Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Russian films have not seen much travel to the west, particularly as those made with state funding have largely been unwelcome at major festivals. Tchaikovsky’s Wife, by Russian dissident Kirill Serebrennikov, however was selected in competition at Cannes. - Deadline
"North Texas Public Broadcasting, the parent company of news/talk KERA Dallas (90.1), is in the process of acquiring the Denton Record-Chronicle. ... Facilitating the transaction is The National Trust for Local News — a nonprofit dedicated to keeping local news in local hands." - Inside Radio
"The market regulator said that for more than two years, Theodore Farnsworth and former Netflix executive Mitchell Lowe, who were CEOs of Helios and Matheson Analytics and MoviePass, respectively, 'intentionally and repeatedly' disseminated materially false or misleading statements about the business." - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
At a time when attitudes toward sex work, transgender individuals, and other sexual minorities are by and large changing for the better, it is perhaps ironic that Silicon Valley’s CEOs are so rapidly closing off the spaces where such communities have long gathered. - Wired
"The BBC, ITV and Sky News have been given until Monday to produce a 60-minute compilation of clips they would like to keep from (the) ceremonial events. ... Once the process is complete, the vast majority of other footage from ceremonial events will then be taken out of circulation." - The Guardian
"In the years since Serial took off, numerous productions, including later incarnations of the flagship show, have shifted attention from individual cases ripe for Reddit dissection to examinations of design flaws in the American criminal justice system" — flaws that led to Syed’s imprisonment in the first place. - The Guardian
At the very least, the museum’s rosy first-year financial picture makes it something of a rarity among nonprofit cultural institutions, many of which are still reeling from the pandemic. - The New York Times
Chinese creators use translation apps, dubbing software, and VPNs to help viewers speed-watch movies and TV dramas in English, Spanish, and Bahasa Indonesia. Despite the translation errors and robotic narrations, each clip garners anywhere between a few thousand to millions of views. - Rest of the World
In a request for more funding to pursue the case, the district attorney for Santa Fe County stated that "we will be potentially charging between one and four people with criminal charges ... includ(ing) some variation of our homicide statute." - CBS News
"It's still unclear exactly what markets in the region will be affected, but it's likely to include Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Kuwait — all of which are notorious for censoring movies over even the slightest hint of LGBTQ themes or content." - Variety
Two chefs supervise the food. "The culinary producers devised on-camera dishes for the FX on Hulu series and also served as inspiration and sounding boards." And of course, "the onscreen depiction of the Italian beef would need to be perfect." - Los Angeles Times
But not for the usual reasons. "As growing audiences began to avidly consume Tamil (Kollywood), Telugu (Tollywood), Malayalam, Kannad (Sandalwood) and Marathi-language cinema in their homes and post widely about it on social media," Bollywood conventions seemed stale. - The Guardian (UK)
Well yeah: "Women made up 66 percent of the audience, according to Warner Bros., the studio behind the $35 million film, with an unusually large 52 percent of ticket buyers under the age of 25." - The New York Times
The film, Los Reyes del Mundo (The Kings of the World in English), "follows five young men from Medellín, Colombia’s second-largest city, trying to get ahead in life." - Bloomberg (AP)
Did all of the rumors, speculation, reports of on-set arguments, and reports of affairs fuel sales for Don't Worry, Darling? You bet: "It’s been a juicy backbiting tabloid celebrity saga in which nobody actually did anything too wrong." - Variety
