In this country, nothing indicates cultural importance more than cash, and seeing this much of it handed out to creators of television said as much about the state of the art as it did about Rhimes’ and Murphy’s success within it. - Los Angeles Times
With movie ticket sales still lagging behind pre-pandemic highs, multiplex operators across Asia have begun deploying unconventional strategies to generate excitement and attract people back to the cinema. -
"During the height of the pandemic, the only real player (left) in the kid-centric terrestrial radio space, Radio Disney, quietly wound down. … Today's Tedium looks back at the many attempts to sell kids on radio — a market that has basically faded away by this point." - Tedium
SCPR, which operates the LAist website and LAist radio station (the NPR affiliate formerly called KPCC) as well as a podcasting studio, will eliminate 21 of its 175 staff positions due to a revenue shortfall attributed mainly to a cutback in advertising by Hollywood studios. - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
Those millions of people are contributing to the billions of views on movies and films chopped up to fit the app's restrictive post limits, parcelled up and delivered to users in completely random order on its homepage. - CBC
"A report by Oxford University's Reuters Institute says 48% of people around the world are very or extremely interested in the news — down from 63% in 2017. … More than a third of people (36%) worldwide say they sometimes or often actively avoid the news." - BBC
The directive instructs the CRTC to ensure the regulations do not apply to social media users whose business model is their own content, even if they use commercial songs in their videos. - CBC
"From those six minutes of animated dinosaurs, CGI has become so integrated into the industry to the extent that nearly all film and television productions feature some form of CGI practice." - The Conversation
Dick Clark Productions and Eldridge Industries have purchased the awards, which will become a for-profit venture, and all 310 current voters will remain eligible to vote in 2024. Meanwhile, the not-for-profit HFPA, following years (decades, really) of scandal, will be dissolved. - Reuters
In a two day period following Netflix's roll out of the password sharing change last month saw the largest number of new Netflix account signups since Antenna began tracking subscriber data in 2019. - Mashable
Paulette Hamilton, MP for Birmingham, is not having it. "If they're going to take away without consultation, without actually speaking to anybody, just saying they're going to move the money elsewhere, it's just not good enough ."- BBC
Annecy's mayor: "The best response to this tragedy is to live even more forcefully and more intensely. ... With this conviction art and culture celebrates life, and enables us to change the world to make it a better place." - Variety
Indeed, the story is now, thanks to an LA Times investigation, famously ridiculous - which is completely unlike all the other "product" movies this summer, of course. - The New York Times
Many IATSE members are, have been, or will be out of work while the writers are on strike. This fund is to help them make it through. - Yahoo News (Deadline)
"This is Yellowstone’s gambit: It grounds its defense of the cowboy way of life in an identification with the very Native peoples those cowboys dispossessed." - Vulture
