Thompson on Hollywood: Penske's Moves: On Eve of Variety's Last Print Edition, Adds Critic Foundas, Reduces Movieline

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Penske's Moves: On Eve of Variety's Last Print Edition, Adds Critic Foundas, Reduces Movieline Mar 19th 2013, 01:36 Variety lovers are feeling mixed emotions. On the one hand, Penske Media Corp CEO Jay Penske is making changes that were long overdue. He has pulled down the firewall, modernized the website, added a troika of editors--LA Times import Claudia Eller (film), and Variety's Cynthia Littleton (TV) and Andrew Wallenstein (digital)--to run the online and print weekly trade, and ended publication of the print daily. Tomorrow will be the last print edition after 107 storied years. The revamped weekly publishes on March 27. That issue of Daily Variety will be a collector's item. In it is the news that peripatetic film critic Scott Foundas, who got his start freelancing for Variety, has become its chief film critic. Three years ago, when Foundas left the Village Voice Media's LA Weekly to join the Film Society of Lincoln Center as associate programmer, I was disheartened that one of our most gifted critics was leaving his clear avocation. And I was delighted when he returned to the... Media files: variety-building.jpg (image/jpeg)

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