Tag: hollywood
The Cyber Harvest 0.01: Kristen Stewart Thinks Hollywood Is Stuck in ‘Capitalist Hell’
A analysis of The New York Times podcast, The Interview, with actress and director Kristen Stewart. Hosted by David Marchese. This item is featured in the The Cyber Harvest 0.01 series I started in my take of personal curriculum and media gardens. Check out my site for more on this.
Paramount Merger Gets Further Delayed, And Things Could Get Expensive
Just as Larry Ellison and Paramount executives had worried, the state antitrust challenge to their $111 billion merger with Warner Brothers has resulted in significant delays that could prove terminal.Two weeks ago California and eleven other states filed an antitrust lawsuit to block the merger, pointing out that the consolidation would undermine market competition, resulting...
Die, Hollywood, die!
Paul Graham's Y-Combinator request for startups that will kill Hollywood has opened up a can of exploding radioactive mega-worms - and this time, they're angry. In the wake of the Internet industry's fight against SOPA and PIPA, he posed the problem: The main reason we want to fund such startups is not to protect the world from more SOPAs, but because SOPA brought it to our attention that Hollywood is dying. They must be dying if they're resorting to such tactics. [...] How do you kill the movi