Jane Campion, who directed the artsy Power of the Dog and won Best Director for it at the 2022 Academy Awards, is worried. "I do think they're going to be more picky about other projects or, maybe, what's sad is not taking risks on people without names." - BBC
The worry doesn't come from money, but from audience grades - a B+ for Thor: Love and Thunder follows a B+ for Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness and the tepid B for Eternals. - Los Angeles Times
Fans don't have to see everything. Instead, they can follow the series and movies the way they would with comic books - only committing to several superheroes or stories they're interested in. (Sorry, Disney overlords; we have other things to do with our time.) - Wired
NFL player Trevor Pryce visited 20th Century Fox in 2005 and fell for animation. Now, his Kulipari series - "Kulipari, an Australian Outback aboriginal word for poison, is set in the Amphibilands, a secluded community of tree frogs" - is produced in East Baltimore, not traditionally an animation hub. - Baltimore Sun
How to handle, or how not to handle, memes about your movie: "The difference between the Morbius flop memes and the GentleMinions trend is that Sony mistook ironic fondness for the real thing." - Slate
Rogers posted a notice on its website Friday saying the outage was impacting both its wireless and home service customers and is also affecting phone and chat support. - Toronto Star
Human reviewers manually examine thousands of Twitter accounts at random and use a combination of public and private data in order to calculate and report to shareholders the proportion of spam and bot accounts on the service, Twitter said. - Reuters
There’s a preponderance of copaganda and superheroes saving the day and a category of narrative best described as wealth-aganda — stories focused on the interior lives of the rich, from the aspirational to the ridiculous to the unscrupulous. - Chicago Tribune
Featured on the commercial networks' coverage this week: a "Government Resignations Ticker", an anti-Brexit campaigner belting "Bye Bye Boris", a discussion of the Tories' future set to "Yakety Sax" (played at actor Hugh Grant's request), a star cameo by 10 Downing Street's resident cat, and a psychic pig. - Variety
The longer that this new “business model” is allowed to operate, the harder it will be to change. I often think about how 25 years ago the introduction of the DVD became a cautionary lesson in when you choose to fight. - Deadline
I’ve come to believe that one of most overrated aspirations in journalism is access. This is particularly true in any story involving people who are wealthy or powerful, and who have experience in dealing with the press. They know that journalists and editors prize access above all else. -LitHub
There are the main TV and radio networks, a cable channel (CBCNN), streaming service CBC Gem, the app, the YouTube channel, the "documentary Channel" (sic), and the CBC.ca website with 70 different sections. Asks columnist John Doyle, "How much CBC News does the world need?" - The Globe and Mail (Canada)
Platforms often claim that they are not in the business of creating the content that appears on their platforms, and that’s usually true. But it doesn’t mean they are neutral in public debate. Far from it. Instead of making arguments themselves, they rank, sort and order the ideas of others. - LitHub
"One of Spain's most notorious and costly white elephants, the Ciudad de la Luz (City of Light) film studios in Alicante, is to get a new lease of life 10 years after it was forced to shut by the EU on grounds of unfair competition." - The Guardian
Older audiences will only be around so long. If you teach the rising generation that the theatrical experience is completely extraneous, that experience probably won’t be around for the next one. - Washington Post
