Attendance and revenue at movie theaters in the EU and UK are up from 2020 and 2021, yes, but they're still well below half of what they were before the pandemic. - The Hollywood Reporter
Setting aside the fact that this may be one of the most depressing sentences that anyone has ever written about art, if “branding” does make up a 50% share of what it takes to become “a world-conquering artist”, it makes sense that NFTs are conquering a very similar space. - The Guardian
Netflix offers a variety of payment tiers for streaming access; its most popular plan costs $15.49 a month. The new ad-supported tier will cost less. - The New York Times
"The London company produces 29 of the most popular online kids' shows in the world, found on more than 150 platforms in 32 languages — and with 7.8 billion views on YouTube in March alone." And those shows are very carefully and intensely market-researched and engineered. - The New York Times
Dr. Seuss Enterprises is one of the most prized collections of intellectual property in the world, and nearly every major Hollywood heavyweight is likely to show interest. - Axios
TikTok’s real power isn’t over our data. It’s over what users watch and create. It’s over the opaque algorithm that governs what gets seen and what doesn’t. - The New York Times
There's no research; it's just the bus stop thing. "A producer I used to work with would constantly tell me: 'If I’m driving down the street at 40mph and it’s raining, I want to see a bus shelter poster that has impact. I want to see it from eight blocks away.'" - The Guardian (UK)
"The most many reviewers could bring themselves to call it was 'horror-adjacent,' 'horror-inspired' or as containing 'horror elements.' Even the CBC's own Eli Glasner suggests it's 'merely the veneer of horror.'" Cue the side-eye emoji. - CBC
Ncuti Gatwa will be the first Black man to play the Doctor, taking over from the first woman to play the popular and culturally powerful alien hero. - BBC
There's a reason the Tony-winning actor Renée Elise Goldsberry gave Hamilton's Angelica such a punch - she's ambitious and brilliant, and depicts someone even more so in Girls 5eva. "I don’t know that women know that they’re allowed to be ambitious as they get older," she says. - Time
The main issue? Streamers are starting to realize that "continuing to try to go get new customers by spending a lot of money on original content is going to run out of steam." What's next? Probably (gulp!) advertising. - Los Angeles Times
It's a murky science, but "with brutal scenes of people getting cut in half, shocking jump scares, and a sequence that is a terrifying (albeit terrific) ode to Jack Nicholson in The Shining, we can safely classify this entry as the most 'adult' MCU outing yet." - Variety
Take a page from Comic-Con, D23, Apple and everyone else who has turned to fan events for big reveals and announcements. Make the Emmys the must-see event it should be by having the networks, studios and streamers save some goodies to break the Internet. - Variety
