Voynar Exits Cinematical
Anne Thompson reported yesterday that managing editor and film festivals editor Kim Voynar is bolting her post at Cinematical leaving another gaping hole in a website that has steadily gone downhill since being purchased by Internet satan AOL.
Though Kim is careful to point out on her own blog that her departure has nothing to do with any of her immediate colleagues, on a Hollywood-Elsewhere thread about her leaving, Ms. Voynar chimes in with a few hints regarding her dissatisfaction with the corporate stooges running the joint into the ground:
“I fought very hard at Cinematical for just under four years now to keep the quality of the site up amidst more corporate mismanagement than I care to remember, and to ensure that we at least kept covering the major film fests to the depth we’ve been able to, when the higher-ups were more impressed with pictures of Megan Fox fondling her tits than coverage of Cannes.”
- Comment #6
“I can say this much — trying to write intelligent content and keep the bar up above the level of 7th grade boys is a constant challenge when you’re owned by a corporate behemoth that’s myopically focused on numbers. And it’s a reality that more people want to see Megan Fox than read about this really cool French drama from a festival. I get that, I just was tired of fighting it. I want to write about what I want to write about, and that’s what I’ll do.”
- Comment #20
No one has confirmed what Kim will be doing next, but LiC assumes there will be greener and higher-paying pastures for Kim in the near future. We hope so anyway. Kim was one of the bright spots of Cinematical and of the Internet movie culture in general.
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Tags: Cinematical, Kim Voynar
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“when the higher-ups were more impressed with pictures of Megan Fox fondling her tits than coverage of Cannes.”
The current state of all things cinema could not have been summed up any better.
Exactly, and it’s particularly sad to see someone who was fighting that trend moving on.
Hopefully she’ll turn up somewhere else with an equally high profile.
Geez, Craig, I’m wondering when you’re going to start running pictures of Megan Fox fondling her tits? It’s apparently the thing to do.
I am curious though what kind of weird search strings yield hits at LIC these days. I still chuckle every once in while over the Shrek hits you posted about ages ago.
I honestly have no idea who Megan Fox is or what she looks like.
(No, I never did see Transformers. That’s the only movie I’ve heard she was in.)
Sad to see film culture take one hit after another. Corporate c*********s. [Expletive deleted.]
And I’m sorry for potentially derailing the discussion onto that tangent.
I love her, or her work at least, and I wish her all the best for the future, and now Cinematical can die because the best thing about it is gone. When Rocchi leaves, not if, Cinematical might as well shut down. In my opinion.
Oddly enough Joel, I’ve been getting tons of hits lately from people looking for the meaning behind The Life Before Her Eyes…even more unusual considering I didn’t give that info in my review.
The Internet confuses me.
As for Megan Fox, she’s a lovely young woman but she has yet to appear in a movie I want to see. I’m skeptical about Jennifer’s Body, but we’ll see.
Yes Nick, Rocchi is one last reason to keep checking in.
I lost interest in Cinematical when AOL took over and the many of the original bloggers there moved on, but I agree that they still had a few good folks, sandwiched in-between the inanity of some of the others.
Between this development, the sale of CHUD.com last year, and the recent shake-up at HND after Matthew Zoller-Seitz left, it’s been a rough year for “mainstream” group-run film blogs on the internets. Kinda sad to see, but it does go to show that sometimes having a unique voice rather than a plethora of voices can be a good thing (hat tip to Craig).
Or maybe it doesn’t (my logic isn’t working out on second thought) but dammit, hat tip to Craig!
That’s really too bad.
Well, now I know how to get more hits for the Screengrab…
I too know nothing of Megan’s body of/or work.
I’m sorry that a fine film journalist left a popular site because of its change in direction. But as a reader I feel no less well served. There are an embarrassment of riches re film sites. So much quality that one can only realistically dip into a small piece of it - whether it is a single or multiple voice site. And for Voynar’s fans her voice can still be found on her own site.
I hate to momentarily hijack this thread, but, Sartre, is your email address still the same in New Zealand? I know you’re a big fan of Out of the Past, and I figured you might like to see a review I wrote for it. Then again, I could just link it, couldn’t I? Thus ends the thread-hijacking on my part.
For those who haven’t seen Megan Fox, imagine the doll in Lars and the Real Girl, and give her bigger breasts. That’s basically who she is.
Where’s Glimmer? He must know about her then.
Haha, Jeff and Joel… Inspired.
Gosh, I’m in a real thread-hijacking mood today or something.
I know it’s a mistake to go to Hollywood-Elsewhere, but… When I do, all I see is the top thread (which at this moment is “Skip These Guys”) and nothing else underneath. Is that true for anyone else?
The email is unchanged and I’ll happily check your review Alexander. As you say, I’m a big Out of the Past fan. As well as being a noir classic in every respect it features the beguiling Jane Greer.
And I second Alexander’s appreciation of Jeff and Joel’s quips.
I see “Skip these guys” and everything below it, but the first entry is about how Wells will wear a “Choke” t-shirt for the stupidest reasons on Earth.
He expects people to take him seriously.
Well, I know who Megan Fox is - and I can do without her. In every way imaginable.
She’s yet another mysterious example of particular women being put on a pedestal and raved over for no apparent reason. I’d put Marisa Tomei and Jessica Alba in the same category.
For my part, I’d rather hear about a cool French drama out of CANNES. You’d better believe it.
I’ve never read Ms. Voynar. But it sounds like a real shame. I’ve heard very good things about her. It’s important to have women doing entertainment reprorting and blogging. Varied voices add more diversity to the table.
But true talent can’t be dispensed with. If she’s as excellent as everyone says she is, we’ll soon be hearing from her at a different venue.
I’m extremely confident of that…
Megan Fox …. not that hot. She’s the latest in the Jessica Alba line of three-year-shelf-life sex symbols. If you don’t know her , Alex, don’t worry - you don’t need to.
She’s purdy, but in LA you can’t throw an iPhone without hitting one of her kind.