I don’t have reason to write many of jokes. Most of the projects I work on are either dramas or premise-funny rather than punchline-funny. But I always admire well-crafted jokes. They’re tiny works of magic.
Film Industry
It’s franchises all the way down
Over lunch, I wondered aloud how many of the 100 top grossing movies were either sequels or the first film in a franchise.
The rise and fall of Relativity
Anyone who claims to have developed a mathematical system for picking hits is either delusional or willfully deceptive.
Torrenting the Oscars 2016
Every year, Andy Baio tracks online leaks of Oscar-nominated films, looking for trends.