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Film, Industry News

The Film Industry is Breaking My Heart: My Thoughts and Feelings on an Ever-Changing Landscape.

I’ve been meaning to write this article for some time. Every time I would go to write, I would become sad, anxious, and not clear in thought. The news of Paramount buying Warner Brothers, well, that pushed me over the edge. I had to get my thoughts to paper, so to speak. That another major original Hollywood film studio will succumb to the ever growing … Continue reading The Film Industry is Breaking My Heart: My Thoughts and Feelings on an Ever-Changing Landscape.

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What’s Going On In Hollywood? The Looming SAG-AFTRA Strike, the WGA, and Corporate Greed

Hi. It’s been a minute since you’ve heard from me. I moved cross-country and we’re still trying to get on our feet. But, with the looming SAG-AFTRA strike, I couldn’t let this moment in film history go by and remain quiet. I remember the writers strike in 2007 and the fallout from that. Shows that were cancelled, people displaced from work, and the creation of … Continue reading What’s Going On In Hollywood? The Looming SAG-AFTRA Strike, the WGA, and Corporate Greed

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Film, Movie Review, Pop Culture

Gremlins 2: The New Batch : Money-grab or Meta-genius?

Gremlins 2: The New Batch may be the most self-aware film and also one of the biggest “screw you”‘s to a major film studio and I love it. Now, if you’ve seen Gremlins 2, you’ll know that the semi-serious tone from the original Gremlins is completely abandoned. And, there was a reason for this: director, Joe Dante, wanted nothing to do with a sequel. Gremlins was a particularly hard … Continue reading Gremlins 2: The New Batch : Money-grab or Meta-genius?

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Film, Industry News, Pop Culture

With the Paramount Consent Decrees Ending, There’s Fear for the Future of Independent Theaters and Films

Movie theaters are in trouble, and even more so than we already thought. The Paramount Consent Decrees have been dismantled. For those unfamiliar, let me explain. With the birth of film in the United States came the birth of the studio system, where studios, under contract, had specific actors, directors, writers, and so on. That also included block booking their films, which ultimately led the … Continue reading With the Paramount Consent Decrees Ending, There’s Fear for the Future of Independent Theaters and Films

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Joker : Humanization & Today’s Social Climate

It was announced yesterday that there would be no press on the red carpet for the Hollywood premiere of Joker. No interviews are to be conducted. This comes after the news that, several times in the last month, Joaquin Phoenix has walked out of interviews when asked questions about the film possibly inciting violence, inspiring the kind of people that the film is about. I … Continue reading Joker : Humanization & Today’s Social Climate

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Voice Acting Still Doesn’t Have an Oscar Category, But Sure, Let’s Add a Category for “Popular Film”…

It has always bothered me that voice acting isn’t taken more seriously, as it is not the easiest of things to do. I have always said that an Academy Award category should have been created for voice acting the moment that Robin Williams played the Genie in Aladdin. Honestly, that performance was so good, and it was all done in a studio booth with nobody … Continue reading Voice Acting Still Doesn’t Have an Oscar Category, But Sure, Let’s Add a Category for “Popular Film”…

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