Did You Miss These? The 5 Most Buzzworthy Entertainment News Articles from Cinco de Mayo Weekend

If you're still coming down from your Cinco de Mayo celebration (or your weekend plans in general, if you didn't celebrate), you may have missed some eyebrow-raising news. While you were playing hard, the entertainment biz was moving hard, too.

Check these articles out from around the web and get caught up.  :)

Participant Media's New Cable Network 'Pivot' Affects Your Entertainment Career -- Here's How

Participant Media's cable network pivot, which launches August 1, 2013, aims to spark a tide of global activism, and even aims to revolutionize cable network versatility.

It's aimed at the coveted millenials (18-34 years old) and wants to inspire groundbreaking social change through them. They're the perfect market since they're immersed in entertainment culture and will soon enter the entertainment business themselves.

"We wanted to design a next-generation channel for the next generation of consumers and leaders," said pivot President Evan Shapiro, former head of AMC Networks' Sundance and IFC channels.

What does all that have to do with you? Well, consider the prospect: a new wave of conscientious youth armed with tools to be more expressive than any preceding generation and fired with the impetus to be socially responsible.

That promises the potential for more online videos, indie films and music to be produced. Perhaps thought-provoking material will actually return to the mainstream (gasp!).

Furthermore, pivot is a nascent cable network, which is an opportunity you should jump on now. Why?

Hey, Hollywood: We've Adapted to Your Adaptations - By Growing Sick of Them

Anybody else sick of seeing Hollywood adaptations? They're common -- even necessary -- practice at this point, and 2012 saw more of them than we viewers care to admit anymore.

(By the way, we're only in November, so we still have one whole month left of the year for the studios to squeeze more in, like Silver Linings Playbook and Jack Reacher, for example.)

With the recently insane success of The Hunger Games (which made $152.5 million opening weekend), and the inevitable demand for Fifty Shades of Grey (the film rights for which Universal Pictures and Focus Features purchased March 26, 2012), what's not to like about adaptations, right?

Audiences will drop upwards of fifteen bucks to see something they've already paid the same cost to read, right? No problem. 

There are plenty of box office figures to back up that assumption, but did Hollywood ever factor in the possibility of filmgoers growing tired of adaptations?

From the looks of things, they didn't and never will, and there's a simple (albeit sad) reason why. 

The Film Industry Secret Filmmakers Should Be Drooling Over

Everyone and their mom use IMDbPro, but there’s another in-depth resource that most aren’t sharing on a broad scale, touted by TheWrap as “the most effective way to build your career in the film business” – one even the Geek found by accident: TheGrid.