The U.S. theatrical market is no longer always an accurate model. Certain genres, particularly action and thriller, tend to out-perform globally — there’s a reason why those Gerard Butler and Liam Neeson movies sell out every film market — while others struggle to transfer domestic success to foreign shores. - The Hollywood Reporter
Median Membership Revenue for the three-month period from October through December is down 0.6% year-over-year. TV and joint-licensee stations saw a decrease of 0.7% in membership revenues while radio stations achieved a slight gain of 0.9% after 9 months of declines. - Current
For a start, the TV film — titled India: The Modi Question — deals with a very sore subject for the Prime Minister: his role, when he was chief minister of Gujarat state, in the 2002 sectarian riots that saw more than 1,000 people killed, most of them Muslims. - The Guardian
Before Pathaan — which just knocked Avatar 2 out of the top spot on the global box office chart — Shah Rukh Khan hadn't made a movie in five years. And Modi's Hindu-nationalist government had been going after him. This new film, unsubtle in many ways, is a subtle retort to Modi. - Vox
The streaming revolution has upended the old system of compensation. The syndication market for TV shows has all but disappeared, and residuals from movies have also waned as theatrical attendance has sharply declined, eroding the residual income for writers. - Los Angeles Times
Several major podcast publishers have had layoffs, and "Amazon, SiriusXM, NPR and Spotify have all curbed podcast budgets in the last year, sometimes allowing expensive deals to sunset or canceling others before they closed." As one analyst put it, "The dumb money era is over." - The New York Times
Dallas County’s population is 40% Hispanic/Latino (1.05 million people) and 34% of residents speak Spanish at home, according to 2020 census data (though Latinos were also heavily undercounted in that census). - NiemanLab
The connection between love interests, once a central element of the rom-com, has in recent years seemed secondary at best; now it’s actually plausible that someone might try to add it in post. - The New Yorker
"More than a dozen income tax officials first entered BBC newsrooms (in Delhi and Mumbai) early Tuesday, seizing accounts, financial documents, and phones of BBC employees. ... The searches came weeks after the BBC aired ... India: The Modi Question, (which) examined Modi's role in anti-Muslim riots ... in Gujarat in 2002." - NPR
The time is right to revisit and revise the Public Broadcasting Act. A revised and reauthorized act would identify and direct resources to needs that contemporary telecom content providers are not meeting and adjust the allocation of federal appropriations. - Current
The reason the Babel story matters is not that it happened once but that it happens over and over: We Babelize and de-Babelize. The internet is an engine of both processes. - Wired
"The chairman is supposed to maintain the independence of the BBC," observed one insider about Richard Sharp, "but has said publicly it has a liberal bias while facilitating loans to the Prime Minister" — Boris Johnson, who appointed Sharp — "and eating chop suey at Chequers" (Britain's Camp David). - The New Statesman (UK)
"Interviews with 20 people with direct knowledge of events at WVPB indicate Amelia Ferrell Knisely's involuntary departure from her position as a part-time reporter was not an aberration but part of a years-long pattern of mounting pressure on the station from Gov. Jim Justice's administration and some state legislators." - NPR
Music, ephemeral in its power over our emotions, is a notoriously demanding discipline, so this film presents exciting possibilities for an exploration of the dark sides of the “cult of genius.” - The Conversation
What happens to the subjects of these series years later - and what about when the series get bought by streaming services, and everything is stirred up again? There's a documentary about that. - The Observer (UK)
