"That structure was created at the last big strike in 1960. The business has no resemblance to that anymore. When you cut down the amount of episodes per season from six or eight or ten, that used to be 22 to 28, and you cut back on the amount of seasons that make up a series, that old residual...
The deal puts Disney networks like ESPN and ABC back on Charter’s cable service, but also allows Charter to drop several of them, even as Charter agrees to pay Disney for making some of its streaming services available to customers. - Variety
She writes, "I want to be there to provide what writers do so well, which is a way to bring us together or help us make sense of the human experience." What that has to do with writers and actors on strike, no one knows (but the writers are picketing). - Vulture
"Controversy over Venice (Festival) title Green Border continues to heat up as director Agnieszka Holland gave an ultimatum to Poland's Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro following his comments about her film. … She is demanding a public apology and payment to The Association of Children of the Holocaust in Poland." - Variety
“I fear a future in which they can only hire one writer. They’ll have an AI, you know, churn out a script based on a large language model. … And then they’ll pay one writer to rewrite it and make it human.” - Washington Post
"Now, it can make or break them — with implications for how films are perceived, released, marketed, and possibly even green-lit. The Tomatometer may be the most important metric in entertainment, yet it's also erratic, reductive, and easily hacked." Here's how it got that way. - New York Magazine
"Roku will cut more than 300 staffers … as the streaming-platform company continues its battle to control costs. In addition, Roku will remove certain licensed and owned content from its platform as part of a 'strategic review of its content portfolio,' resulting in an impairment charge of up to $65 million." - Variety
"The company said in a regulatory filing that it now expects 2023 adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization to be between $10.5 billion and $11 billion, down from $11-to-$11.5 billion. … Warner Bros. Discovery owns HBO and Max, CNN, TNT and a host of other entertainment outlets." - AP
Streaming provided an explosion of opportunity at first, but profits dried up along with the pool of potential subscribers. The dual strike is happening in part because companies focused on cost-cutting measures like shorter seasons and smaller writers rooms. - Washington Post
"I stream plenty of movies, and listen to most of my music on Spotify. The real reason I stuck it out was the queue. Netflix allows DVD subscribers to save titles to a list of films, which are then sent in the order in which you added them. I’ve grown very attached." - The Atlantic
