The Web Needs to Get Ready for the High-Resolution Future

The Web Needs to Get Ready for the High-Resolution Future

The new iPad is just the first in a coming tidal wave of high-resolution screens. Today we have hacks, but what the web needs are new standards and new tools to make sure developers are ready for the high-resolution future.

Clerks: The Animated Series could return in 2013

TV: Newswire: Clerks: The Animated Series could return in 2013

Kevin Smith may be retiring from filmmaking after his upcoming hockey comedy Hit Somebody, yet not even this is enough to stop Smith from revisiting Clerks at least one more time. According to his Twitter feed (as picked up by MTV), Smith is currently working with the slowly rebuilding Miramax on possibly resurrecting the quickly canceled yet still cultishly adored Clerks: The Animated Series for another batch of episodes in 2013. “Miramax 2.0 and I are hoping to give you new eps weekly next year,” Smith said of reviving the pop-addled show that lasted only two episodes on ABC ...

Variety Parent Puts Trade Paper Up for Sale

Variety Parent Puts Trade Paper Up for Sale



Alex Ben Block

Last of the Reed entertainment business publications goes on the block.

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How One Response to a Reddit Query Became a Big-Budget Flick

How One Response to a Reddit Query Became a Big-Budget Flick

With a just handful of posts about a hypothetical time travel scenario, James Erwin went from web commenter to screenwriter.

The House GOP Plan to Gut the FCC

The House GOP Plan to Gut the FCC

You'd think that Congress would want to have an empowered regulator able to do something to protect the country from the rational, profit-seeking depredations of our new generation of monopolists. Instead, House Republicans are going in exactly the opposite direction. They're lining up big-company support to push legislation early next week on the floor of the House that would gut the FCC.

R.I.P. Tonino Guerra, screenwriter who worked with Fellini, Antonioni, and many others

R.I.P. Tonino Guerra, prolific Italian screenwriter who worked with Fellini, Antonioni, and many others

The screenwriter Tonino Guerra—who scripted some of the most famous works by Italian directors such as Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni—died yesterday at his home in central Italy, after a long illness. He was 92.

Guerra, who began writing during his time as a World War II concentration camp prisoner, was also a poet, painter, and sculptor. But he was best known for his collaborations with most of the greatest Italian film directors of the twentieth century, many of whom he outlived. After breaking into the business in 1956 by co-writing Man And Wolves with Elio Petri ...

The Hunger Games' Katniss Everdeen: The Heroine the World Needs Right Now

<cite>The Hunger Games'</cite> Katniss Everdeen: The Heroine the World Needs Right Now

In The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen embarks on a hero?s journey armed only with her bow, her arrow and her wits: She must survive a televised death match against 23 other young people if she?s to return home and continue hunting to provide food for her family. But in the real world, the character Katniss Everdeen faces an even greater challenge: Proving that pop culture will embrace a heroine capable of holding her own with the big boys. It?s a battle fought on two fronts. First, The Hunger Games must bring in the kind of box office numbers that prove to Hollywood that a film led by a young female heroine who?s not cast as a sex symbol can bring in audiences. And second, for Katniss to truly triumph, she must embody the type of female heroine ? smart, tough, compassionate ? that has been sorely lacking in the popular culture landscape for so very long.