venerdì 25 aprile 2014

NEWS - "OITNB" su Mya (Mediaset Premium) da giugno: dopo "House of Cards" su Sky (Atlantic), Netflix semina i suoi gioielli sulle reti (ipoteticamente) concorrenti in vista del suo (lontano?) approdo 
La serie-fenomeno “Orange Is The New Black” di Netflix, ambientata all’interno di un carcere femminile, andrà in onda in anteprima assoluta su  Mya dal 12 giugno, ogni giovedì in prima serata. Si tratta di uno dei titoli seriali di cui la stampa americana si è occupata maggiormente nell’ultima stagione – sia per i temi affrontati che per l’alta qualità di messa in scena – non da ultima l’ultima copertina del prestigioso “Entertainment Weekly” in edicola che lo definisce letteralmente “strangest, kinkiest and most surprising hit on tv”. La serie racconta le vicende di Piper Chapman, una donna del Connecticut che viene condannata a scontare 15 mesi nel carcere federale di Litchfield per aver trasportato una valigia piena di soldi per conto di una trafficante di droga internazionale un tempo sua amante. Guarda caso quest’ultima finisce nello stesso carcere di Piper…Girata col taglio dramedy (a metà strada tra la black comedy e il drama), tratta dal libro di memorie omonimo di Piper Kerman, “OITNB” è stata ideata da Jenji Kohan, già ideatrice della serie cult – assai chiaccherata anch’essa – “Weeds”, su una vedova che alla morte del marito si mette a spacciare cannabis per mantenere i due figli. “La serie indaga sull’auto-distruzione e sulla brutalità che si annida anche nell’animo femminile – ha dichiarato l’ideatrice Kohan – la prigione è solo un megafono di questo aspetto”. In America, il debutto del serial è stato più visto di un altro titolo Netflix come “House of Cards”. Tra i riconoscimenti si contano un People’s Choice Award e un Peabody Award. Jodie Foster dirige il terzo episodio della serie che è già stata rinnovata per la seconda stagione. Le due interpreti principali, la bionda Taylor Schilling e la bruna Laura Prepon, sono diventate in patria icone di stile e idoli della comunità lesbo. La serie vanta per la prima volta un transgender negli interpreti principali. Il tema musicale, “You’ve got Time”, è eseguito da Regina Spektor.

giovedì 24 aprile 2014

ESCLUSIVISSIMA! 
"Orange Is The New Black" da giugno su Mya!

L'EDICOLA DI LOU - Stralci, cover e commenti sui telefilm dai media italiani e stranieri
NEWS - Netflix, se mai arriverà in Italia, sarà dopo il resto d'Europa (anche la Polonia prima di noi!)


Articolo di Maddalena Camera per ‘Il Giornale'
Netflix sale (+6,7%) a Wall Street dopo i conti trimestrali. La società, partita nel 1997 come servizio di noleggio di film in dvd per posta, dal 2008 ha cambiato pelle e ora è un vero e proprio network televisivo via Internet di successo: negli ultimi tre mesi ha registrato utili per 53,1 milioni di dollari con ricavi a 1,27 miliardi (+24%). Il grande colpo del fondatore Reed Hastings è stato l'acquisto, nel 2012, dei diritti della fortunata serie «House of cards».
L'intrigo a sfondo politico interpretato da Kevin Spacey era finito a Netflix grazie a un'offerta per i diritti, superiore rispetto ai canali via cavo Amc e Hbo, di cui ora è il principale concorrente. E per dimostrare la stretta connessione che ormai sussiste tra pay tv e tv via Internet, in Italia, dove il servizio di Netflix non è ancora disponibile, è SkyAtlantic a trasmettere «House of Cards».
L'intreccio tra la banda ultralarga e la pay tv sembra sempre più stretto. Telecom e Sky venderanno contenuti e abbonamenti a banda ultralarga. E presto potrebbe arrivare un'altro accordo tra la stessa Netflix e Vodafone.
Netflix comunque è già in Europa. Nel 2012 è sbarcata in Gran Bretagna, mentre l'anno scorso è toccato a Olanda e Scandinavia. Presto si dovrebbero aggiungere Francia e Germania, ma non l'Italia, che pare essere meno interessante persino rispetto a Spagna e Polonia, poiché la penetrazione Internet nelle case è del 55% contro la media Ue del 72%. Inoltre, le prestazioni della rete sono mediamente inferiori certamente anche a causa della bassa diffusione della fibra.
Telecom, infatti, fatica a investire nella rete di nuova generazione perché, al momento, le richieste di collegamento a banda ultralarga latitano. La speranza è che l'accordo con Sky riesca a dare impulso alla domanda. Negli Usa il successo di Netflix è dovuto anche al fatto che l'abbonamento alla tv via cavo (che comprende Internet) costa circa 100 dollari al mese, mentre il costo di Netflix (più Internet) ammonta a circa 60 dollari. Ossia, come il collegamento alla sola banda ultralarga in Italia (circa 50 euro). Certo Netflix pratica tariffe convenienti: circa 8 euro al mese che, probabilmente, saliranno a 10. L'ad e fondatore Hasting ha, infatti, prospettato una «lieve» modifica del prezzo. In Italia Netflix ha fatto proseliti. Mediaset ha lanciato, un paio di mesi fa, un servizio simile (Infinity) a 9 euro al mese. E ieri, proprio in concomitanza dei conti positivi di Netflix, anche Mediaset ha messo a segno una crescita del 3,3% in Borsa. Certo è che, negli Usa, i colossi locali della tv via cavo non stanno a guardare. Ieri Netflix ha chiesto alle autorità Usa di bloccare la fusione da 45 miliardi di dollari tra Comcast di Time Warner Cable. Secondo l'ad Hastings, infatti, l'operazione concederebbe al nuovo colosso il controllo di oltre il 60% del mercato della tv online ad alta velocità. Una minaccia per Netflix che sta ancora lottando duramente per crescere.

mercoledì 23 aprile 2014

NEWS - Clamoroso al Cibali! Aaron Sorkin chiede scusa ai giornalisti per "The Newsroom"!

Articolo di Anna Silman per "Vulture"
The Newsroom tends to take a sanctimonious approach to recent history, and many journalists take issue with the show's apparent desire to tell them how they should have done their jobs. In an interview with former Obama speech-writer Jon Favreau on Monday night at a Tribeca Film Festival discussion, Aaron Sorkin tried to make amends with the press corps. “I’m going to let you all stand in for everyone in the world, if you don’t mind,” Sorkin told the audience. “I think you and I got off on the wrong foot with The Newsroom and I apologize and I’d like to start over.”
He continued:
I think that there’s been a terrible misunderstanding. I did not set the show in the recent past in order to show the pros how it should have been done. That was and remains the furthest thing from my mind. I set the show in the recent past because I didn’t want to make up fake news. It was going to be weird if the world that these people were living in did not in any way resemble the world that you were living in… Also, I wanted the option of having a terrific dynamic that you can get when the audience knows more than the characters do… So, I wasn’t trying to and I’m not capable of teaching a professional journalist a lesson.
Later, in response to an audience question about whether he is happy with The Newsroom, Sorkin responded with an unusual amount of candor, saying that he feels like he's "just now starting to learn how to write it.” Just in time for season three's fall 2014 premiere, we hope.
I’ve very proud of The Newsroom. I have the time of my life working with the people that I work with, but there is a learning curve and unfortunately, those lessons are learned in front of several million people. Again, that’s what you sign up for. I wish that I could go back to the beginning of The Newsroom and start again and replicate what you have with a play, which is a preview period… But I’m feeling really good about how the third season is going. I’ll look back on it fondly and proudly and wish I could get every scene of every episode back so that I could do it all over again.
All in all, a very nice apology, particularly from someone who is not known for his skill with apologies. Now if we can just get a mea culpa for Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, we'll finally be able to move on with our lives.

martedì 22 aprile 2014

NEWS -  RIP, non ci sono più i gay effeminati di una volta...

Post di Nico Lang per PolicyMic
"A couple of years ago I sat in the audience for a panel discussion on queer representation in entertainment; the presentation included a breezy tour through the gay history of the media, complete with Powerpoint slides of Rosie, Ellen and old People magazines from when you needed to be on the cover of something to come out. The overview was greeted warmly, until we got to Will and Grace, where one of the show's characters, Jack McFarland, proved a sticking point. Jack, a sassy sidekick whose flamboyance towed the line between camp and parody, has long been a lightning rod of discussion in the community. You could feel that discomfort in the room.
Our tour guide diffused the tension by reminding the mostly-male audience that Jack might be a stereotype, but many of us know a Jack in real life. The audience laughed with delight and recognition. They nodded to friends as if to say, "Oh, yes. That's true." What he didn't say is that many of us are Jacks, but I wondered how many people would laugh at that statement.
I thought of this moment after NBC announced that the network would be pulling Sean Saves the World, the freshman sitcom starring Sean Hayes, who played Jack on Will and Grace. For those who haven't seen the show (read: all of you), Sean Saves the World was about a father forced to take sole guardianship of his estranged (yet adorable!) daughter after her mother abandoned her. The show was NBC's attempt to relive its glory days by borrowing from what worked in the '90s, with Hayes playing nearly the same character, a little older and wiser, but with all the trademark pitfalls. Even the stilted laugh track made it sound like the laughter was echoing in from 15 years ago.
 But in getting (rightly) cancelled by NBC, audiences weren't just leaving '90s sitcoms behind. They were leaving behind the Jack McFarlands, a relic of the Queer as Folk era of gay TV, when a show like Queer as Folk (for all its whitewashed issues) could give us three effeminate gays in its lead cast: Emmett, Ted and Justin. The recent television movement has been a push toward post-gay representation, creating male characters who just so happen to be gay. On the critically lauded Brooklyn Nine-Nine, that's the entire point of Andre Braugher's Captain Holt. His sexuality is as inscrutable as the rest of his persona, a hard-ass who has learned to blend in to survive in a homophobic workforce. The recent new HBO addition Looking was celebrated for the same thing. Although many critics chided it for being dull (which it is), defenders of the show found it liberating that gay characters got to be boring on television just like everyone else.
However, there's a certain type of character that gets the privilege to be post-gay, guys whose sexuality doesn't stand out in the same way that Jack's did. In order to get on television today, gay characters are butching it up, becoming like Captain Holt to prove they can hang with the boys, camouflaged with masculinity. Looking's characters are all fit hipster bros who call each other "dude" a lot. On the recently departed Happy Endings, the schlubby, hairy Max acted as a deconstruction of gay stereotypes. It was a running joke that Max was "less gay" than the show's straight dudes, much like gay characters on Nashville and GCB. This might be what it takes to fit in, but it looks awfully heteronormative.
Even recent shows that depict effeminate male characters use them primarily as the butt of the joke, a Lucy character who is always causing trouble. They act in counterpoint to a straighter man, who is seen as the voice of reason. The now-cancelled Ryan Murphy sitcom The New Normal provided Bryan — a shallow, judgmental television executive — primarily as a counterpoint to his angelically understanding partner David, a doctor who watches football and has no other character traits. David's role is "The Problem Solver." On Modern Family, Mitchell and Cameron have a similar dynamic, but Mitch seems to increasingly resent Cam for his effeminate tomfoolery. Their growing animosity has led many viewers to wonder if they secretly hate each other.
More than Mitchell, it's the community that has a complicated relationship with flamboyancy, much like the guys that I sat on the aforementioned panel with. It's a lot easier to pretend the queens don't exist than try to represent them, or we'd have to admit we have something in common. I remember that my mother once told me how much I reminded her of Jack and I remember how much it bothered me. I never stopped to ask myself why.
In being the newest gay show on TV, many will look to Looking to fix the problems surrounding gay representation and fill in the gaps in our media spectrum. Such is the inherent burden of representing a community, but we need to recognize why those cracks exist in the first place and why certain character types might push our buttons when it comes to masculinity and internalized homophobia. Fixing one TV show won't solve a problem that's bigger than HBO. With True Blood’s Lafayette and Glee's Kurt Hummel on shows that are on their last legs, our effeminate males are quickly becoming an endangered species.
On Girls, Lena Dunham's Hannah recently mourned the death of her complicated and quick-witted editor, David Pressler-Goings, played by the ever-androgynous John Cameron Mitchell. As David ascended to TV heaven to be with Sean Hayes, Hannah recalled that he had been her champion, the only one who believed in her work. TVs Davids, Jacks and Emmetts need champions too. They might not be represented on the air anymore, but it doesn't mean they aren't still here in real life and wondering what happened to their television counterparts".

lunedì 21 aprile 2014

GOSSIP - Clamoroso al Cibali! Il ritorno di Super-Pam: la Anderson si rispoglia, si taglia i capelli, ritorna in scena (con Werner Herzog, mica cotiche!) e non sa ancora se i suoi figli abbiano mai visto il sex-tape di lei con Tommy Lee (beata innocenza!)
You've likely seen Pamela Anderson nude before, but probably never like this.
The former "Baywatch" star made a career out of bouncing along beaches in that iconic red swimsuit and stripping down for the pages of Playboy. But at the age of 46, the mother of two is rocking a platinum pixie cut and posing for photographer Sante D'Orazio for some NSFW photos in French magazine Purple. In addition to taking it all off for the magazine, the actress, who is confirmed for a role in Werner Herzog’s upcoming film “Vernon God Little," also appears in the April issue of Elle. Though it's been almost 20 years since her infamous sex tape with then-husband Tommy Lee was released, it's still something she's asked about -- especially since she's the mother of two teenage boys."I don't know if they've seen it, but they know about it," the blonde bombshell said. "They know about everything. Stupid Internet. I don't know why everyone is so impressed with it."

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