“All of Hazelight’s games are cooperative endeavors, played best with two people sitting near each other on the couch. The studio tries to balance its desire for challenging gameplay with its concern of causing too much strife.” - The New York Times
Not to mention women older than, oh, 29, who aren’t playing sex workers? Yeah. A win for Demi Moore. However: “Since the birth of the Academy Awards nearly 100 years ago, the voting members have always treated genre films with disdain.” - HuffPost
Big creators on YouTube “are the new Hollywood in that sense because they are producing the content that people want to watch. And so that eliminated the need for us to do anything in that regard because our creators were doing it on their own.” - Variety
“As much as YouTube changed how we use the internet, it's had an equally significant impact on our offline lives. … Human nature itself has shifted in the last 20 years, and as seen in these five videos, YouTube would become a nexus point for the way we see ourselves and each other.” - BBC
The stunning collapse of the iconic company and MPC – which was founded in the Soho section of London during 1970 and was one of the world’s largest and most recognizable VFX vendors – was a tragic blow to an already volatile VFX business. - Variety
“About 200 employees are being let go at Disney’s ABC News Group and Disney Entertainment Networks unit, people familiar with the matter said.” Among the casualties: the ABC newsmagazines 20/20 and Nightline are being consolidated into a single unit, and election-forecast website Five-Thirty-Eight is closing. - The Wall Street Journal (MSN)
For its first decade, Reddit was widely considered just a notch above 4chan: full of rage-filled prejudice, vicious verbal abuse and creepy sex stuff. Now Reddit's full of (mostly) civil discussion, advice and support on topics from popular to extremely niche to silly. And there are good reasons for that. - The Atlantic (MSN)
Just as tentpole movies are tested and managed to death, the Oscars have bent themselves into contortions to meet what executives have determined that audiences at home want. - The New Yorker
Every nickel we get we use it to provide public service to the community. So what that 10% means is that we would have to find another revenue source, or we would have to cut back 10% of what we do. - Inside Radio
In France, there has been a more celebratory feeling of late, with fresh statistics suggesting that its audiences are leading the way in returning to what are lovingly known as “les salles obscures” — the “dark rooms” of their movie theaters. - The New York Times
The unconventional movie musical only won two Academy Awards out of the 13 it was nominated for, but two evenings before that, in Paris, Emilia Pérez came in with 11 nominations and came out with 7 statuettes — for best picture, director, adapted screenplay and four technical categories. - The Hollywood Reporter
Anti-fans, as pop-culture scholars have termed them, are similar to hate-watchers: consumers who become fixated on what frustrates them. Both groups tend to target something in the zeitgeist, but unlike hate-watchers, anti-fans tend to construct something new out of their annoyance or contempt. - The Atlantic
As the Oscar-winning director/screenwriter (Parasite, Snowpiercer, Okja) once told an interviewer in his native South Korea, “Whatever genre I choose, I intend to destroy it.” With his first English-language film, Mickey 17, he is taking aim at science fiction. - The New York Times Magazine
I feel for public figures in a way: damned if they do, damned if they don’t. After Sunday night, the film industry looks craven and weak – on the other hand, as Ricky Gervais memorably pointed out when he hosted the Golden Globes in 2020: “You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything. - The Guardian
