The specific shuttering of the brand’s music platforms does call into question the position of the music video in today’s industry, and whether the form still provides a viable outlet for expression and promotion. - The Guardian
When app stores determine that a user is under 18, “the law prohibits them from downloading virtually all apps and software programs and from making any in-app purchases unless their parent consents and is given control over the minor’s account,” the CCIA said. - Ars Technica
Will Netflix ever win Best Picture? It’s been trying - hard - for 10 years. This year? Hm. Not necessarily Best Picture, but “I’d be betting it all on KPop Demon Hunters to win Oscars for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song.” - Vulture (MSN)
“The app’s popularity—it surpassed 1 million downloads in its first week—is ripe for this moment of decaying truths, where fact and reason have an increasingly diminished value.” - Wired
The creator says Mayor Adams "works so well because he has so many existing real videos where he says unusual and funny things. … In my head, it's the same guy. I feel like it's stuff I could hear him say in real life.” - Hell Gate NYC
"From Dorothy’s ruby slippers in The Wizard of Oz to Harry Potter wands, props from iconic films are earning big dollars at both auction and private sales — in some cases on par with rare wine, Swiss watches and fine art.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
He won for his work on Secret Lives of Orangutans, a documentary that also won Emmys for “outstanding music direction and composition and outstanding directing team for a single camera daytime non-fiction program.” - BBC
“A friendly assistant director who is already known to you, who brings you tea and holds your phone while you’re acting, says that the VFX team are in today – and just after you finish the scene, could you pop over to the VFX bus? And off you go.” - The Guardian (UK)
“For readers, the sloppified news churned out by many of the sites is a reason to be wary of a confusing media landscape. And for beleaguered news publishers, the AI news sites threaten their investments in journalism.” - Nieman Lab
The “triple crown”-winning (Cannes, Venice, Berlin) writer-director has developed both coping strategies and outright tricks. For instance, sending one version of a script to the censors’ office while clandestinely filming the other version. - Vulture (MSN)
A publication that began in 1857 is defying the trends of a troubled media industry. The Atlantic is returning to publishing monthly two decades after dropping to 10 issues a year and experimenting with a magazine-newspaper hybrid online fueled by its competitive stable of writers. - AP News
Given that the Tiffany Network has been home to the most-watched new series for the past nine TV seasons in a row, they've earned the benefit of the doubt to keep greenlighting new scripted projects. The CBS machine is working. - The Wrap (MSN)
Social media has evolved from text to photo to video to streams of text, photo, and video, and finally, it seems to have reached a kind of settled end state, in which TikTok and Meta are trying to become the same thing: a screen showing hours and hours of video made by people we don’t know. - Derek Thompson
Among the discrepancies: the treatment of likenesses versus intellectual property. Tellingly, some execs were told an opt-in would be required for both. Others were told the opposite, or weren’t notified of the distinction. OpenAI’s messaging was haphazard to Hollywood. - The Hollywood Reporter
