With the entertainment industry slowly, even if via protest from a distinct plurarity of its membership, returning to a pre-pandemic normalcy, nowhere is this concession to sanity more evident than in ths flurry of events that Academy members can take place in between now and July 12, when the nominations for the 74th Emmy Awards … Read more
If anything hasn’t become blatantly obvious to anyone who has read this space previously, I’m sort of a progressive curmudgeon. While I’m as open and embracing of technological innovation to allow me to eat healthier, be more productive and live proactively, in the same breath I embrace throwbacks all but fogotten because, hey, I’m actually … Read more
Mucho news yesterday about the fact that the broadcast networks, as well as the usual suspects of cable news networks and streaming services will carry the opening night of the January 6th committee hearings in primetime on Thursday night. With rampant teasings of new revelations and video accompanying the announcements, the drumroll to the supposed … Read more
The Media Insights and Entertainment Conference for 2022 is in the books, and I’m told they exceeded their registration goal. I’m not quite sure how much our participation or any of us specifically had to do with that, but I can tell you about someone whose efforts certainly did matter. Frankly, were it not for … Read more
Got yet another opportunity courtesy of my cinema-loving, blissfully old school roomie to join the millions who have flocked on two consecutive weekends to see the resurrection of the TOP GUN franchise in my local dine-in. Within five minutes of settling in, I was reminded exactly why despite every shred of doom and gloom being … Read more
While the rest of the theatrical and streaming world was duking it out over the holiday weekend , Amazon Prime Video held off their opening summer salvo for this one. And it’s a new season of a show I’ve almost forgotten about, but one that was arguably one of the most shockingly surprisingly ones I’ve … Read more
While an awful lot of people actually left their homes to watch TOP GUN: MAVERICK in a movie theatre over the holiday weekend, an awful lot of other households apparently chose to watch TV somewhere else. Both Netflix and Disney+ set records with the respective launches of seasons of STRANGER THINGS and the OBI-WAN KENOBI … Read more
It was a pretty good week for Bob Bakish and Shari Redstone. TOP GUN: MAVERICK, the long-awaited sequel to the iconic ’80s original, literally blew away the theatrical box office to the tune of more than $150 million. Warren Buffett decided to invest a few billion in their company. And none of the employees contemplated … Read more
AUTHOR’S NOTE: If the following looks familiar to you, it’s because you already follow our sister site, thedoubleovertime.com, which takes Leblanguage into the domain of sports passions exclusively. I’m honestly not in a mood today to post anything on media or life–it’s a holiday, I’m exhausted, and, frankly, the news cycle from Texas has me … Read more
Leave it to the brilliant Nellie Andreeva, now of DEADLINE, to unlock the real winner of this year’s upfront cycle. While it’s true that the overwhelming majority of series come from vertically integrated production partners, three sitcoms that did get ordered are in partnership with Lionsgate Television, that little independent studio with roots in Canada. … Read more