“Leaders for S.C. Public Radio and S.C. Educational Television said they are beginning the process of unwinding their membership from NPR to focus more resources on locally produced and focused content. ... While it does not mean an elimination of NPR-produced content, there will be much less of it.” - The Post and Courier (Charleston)
“The Los Angeles federal jury deliberated for only about 2½ hours before deciding that the creators of Moana never had access to writer and animator Buck Woodall’s outlines and script for Bucky the Surfer Boy.” - AP
When I say literalism, I don’t mean realistic or plainly literal. I mean literalist, as when we say something is on the nose or heavy-handed, that it hammers away at us or beats a dead horse. - The New Yorker
That is to say, cats and dogs alike seem to be obsessed with Flow. “The trend is a particularly cute coda to what was already one of the feel-good stories of awards season.” - The New York Times
That’s right, it’s The Righteous Gemstones, which is about to conclude its four-season run, “one of those rare works that channels all the pathos and anxiety of its moment and turns them into something warm, hilarious, human, even redemptive.” - Slate
“The first weekend in March 2020, … North American cinemas had a snappy $100 million weekend.” Two weeks later? That take was just over $4,000 - mostly from drive-ins. Movie theatres still haven’t recovered. - NPR
It’s not just the current administration causing problems, says Issa Rae. The actor’s new docuseries “makes a comprehensive history and showcase, with evidence, that this is how they built the success of their networks on our backs, and we almost don’t have anything to show for it.” - Variety
“They were expecting the job to be physically demanding, but didn’t realise how psychologically demanding it would be,” the director says. “Then, when they get home, they are too tired to build a life outside work. … People find the horizon a little darker.” - The Guardian (UK)
“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)
