"Editorial staff at Nine Entertainment, which owns The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age (Melbourne), The Australian Financial Review, the Brisbane Times and WAtoday, stopped working at 11am on Friday, hours before the opening ceremony of the 33rd Olympic Games." - Al Jazeera
Instead of worrying about the quantity of screen time that preschoolers engage in, the new guidelines suggest, parents should consider the quality of it. Preference should be given to activities like interactive educational programs or family movie nights over solo passive viewing of, say, cartoons on a tablet. - The Walrus
The movie brought in $205 million in its first weekend domestically at the box office, according to Comscore estimates. It cost $200 million to produce, according to Variety. - Los Angeles Times
Billions of people access social media monthly, but users are posting less and favoring a more passive experience, surveys of users and research from data-analytics firms say. - The Wall Street Journal
Like, a lot. Deadpool & Wolverine "shattered the opening record for R-rated films previously held by the first Deadpool ($132m) and notched a spot in the top 10 openings of all time.” - The Guardian (UK)
Some similarities in plot exist: “There are usually high jinks involving behavior that one might not expect from seniors. They get high. They go on adventurous excursions like parasailing or ziplining. They experiment with technology and social media.” And then, the sex toys. - The New York Times
TV show memes lit up Instagram, texts, and group chats when President Biden stepped down. “One thing someone on text thread said is that Aaron Sorkin could never have thought this one up. … This is beyond what we were capable of imagining.” - Washington Post
“It’s hard not to wonder – as a viewer – why the Taliban’s top brass agreed to let Nash’at shoot a fly-on-the-wall documentary of the early days of the regime. … Mansour comments coldly about Nash’at: ‘If his intentions are bad, he will die soon.'” - The Observer (UK)
Apologies to this excellent post on the site formerly known as Twitter. Point is, a lot of great movies are set in Paris, so if you’re not a sportsfan (or your sport isn’t on), here’s how to keep your eyes on the City of Light. - The Guardian (UK)
Unless the strike lasts longer than 60 days, “actors and other union members who are already under contract and working on games in development are permitted to continue work during the strike without any sort of union discipline.” - Fast Company
The historic studios hosted The Curse of Frankenstein and Dracula’s Bride. And then, "Ridley Scott built and shot the miniatures for his Academy Award winning sci-fi thriller, Alien, at the studios in 1978.” - BBC
Not great: “Short of regulation or relevant union agreements, it has come down to film-makers – directors, producers, writers, visual effects and VFX artists and more – to figure out how to use it, where to draw the line.” (They’re not great line-drawers.) - The Guardian (UK)
As viewers, we’re being flattened by a fire hose of programming — and the experience of watching TV feels like a ritual of submission, passively accepting a slush of shows served up by a streaming service’s algorithm. - The New York Times
