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Maker Of “The Sims” Bought By Jared Kushner And Saudi Arabia

“Electronic Arts Inc., the maker of Madden NFL and The Sims, is set to be acquired for about $55 billion … (in) the biggest leveraged buyout in history, backed by Saudia Arabia's Public Investment Fund and private equity firms Silver Lake and Affinity Partners, … run by President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)

NPR Sues Corporation For Public Broadcasting Over Satellite Grant

NPR had been told by CPB in early April that it would soon receive more than $30 million to cover the next three years for running the service. CPB then swiftly reversed course, with an executive citing a decision at the CPB board level saying NPR could not be involved, the court filing alleges. - NPR

This Is Tilly. She’s An AI “Actress”. She’s Getting Work (And Representation)

“When we first launched Tilly, people were like, ‘What’s that?,’ and now we’re going to be announcing which agency is going to be representing her in the next few months.” - Variety

Rocky Horror Is Turning Fifty, But It Still Brings So-Called Misfits Together

“It’s nearly impossible to imagine anyone successfully producing such a comprehensively transgressive and resolutely silly movie today. It’s even more unlikely to imagine any film resurrecting itself from spectacular flop to cockroach cult classic, let alone under the protective cover of camp.” - Washington Post (MSN)

Which Horse Will Netflix Ride To The Oscars, And Other Important Awards-Watch Considerations

“The air is getting chilly, the leaves are starting to turn, and Oscar geeks are analyzing the buzz out of Venice, Telluride, and Toronto like tea leaves at the bottom of a mug.” - Vulture (MSN)

You Thought The Emmys Were Over?

Heck no. Meet the International Emmys, where - no surprise - Netflix leads all contenders in number of nominations. - Variety

There’s No Such Thing As A Free TV

Telly’s 10-inch wide “smart display” runs “while you watch shows, movies, YouTube videos, and play video games. Even when you turn off the TV with a tap of the remote’s power button, the secondary screen remains illuminated.” - The Verge (Archive Today)

What The Heck Is ‘VistaVision,’ And Why Should Moviegoers Care?

VistaVision is a selling point of the new Leonardo DiCaprio One Battle After Another, or at least that’s the public relations push. “A TV set couldn’t give you the experience this format could deliver in a theater. In 2025, neither can streaming.” - The New York Times

No, Progressive Casting In Films Doesn’t Lose Money

And in some cases? It’s a great idea for box office receipts, or so a new study show. - The Guardian (UK)

How Late Night TV Became So Political

To understand how network late-night hosts became such critics of Trump, you have to take the long view, because their increasingly political commentary preceded the current president and happened gradually. You can trace the evolution quite neatly over the career of Jimmy Kimmel. - The New York Times

New York Public Radio Offers Free Programming To Other Public Radio Stations Deemed “At Risk”

The Station-to-Station Programming Project will waive distribution fees for programs produced or syndicated by NYPR — among them Radiolab, The New Yorker Radio Hour, Freakonomics Radio and Science Friday — to stations which had received 10% or more of their budgets from the soon-to-close Corporation for Public Broadcasting. - Inside Radio

Corporation For Public Broadcasting Makes Its Final Grants To Local Stations Before Shutting Down

The $7.1 million being distributed is left over from the previous year’s pool of grant money; it had been allocated for grants which, in the end, weren’t awarded or were returned. If the CPB weren’t closing, that money would normally have been rolled over into the following year’s pool. - Inside Radio

Poll: More Americans Prefer To See New Movies By Streaming Than In Theatres

About three-quarters of U.S. adults said they watched a new movie on streaming instead of in the theater at least once in the past year, according to the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, including about 3 in 10 who watched new movies on streaming at least once a month. - APNews

The Movie Hospital — Where Damaged Movies Go To Be Reborn

Resurrection, as often as not, means restoration, and one of the festival’s many missions is to showcase, and to explore, the painstaking ways in which wounded films can be healed. Basically, if movies were people, whether foreign or Italian-born, Bologna is where they would choose to live. - The New Yorker

Chinese Distributor Altered Australian Film To Make Gay Male Couple Straight

Early this month, moviegoers who saw preview screenings of the horror movie Together, starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie, posted on Chinese social media that one of a male couple shown getting married in the film was digitally altered into a woman. - NBC News

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