"CNN boss Mark Thompson is looking to fund his digital-first transformation by cutting anchor salaries — currently more than $50 million — as he seeks to remake the ailing cable network into a U.S. version of the BBC," where he was Director-General (2004-2012) before becoming New York Times Co. CEO (2012-2020). - TheWrap
"(His) buyout of approximately $415 million of Audacy's debt would make his Soros Fund Management the largest stakeholder of the second-largest radio company in the U.S. when it emerges from chapter 11 reorganization." - Inside Radio
"Heaving sobs and effervescent teardrops are the result of the exacting labor of artists who must precisely illustrate, iterate on, time, and log their work on a budget. Making all that controlled effort look spontaneous and, above all, natural is never an easy feat." - Vulture (MSN)
"For every dollar the state gave in tax breaks from 2018 through 2022, the Film Tax Credit drew an estimated 15¢ in direct tax revenue. ... When adding indirect and induced jobs — employees who don’t work directly on production but whose employment stems from it — that return rises to 31¢." - Gothamist
The 14% year-over-year decline in the number of new scripted series across live television networks and streaming represented the steepest drop-off in at least a decade, per FX Research. - Axios
"A new UCLA Labor Center study of (the theme park's) employees reveals that … 44% of the workers reported that they worried about being evicted from their homes, while more than half cut the size of their meals — or skipped them — because they didn’t have enough money for food." - The Hollywood Reporter
First of all, it's something that nobody wants to do. Yet the show's director, who makes the decision, has to balance the interests of winners, the producers, the network, the audience, and the advertisers. (And it's the poor stage manager who gets yelled at by the winners cut short.) - Vulture
Joining, say, Sally Field in Norma Rae or Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada, "actors in current Oscar-season movies enjoyed ample opportunity to wax eloquent via riled-up characters who simply cannot contain themselves any longer." - Los Angeles Times
Wenders, the German director whose latest film is nominated for an Oscar, but from Japan, says “For a long time I did not know , because I was searching for answers, too." - The Observer (UK)
In 2023, some DGA wins for Everything Everywhere All at Once seemed to set that film, and its directors, on a path to many wins at the Oscars. - The Hollywood Reporter
“It really just seems as if the studio’s leadership simply does not want [ streaming, or in theaters, or really even to be a topic of conversation at this point. … It’s hard to imagine this inspiring much confidence in the filmmakers still working with the studio." - The Verge
"There are repercussions in the real world where people might not even realize—they just know, Oh, an old song is popular again. But if they don’t use TikTok, they don’t realize that’s because thousands and thousands of people are using the song.” And now many songs are gone. - Slate
