"It (makes) sense that the movies are always horror, too, because that’s the genre with the most recognisable structures and beats. It’s far easier to understand the sudden arrival of a beloved character in a horror than in, say, a gentle coming-of-age drama." And next year are Popeye and Tarzan … - The Guardian
Google has agreed to pay $100 million CAD a year — or about $73 million in U.S. dollars — to broadcasters and other news outlets as part of the new Canadian Journalism Collective. The offer is made in exchange to be exempted from Canada’s Online News Act, which passed last year. - InsideRadio
California lawmakers have revived legislation to charge online platforms for the news articles they publish, a proposal that stalled last year amid divisions within the journalism industry and intense opposition from Google and other tech companies. - Yahoo!
"National Amusements, which owns a majority voting stake in embattled entertainment giant Paramount Global, said Tuesday that it has ended talks on a possible merger of Paramount with movie production company Skydance Media." The Redstone family, primarily Shari, owns the controlling interest in NA. - AP
Rachel Smolkin, CNN Digital's senior vice president of global news (and previously vice president and executive editor of CNN Politics, and before that managing editor of Politico), is the next president and CEO of Oregon Public Broadcasting. - Deadline
The CEO blamed flat revenue and rising costs. Yet nine senior staffers earn more than $300,000 each, and the best-paid 16 earn a total of $5.9 million. (The laid-off employees made $50,000-$60,000.) - The Boston Globe (MSN)
By 1940, Walt Disney himself referred to Donald Duck as “the Gable of our stable” – pairing Donald’s popularity with the Hollywood superstar Clark Gable, the biggest name at MGM Studios at the time. - The Conversation
Online streaming services operating in Canada will be required to contribute five per cent of their Canadian revenues to support the domestic broadcasting system, the country's telecoms regulator said on Tuesday. - CBC
The ramifications of this contracted environment have varied. Teams are making do with less by reducing the number of episodes they produce or by employing a smaller team. Companies laid staff off over the past 18 months (or shut down entirely). - Bloomberg
Bing Chen’s Gold House “operates behind the scenes of a dizzying array of projects. The team’s consulting work for film and TV includes cultural research, script and casting review, facilitating product partnerships and helping with marketing and public relations” on everything from Turning Red to The Sympathizer. - Los Angeles Times
“Hollywood is trying to bring sexiness, if not always actual sex, back to the big screen, at a time of superhero fatigue, years of relative sexlessness on screen and routine box office woe.” - The Guardian (UK)
Richard Linklater isn’t mad at Netflix for premiering Hit Man on streaming. “You got to look at the industry and say, ‘Why did they see this film and not think it warranted a bigger theatrical release?’ Because someone could’ve fought for that.” - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
Carl Clemons-Hopkins says that “accurate representation stems from getting more representation behind the scenes: ‘The more that you can show the variety of the world within the variety of the industry, the more we can be a better reflection of what’s going on.’” - Variety
There’s a “glaring similarity” among One Day at a Time, The Wire, and Reservation Dogs: “TV shows about Black criminals and cops in Baltimore or a Cuban American family or Native teens on the reservation aren’t able to lure a historically white television academy to vote for them.” - Vulture
"The charges at the National Labor Relations Board allege the nonprofit parent company of WBEZ and the Chicago-Sun-Times 'failed and refused to provide information demanded by the union' regarding an employee headcount and financial data." - Chicago Tribune (MSN)
