Time was, folks on a budget could see a film at cinemas where titles that were no longer brand-new were shown at discounted ticket prices before being released for home video. As Hollywood makes that window before video release ever smaller, those theaters are becoming unfeasible. - The Hollywood Reporter
"The simple premise is that if you make a generational commitment — and about 25 to 30 years is a generational commitment — to flooding the market with exceedingly talented people from diverse backgrounds — in this case women — then you will make a change." - Variety
Sanders, who created the weekly show It's Been a Minute, is the fourth host of color in the past year to leave NPR for commercial media. He's joining Vox Media, owner of New York magazine, where he'll host a new weekly podcast for the magazine's culture vertical, Vulture. - Bloomberg
"A new advocacy organization composed of film-makers, distributors and film lovers, Missing Movies has a mission to 'locate lost materials, clear rights, and advocate for policies and laws to make the full range of our cinema history available to all'." - The Guardian
Earlier this week, the streaming service had announced that it would pause all future projects and acquisitions from Russia, joining a growing list of companies that have cut ties with the country. - Variety
Sure, AMC raised prices over The Batman's opening weekend, but Regal and Cinemark had already started raising prices with another blockbuster - Spider-Man: No Way Home. (But good news for indie fans: Those movies aren't on the price increase list.) - Variety
But TIFF also "voiced its solidarity with 'the people of Ukraine and those within Russia who stand against these attacks,' noting films from independent Russian filmmakers are still welcome." - CBC
The director, whose The Power of the Dog has 12 nominations, says that's because "the designer is one of the very first people I bring onto a team. All the work that do as designers is so vital, and it is really deeply valued." Just not live. - Variety
"The messiness on ... points to a central crisis within the 'Real Housewives' universe: Can shows predicated on entitlement and endless pot-stirring evolve into entertainment that is over-the-top and meaningfully inclusive at the same time?" (Uh ... not so far.) - Los Angeles Times
Streaming is starting to sort itself out. "The nixing of the content deal comes as Comcast tries to grow its own streaming service, Peacock. ... Peacock has 9 million paying subscribers and 24.5 million monthly active accounts, Comcast said in January. Hulu has 45.3 million subscribers." - Los Angeles Times
Why? Series like Inventing Anna and The Dropout "create a shared universe in which scamming and entrepreneurship meet in a chaotic portrait of American decline." - The New York Times
Dear Sam Elliott: As a fan of Westerns, maybe you should check out Zachariah, which "shot back at the genre's fatalistic masculinity by celebrating peace, pacifism and, most remarkably, intimate male friendship." - BBC
In the end, rather than dropping 12 categories altogether from the telecast, the Academy was able to satisfy ABC with the current plan, which will leave the network with more time to restore the sorts of ratings-drivers that were glaringly absent from last year’s telecast. - The Hollywood Reporter
After several years of well-documented turmoil, WNYC had a new president and needed a new top editor. The newsroom badly wanted someone, preferably of color, who knew both the city and public radio deeply. They got a white Californian who'd spent her whole career at commercial newspapers. - Columbia Journalism Review
