Its interim CEO wants to bid on it, and there may be one other bidder. "The HFPA’s move comes after more than a year of turmoil for the nearly 80-year-old press organization," including the group refusal of publicists to let their clients go to the (untelevised) Golden Globes. - Variety
That "opens up the potential to order a whole new raft of unscripted series to use the technology, bringing it in to line with the linear networks, which often air live specials for big competition series such as ABC’s American Idol and Dancing with the Stars." - Deadline
To summarize the BeReal user experience: once a day, at a random time, the app sends a push notification to its users, granting them two minutes to snap a two-way photo using their phones’ front- and rear-facing cameras. Only after posting the daily photo can users see what their friends have posted. - The New Yorker
"Ed Henry initially alleged last year that journalists at the two outlets — including NPR media reporter David Folkenflik, CNN chief media correspondent Brian Stelter and anchor Alisyn Camerota — had 'longstanding grudges against Fox News and/or individuals associated with the company' that guided their reporting on his firing." - The Daily Beast
"Disney is quickly closing in on Netflix's long-established streaming lead. The entertainment giant now has 205 million paid subscribers across all of its services" — that's Disney+, ESPN+, and Hulu — "globally, while Netflix has 221 million," showing a net loss of subscribers for the first time in more than 10 years. - Axios
"So far, we have agreements which cover more than 300 national, local and specialist news publications in Germany, Hungary, France, Austria, the Netherlands and Ireland, with many more discussions ongoing." - Reuters
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
