Names like Dwayne Johnson believed to be among those on their wish list. Popular former hosts such as Chris Rock also have been approached we hear though securing someone is proving challenging during the pandemic. - Deadline
"Those struggles can be seen in water-stained walls, amid the brick piles of a bulldozed neighborhood or on the tattered carnival tents of The Humans, West Side Story and Nightmare Alley. We spoke to the production designers of those movies about (those) solemn, living backdrops." - The New York Times
The audio-based social media app has been dissed by First Worlders as a glorified telephone and outflanked by Twitter and Facebook adding audio. But in South Asia, groups are gathering on Clubhouse to do things like chanting a classic Sanskrit hymn and reciting Urdu verse. - Rest of World
Goli Sheikholeslami, who's leaving to become CEO of Politico, faced a firestorm over a program cancellation the week after she arrived at WNYC, where she went on to deal with bullying accusations against well-known hosts and staff fury at her choice of editor-in-chief. - The New York Times
"Cornish will host a weekly show for the network’s subscription streaming service, set to debut in the spring, and will contribute to its live programming. She also will host a new podcast and will appear on CNN covering breaking news." - Deadline
The AFI Awards were postponed. The Critics’ Choice Awards — scheduled to be televised Sunday night in hopes of filling the void left by the Globes’ absence — were pushed back. The Palm Springs Film Festival was canceled. And most of those star-driven award favorites bombed at the box office. - The New York Times
Given the award show’s banishment from longtime home NBC and its failure to secure a new broadcaster, this year’s Globes were tweeted out from its official Twitter account. - The Daily Beast
And that tech isn't just for action films. Citizen Kane's 4K changes are "clear even before the first shot. In the 4K transfer, the bold capital letters that spell out Kane’s title beam like white neon against a jet-black background. The effect is bold, electrifying." - Slate
Just in case you care, after all of the info of last year that tanked "one of the glitziest awards shows in Hollywood," the info was delivered via Twitter. - The New York Times
Even before omicron hit, "the red flags were flying low back in 2021. The monstrous success of Spider-Man helped paper over the cracks of what was an underwhelming final quarter at the box office." - The Guardian (UK)
Probably you watched many of them already (you did, didn't you?), but if you want to see, for instance, In the Heat of the Night again, here's your info. - Los Angeles Times
We can't watch them - for very good reason, as the organization that put them on is ... problematic, to say the least - and publicists have been avoiding them. Do they matter to Hollywood? - Vulture
Of course, the Mouse - Pixar's parent company - is putting a good spin on it: "Subscribers around the world enthusiastically embraced Pixar’s Academy Award-winning Soul and the critically-acclaimed Luca when they premiered exclusively on the service." - Variety
For the right kind of movie, people really want a cultural, theatrical experience. Period. And they want to see the right kind of movie in a communal way with their friends and their family, and they want to share it the way they’ve always shared it. - Fast Company
