"To be a silent star is to be almost completely, but maybe imperfectly, physically gone; to be a fan of silent films is to feel as though you’ve been given the gift of seeing the dead." - The Smart Set
“We've been in a crazy news cycle, people are coming to us for nuance and context, like they've been doing many public radio stations across the country,” WYPR Chief Content Officer Jonathan Blakley says about the station's 40% Aug.-Sept. gain according to Nielsen. - Inside Radio
"In all its elemental, metaphorical, campy, over-the-top, gore-y goodness, blood is something that has seeped into the visual vocabulary of movies. But how exactly did all that gloop get on the movie set? It’s kind of a sticky story." - Quartz
A statement from his wife and two children, all collaborators, said that he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's pre-pandemic and a recent bout of COVID has worsened his condition. The last film he was working on, Shulan River, will not be completed. - Variety
Hollywood hoped SAG-AFTRA and studios would resolve their contract negotiations by the end of October. But the strike drags on, preventing major stars from promoting their new films and adding to exhibitors’ anxieties about the upcoming holiday season. - Variety
"Decisions about the spaces people gathered in online were often made by members of the community. Our examination of the early history of online governance suggests that social media platforms could return – at least in part – to models of community governance in order to address their crisis of legitimacy." - The Conversation
"The audience and engagement that we get from X is small. Among our social media platforms, X is among the smallest sources of traffic," a CBC spokesperson told The Canadian Press when asked why it hasn't fully returned. - Yahoo!
Reports said that many Americans were paying for up to six streaming services. Since then, numbers have mostly returned to pre-pandemic with Americans paying for about three or four subscriptions. - Cordcutters News
Communications minister Shlomo Karhi pushed for the authority to unilaterally shut down the Qatar-based network's Israeli reporting operations (and, presumably, those, of other foreign outlets if he wishes), though he settled for doing so only with the approval of several Cabinet members and a court. - Columbia Journalism Review
Green, who made The Assistant and has the new Royal Hotel out, says - only partly about her films, where women face dangers at work - "I think we need to change the entire structure and blow it all up." - The New York Times
That's thanks to the writers' and actors' strikes. "If the strike continues without stars on the circuit, voters may be left to their own devices again. Perhaps that’s not such a bad thing?" - Variety
