As Hollywood's double strikes keep going without much hope for solutions soon, the Creative Artists Agency plans to lay off at least 60 people. - Los Angeles Times
David, who got into the business by pure chance, was also "a trailblazer for equality and safety within the industry. It was no holiday, though; being a stunt performer is a risky profession, and David has plenty of war stories to share." - The Guardian (UK)
"After all that, the actual experience of video chat is maybe in its most boring state ever. ... The market is largely run by tech giants and the pace of new and interesting features has slowed to practically nothing." - The Verge
"It isn’t just American actors and writers who want to be paid fairly. It’s all of them. ... Actors in South Korea, where Netflix is spending billions to amp up its post-Squid Game presence, are also angry about the lack of residuals and low pay." - Los Angeles Times
AM/FM radio is the top audio source in the U.S., with double the time spent listening of any other audio platform, according to the most recent quarterly Share Of Ear update from Edison Research. - Inside Radio
Here, when you write for a show that becomes an unprecedented success, there is no such windfall. There is only a check for $259.71. - Yahoo (Los Angeles Times)
"In the Hamilton Simulator, players use their own avatars as they rub shoulders with the musical's characters through 10 levels set during the Revolutionary War. It starts at the New York docks and the goal is to free the city from the British yoke" — using the musical's songs as weapons. - AP
"The return to formal negotiations was announced Aug. 10, nearly a week after both sides met in an exploratory meeting about the talks between the two parties. It marks the first step in what may be a long road to the parties reaching a resolution." - The Hollywood Reporter
Disney+ reported a total of 146.1 million subscribers for the quarter, a decrease of 11.7 million from 157.8 million in the previous quarter. - The Wrap
Many parents, both in and outside China, have celebrated Beijing’s past parental controls as the right approach for a government to take. But will all those people be comfortable with the government’s ever-intensifying restrictions? - MIT Technology Review
To survey the film and television industry today is to witness multiple existential crises. Many of them point to a larger trend: of Hollywood divesting from its own future, making dodgy decisions in the short term that whittle down its chances of long-term survival. - The New Yorker
The Lebanese culture minister said, "The film goes against moral and religious values in Lebanon, as it encourages perversity and gender transformation while calling for the rejection of patriarchy and ridiculizing the role of mothers." Kuwaiti authorities banned the film to protect "public ethics and social traditions." - Variety
There clearly is no buyer like Apple, which is sitting on $62 billion in cash and cash equivalents and has a $2.8 trillion market cap. And while it may be very true that Apple doesn’t want to buy a studio, maybe it would want to buy this studio. - The Hollywood Reporter
