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An Oral History Of One Of The Best, And Most Meta, “Simpsons” Episodes Ever

"Stars Yeardley Smith, Nancy Cartwright, Hank Azaria and writer David X. Cohen, among others, share new insights and secrets about the 'ballsy' episode that thumbed its nose at Hollywood brass and pushed back against viewers already claiming that the Fox show was far past its prime." - The Hollywood Reporter

Immersive Art Experiences Are Taking Over

Operated by artist studios, collectives, and production companies, these projects range in finesse from sophisticated new-media installations to animated retrospectives of Impressionist painters. - The New Yorker

Disney+ Adds Huge Number Of Subscribers, Now Growing Faster Than Netflix

Disney added 11.8 million Disney+ subscribers globally in the fiscal first quarter, topping the average analyst estimate of around 7 million, according to StreetAccount. - CNBC

2021 Wasn’t Supposed To Have Been The Year Of The Movie Musical, But …

By this point Dear Evan Hansen and In the Heights feel much farther away than West Side Story, Encanto, and Tick,Tick ... Boom!, but they all came out in 2021. And, writes Jackson McHenry, most of them came out better than had seemed the case a few months ago. - Vulture

What This Year’s Oscar Best Picture Nominations Say About The Movie Audience

“Dune,” the sprawling first installment of Denis Villeneuve’s ambitious adaptation of the 1965 science fiction novel, was the only nominated film that could claim to be a classic box office success, having earned more than $100 million in bricks-and-mortar theaters. - Washington Post

How Streaming Platforms Are Transforming Bollywood

"The benchmark in the minds of the audience is content that they have watched from across the globe. That has pushed Indian filmmakers, writers and actors to pull up their socks and upgrade the quality of entertainment." - DW

Captive Audience: Why Mazdas In The Pacific Northwest Only Tune This NPR Station

It was as if the infotainment center had decided to team up with the ghost of HAL. You remember that malfunctioning, soft-spoken and ultimately sinister artificial intelligence computer from “2001: A Space Odyssey”? - Seattle Times

Did This Year’s Oscar Nominations Show The Usual Art-Versus-Popularity Divide? It’s Not That Simple Anymore

"The definition of success (is) more slippery than ever. Gone are the days when box office is the only metric; streamers calculate their investments not based on conventional monetary returns, but in gaining and retaining subscribers." And some nominees simply don't fit within the art-pop binary. - MSN (The Washington Post)

Maybe Ridicule Works: The Original Ending Of “Fight Club” Has Been Restored For Streaming In China

The Chinese streaming giant Tencent had — to much criticism and mockery — removed the final scene, in which buildings explode as an anarchist revolution starts, and replaced it with a title card saying that the authorities had foiled the plot and sent Tyler Durden to an insane asylum. - The Hollywood Reporter

NBC Uses Olympics To Test New Way Of Measuring Audience

To boost its efforts to offer an alternate means of counting the video-watching masses, NBCU is working with more than 30 different advertisers to test a new measurement tool it has built with iSpot.TV — and using the company’s Olympics and looming Super Bowl broadcasts as a sort of test run. - Variety

Why Netflix Is Going To Fail

Netflix’s proprietary approach— based on sole control of intellectual property and intense hostility to all other players—is destined for long term failure. - Ted Gioia

Inside The Brutal World Of Testing Video Games

QA testing doesn’t involve leisurely trying out different video games, but is instead an intense and often tedious process of making sure that every single aspect of a game is up to snuff. - Slate

Right-Wing Platform Offers Joe Rogan $100 Million To Leave Spotify And “Save The World”

"The CEO of the Canadian video-sharing platform Rumble (tweeted) … 'How about you bring all your shows to Rumble, both new and old, with no censorship, for $100 million bucks over four years? This is our chance to save the world.'" - The Hollywood Reporter

Here’s How China’s Influence On American Culture Works

“Red Dawn” would become a case study observed by every producer in Hollywood who needed this market to make a profit. And soon, it wouldn’t be just Hollywood taking the lesson of the movie to heart.  - The Wall Street Journal

Is Hollywood Rethinking The Romantic Gender Age Gap?

“Men on screen have a whole life, and women only have a shelf life,” says Nicky Clark, the founder of campaign group Acting Your Age, which lobbies for age-appropriate casting and representation for older women on screen. - The Guardian

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