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An Attempt To Fix The Oscars Broadcast?

To reinvigorate the red carpet preshow, Oscars organizers hired members of the Met Gala creative team. Expect much more star power, specialized lighting (to make a process that happens in daylight seem more like evening) and better integration with the theater’s entrance. - The New York Times

The Dominion Voting/Fox News Lawsuit: Who’s Really Responsible (And Thus Liable) For What Was Said On The Air?

Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch: "I'm not the CEO of Fox News. I'm not responsible for the editorial on Fox News. I don't make editorial decisions on Fox News."  Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott: "I don't decide what's on Fox News." (Sure.) - Variety

The Messy, Convoluted, Expensive, And Sometimes Ugly Business Of Campaigning For Oscar Votes

Studios, agents, and sometimes the talent themselves try to manipulate Academy voters and the press by hiring consultants, buying ads, throwing events, pestering people, staging photo ops, and sometimes even dropping dirt on competitors. - The New York Times Magazine

Will Your Next Radio Host Be An AI? (It’s Already In Testing)

One of the advantages of RadioGPT is that it knows about an artist or a song or about a current event, so it can speak to a broad range of topics concisely and in an entertaining way. When we set up RadioGPT voices, this is not text-to-speech. This is setting up character and personality in A.I. - Slate

The Academy Should Make An Oscar Category For Best Stunt Work

"It seems particularly odd that the Academy would give an award for Best Visual Effects but not for Best Stunts. Visual effects could be said to be the flip side of stunts: Both are disciplines designed to make the people onscreen look like they're doing the impossible." - Vulture

New York Mag’s Vulture Confers Its First Annual Stunt Awards (Because If The Academy Won’t, They Will)

"(These honors have been) created from a desire to not only highlight great stunt work over the past year (and there was great stunt work this year), but to underscore the obvious awards-worthiness of action storytelling. To do so, we created our own academy of voters." - Vulture

Alan Alda Prompted ChatGPT To Write A New Scene For “M*A*S*H”

"Alda, who hosts a podcast called Clear+Vivid, had decided to ask the tool to write a scene for M*A*S*H in which Hawkeye accuses B.J., his right hand man and fellow prankster, of stealing his boxer shorts. ... Did it work? Not quite." - The New York Times

Why Are Movie Theatres So Bad At Showing Movies?

Now that multiplexes use automated projection, problems fall to house managers, who, in this age of austerity, may be the same overworked employees ripping tickets and selling popcorn. - The Bulwark

Peak TV?  These Days, We’re Headed For Trough TV.

"The boom isn't just ending. It's imploding, with some (shows) being snuffed out or vaporized altogether, and the old winner-take-all logic reasserting itself. Even some of the products of the boom ... are starting to go bye-bye, and in the post-physical media era, that means they've effectively been deleted from the world." - Slate

Indie Film Studio A24 Buys An Off-Broadway Theater

"The studio, which until now has focused on making movies, television shows and podcasts, has purchased the Cherry Lane Theater for $10 million, and plans to present plays as well as other forms of live entertainment there, in addition to the occasional film screening." - The New York Times

Cable Companies Are Bleeding Millions Of Customers

The largest pay-TV providers lost a total of 5.8 million net video subscribers in 2022, compared to a loss of 4.7 million in 2021, according to the latest tally from Leichtman Research Group. - The Hollywood Reporter

A Film Tour Of The UK

Whether you're in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, or even England, the whole place has basically served as the film set of many a movie. - The Guardian (UK)

A Better Seat At The Movie Theatre Will Now Cost You More

For instance, movie theatres "have been pushing customers toward premium-priced specialty tickets" - IMAX? Dolby sound? Reclining seats? Or your regular, standard, much cheaper seat? - The New York Times

The Academy Changed The Way We See Movies

But that had nothing to do with the Oscars. "Academy reps conducted extensive studies and established standards for theater screen illumination, detailed the growing use of incandescent lighting on film sets, and led the drive for a single standard screen size." - Variety

With AI Skills, MARZ Became The Hollywood Go To For Anti-Aging Effects

The company - Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies, which, well, of course - now wants to "fix dubbing." - Fast Company

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