The Seattle International Film Festival announced that it had bought the theatre, which has been closed since February of 2020, from the estate of Paul Allen, and will reopen it later in 2023. - Seattle Times
"The rampant and vocal factions of dissent among the WGA ranks that we saw during the last strike are functionally nonexistent. The unity within the Hollywood labor community feels true and water-tight and only growing in strength." (But there's still guilt.) - The Hollywood Reporter
The mashup of clips, interviews, and what the director called "a wild ride" is "genre-defying hybrid that uses Fox’s own film and TV work to creatively illustrate key moments of his life ... and even reveal long-held secrets." - The New York Times
"I can’t see getting round the course again. This was quite a tough one to do. My short-term memory is fading and my eyesight is not what it was, and then there’s all the natural shocks that flesh is heir to. ... It’s a hard job to give up." - The Observer (UK)
One of the writers at the event "Strike Up a Romance" said, "This would be the perfect time to write a romcom, though, of, like, love on the picket line." - NPR
Lindsay Dougherty: "If we all want to get what's ours, we are going to have to fight for it tooth and nail. ... If you throw up a picket line, those f— trucks will stop, I promise you." The trucks have definitely stopped. - Los Angeles Times
It started with Esther Perel's podcast Where Should We Begin?, continued with Showtime's Couples Therapy, YouTube's Blue Therapy, Audible's podcast Sex Therapy, and the BBC3 documentary Tough Talking. "There is something undeniably seductive about being let into an experience usually shrouded in privacy." - The Guardian
Gross box office receipts across the European Union and the U.K. were up 70 percent in 2022 to $5.5 billion (€5.07 billion), with an additional 250 million tickets sold, bringing total attendance figures to 657 million. The return of the studio blockbusters were the main drivers of the theatrical resurgence. - The Hollywood Reporter
The flagship Disney+ service also lost 4 million paid subscribers during the quarter—its biggest drop ever and a shock to analysts who expected the service to add 1.7 million subscribers. Disney’s shares fell more than 4% following the report. - The Wall Street Journal
The Kerala Story, set in the southwestern state but produced by Mumbai's Hindi-language industry, purports to tell the story of three out of an alleged 32,000 women lured into marriage by Muslim men ("love jihad," a decades-old conspiracy theory) and taken to join ISIS in Afghanistan. - BBC
"The show is dragging an ancient queen into Western debates in which she has no place, they argue, … and they would like Afrocentrists to back off. … '“How can someone who's not even from my country claim my heritage just because of their skin color?' said (one) Egyptologist." - The New York Times
To be sure, Paramount is hardly alone in its bloodletting. Warner Bros. Discovery, for instance, completed a series of layoffs as well as a corporate reorganization last year, while Disney is in the midst of cutting 7,000 positions across the company. - The Hollywood Reporter
"'We have had over 40 new advertisers come into the hour since we launched the new program, including some of the largest in the country and, really, across all major categories,' says Jeff Collins, executive vice president of ad sales at Fox News Media." - Variety
"For 1,350 global publishers included in Chartbeat’s data, 27% of page views coming from external, search and social in January 2018 came from Facebook (2 billion page views). In April 2023, this was down to 11% (1.5 billion)." - Press Gazette (UK)
