"The Telugu-language Indian action spectacular RRR, or Rise, Roar, Revolt, ... (is) the rare Indian hit to catch on with American viewers outside the Indian diaspora, thanks to the unusual decision to relaunch the film weeks after it had already played across the country." - The New York Times
The work is contracted to a VFX house at a set price. An effects artist might manage grueling hours to meet hard release dates but work overtime unpaid. If the final product fails to satisfy audience expectations, VFX artists often take the blame. - CNET
One of the actors: Don't doubt the concept. Before contact with Europeans, North America "was a pretty hoppin’ area. And they were pretty skilled people. Just because it was a little bit different than their neighbors across the pond, doesn’t mean they were inept." - Variety
The merger of WarnerMedia with Discovery, and the casual axing of Batgirl, have subscribers and investors worried. Streaming seems more doomed than usual this week - but it may all result in what some streamers call "ad-supported content," AKA ... traditional TV. - HuffPost
It seemed unthinkable for months after Boseman's untimely death from colon cancer. But now, "there is a sharp yearning driving the movement to recast King T’Challa — a yearning to hold onto what Chadwick Boseman represented." - The New York Times
Well, they owe their community. "I spend most of my time on my businesses, not on social media. ... The time I do spend on social media isn’t necessarily for making money. It’s so important for brand awareness and interacting with the community I’ve been building." - Fast Company
Not to relentlessly beat this drum, but she says, "you don’t even know your limits yourself. ... And a lot of what you later envision as a memory is actually trauma." - The Guardian (UK)
Superhero movies sets aren't small. Now that Batgirl, the first movie to have been filmed entirely in Glasgow, is cancelled, shop owners who had to close down during filming are deeply unhappy. One said, "The council and the film department came in and stood on top of everybody." - BBC
"Five years almost to the day after it began, Hollywood’s evangelistic fervor for streaming has been extinguished this week by the Batgirl imbroglio." - Variety
Said the CEO and president of global streaming and games for Warner Bros. Discovery, "At the end of the day, putting all the content together was the only way we saw to make this a viable business." - Variety
A Los Angeles judge affirmed an arbitrator's award of damages to the producers of the series: after Spacey was fired for sexual harassment on set, the entire sixth season had to be rewritten and reshot, with the number of episodes reduced from 13 to eight in order to meet deadlines. - Variety
"The arbitrator ruled that writers on original Netflix productions should be paid on the same level as the licensing fees the streamer pays for third-party titles, ... meaning that 216 writers for (140) films will receive $42 million in unpaid residuals." - The Wrap
A study last November found that four out of five viewers aged between 18 and 25 said they use subtitles “all or part of the time” compared with only a quarter of those aged between 56 and 75. - The Guardian
"Batgirl was a casualty of new corporate strategy from Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, who opted to shelve the project in order to take a tax write-down on the $90 million film," which would recoup more money than releasing the film would. - The Hollywood Reporter
