Percival Everett’s James continued its run of awards with the fiction prize, while Benjamin Nathans’s To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause won for nonfiction, Tessa Hulls’s Feeding Ghosts won for autobiography, Marie Howe’s New and Selected Poems won for poetry, and Jason Roberts’s Every Living Thing won for biography. - Publishers Weekly
At the open of the U.S. stock market regular trading Monday, Netflix’s stock was down -3.3%, Disney was -2.4%, WBD was -4.2% and Paramount was -2.2%. Shares of Lionsgate Studios slipped more than 7% in early trading. - Variety
“It’s insane,” a veteran UK producer told us. “So U.S. companies can only make U.S. films? James Cameron can’t make Avatar overseas? Who pays the tariffs? Leading independent distributors would all be out of business if it’s them.” - Deadline
Vancouver is the third largest film and television production hub in North America after Los Angeles and New York. There were 26,000 persons employed in the industry in B.C. in 2023. - Vancouver Sun
Most film production – and indeed TV shows – are a complex patchwork of corporate investment, globally sourced labour and multinational revenue. Some are tiny, hand-to-mouth operations, others are gigantic behemoths whose turnover dwarfs the GDP of a minor island nation. - The Guardian
A cultural battle is dividing Odesa, with the Babel statue a flashpoint. The spark was the decolonization law, which was part of a broader effort in wartime Ukraine to sever ties with Russian heritage and build an identity free of its influence. - The New York Times
The library records more than 180,000 annual visits, one of the highest figures in Alabama, in a city of 25,000. It has been called Fairhope’s Taj Mahal. Now, it is also a battleground. Residents have packed meetings of the City Council and the library board, debating books with sexual content or L.G.B.T.Q. themes. - The New York Times
For one thing, there is a desire in conversations to be cooperative with your partner. When they ask a question, the default cooperative answer is usually “yes,” so you often go with that default. On top of that, it you may feel deficient if you’re lacking knowledge or awareness that someone else has. - Fast Company
When I scrubbed in for my first surgery, it felt strangely familiar—there was music playing, overhead lights shining, and a team working in synchrony, each person with a precise role. The energy reminded me of a performance. - Pointe Magazine
Now, “a movie” can be a meme or an endurance contest or just background wallpaper; if it’s playing on your TV, it could easily be a series you’re bingeing without differentiating between episodes. If it’s on a big screen, it’s nearly always a reboot or a spin-off or a merchandise-friendly spectacle. - Washington Post
With a pioneering sense of eclecticism, he connected the dots between John Cage and James Brown, between Mahler and MTT’s famous grandfather, Boris Thomashefsky, a star of the New York Yiddish theater. - Los Angeles Times
Apple TV+ “has become a must-see destination” and posted record viewership in the quarter. Some have compared it to HBO — before Warner Bros. Discovery began making cuts — developing a reputation for being willing to pay big for A-list stars and creatives. - Los Angeles Times
When you don’t get what you want, you tend to look for someone to blame. That someone is usually Ticketmaster. The company, which merged with Live Nation in 2010 to form Live Nation Entertainment, sells about 70% of all concert tickets worldwide, and an even greater proportion of the arena and stadium market. - The Guardian
