Olivia Rodrigo’s brilliance lies in her use of TikTok as a tool to present her celebrity image as authentic to a young, global audience. Her use of social media self-branding to remix already existing ideas, sounds and texts in fresh, new ways is what makes her and other young artists and creators shine. - The Conversation
"Peele, who won an Academy Award in 2018 for Get Out's original screenplay, has brought industry prestige to a historically overlooked genre." And his influence is strong: "Among Peele's audience is a generation of BIPOC filmmakers inspired by his storytelling." - CBC
Panah Panahi, a filmmaker whose filmmaker father Jafar was arrested recently, says, "Who are you doing this for? ... What’s the point of this kind of resistance? From our family’s perspective, you sometimes think that, well, maybe it wasn’t worth it.” - The Guardian (UK)
Sure, Ms. Marvel absolutely nails the life of a Muslim teenager in the U.S. But "there’s been a cardinal unspoken rule when it comes to filming in Jersey: Come film our seedy underbellies, but don’t you dare make this place look inviting." - Slate
Dreams of the company building a global base of 700 million or even 800 million paid memberships now seem far-fetched, given the company has stalled out at around 220 million. - New York Magazine
Attracted to places like Vilnius, where Moscow and Paris collide at a fraction of the cost — and tens of millions of dollars in production rebates are quickly granted — Hollywood is setting its sights on lesser-known corners of the globe. - Los Angeles Times
"The answer lies in the expectations that Austen fans, a particularly passionate and opinionated crowd, bring to her work. The problem isn't that (the new, much-criticized Persuasion) takes liberties — every iteration does; that's practically the point — but what sort of liberties those are." - The New York Times
"Expectations that pent-up demand from movie-hungry audiences would lead to packed cinema halls have been belied by millions of dollars in lost revenue, as moviegoers become more discerning about where they spend their money." - BBC
"In the 2023 round of negotiations with the Writers Guild of America, the Directors Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA, the discussions are sure to be more charged than usual because of the tectonic shifts across TV and film that were accelerated by pandemic conditions in 2020 and '21." - Variety
When you’ve basically got as many subscribers as you can currently, you need your competitors (linear TV, YouTube, TikTok, the great outdoors, etc.) to do worse. So yes, of course, Hastings wants linear TV to kick the bucket. - The Verge
In number of subscribers, Vox is fourth, behind the BBC, ABC News, and CNN. But in average number of views per video, Vox racks up more than 2 million, four times the tally of the runner-up, The Economist (and more than 14 times that of Fox News). - Press Gazette (UK)
Last week, when Panahi went to Tehran's Evin Prison to inquire about a colleague who'd just been arrested, he was taken into custody himself and ordered to serve a six-year sentence for "propaganda against the system" that he had received following the mass protests after the disputed 2009 election. - BBC
Even though the tally, 970,000, is the largest such loss in the company's history, executives and analysts had expected the number to be more than twice as high. - Variety
Among the issues surrounding the film, titled Sebaya: a key scene doesn't show the rescue it purports to show, whether the women onscreen legitimately consented to appear, and an issue the film avoids entirely: rescued women being separated from the children sired by their ISIS enslavers. - The New York Times
