As a new crop of music documentaries' directors confirm, "Music is a great portal into larger conversations because music is always a reflection of and a reaction to the environment." - Variety
"(The decision comes) amid $10 million in budget cuts, close to 3% of NPR's annual budget, linked to an anticipated $20 million decline in corporate sponsorship revenue. The latest financial challenge for NPR follows last month's announced hiring freeze, along with cuts to discretionary spending." - Inside Radio
Short for “free, ad-supported television,” FAST is a live, linear and growing area of the streaming universe that has emerged as a complement to on-demand offerings. The multibillion-dollar sector is inhabited by an eclectic range of purveyors, content owners and connected-TV players. - Deadline
"The company said it now expects to incur total pre-tax restructuring charges" — that is, charges related to the merger of Warner Bros. and Discovery — "of $4.1 billion to $5.3 billion. ... The new estimate includes $2.8 billion to $3.5 billion of content impairment and development write-offs." - Variety
Investment firms for years have sought to lock up income streams from assets such as mineral rights and songwriter catalogs, with classic-rockers Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen cashing in for hundreds of millions of dollars. Now YouTube videos are becoming their own asset class. - The Wall Street Journal
"Video games are inherently a visual medium — which is why high-profile crossovers have focused in the main on film and television," and Sebastian Baczkiewicz, who adapted Splinter Cell: Firewall for BBC Radio 4, "admits the adaptation was an extraordinary challenge, but one he was excited about." - BBC
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
