Owen Gleiberman: "As the nominations were announced, I thought, 'Please, Golden Globes! Atone for your sins, fix your corrupt ways, but don't take away the precious vulgarity that we love.'" - Variety
"Banshees" garnered eight nominations (including picture, director, and screenplay), followed by "Everything" with six, and "The Fabelmans" and "Babylon," each with five. - Variety
This polarization means that the real potential of NFTs, as well as their flaws, which are also very real, tend to be overshadowed by caricatured positions of principle. However, within this ecosystem of NFTs, there exists a set of rich and plural artistic practices. - The Conversation
Casualty is the world's longest running medical drama, and it is the first time in its 36-year history that scripts have been ditched and every scene improvised. - BBC
A closer look at the screenshot tells us interesting stories about not only how media transforms over time, but also how even the humblest technical operation may give rise to sophisticated cultural forms. - The Conversation
We’ll see if Saturday night business is so bad that that this weekend becomes the lowest of 2022, unseating that of Jan. 28-30 when all movies grossed $34.87M per Comscore. - Deadline
Everything about discursive social media is suddenly open to question. What sort of news and discussion should it host and encourage? What should be its attitude to participation, networking, user rights and free speech? What should be its business model? What societal role should it seek to play? - New Statesman
Hollywood sees this an affront to its identity. Film power players have long clung to the fantasy that the cultural world revolves around them. That delusion is hard to sustain when the masses can’t be bothered to come. Hollywood equates this with cultural irrelevancy. - The New York Times
The concept of entrainment points to the ways in which our experience of time can be affected by so much more than the number of hours we have in a day. - The New York Times
Priyanka Chopra says that in a 20-year career, "I've never had pay parity in Bollywood. I would get paid about 10% of the salary of my male co-actor," and that the first time she got equal pay was for her work on the series Citadel in the US. - BBC
Director general Tim Davie: "Imagine a world that is internet-only, where broadcast TV and radio are being switched off and choice is infinite. A switch-off of broadcast will and should happen over time, and we should be active in planning for it." - The Guardian
The CRTC's moves toward greater flexibility for radio include introducing new criteria to determine whether a song is Canadian, including refining content categories to widen the eligible songs stations can play to meet Canadian content requirements. - Inside Radio
NBCUniversal, Paramount Global and Walt Disney together own dozens of underperforming cable networks that are quickly losing relevance in the age of streaming. - Variety
“It was our belief that cord-cutting losses would be offset by gains in streaming. This has not been the case. We are primarily a content company and the mechanisms for the monetization of content are in disarray.” - The Hollywood Reporter
It’s a story about how to structure a company like Disney. Then you add in the complexity of the shift to streaming, the future of TV and movies generally, and the gigantic reputation of a character like Bob Iger, who many people think could plausibly run for president. There’s just a lot going on here. - The Verge
