A feature-length film, according to the Academy, is anything over 40 minutes. But that has little to do with the length attributed to most movies. It’s vanishingly rare for any feature film to be less than around 82 minutes. - Vox
"On Wednesday night, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers declared that negotiations with SAG-AFTRA are suspended, given that the gap between the parties is 'too great.'" In response, the actors' union accused the studios of "bully tactics." - The Hollywood Reporter
"Utah became the latest state to file a lawsuit against TikTok, alleging the company is 'baiting' children into addictive and unhealthy social media habits. … Arkansas and Indiana have filed similar lawsuits while the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to decide whether state attempts to regulate social media platforms violate the Constitution." - AP
"A memo circulated to NPR staff says traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter, now officially renamed X, though traffic from the platform was small already and accounted for just under two percent of traffic before the posting stopped." - Nieman Reports
The UK now has 1,500 volunteer-run venues, according to Jaq Chell, CEO of the charity Cinema for All, which supports them with everything from licensing and insurance to equipment. Some are just pop-ups in pubs or community halls. - The Guardian
"This is the world of internet-famous tough guys and celebrities clinging to relevance, of manufactured beefs and emotional arcs plotted via training videos and podcast appearances. … What’s more entertaining: an eight-round heavyweight qualifier or watching family vlogger Austin McBroom knock out TikTok frat bro Bryce Hall?" - The New York Times Magazine
"Meet 'Alfaz-e-Mewat,' a community radio station that offers a mix of group therapy, education, women’s empowerment and entertainment. … In this region — which has some of the country’s lowest female literacy rates and where violence against women is the norm — the station is the voice of change." - The New York Times
Just as streaming isolates and aggregates its users, so it dissolves movies into content. They don’t appear on the platforms so much as disappear into them, flickering in a silent space beyond the reach of conversation. We can watch them whenever we want. We can watch something else. It doesn’t matter. - The New York Times
"Hollywood writers have voted almost unanimously to approve the contract agreement reached by their union leaders that ended a strike after nearly five months, while actors remain in negotiations to find a way out of their own strike." - AP
“These platforms are fundamentally rooted in users being able to get value, not just from the platform but from each other. If the platform starts getting in the way of users being able to get value from each other and their connections and community, then that fundamentally eats away the core value of the platform.” - The Atlantic
She says it's time to retire: "The emphasis becomes not on the art or the artist or the storytelling. It becomes about satisfying your stockholders." - Los Angeles Times
Tired of bemoaning a lack of Latin@ folks in Hollywood, he "decided to create a pipeline for training California elementary and high school students to pursue careers in cinema: a nine-month, twice-weekly, 90-minute immersion program." It's working. - Los Angeles Times
Perhaps understandably, the heads of the two organizations who put on the biggest award shows in the film world have put up a solid defense about the value of the ceremonies and the awards themselves. - The Hollywood Reporter
Jack Fisk is also one of the most difficult to recruit, going years (and, at one point, two decades) between films. And once a producer does recruit him, his work will be expensive, labor-intensive, and very, very detail-oriented. It will also be brilliant. - The New York Times Magazine
