An individual with knowledge of the matter told TheWrap the AMPTP has not reached out to SAG-AFTRA with a similar request. This suggests that the studios have not yet coordinated new positions to respond to SAG’s demands. - The Wrap
Netflix is looking to hire an AI product manager who will “define the strategic vision for” the streamer’s machine-learning platform, according to a job posting. - Wall Street Journal
"(The app's fast creation and launch) has become something of a marvel inside Meta. … Many see its quick rise as a reminder that well-executed product launches might not need all the bureaucratic trappings that a company with some 66,000 employees had grown accustomed to." - MSN (The Washington Post)
"(The show) made perfect sense. Kids are wigged-out surrealists by nature; it takes grown-ups to regiment their impulses into predictable TV formats. ... Maybe a 5-year-old could imagine something like Pee-wee's Playhouse, but only a genius like Reubens could do it as an adult." - The New York Times
Hollywood has a history of treating evolving consumer habits first as a threat to theatrical dollars and then as a tool to be co-opted in the pursuit of earning ever-greater profits. - The Atlantic
Not surprisingly, "games and adjacent discussion sites like Discord and Steam are becoming online platforms for Russian agitprop, circulating to new, mostly younger audiences a torrent of propaganda that the Kremlin has used to try to justify the war in Ukraine." - The New York Times
But, just like the shambling husks in movies, it's ambling on until someone can fire the right shot. "Twitter was a go-to source for news, politics, sports, and entertainment—along with misinformation and hate speech. ... Each new day, it’s still there." - Wired
It's free, and its name is ... NASA Plus. It "will bring the on-demand non-sci-fi space content you crave to TVs and mobile devices everywhere. And best of all, NASA says it will be 'ad-free, no cost, and family-friendly.'" - The Verge
One of the producers of Mare Fuori says, "We have realized that these stories of young lovers, people like a lot. ... In the end, we are a romantic country." - The New York Times
Tossing people off their land at gunpoint and giving them only 48 hours to go? Sounds like the USA - and that's just what government officials did to the 32 families on the land that became Los Alamos. - CBC
"We spoke to 19 workers from every corner of the industry — from actors to writers to camera operators. They shared their salaries, their meager residuals, and what they've been doing to survive. Even those who've ostensibly 'made it' are stretching their paychecks as far as they'll go." - New York Magazine
Basia, the country's first AI-generated radio host, has taken over an hour of middays every Saturday through Sept. 2 on the station, which published an image of how she supposedly looks and a promo including her voice. - InsideRadio
"The 2023 Emmy Awards are officially moving off their usual September airdate as actors and writers continue their strikes against media conglomerates. … The postponement is the first for the Emmy Awards in more than two decades." - The Hollywood Reporter
"Barbie combines the rules of the movie musical ... with the investments of a Beckett or a Ionesco play. … (It's) a highly symbolic exercise where theoretical entities get to speak for themselves, and where real people get to tell anthropomorphized theoretical entities what effects they have on the human experience." - Literary Hub
"The New York Times … has signed a deal with the public media organization PRX to repurpose (The Ezra Klein Show) into a weekly one-hour radio show. … Klein joined The New York Times two years ago and launched the podcast in January 2021." - Inside Radio
