Some companies are coming to the conclusion they will need a dance partner to pursue growth instead of going it alone. Other Hollywood giants realize they probably should have one major offering in the marketplace, rather than two or three separate ones. - The Wall Street Journal
Writer-director Frances O'Connor says, "Sometimes it takes us a while to get the courage to step into something that we really feel passionate about, ... but if you’re going to tell a story now, I think it’s good for it to speak to women in a way that’s alive." - The Observer (UK)
A Netflix exec: "We loved going to see great original family films. ... Sadly, now when you look at what a lot of the offerings are, they aren’t live-action family. It’s usually animated for family, and then it’s reboots, remakes, sequels, low-budget horror." - The New York Times
Or rather not ending, but continuation, as a U.S. company buys and intends to expand the company that hired actors and built elaborate sets for "immersive screenings" of everything from Star Wars to Stranger Things. - The Guardian (UK)
"Poor on the outside and rich on the inside, and led by pioneers like Lynda Myles, Murray Grigor and many others, the Edinburgh film festival was feminist, unbridled, Nonconformist Scottish and passionately international. ... It changed film culture." - The Guardian (UK)
The range isn't the same, either for visuals or his music. "To this day, I still get letters from people going, 'There's 20 seconds of music missing in The Dark Knight,' and I'm going, 'No there is not any music missing. You're listening to it on your phone.'" - BBC
"The problem was that he misunderstood what made the monolithic mass media world a financial success. He was convinced that you could keep all the business structures basically the same, and just replace the media's phony reality with an authentic one." - The New Atlantis
Journalist Tiago Rogero has created three sets of podcasts — Negra Voz (Black Voice), Vidas Negras (Black Lives), and The Querino Project (Brazil's equivalent of The 1619 Project) — celebrating the "people, struggles and achievements that had been airbrushed from the history of a country that is more than 50% Black." - The Guardian
Most people don’t follow a bunch of political “elites” on Twitter — a group that, for these authors’ purposes, also includes news organizations. But those who do typically follow many more people they agree with politically than people who they don’t. - NiemanLab
A study by the University of Southern California’s Media Impact lab examined more than 37,000 film and TV scripts that aired in the US between 2016 and 2020. It found that only 2.8% even mentioned climate-adjacent words like solar panels, fracking, sea level rise or renewable energy. - The Guardian
"While these provisions have been criticized by talent reps for being too broad and too subjective, there's actually a bigger problem with their presence in many contracts: They're prohibited by the directors and writers guilds' collective bargaining agreements — and they have been for decades." - The Hollywood Reporter
"The Edinburgh International Film Festival, the Edinburgh Filmhouse and the Belmont cinema in Aberdeen have all stopped trading with immediate effect. The parent charity that runs them — Centre for the Moving Image — announced it had called in administrators after what it described as a 'perfect storm'." - BBC
At about $1.13 it has still lost more than 10% in value against the dollar over the past six months, so the UK can look forward to an extra boost from US companies seeking overseas filming locations and production facilities. - The Guardian
"The tropes feel like they're driving the action rather than the other way around. The rom-com, like a delicate houseplant, must be watered with sufficient meet-cutes, airport-chases, and forced misunderstandings. And like a ravenous Audrey II, specificity must bleed out in favor of these Beats You Know and Love." - Vulture
