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There’s A Labubu At The Emmys, Plus Everything Else That’s Happening

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

Many, Many Good Shows Weren’t Nominated For Emmys

"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

Sean Astin Is Elected To A Powerful Union Position

That’s right, Samwise Gamgee is now the president of SAG-AFTRA as the performers’ union heads into another contract year. - Los Angeles Times

How Is Everyone In Oslo So Darn Nice, Even While Having Sex?

At least, according to a director of movies about the sex lives of Norwegians. “It could be regarded as utopian,” he says. - The New York Times

Why Are Video Games Taking Longer And Longer To Make?

“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

When The Studio Cleans Up At The Emmys, Will You Be Watching?

OK, OK, that’s just a (widely shared) prediction, but in any case - here are the details for the big ceremony tonight. - The New York Times

Texas Public Radio Stations Scramble To Stay Funded And Stay Relevant

“Stations were never intended to be completely dependent on federal funding. The more existential crisis is how we continue to be relevant.” - Texas Tribune

Domination Play: Skydance Paramount To Bid To Buy Warner

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

Owner Of Miami-Dade’s Public Radio Station Sues Nonprofit That Operates It

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)

A Landmark For Deaf Cinema: The First Sign-Language Thriller

“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

A Crowdsourced Archive Of Video From The 9/11 World Trade Center Attacks

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

How Film Festivals Are Thinking About AI

A key aspect of what’s being negotiated across culture industries is how the public, fans, media commentators and creative professionals understand responsible AI creation and how this intersects with legal issues around ownership, fairness issues around compensation and philosophical issues related to creativity and authenticity. - The Conversation

What Really Do Cuts To Public Radio Mean?

A crucial development often left out of this conversation is how “journalism” itself has changed. Increasingly, local news is citizen-driven, curated, and disseminated through digital platforms. Many television and radio affiliates now turn not to wire services or national newspapers for story leads, but to the very audiences that they serve. - InsideRadio

Is AI The End Of Movie Creativity?

“You could imagine a world where a movie would come out on a Friday, with alongside it, day-and-date,” the CEO said. By Sunday of opening weekend, he imagined, “there are millions of new scenes” and even full fan-generated features online. - Deadline

AI Companies Have Been Training On YouTube Data, Potentially Putting Creators Out Of Business

Over the past few months, I’ve discovered more than 15.8 million videos from more than 2 million channels that tech companies have, without permission, downloaded to train AI products. Nearly 1 million of them, by my count, are how-to videos. - The Atlantic

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