Netflix is the Kleenex of streaming, a brand so dominant it can stand for the whole of the market. (It’s not “Hulu and chill,” after all.) There are signs that this synecdochal power is waning, though. - Wired
“When we were working on the story, it didn’t occur to us in our wildest dreams that not only would NBC pull the show, but Tom Cruise would return his Golden Globes.” - The Postscript
" 'Can We Talk About This?' video initiative … is designed to acknowledge what may have been acceptable at one point in history is not now and perhaps never should have been. … This way, the networks don't lose programming, but rather get a chance to recontextualize it." - Variety
Statistically, the 2021 class is comprised of 46 percent women, 39 percent underrepresented ethnic/racial communities, and 53 international members from 49 countries outside of the United States. - IndieWire
Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy "have compiled a heady mix of A-list directors and compelling material they hope hearkens back to the days when Fred Astaire and Judy Garland roamed the . The next six months will show if their strategy pays off." - The New York Times
Early in his career, he helmed episodes of many of the most iconic TV series of the '60s, then he went on to direct The Omen, Superman, The Goonies, Scrooged, and the Lethal Weapon franchise. - Variety
Fireman’s Fund gives the example of a nonessential crewmember having face-to-face contact with a movie director and then reporting infection, requiring a costly shutdown for 14 days. Who pays? - The Hollywood Reporter
The Malayalam-language cinema, based in India's best-educated state, Kerala, has managed to produce compelling dramas dealing with the pandemic — from a two-hander shot entirely inside a car to a loose adaptation of Macbeth set on a rubber plantation — despite lockdowns and cash crunches. - The Guardian
What makes a good greensperson? The best of them know how and where to get things, no matter how rare or obscure or out of season. - The New York Times
The European box office plunged 70.4 percent last year, down $6.04 billion (5.1 billion euro) from $8.5 billion (7.2 billion euro) in 2019 to $2.5 billion (2.1 billion euro). - The Hollywood Reporter
She doesn't get the respect for her pioneering role that, for instance, Ida Lupino does — because her characters and stories were comic, and because she didn't direct her films. But she did write them, and she often adapted them from stage plays she did direct as well as write and star in. - The New York Times
That's the conclusion of a new report from the Pew Research Center. Results for last year in particular were that terrestrial public radio listenership was down a bit, public TV audience was up quite a bit, and podcasts keep growing. - Inside Radio
The settlement with the city's Commission on Human Rights is for "a pattern of violating of the NYC Human Rights Law" — that is, the culture of sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation for complaints that developed under the network's late founder and chairman, Roger Ailes. - The Daily Beast
"Your boundaries can change given the person, given who's in the room, given I'm on a sofa not a bed, that changes how I feel about how we're shooting this scene. Consent is very specific to the context and the moment, and if anything changes, that can change consent level." (podcast plus transcript) - Slate
