{"id":886,"date":"2007-03-06T16:42:44","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T16:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=886"},"modified":"2007-03-06T16:42:44","modified_gmt":"2007-03-06T16:42:44","slug":"no_more_premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/03\/06\/no_more_premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Premiere&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hm&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sltrib.com\/movies\/2007\/03\/turmoil-in-movie-journalism-land.htm\">Sean Means says<\/a> that <i>Premiere<\/i> magazine&#8217;s final issue will be in April. Supposedly, it will live on somewhere on the InterWeb, but I have a hunch that won&#8217;t ever amount to much.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nBack in my usher-and-projectionist days at the multiplex, <i>Premiere<\/i> was one of a number of movie magazines the manager received every month. The back issues usually found their way into the booth, and not a few of them subsequently found their way into the Bennion Archive. Back then &#8212; this would be in the 1989\/90\/91 timeframe &#8212; it was a great mag for the &#8220;serious amateur&#8221; who was a bit more interested in the nuts and bolts of the industry than the average moviegoer, but not really obsessed enough to read <i>Variety<\/i> and the other hard-core trade journals. It featured behind-the-scenes stories that provided plenty of detail without getting <i>too<\/i> technical; criticism that intelligently explained <i>why<\/i> a given flick did or did not work, without the ivory-tower navel-gazing of academic criticism or the snark of the pop critics; and just enough photographic eye candy to keep you turning the pages.<\/p>\n<p>I actually subscribed for a couple of years, but at some point, <i>Premiere<\/i> started changing, becoming glossier and more gossipy. It seemed to be on its way to becoming another <i>Entertainment Weekly<\/i>, which was (and still is) too superficial for my tastes, so I dropped it. I haven&#8217;t looked at <i>Premiere<\/i> in years&#8230; but I feel bad that it&#8217;s going away. I lost most of my back issues in the <a title=\"Crimson Tide\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2006\/02\/crimson_tide\/\">basement flood<\/a> a year ago. And so another aspect of my younger days passes into the West&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hm&#8230; Sean Means says that Premiere magazine&#8217;s final issue will be in April. Supposedly, it will live on somewhere on the InterWeb, but I have a hunch that won&#8217;t ever amount to much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}