January 25, 2013
Jimmy Fallon gets friendly with Vine, the new sharing site from Twitter for VERY short videos, then posts the result on Twitter:
      RT @jimmyfallon: My #firstpost on Vine http://vine.co/v/b5PV2JnFlAX
Who’s tried Vine? What do you think? Can you say enough in 6 seconds to make it worthwhile? 

Jimmy Fallon gets friendly with Vine, the new sharing site from Twitter for VERY short videos, then posts the result on Twitter:

      RT @jimmyfallon: My #firstpost on Vine http://vine.co/v/b5PV2JnFlAX

Who’s tried Vine? What do you think? Can you say enough in 6 seconds to make it worthwhile? 

(Source: deadline.com)

January 17, 2013
Episode 9 is here of my “Deadline Awards Watch“   podcast with Deadline Awards Columnist Pete Hammond.
This week, we’re talking whether the Golden Globes are a good Oscar predictor, and how this year’s terrific Globes show really upped the pressure on Oscar’s producers and presenters. We also talk about the historic impact of the Sundance Film Festival, which opens tonight, as last year’s winner “Beasts Of The Southern Wild” has stacked up Oscar nominations this year. 
Pete looks at the contenders in  in the race for Best Costume Design and we talk about some unexpected results from the new Twitter Oscar sentiment-tracking page (where Pete is one of a handful of highlighted Twitter feeds). 
Listen to it here: http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/deadline-awards-watch-with-pete-hammond-episode-9/
Let us know what you think. Do the Oscar producers and Seth MacFarlane need to pick it up after this Globes? Any surprises about how people are talking about “Zero Dark Thirty?”

Episode 9 is here of my “Deadline Awards Watch“   podcast with Deadline Awards Columnist Pete Hammond.

This week, we’re talking whether the Golden Globes are a good Oscar predictor, and how this year’s terrific Globes show really upped the pressure on Oscar’s producers and presenters. We also talk about the historic impact of the Sundance Film Festival, which opens tonight, as last year’s winner “Beasts Of The Southern Wild” has stacked up Oscar nominations this year.

Pete looks at the contenders in  in the race for Best Costume Design and we talk about some unexpected results from the new Twitter Oscar sentiment-tracking page (where Pete is one of a handful of highlighted Twitter feeds). 

Listen to it here: http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/deadline-awards-watch-with-pete-hammond-episode-9/

Let us know what you think. Do the Oscar producers and Seth MacFarlane need to pick it up after this Globes? Any surprises about how people are talking about “Zero Dark Thirty?”

January 2, 2013
Judd Apatow posted this amusing photo on his Twitter feed (@JuddApatow) saying it came from his guest spot on “Homeland.” 

Judd Apatow posted this amusing photo on his Twitter feed (@JuddApatow) saying it came from his guest spot on “Homeland.” 

December 17, 2012
Sooner or later, some genius Social Media Einstein (or perhaps more accurately, some SM equivalent of Hooke or Boyle or lesser known pioneer) will come up with a clearly defined set of Laws of Twitter/Social Media Thermodynamics. 
In the meantime, I, your humble field researcher, shall postulate that for “Each and every Twitter action of sufficient gravity, there is a nearly equal and opposite reaction.” My latest case study: this morning’s Twitter-based release of The Black List of “most liked” screenplays, followed within a few hours by Twitter’s nascent, and nascently amusing, Fake Black List, which you can read and even contribute to here: https://twitter.com/FakeBlackList 
Given the state of high-concept pitches that actually get bought in Hollywood these days, the Fake Black List suggests fallow ground indeed for 140-character comedians looking to spoof the projects that get made these days. 
That said, should you submit, don’t be surprised if that wacky road trip buddy pic involving a man, his mother-in-law, a rolling meth lab, three adorable dogs and a wisecracking kid  doesn’t get at least optioned for a production start in Q3 of of 2013.

Sooner or later, some genius Social Media Einstein (or perhaps more accurately, some SM equivalent of Hooke or Boyle or lesser known pioneer) will come up with a clearly defined set of Laws of Twitter/Social Media Thermodynamics. 

In the meantime, I, your humble field researcher, shall postulate that for “Each and every Twitter action of sufficient gravity, there is a nearly equal and opposite reaction.” My latest case study: this morning’s Twitter-based release of The Black List of “most liked” screenplays, followed within a few hours by Twitter’s nascent, and nascently amusing, Fake Black List, which you can read and even contribute to here: https://twitter.com/FakeBlackList 

Given the state of high-concept pitches that actually get bought in Hollywood these days, the Fake Black List suggests fallow ground indeed for 140-character comedians looking to spoof the projects that get made these days. 

That said, should you submit, don’t be surprised if that wacky road trip buddy pic involving a man, his mother-in-law, a rolling meth lab, three adorable dogs and a wisecracking kid  doesn’t get at least optioned for a production start in Q3 of of 2013.

November 19, 2012
Today’s Hollywood birthdays (and there are quite a few today, never even counting Martin Scorsese’s 70th on Saturday): 
Larry King, back in TV after that little run as a stand-up comic; 
Jodie Foster, back on screens next year in Neil Blomkamp’s next sci-fi adventure, “Elysium.” 
Meg Ryan, inexplicably not back in film for three years now (what’s up with that, Hollywood?); 
Ted Turner, not back in TV and recently said he wished he hadn’t sold off CNN; 
Ann Curry, no longer back in (morning) TV;
Dick Cavett, back in the New York Times recently with a series of delightful op-ed columns;
Allison Janney, back on TV and film in a whole mess of projects from TV cartoons to indie films to “The Big C.”
And our non-Hollywood birthday: Jack Dorsey, who is credited with sending the first ever tweet, in 2006, and went on to co-found Twitter. 

Today’s Hollywood birthdays (and there are quite a few today, never even counting Martin Scorsese’s 70th on Saturday): 

  • Larry King, back in TV after that little run as a stand-up comic; 
  • Jodie Foster, back on screens next year in Neil Blomkamp’s next sci-fi adventure, “Elysium.” 
  • Meg Ryan, inexplicably not back in film for three years now (what’s up with that, Hollywood?); 
  • Ted Turner, not back in TV and recently said he wished he hadn’t sold off CNN; 
  • Ann Curry, no longer back in (morning) TV;
  • Dick Cavett, back in the New York Times recently with a series of delightful op-ed columns;
  • Allison Janney, back on TV and film in a whole mess of projects from TV cartoons to indie films to “The Big C.”

And our non-Hollywood birthday: Jack Dorsey, who is credited with sending the first ever tweet, in 2006, and went on to co-found Twitter

November 15, 2012
"RT @canyonjim: Pls save Gen. Allen & thereby flirting. I swear if we bring down flirting, smiley faces are next and then what? The lawyers pick our bones."

— “The Simpsons” James L. Brooks strikes a Twitter blow for flirting, and Gen. John Allen. 

November 1, 2012
chroniclebooks:

“We wandered in different directions: animal, mineral, monster, tractor, yeti, Sasquatch.” -Mike Gabriel, art director. Enter to win a free copy of The Art of Wreck-It Ralph with our RT to Win giveaway on Twitter! 

chroniclebooks:

“We wandered in different directions: animal, mineral, monster, tractor, yeti, Sasquatch.” -Mike Gabriel, art director. Enter to win a free copy of The Art of Wreck-It Ralph with our RT to Win giveaway on Twitter

October 18, 2012
Deadline’s Dominic Patten, who covers a wide array of entertainment-related and legal stories for us, posted this little tweet today about President Obama’s visit to the morning talk shows, and his amusing jump off message. 
Follow Dominic and all the rest of Deadline’s crack reporters on Twitter, and follow the site itself @DeadlineCom to see all our breaking news and other odds and ends I and the editors run across.
Deadline founder Nikki Finke is newly engaged with Twitter too, so look forward to more from her on her feed, @NikkiFinke. 

Deadline’s Dominic Patten, who covers a wide array of entertainment-related and legal stories for us, posted this little tweet today about President Obama’s visit to the morning talk shows, and his amusing jump off message. 

Follow Dominic and all the rest of Deadline’s crack reporters on Twitter, and follow the site itself @DeadlineCom to see all our breaking news and other odds and ends I and the editors run across.

Deadline founder Nikki Finke is newly engaged with Twitter too, so look forward to more from her on her feed, @NikkiFinke. 

(Source: deadline.com)

October 10, 2012
"No more niche, bitches."

— The always mellow and low-key Kurt Sutter notes in passing that his “Sons of Anarchy” has been whacking its broadcast rivals in the ratings the past couple of weeks. Read more here: http://ow.ly/enLBu 

(Source: deadline.com)

September 4, 2012
Interesting tidbit from Politico.com and Ezra Klein about the massive Twitterverse reaction to Michelle Obama speech

Interesting tidbit from Politico.com and Ezra Klein about the massive Twitterverse reaction to Michelle Obama speech

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