THE AFTERNOON REPORT, Monday 20 August 2018
Amazon To Lavish Landmark?; Amazon Lockers In Lobbies?; The $120 Cable Bill Becomes The $120 Streaming Tab; How Netflix Data Customizes Your Programming Gorge; Early Facebook Investor Sad; Why Tracking Doesn't Get It Right; Celebrating Crazy Rich Asians For What It Is; The Encrypted Documents on Asia Argento The Times Published; Sexy Beast Goes Brit Series; Twitter Quitters; Guy Lodge On The Found Pixels Laptop Genre; "At last, an Oscar for popular film! Because who needs another The Shape Of Water?" Plus: Key tweets, including news of Oleg Sentsov, and Michael Shannon On Getting Into The Mind Of Trump (strong language).
Amazon Among Suitors For Landmark Theatres Bloomberg
"Imagine a new look to the theater lobby, which would offer Amazon products for sale, and perhaps the lockers Amazon has installed across the country, places where consumers can come pick up their products as an alternative to having them shipped to their home." Jefferson Graham
"Consumers are killing the $120 cable bill so that they can instead spend $120 a month for Netflix, Hulu, Disney Streaming, Sling, HBO Go, Amazon Prime, etc. etc. And once those companies have us hooked, they’re bringing back commercials." Brian Stewart
"Everything Netflix does is data-driven. Here's how the streaming website customises what you watch." WIRED UK
"'You Have a Persuasion Engine Unlike Any Created in History’":A conversation with early Facebook investor Roger McNamee on propaganda, early warning signs, and why outrage is so addictive." select/all
"Tracking can’t take into account for films like Black Panther and Crazy Rich Asians is concerted social-media campaigns encouraging moviegoers to attend during the opening weekends." Why Box-Office Tracking Is A Lost Trade Variety
"Crazy Rich Asians Doesn’t Represent All Asians Everywhere, and That’s Fine" Audrey Cleo Yap
"Crazy Rich Asians feels blithely liberated from the obligation to offer up suffering: The giddy relief of getting to see Asian American escapism": Alison Willmore
"The documents... were sent to The New York Times through encrypted email by an unidentified party": "Asia Argento, who accused Weinstein, made deal with her own accuser." Kim Severson
Sexy Beast Goes Brit Series As Origin Skein Grauniad
A Listicle Of 15 Good International Film Schools The Reporter
Twitter Quitters: Scott Derrickson, Dan Harmon, Louis C. K., Ruby Rose, Millie Bobby Brown, Armie Hammer, Chrissy Teigen, Alec Baldwin, Hayley Atwell, Kanye West, Ed Sheeran The Reporter
Guy Lodge On Timur Bekmambetov's Found-Pixels Laptop Genre The Grauniad
"At last, an Oscar for popular film! Because who needs another The Shape Of Water?" Hadley Freeman
Tout de tweet
.@MindingGapFilm is just extraordinary — the best film I’ve seen this year, a seminal portrait of the traumatic transition from youth to adulthood, as well as the pervasive communal poison of abuse. Cannot overstate how major of an achievement this is for Bing Liu. @Kartemquin— Robert Levin (@Rlevin85) August 20, 2018
Letter from Oleg Sentsov on August 14: "I'll try not to let you all down, give up or die. True, out of those three desires I'll probably only be able to fulfil two at most!" https://t.co/Zu3Jj6U6Yl— X Soviet (@XSovietNews) August 20, 2018
Michael Shannon in the upcoming Playboy (strong language)If films made by and starring people of color are consistently “exceeding expectations,” maybe the problem is in the “expectations” https://t.co/ch8C4z5w2j— Jeff Yang (@originalspin) August 19, 2018
