"The Georgia film and TV tax credit creates 34,354 jobs per year, according to a new state audit of the program — about half the figure reported by an industry-funded study last month. The audit also concluded that the credit ... returns just 19 cents to state coffers for every dollar spent." - Variety
In September, the CEO resigned and then commited suicide. Two weeks later, the board announced that an audit found "questionable, unauthorized or improper" expenditures, the finance director had quit, and the budget was immediately cut by 30%. Police are investigating; community members are telling the entire board to resign. - WCBU (Peoria)
When Parasite director Bong Joon-ho accepted his Oscars in 2020, he told the audience, "Once you overcome the one-inch tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films." Yet that was just the point when American moviegoers were finally overcoming their aversion to reading-while-watching. - The Guardian
As 2023 ends, the country’s TV and telecom regulator is at odds with American streamers over how much cash they are now obligated to fork over to subsidize local film, TV and music producers. - The Hollywood Reporter
"For five decades, Amazonian tribal leader Raoni Metuktire and Belgian director Jean-Pierre Dutilleux enlisted presidents and royals, even Pope Francis, to improve the lives of Brazil’s Indigenous peoples and protect their lands. … Behind the scenes, however, the relationship was nearing its end." - AP
The report, titled “What We Watched,” includes viewership data for the movies and television shows watched on the streaming service between January and June 2023. - Washington Post
The MPA wants legislation that would enable content companies to seek court injunctive relief that would require internet service providers and other intermediaries to disable access to an infringing site. - Deadline
We are confined to reality, but we cannot confront facts (or even make sense of them) without the salve of fiction. As Joan Didion so famously put it, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” - Washington Post
"Many, particularly members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma, welcomed the movie, applauding Scorsese for his meticulous portrayal of Osage culture. … But other Indigenous viewers said the movie was told from a white man’s perspective and lacked sufficient context about the U.S. government’s complicity in the murders." - The New York Times
The in-flight entertainment and connectivity market grew to US$5.9 billion as of 2019, a testament to its economic impact on both the airlines and the GDP of countries with airline carriers. - The Conversation
That split between the big audience on Facebook and the influential audience on Twitter was instantly obvious to anyone in any newsroom who ever cared to look. - The Verge
As more major films, including some big hits, run longer than three hours, exhibitors can schedule fewer showings per day — so they want to give the patrons another opportunity to buy popcorn and sodas. And the patrons themselves would very much like to visit the restroom. - The Hollywood Reporter
Residents in more than half of U.S. counties have very limited access to a reliable local news source. More than two newspapers a week have shut down during 2023, with just an estimated 1,200 daily papers still publishing. Since 2005, Medill reports, the number of newspaper journalists has fallen by 66%, or 43,000. - InsideRadio
Automakers have been gradually leaving AM receivers out of their new-model cars, and they really want — for legitimate reasons — to drop AM from their electric vehicles. Yet there are legitimate reasons for regulators and lawmakers to insist that AM radios remain. Ernie Smith explains. - Tedium
