I was really into this article on SLATE.COM until I realized that they are disparaging the very thing that I do. It’s called PIRATE’S GOLD: OUR STRANGE FASCINATION WITH BOX OFFICE NUMBERS.
Listen Slate, what’s wrong with watching the BO figures as though each film was a horse in the Kentucky Derby? At least when you root [...]

I’ve said it before, we no longer need huge movie stars. Or more specifically, big movie stars don’t even remotely guarantee a return on investment.
The august New York Times, itself a fading big star among newspapers, writes about the phenomenon, citing studies where they attached names to grosses and found for the most part the movies [...]

You may have thought it was just a minor geeky story last week when international scientists redefined the description of a planet and suddenly Pluto wasn’t. You may have thought, this will never affect showbusiness, the most important of all things. My friend, you were wrong.
Composer Colin Matthews had written an orchestral piece about Pluto, [...]

Microsoft is very, very upset that training videos featuring Ricky Gervais have been released to the web. How is this different than the BBC being very very upset about Dr. Who being uploaded, or various producers being upset that their unsold pilots made their way to the web and got enough attention to sell the [...]

More about this Kendal Sinn guy, mastermind behind The Horror Channel’s SHADOW FALLS.
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In today’s show: Emmy Awards suggest television excellence is theoretically possible … Bollywood nibbles at Hollywood… and in my commentary, I look at unlikely film genres. All this and your weekly Redbone update, today on Box Office Weekly. Listen here:

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It’s common knowlege that advertising dollars are on the verge of leaving network television. Appropriately, the first major indicator of this is a campaign for a vehicle.
Advertising Age reports that dollar spent to advertise the Pontiac G5, a sporty little car, has been spent on the internet.
It’s a “radical experiment,” said Mark-Hans Richer, Pontiac’s marketing director, [...]

Little brain teaser for ya… click on this link to open a picture from the BBC of Hong Kong celebrities protesting a magazine’s decision to publish a semi-nude picutre of popular singer Gillian Chung. Cover up the text at the bottom of the picutre and time yourself - how quickly can you pick Jackie Chan [...]

For most networks, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awards (that’s the Emmys to y’all) is a vanity project, a television show to promote television shows, a pat on the back from one’s hard-working peers who don’t realize that almost all television is crap. And that’s keeping in mind that in the last ten [...]

My other podcast, Dark Meat: Music For Depressives gets even worse numbers than this one. This weekend I did two things that I consider shameless, low and surprisingly effective.
Just as if it were a sweeps month, I did an episode about sex. I always play songs around a theme, but it’s often “food” or “alienation.” [...]