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Look At All The President’s Men, And See That Movie For What It Was

It’s not really a triumphal movie about the power of journalism, but a dire warning about the future - our present. - Salon

A Top Paramount Executive Sees His Career Take A Big Hit For His Friendship With A Vegas High-Roller

The Paramount Skydance president is "facing new scrutiny after his Paramount bosses hired a law firm to investigate his surreptitious dealings with a Las Vegas high-roller and self-styled ‘fixer.’ Investigators are reviewing whether Shell leaked sensitive corporate secrets.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)

The Internet Is After Timothee Chalamet, Yes, But Also Jessie Buckley

Buckley doesn’t like cats. Big deal, right? Well … yes. Huge deal: "I have to come out and say it: Have we all lost our minds?” Or is this a carefully orchestrated campaign to win someone else the Best Actress Oscar? - Slate

The Best Actor Race Is Weirdly Up For Grabs

“‘When there’s not unanimity in the lead acting races, it can get really weird.’ In that situation, voters stop gaming out front-runners and simply vote for their guy. Which means that truly anything can happen.” - Vulture

The Man In Charge Of Pixar Cuts Any Content He Sees As Therapy

Especially if that content is, you know, gay. Surely that will fix the fabled studio! - Wall Street Journal (MSN)

Federal Judge Rules Appointment Of Kari Lake Invalid, Voiding Mass Layoffs At The Voice Of America

“If upheld by higher courts, Judge Lamberth’s ruling would allow more than 1,000 journalists and support staff members at the news group to return to their jobs” - and to keep broadcasting to places like China, Russia, and Iran. - The New York Times

After An Indigenous Filmmaker’s Speech Is Cut Fore Broadcast, The Toronto Film Critics Association Is Falling Apart

“Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers returned her trophy, the president resigned and 16 members have quit — with more considering their position.” - The Hollywood Reporter

Fandom Communities Seem Very Broken Right Now

“I see that a lot in different fandoms, where people won’t click the link, they’ll just see what they see on social, they’ll see the headline, and not necessarily digest the entire story. It’s a common thread in a lot of media consumption right now.” - Wired

Netflix and Paramount’s Interest In Warner? The Back Catalog. It’s An Old Strategy

Back in the 18th century for example, Longman, the UK’s oldest commercial publishing house, built up its business by acquiring the catalogues of other firms. - The Conversation

A Second Country (A Big One) Bans Social Media For Anyone Under 16

Australia instituted the ban this past December, and following suit is Indonesia, the world’s fourth-most populous nation. Starting March 28, accounts owned by children under 16 on "high-risk platforms" — including TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, ​and Roblox — will be gradually deactivated. - Reuters

60 Years After Hollywood Abandoned It, VistaVision Is Back

While the format was quite popular in the 1950s (Vertigo and The Ten Commandments were filmed in it), the industry moved on in the 1960s and few VistaVision cameras have survived. Yet the films made in it in just the past few years include The Brutalist, Bugonia, Wuthering Heights, and One Battle After Another. - AP

Ctrl+Alt+Delete the Gallery: Gamers Turn Shutter-Happy

Virtual landscapes are the new studio space as artists trade actual cameras for digital controllers. Who needs nature when you've got pixels? The art world's latest existential crisis: if a screenshot falls in cyberspace, does it make a sound? — The Conversation

Paramount Debt Rating Lowered To “Junk” After Warner Deal

Fitch Ratings downgraded Paramount Skydance’s long-term issuer default rating from “BBB-” to “BB+,” putting it into speculative-grade investment territory (aka “junk”). - Variety

Niche-Casting: Live Online Talk Shows About Specialized Topics Are On The Rise

Many of these productions function as modern-day trade magazines. One show targets car dealership owners. Another, TBPN (Technology Business Programming Network), focuses on tech overlords. Malcolm Harris, a former sports talk personality, helms “What The Truck?!?,” a thrice-a-week show all about logistics. - The Hollywood Reporter

Buffalo’s Public Radio Stations To Rearrange Programming

“Buffalo Toronto Public Media (BTPM) plans to move programming currently on news/talk WBFO (88.7) and BTPM Classical WNED (94.5) in Buffalo, NY, resulting from the latter’s recent conversion to an advertising-eligible license and the company’s loss of $2.2 million in annual federal funding.” - Inside Radio

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