The popular genre, derided and outcast from the movie theatres for a while, has made a return - but with different values, and often on streaming. ("Thirty-six new romcoms are coming out this year on film and streamed TV. That’s three a month!") - The Guardian (UK)
So are they Tubecasts? PodTube? Anyway, "more podcast listeners in the U.S. prefer to watch podcasts on YouTube than listen to audio-only version," and also, "people listening to podcasts on YouTube are more likely to be younger." No more "voice for radio" jokes. - Nieman Lab
"The strike authorization vote is meant to turn up the heat on companies such as Netflix and Walt Disney and convince them to raise the pay for writers, who say their compensation has suffered because of the streaming revolution." - Reuters
"The dimly lit space, which is sandwiched between a former Victorian public baths and a burger shop in Clapton, east London, is a cinematic Aladdin’s cave, its floor reduced to a narrow path between stacks and shelves of film paraphernalia." - The Guardian (UK)
The designer of many of India's single-screen cinemas created "visually enticing places that transported you from the commonness of the streets and prepared you for the fantastical world of movies and storytelling that was to come." AMC, take notes. - BBC
Respect the source material, pay for talent, use visual cues from the games, and pick wisely. (The latter seems like it might be the most difficult one to get right, considering how many adaptations have gone wrong. - Washington Post
A challenging macroeconomic environment discourages both consumers and tech giants from investing heavily in metaverse technologies that lack a solid history of performance and compelling applications. - JingCulture
As entertainment’s largest conglomerates face a perfect storm of financial pressures and macroeconomic uncertainty, there’s been a clear shift again to embrace the fundamentals and focus on profits, not market share, for new services. - Variety
"PBS said it has suspended posting to Twitter after Elon Musk's social network pinned a 'government-funded media' descriptor to its primary account. The public TV broadcaster joins NPR in ceasing Twitter activity following the Twitter changes, which the organizations say inaccurately represent them." - Variety
"Shot in the deserts of Texas, the film takes (climate activist Andreas) Malm's call to action and builds it into a heist movie. … As with the ragtag group of radicals in their film, each (of the moviemakers) brought their expertise to pull off a job no one thought was possible." - Vulture
Polling from the firm Morning Consult that US podcast consumers, in the aggregate, prefer YouTube to audio-only platforms. Staffers from Slate, ESPN, and NPR tell Nieman Lab how and why they're posting their podcasts to the video site. - Nieman Lab
“At this point I have lost my faith in the decision-making at Twitter,” said NPR CEO John Lansing in an article posted on NPR’s website. “I would need some time to understand whether Twitter can be trusted again.” - Deadline
"The exhibition industry is finally looking like its pre-pandemic self again. That's partly attributable to studios releasing new installments of successful franchises, but it is also linked to a shift in attitude among the major media companies when assessing the value of a theatrical release." - Variety
