“Given that we lost 50% of production time in 2023, the anticipated 5% year-on-year decrease in 2023 is not indicative of a declining interest in cinema, but simply a direct consequence of limited product availability. In fact, as July 2023 marked a record-breaking month at the global box office." - Deadline
"It’s a gentle, enjoyably melancholy story, twee but not damnably so — but something else stands out. Though set in the near-future, Her captures Obama-era techno-optimism better than any other movie. It’s a time capsule, preserving dreams about the future that appear more naive the further we get from the 2010s." - Wired
Shows about struggling, intrepid women are doing well. So are zombies, devils, and serial killers. Spanish-language series are major hits, and, as writer Lili Loofbourow put it, "We knew K-dramas were a phenomenon, but this is ridiculous." What aren't doing as well as expected? Comedy specials. - The Washington Post (MSN)
Disney in 2019 was hit with a suit accusing it of “rampant pay discrimination.” The case cleared a major hurdle Dec. 8 when a judge certified a diverse class of employees, who work across the company’s movie production arm, record labels, theme parks and home distribution subsidiaries, among various other units. - The Hollywood Reporter
Recent Disney films like the animated “Strange World,” with its gay teenage protagonist, have become cultural flash points. But “Pocahontas” prompted a full-blown fracas. - The New York Times
It seems odd to think that in a year with two massive strikes and 20 fewer movies released than in 2019, the industry might be looking profitable. But the "scheduling" of Christmas and New Year's has theatre owners stressed. - Variety
Who could have predicted that on Netflix, Ginny & Georgia's numbers would be so far ahead of The Witcher - or The Crown? (Anyone who remembers the Nielsens from the first age of Prestige TV, of course.) - The Verge
"It's really common to see violent scenes, ... but as soon as sex comes up, that becomes a really big complicated issue, whereas we're so desensitized to everything else." - CBC
VHS tapes are back, baby. And DVDs, Blu-Rays, cassette tapes, essentially anything that a streaming corporation can't surveill - or suddenly yank away. - Washington Post
No, not its mojo dojo casa house - though it's likely the Barbie movie will eventually stream there because studios have started offering older shows to the OG streamer again. Why? "They missed the money too much." - The New York Times
Jason Jacoby Lee, who is non-verbal but recently learned to communicate through pointing to letters on a board, says of Extraordinary Attorney Woo, for instance: "It is painful to watch." - Teen Vogue
While Google says the final shape of its AI product is far from set, publishers have seen enough to estimate that they will lose between 20% and 40% of their Google-generated traffic if anything resembling recent iterations rolls out widely. - The Wall Street Journal
