The law prohibits social media platforms from offering children things like personalized feeds and autoplay for videos. It also requires the deletion of children’s accounts with those features. - KQED
After a friend-funded release, the actors of Pyre "have met teary-eyed people at multiple screenings - many wanting to touch their feet and hug them, many who said the film reminded them of their own parents and grandparents who are waiting in villages." - BBC
"Wherever possible, materials were sent by sea during the annual short thaw to avoid expensive airfreight. For example, building materials and boxed water — which, Arnaquq-Baril says, was chosen over plastic bottles to leave 'less toxic garbage in the Arctic' — were shipped by sealift." - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
"Shoots are moving away from Hollywood and, increasingly, from the United States altogether. The share of film production budgets spent in the U.S. has fallen from 74% to 42% ." - El País English
She said, as she accepted the Vanguard Award, she felt rage for all of her female collaborators over the years, "rage for me and even more rage for the entire generation of women who deserve to have their potential recognized and elevated." - The Hollywood Reporter
Arts reporters, take note: "The best-performing videos were ones with behind-the-scenes footage from investigations or collaborations. Putting reporters on camera — in the field or at their desks — worked." - Nieman Lab
Éyum Priscilla: The comedy "is a story about embracing every part of who you are and finding the confidence to claim your place in the country you’ve always called home." - Irish Times
“Some of us can see a lot of doom and gloom,” said Miranda Banks, a professor of film, television and media studies. “But this generation has their eye on the power of human creativity in a way that I’m not sure any of us in other generations have been so attuned to.” - Los Angeles Times
In an unsigned announcement posted on its website, Salon said that the “business realities of independent digital journalism” had changed profoundly and that “our publishing model is no longer sustainable.” - The New York Times
“An agreement has not yet been reached and could still fall apart, but the companies have entered into exclusive negotiations. … The Times would acquire the controlling stake in Letterboxd from Tiny, a Canadian-based company which originally picked up a 60% stake in 2023 when the website was valued at just $50 million.” - IndieWire
“The networks were following the same returns, and by the end of the evening, the same political story was taking shape. What differed was how they told it — and how quickly they moved from counting votes to explaining what went wrong for Republicans and what comes next for Democrats.” - TheWrap (Yahoo!)
“The taxpayer-funded broadcaster and streamer has hired a new head of digital originals, Ariel Yang, and her commissioning duties include taking pitches from local producers for homegrown microdramas.” - The Hollywood Reporter
The film by Javiers Calvo and Ambrossi has taken in €36.7 million ($41.0 million) at Spanish cinemas as of November 1. Among Spanish films, only Emilio Martínez-Lázaro’s comedy Ocho apellidos vascos (released in English as Spanish Affair, $61.8 million) and J.A. Bayona’s disaster drama Lo imposible (“The Impossible,” $47.3 million) have earned more. - Variety
According to sources, the new round of layoffs will be made across multiple divisions, including TV networks and the motion picture studio, at varying amounts. - Deadline
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday called for a significant expansion of the state’s film and TV tax incentives in the face of mounting evidence that producers are fleeing California in search of cheaper locales. - Los Angeles Times
