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Jan. 8th, 2004 11:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
clayhornikIn order to read a small interview with comic book author Warren Ellis (Global Frequency, Transmetropolitan) recently, I had to subscribe to Variety online. They offer a 30 day trial subscription, free, so I signed up. What a great deal! I had no idea that the entertianment industry was so crazy.
First, they've got their own slanguage- their term for their industry short hand. Abbreviations for networks, the unions, and studios, as well a phrases that are practically netspeak- like n.s.g (no so good). I think my favourite term has to be Mouse:
Mouse (also Mouse House) -- the Walt Disney Co. or any division thereof, a reference to the company's most famous animated character, Mickey Mouse; "The Mouse's music division is reuniting with talent manager Alan Smithee on a joint-venture label."
And that Alan Smithee seems to be very, very busy, judging from his credits in IMDB.
Second, the politics behind the scene seem to be a wacky counter balance to those in Washington. But where the guys in DC are fiddling with the world, the guys in H'w'd are just mucking about with what we see, movies getting green-lit.
Properties, novels, comic books, video games, in development, for a movie, a tv series. Today I read about a Japanese movie called The Grudge being remade with Sarah Michelle Geller. When it'll be released, who knows? 2005, 2006?
A comic book I read, Global Frequency, is in development with The Frog. That's the WB network in ordinary English. Maybe fall 2004.
I have a hard time dealing with future tense. Anticipation for these things makes me buggy. Always has.
At two of the bookstore's I've worked at, we used to have to manually enter forthcoming title information in the computers. We'd know about books five to six months in advance. Then we'd get the ARC's (advance reading copies) sometimes three, four months in advance. When the books were finally released, it was odd, seeing the final form of something that you've know about for months.
The best part was when they'd change something from the ARC to the final version. I was discussing James Patterson's Cat & Mouse with a friend, telling him I didn't like the ending, the cliffhanger wasn't a nice thing to do to readers who've endured a roller coaster ride with their nerves. My friend had no idea what I was talking about, so I checked the final version, sitting hardbound, dust jacketed on the new releases bookshelf. Sure enough, they cut the cliff hanger epilogue. I suppose other people had the same reaction as I did.
That's the problem with paying too much attention to the media sometimes, as well, knowing too many ‘secrets'. Addams Family has some lost scenes, one of Pugsly going to school, one of Wednesday trying to take care of a loose tooth. I know this because the scenes made it into the novelization, including pictures of both scenes. I keep hoping there'll be a special edition dvd, complete with lost scenes. No luck yet, so I'm content with my vhs copy.
Another person I know refuses to deal with novelizations or spoilers of any kind, includiing trade magizines. That way, when she goes to see a movie, she's actually surprised as well as entertained.
Maybe peeking behind the curtain isn't so good an idea. Or as they say in H'w'd: n.s.g. idea.
First, they've got their own slanguage- their term for their industry short hand. Abbreviations for networks, the unions, and studios, as well a phrases that are practically netspeak- like n.s.g (no so good). I think my favourite term has to be Mouse:
Mouse (also Mouse House) -- the Walt Disney Co. or any division thereof, a reference to the company's most famous animated character, Mickey Mouse; "The Mouse's music division is reuniting with talent manager Alan Smithee on a joint-venture label."
And that Alan Smithee seems to be very, very busy, judging from his credits in IMDB.
Second, the politics behind the scene seem to be a wacky counter balance to those in Washington. But where the guys in DC are fiddling with the world, the guys in H'w'd are just mucking about with what we see, movies getting green-lit.
Properties, novels, comic books, video games, in development, for a movie, a tv series. Today I read about a Japanese movie called The Grudge being remade with Sarah Michelle Geller. When it'll be released, who knows? 2005, 2006?
A comic book I read, Global Frequency, is in development with The Frog. That's the WB network in ordinary English. Maybe fall 2004.
I have a hard time dealing with future tense. Anticipation for these things makes me buggy. Always has.
At two of the bookstore's I've worked at, we used to have to manually enter forthcoming title information in the computers. We'd know about books five to six months in advance. Then we'd get the ARC's (advance reading copies) sometimes three, four months in advance. When the books were finally released, it was odd, seeing the final form of something that you've know about for months.
The best part was when they'd change something from the ARC to the final version. I was discussing James Patterson's Cat & Mouse with a friend, telling him I didn't like the ending, the cliffhanger wasn't a nice thing to do to readers who've endured a roller coaster ride with their nerves. My friend had no idea what I was talking about, so I checked the final version, sitting hardbound, dust jacketed on the new releases bookshelf. Sure enough, they cut the cliff hanger epilogue. I suppose other people had the same reaction as I did.
That's the problem with paying too much attention to the media sometimes, as well, knowing too many ‘secrets'. Addams Family has some lost scenes, one of Pugsly going to school, one of Wednesday trying to take care of a loose tooth. I know this because the scenes made it into the novelization, including pictures of both scenes. I keep hoping there'll be a special edition dvd, complete with lost scenes. No luck yet, so I'm content with my vhs copy.
Another person I know refuses to deal with novelizations or spoilers of any kind, includiing trade magizines. That way, when she goes to see a movie, she's actually surprised as well as entertained.
Maybe peeking behind the curtain isn't so good an idea. Or as they say in H'w'd: n.s.g. idea.
