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...Every year, you host numerous actors and producers affiliated with these projects - and many of them, in the post-screening discussions, reflect on why the movie struggled to find support among audiences or distributors. Are there any common themes? Why do so many great films face difficulties in finding an audience...
...Because multiplexes shut out foreign, art and documentary films. They cannot find screens in some cities or even some states. Because it is so costly to "open" a film. And because theaters don't allow them time to build an audience. The filmmakers get them made, but can't get them to audiences. With their focus on films aimed at the 18-25 demographic, the big exhibition chains are alienating older filmgoers and failed to grow and diversify their audiences. Many adults can't find anything they want to see at a multiplex...
...Computer World said, "about the best comments you will find on the web." That speaks highly for my readers. The blog is a great gift. I use it to write about anything, often topics of great personal meaning to me. A typical entry will run 2,000 to 5,000 words, and I vet all the comments so we aren't plagued with the half-witted immaturity of so many blogs. I also respond top a lot of them. A discussion of Evolution vs. Creationism has so far topped 3,000 literate, thoughtful comments across three entries. Darwin...
...merger won't happen. The Times Co. will have to cut off more fingers and toes. It will have to find a benefactor at some point soon. Perhaps the shadowy past of Mexican financier Carlos Slim, a Times Co. shareholder, can be swept under the rug long enough for him to step into the role. The company could create a document separating "church" from "state," which might keep Slim out of the newsroom like the provisions to hold Rupert Murdoch in check at Dow Jones...
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