"The mega-exhibitor is following music concerts, sporting events and other entertainment venues in setting its ticket pricing strategy to sightlines for seating selections. AMC patrons attending cinemas after 4 p.m. will be able to pay different prices based on their proximity to the movie screen within the auditorium." - The Hollywood Reporter
What distinguishes the show—what makes it good, or at least enticing—lies instead in the workings of genre. In “Yellowstone,” Sheridan has corralled the ranging tropes of the Western into the chambers of domestic melodrama. - The New Yorker
The avid cinema-goers line up around the block and pack movie theatres for hours, until well after midnight - all for a new action thriller starring 57-year-old Shah Rukh Khan, who came out of retirement to, essentially, save Bollywood. - The Guardian (UK)
Turns out they don't believe in love anymore. "The approach misunderstands what modern households — which often include long-distance couples or families with children at college, as well as individual users who travel for work or don’t have one stable residence — are like." - Washington Post
Uh ... "Muslim male characters outnumber female characters 174 to 1, and when women do appear, they are portrayed as 'fearful and submissive' or endangered." But things may be changing, partly thanks to Disney. - Los Angeles Review of Books
The Oscar-nominated actress says, "In the early 90s, I had to fake an orgasm in a room full of male ad execs at an audition for a chocolate bar ad. It was grim." - The Guardian (UK)
One Netflix exec said, though, that it will be coming, and he added, "I think it’s worth noting that this will not be a universally popular move." - Wired
And those heads aren't spinning in a "get rich podcasting!" kind of a way. "Call it a pivot, call it a withdrawal; ... whatever the nomenclature, the financial realities of Spotify needing its big podcast bets to pay off have been true for some time." - Vulture
"It gave a name to the very common human experience of realising that you’re stuck. ... And that you can’t seem to get out of this repeating pattern of behaviours and consequences." But also, it offered hope. - The Guardian (UK)
When ratings drop, and with them advertising revenues, correspondents change, anchors change, coverage changes. News, especially but not only cable news, is curated for an audience. So, obviously, is the information published on social media. - The New Yorker
Cory Doctorow: "Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification." - Pluralistic
"All this has left the documentary world suffering an identity crisis. What even is a documentary anymore? There is more money than ever, but it has come with expectations that didn't exist when the industry was closer in ethics and taste to public broadcasting than to Hollywood." - New York Magazine
"They're right. They're right to take issue with the mangling of Remarque's timeless narrative into what is essentially a grisly picaresque, a high-budget Black Forest Chainsaw Massacre without any of the horror genre's usual pleasures." - Slate
“Strengthening local public radio stations is a democratic imperative. With additional funding, public radio has the capacity to fill much of the gap in local news created by the decline of the newspaper." - Inside Radio
