“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 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
“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
“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)
“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)
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
