During the height of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Boston’s daily newspapers employed some of the nation’s best-known film critics. All of them were women. They tended to travel as a pack, lugging typewriters and formal gowns to movie premieres all over the world. - WBUR
Iranian director Jafar Panahi won the prestigious Palme d'Or for his film It Was Just an Accident on Saturday, a political drama inspired by his time in prison. Following the win, French foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot said Panahi's win was "a gesture of resistance against the Iranian regime's oppression". - BBC
Cartoon Network is an excellent case study for how the conditions of media conglomeration shape how media is made and curated. And in making a wide variety of animation available, Cartoon Network also helped make audiences think differently about animation. - The Conversation
“More than 20 key stakeholders behind its success — from author Margaret Atwood and adapter Bruce Miller to producers, executives and the cast led by Elisabeth Moss (June/Offred) — share how the Trump-era drama captured the cultural zeitgeist … and launched a Gilead universe with sequel series The Testaments.” - The Hollywood Reporter
“Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government,” Corp. for Public Broadcasting chief Patricia Harrison told NPR in a statement. - Los Angeles Times
Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value won the Grand Prize; The Secret Agent took honors for best director (Kleber Mendonça Filho) and best actor (Wagner Moura); Nadia Melliti won best actress for Hafsia Herzi’s The Little Sister; the Dardenne brothers took best screenplay, their ninth Cannes prize, for Young Mothers. - AP
The singer and actress shared pictures on social media of herself arriving at the Amazon MGM Studios and Vanity Fair Party in Los Angeles the night before this year's Golden Globes. Photographer Edwin Blanco and Backgrid have each filed lawsuits saying they own the copyright to two photos. - BBC
We carried out extensive interviews with 29 participants from across the sector who painted a bleak picture of overwork, financial instability, discrimination and barriers to career progression. - The Conversation
Google is funding short films about AI that portray the technology in a less nightmarish light than in many Hollywood science fiction depictions. - Los Angeles Times
“The Korean public holds celebrities to a higher moral standard than normal people, and the media is very aggressive (in) reporting on scandals. They take unconfirmed allegations and report them as facts. (Yet) when it comes to politicians and public figures with real power, the media is very cautious.” - The Hollywood Reporter
While traditional journalism often evaluates the trustworthiness of news by how seemingly objective or dispassionate the newsmaker is from a given issue, newsmaking from this alternative perspective acknowledges that every step of the process requires discretion and decision-making. - LA Review of Books
Studios have long been pushing Aron and other exhibitors to offer discounted Wednesday prices, but this will be the first test to see whether it can match Tuesday’s boon and move the attendance needle. - The Hollywood Reporter
“In a letter to Paramount Global Chair Shari Redstone, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said they are concerned that the media company ‘may be engaging in improper conduct involving the Trump Administration in exchange for approval of its merger with Skydance Media.’” - The Wall Street Journal (MSN)
The mayor issued an executive directive to streamline city processes, lower the costs of filming in the city and make it easier for productions to shoot at well-known city-owned locations like the Griffith Observatory. - The New York Times
Lip-syncing a minute of animation could take up to four hours. An animator would listen to an audio track and laboriously adjust character mouths frame by frame. But a one-minute scene took 15 minutes for the A.I. tool to sync, including time spent by an artist to refine a few spots. - The New York Times
