The poll also found that 48% have an unfavorable view of the major studios, and just 31% support the studios. The survey also found that 60% of respondents subscribe to Netflix, 41% subscribe to Hulu, and 35% subscribe to Disney+. - Variety
If, when someone searches online, they are served a paragraph-long answer from an AI tool that refashions reporting from the Times, the need to visit the publisher's website is greatly diminished, said one person involved in the talks. - NPR
Sure, multiplexes and art houses are already crammed with people seeing Barbie and Oppenheimer, but for one day next week, it'll be a cheaper proposition. - Variety
And Colleen Hoover is on the bestseller lists because that's what she provides, in every single book she writes, no matter the genre. - The Guardian (UK)
One expert says theatres have to invest in kids to inculcate a cultural habit "they might enjoy as they get older" - but, she adds, people in their 30s and 40s can't afford houses, so theatre as cultural investment? Unlikely. - Oregon ArtsWatch
Paul Rogers plays "a hybrid of the baroque-period viola da gamba, double bass and Indian sitar, seven rather than four playing strings, as well as 14 'sympathetic strings.'" It doesn't even have a name. - The Guardian (UK)
And those actors also point out that if Hollywood can go digital to make Grant small, Hollywood can use digital tools to make them into giants. - The Guardian (UK)
"Sling in the right sort of suit and those who knew what Bernstein looked like would surely think the actor close enough. There was no need to tamper with the hooter." - Irish Times
