The rules require Netflix, Prime Video and the other global streamers with more than one million Australian subscribers to spend 10% of their total Australian expenditure – or 7.5% of their revenues – on local originals. - Deadline
“Multiple theatrical executives … conveyed a sense of grave concern, if not panic, over the possibility of a studio that grossed more than $4 billion worldwide this year and provided many of the box office hits of the past six months being assimilated into another company and having its output dramatically curtailed.” - TheWrap (Yahoo!)
“The Cleveland State University-Ideastream deal over WCSB 89.3 could be invalidated because the college did not follow Ohio public meetings law, an expert on public meetings laws said.” - Cleveland.com
Bob Mondello says yes: "I love seeing movies in a theater, and if I can possibly avoid watching them at home, I do. ... is 55" which is, I guess, not bad for a television screen. But it doesn't compare to the tennis court-size screen.” - NPR
Not even counting the numerous Doctor Who locations (to be fair, many are in Wales), “England's historic buildings and landscapes ‘provide an essential ingredient in making the audience's flesh creep.’” - BBC
“While physical beauty is often conflated with a character’s moral goodness, villains have historically been associated with disability or disfigurement: facial scarring, wheelchair use, limb difference.” - The Guardian (UK)
“Joking that she had probably watched Robert Altman’s Gosford Park too many times, DaCosta said that she set the action in 1950s England because of her interest in the postwar era.” - The New York Times
Alassane Moustapha, a filmmaker from Niger, was “as much a multimedia artist as a cineaste, he took an idiosyncratic approach to folkloric storytelling.” He’s been left out of some film histories - but it's time for a reevaluation. - Current
Madrid wants to join Vicky Cristina Barcelona with … who knows? “Regional authorities are confident” - to the tune of €1.5 million - “the 89-year-old film-maker’s next project could do for Madrid what Roman Holiday did for Rome tourism.” - The Guardian (UK)
Like other creative types, a lot of podcasters are skeptical of or even downright hostile to the idea of using AI bots, which only mimic sentience and thought, to create content. Yet some AI tools can do legitimate, important work on podcasts. - The New York Times
With APT having lost well over $2 million in support from the now-defunded Corporation for Public Broadcasting, some board members see PBS dues as a major expense to be cut (something which would also appeal to conservative officeholders controlling purse strings). Yet PBS programming is 90% of APT’s schedule. - Alabama Reflector
“Last week, NBC News gutted all the reporting groups aimed at the stories of underrepresented groups. And they're hardly alone. … As more media companies roll back diversity efforts, … the avenues for reporters who specialize in such coverage grow increasingly limited, putting those journalists on the front lines of layoffs.” - TheWrap (MSN)
