EX-”VARIETY” CRITIC LANDS ON FEET AT INDIEWIRE

Veteran Variety film critic Todd McCarthy, who was recently laid off by the trade publication after 31 years, has signed with the website IndieWire to create a new blog called Deep Focus. In his first posting he indicated that while he had received “some intriguing proposals” after he was cut loose by Variety, none of [...]

EARLY REVIEWS ENOUGH TO RUST “IRON MAN”

Iron Man 2 is unquestionably the kind of movie studio executives like to call “critic proof,” and judging from early reviews, that’s a good thing. Each of the two principal Hollywood trade publications has slammed the movie. “Everything fun and terrific about ‘Iron Man,’ a mere two years ago, has vanished with its sequel,” wrote [...]

PAYWALL RESULTS IN BIG DROP IN “VARIETY’S” PAGE VIEWS

Since reinstalling a paywall on its website last December, Daily Variety has seen its number of page views fall from 3.2 million to 1.8 million — a drop of 41 percent, according to Nielsen Research. As reported by MediaPost on Monday, the number of unique visitors to the trade publication’s website has fallen just 18 [...]

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