, box-office receipts and creating audiences for movies:
Audience-creation is a very expensive enterprise—in 2004 the studios' average cost for advertising a film was $30 million. Studios justified this expenditure on the grounds that huge opening-weekend audiences would help turn a movie into an "event," generating word-of-mouth and other free advertising that would continue to bring moviegoers into theaters, and, later, into video stores.
In better news, The Sting is finally coming out (heh) on DVD properly!
Also, moderately interesting article on the current state of queer cinema:
Roos:...In a way, gay cinema has grown up. Our movies have become just as tedious as theirs. [laughter]
Robinson: "Queer as Folk" and HBO and "The L Word" are doing what movies used to be responsible for. Complex relationships — intimacy — are being played out on TV. Gay people don't need to come to the theater to see a gay movie because it's going to be on video in two months, and besides, they can stay home and watch "The L Word."
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Roos: In Hollywood, the news is terrible. I don't want to say the real world, but in the world of films that Hollywood produces, it's just as lousy as ever.
Another interesting movies article, this time on the change of film-going practices, box-office receipts and creating audiences for movies:
Audience-creation is a very expensive enterprise—in 2004 the studios' average cost for advertising a film was $30 million. Studios justified this expenditure on the grounds that huge opening-weekend audiences would help turn a movie into an "event," generating word-of-mouth and other free advertising that would continue to bring moviegoers into theaters, and, later, into video stores.
