The best movie culture writing from around the internet-o-sphere. There will be a quiz later. Just leave a tab open for us, will ya? “The Shawshank Residuals” — Russell Adams at The Wall Street Journal profiles a sleeper hit from 1994 that woke up and ran a marathon. “On cable, Shawshank is at an age when the licensing value of many films diminishes, but its strength hasn’t wavered. Shawshank and other films are now being licensed for shorter periods to a bigger and hungrier universe of distributors. Shawshank has aired on 15 basic cable networks since 1997, including six in the most recent season, according to Warner Bros. Last year, it filled 151 hours of airtime on basic cable, tied with Scarface and behind only Mrs. Doubtfire, according to research firm Ihs. Shawshank, despite its virtually all-male cast, was the most-watched movie on Oprah Winfrey’s Own network in the latest season and in the top 15% of movies among adults 18-...
- 5/26/2014
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Exclusive: Since they got a big write up in the Wall Street Journal late last month, the “Tag Brothers” have been swarmed by movie producers hoping they would tell one of them, “you’re it.” Meaning he gets the chance to translate their story to the movie screen. Who are the “Tag Brothers?” They are the 10 classmates at Gonzaga Preparatory School in Spokane, Washington 23 years ago whose long-running game of tag got national attention, thanks to the Russell Adams article. Now in their 40s, the former classmates have spread across the country in various fields (one’s a priest), but they stay in touch during the month of February by chasing each other across the country in an obsessive game of tag. They will jet cross country, break into each other’s homes, hide in the bushes until a target appears, or leave for a long vacation to avoid being tagged,...
- 2/14/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Getty Images TV personalities Khloe Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian and Kim Kardashian.
What grabbed shoppers’ eyes at the grocery checkout this past year? “Teresa’s Prison Nightmare: My Life Without Joe” and “Teen Mom Farrah: Why She Gave Up Her Baby.”
For celebrity magazines, this is the week of reckoning. The year-end Audit Bureau of Circulations numbers are tallied, revealing which celebrities and story lines attracted the most readers on newsstands—and who bombed.
People who owe their fame to reality...
What grabbed shoppers’ eyes at the grocery checkout this past year? “Teresa’s Prison Nightmare: My Life Without Joe” and “Teen Mom Farrah: Why She Gave Up Her Baby.”
For celebrity magazines, this is the week of reckoning. The year-end Audit Bureau of Circulations numbers are tallied, revealing which celebrities and story lines attracted the most readers on newsstands—and who bombed.
People who owe their fame to reality...
- 2/9/2012
- by Russell Adams
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Getty Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is one of several prominent investors and entrepreneurs who has shot for the stars with space-flight efforts.
As its tablet launch draws near, Amazon.com Inc. is in the market for content. According to people familiar with the matter, the Seattle retailing giant is starting talks with magazine and newspaper publishers on new terms for subscriptions and single copies of periodicals for the device.
As Amazon continues to keep much about the device under wraps,...
As its tablet launch draws near, Amazon.com Inc. is in the market for content. According to people familiar with the matter, the Seattle retailing giant is starting talks with magazine and newspaper publishers on new terms for subscriptions and single copies of periodicals for the device.
As Amazon continues to keep much about the device under wraps,...
- 9/12/2011
- by WSJ Staff
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
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