“'I’m afraid leather forearm bracers have nothing to do with ancient Rome,’ says Alexander Mariotti, a historian and specialist in gladiatorial combat who worked as a researcher and script consultant on . ‘They don’t appear in any imagery or sources … they just look good on film.’” - The Guardian (UK)
The reality is that access to these careers often comes down to personal connections and the kinds of skills that are fostered through private education and existing networks in the arts. - The Conversation
"The legal battle arose after Capital Public Radio’s Endowment board, a nonprofit separate from the radio station, donated the tower used by CapRadio to PBS KVIE (following) a proposition to merge the two organizations. Those plans never materialized," and ownership of the tower is now in dispute. - The Sacramento Bee (MSN)
It fell to director Joel Souza, new cinematographer Bianca Cline, and a cast and crew of about 250 people to complete Rust. Now they have to release and promote it, answering to critics who consider it macabre and exploitative to finish and screen this film. - The Hollywood Reporter
"About two dozen smaller, low-cost specialty streaming services have generated significant subscriber growth over the last couple of years. … This includes streamers from traditional cable networks (AMC+, BET+) as well as those (for) specific genres, including British television (BritBox, Acorn TV), horror (Shudder) and anime (Crunchyroll, Hidive)." - The New York Times
"The incoming Trump administration has made it clear that deregulation will be at the top of its priority list, and the companies that own local TV stations — Nexstar, Sinclair, Gray, E.W. Scripps and Tegna, among many others — are practically giddy at what it could mean for them." - The Hollywood Reporter
The lead plaintiffs are the dailies Le Figaro, Les Echos, Le Parisien and Le Monde, with smaller outlets such as Nouvel Obs, HuffPost France, and Télérama joining. They accuse the site of violating 'neighboring rights', which are due when social media platforms republish news content." - The Guardian
New data from subscription analytics provider Antenna offer a deeper look at the subscription pausing habits customers are developing as services like Netflix, Disney+ and Apple TV+ become the go-to way of watching TV in many households, instead of cable. - The Wall Street Journal
The docudrama is being shot in Perugia, where Knox was studying in 2007 when her apartment-mate, Meredith Kercher, was murdered; Knox was wrongfully convicted of the crime and spent four years in prison. Perugians have hung banners around town reading "Respect for Meredith." - Variety
"The impulse from liberals to replicate the juice by developing their own Rogan equivalent is understandable but ultimately myopic. The idea is little more than fantasy wish-casting, driven by a top-down desire to inorganically bring into the world something that can only exist organically." - Vulture (MSN)
Months of prophesying about generative AI have now culminated, almost all at once, in what may be the clearest glimpse yet into the internet’s future. - The Atlantic
Using machine learning on data from the Human Connectome Project, the research mapped areas that respond to diverse audio-visual stimuli. The findings could inform future studies on how individual brain responses vary with age or cognitive disorders. - Neuroscience News
“‘If you take your phone and then go to TikTok, you will see a lot of activities, dancing, you know, happy things,’ says Mojez, a former Nairobi-based moderator who worked on TikTok content. ‘But in the background, I personally was moderating, in the hundreds, horrific and traumatising videos.’” - BBC
“I’ll be sitting here like the Michael Jackson popcorn GIF as Jacques Audiard’s musical, a film that until now existed only in the cloistered world of prestige cinema, is instantly thrust in front of millions of streaming subscribers.” (That’s on Wednesday, in case you want to prepare yourself.) - Vulture
