“At $45.5BM in 2023, Music Copyright Now Worth More Globally Than Cinema, New Report Finds”: https://t.ly/yDfV5 The devil is in the details. My inbox has been blowing up with the above story, it makes a good headline, but what you’ve got to know is… Recorded music revenues eclipsed those of the movies in the seventies. […]

The studios don’t make movies like this anymore. Then again, they were never blockbusters. They’d return their low budgets and hopefully some profits, but they wouldn’t set the world on fire, but they might stay in your heart forever. I’m not talking about AIP or New World. Those indies specialized in something grittier, edgier, delivering […]

“Road Diary”: https://t.ly/7Zv8T 1 The highlight was “Nightshift,” the Commodores sans Lionel Richie number that speaks of what’s goin’ on with the recently passed Jackie Wilson and Marvin Gaye and the great music they’re playing up in heaven. Now what struck me, what made such a big impression, is that I’ve never ever heard any […]

www.theapprenticemovie.com The first half is fantastic. This is not the film I thought it would be. I figured it would be a left wing takedown, a la Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11,” a movie trumpeted by the left, released just before the 2004 election, but despite the flick’s condemnation, Bush ended up winning the presidency anyway. […]