Is a showing of Back to the Future or Jaws something like a ballet company’s Nutcracker - dependable money for a theatre, with a nostalgic gloss for audience childhoods or young adult lives? - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
“The film, adapted from Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel, is about how grief, following the death of son, Hamnet, may have inspired Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy, Hamlet.”- Seattle Times (AP)
"In her typical unfiltered, brainy and self-deprecating fashion, Stewart made the audience laugh as she admitted that she actually struggles to watch entire movies.” But the ones she does watch are pretty solid. - Variety
The Vulture post will load if you click this headline, but here is the Los Angeles Times live chat, The Hollywood Reporter’s live stream of the winners, and The New York Times’s live take on the Emmys. - Vulture
"I guess what I’m saying is, you could watch the Emmys, or you could watch some of the other things that were on TV in the last year (and change).” - Reactor
“Success can be a blessing and a curse in video games. Critical acclaim can mean big sales, which help to fund your next work. But praise also brings pressure to improve on what came before, and those expecrations only grow as the gap between releases widens.” - BBC
“Stations were never intended to be completely dependent on federal funding. The more existential crisis is how we continue to be relevant.” - Texas Tribune
By preparing a play for the company before Warner’s planned split, Paramount Skydance is attempting to pre-empt a potential bidding war for the studio and streaming unit that could include deep-pocketed technology companies such as Amazon.com and Apple. - The Wall Street Journal
The Miami-Dade County School Board, owner of the broadcast license for WLRN, argues that South Florida Public Media Group, which manages the station, violated its contract when it moved to acquire a new radio station in West Palm Beach which it plans to convert into a public radio outlet. - Miami Herald (MSN)
“Retreat is billed as ‘the world’s first deaf thriller.’ It is written and directed by Ted Evans, also deaf, and features an all-deaf cast, set atop the rolling hills of the English countryside in a quaint stately home.” - The Hollywood Reporter
The footage was taken on the day of the disaster by over 100 people who then responded to an ad in The Village Voice. The documentary filmmakers who assembled the collection have now donated it to the New York Public Library. - The New York Times
