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Universal Is Trying To Take The Disney Crown

At least on the theme park front, in Florida, anyway. - Los Angeles Times

How Bristol Randomly Forgot Its Huge IMAX Cinema – And Found It Again

“The Bristol Imax, boasting a 19 metre by 15 metre screen, was once regarded as the future of cinema in south-west England. The projector was the size of a small car and needed to be cooled with water pumped up from the harbour.” - The Guardian (UK)

Gearing Up For A Publishing ‘Hot Labor Summer’ With Another Publisher Unionizing

The organizers say that even before the votes are counted, “they’ve already noticed more camaraderie at Abrams, which is a rare medium-sized publisher with around 150 employees.” - LitHub

What Could Desi Arnaz Teach Hollywood Today?

"Arnaz heard ‘no’ a lot in his career but he never took it as a final answer.” - The New York Times

Elton John Calls The UK Government ‘Absolute Losers’ Over AI Plans

“He said if ministers go ahead with plans to allow AI firms to use artists' content without paying, they would be ‘committing theft, thievery on a high scale.’” - BBC

For Mexico, Trump’s Desired Tariffs Threaten A Flourishing Film Collaboration

“The United States is the country with which Mexico has co-produced the most films. In 2024, at least 21 films featured collaborations with artists from both countries” - but tariffs definitely threaten that number. - El País

The Los Angeles Book Fair Provides A Treasure Trove Of Art Prints, If You’re Looking

“More than 300 exhibitors from around the world use letterpress, risograph, or Xerox machines to produce an array of printed matter running the gamut from the personal to the political, from limited edition art books to mass-produced pamphlets.” - Hyperallergic

Not All SFF Fans Are Dealing Well With The Sudden Success Of Romantasy

This might be a difference in purpose, but “whatever you think of the advent of romantasy onto the SFF scene, be assured that it isn’t a problem to be solved.” - Reactor

How Cannes Determines What Movies Succeed In The States

"Beyond the festival itself, Cannes is also a marketplace for film buyers and sellers from 140 nations. Collectively it’s a mood setter for the global movie industry, including major issues affecting Hollywood, and this year it’s looking especially complicated.” - Wall Street Journal (Internet Archive)

Police Arrest Artist For Climbing Empire State Building At His Gallery Opening

"The evidence was on the wall: A vertigo-inducing photo from that climb hung in the gallery.” The gallery owner, other climber-photographers, and the rest of the crowd were left in shock by the arrest. - The New York Times

How Long Will The Emmys Ignore TV Audiences’ Obsession With Spies?

"Emmy voters like to reward series that are very clearly About Something, like commercialism or wealth or artistic genius or what a millennial is, and spy shows are not a genre I think viewers are trained to think of as being thematically dense.” - Vulture (MSN)

Constellation Theatre Company In DC Is Looking For A New Home

After 18 years of renting space at the same building, the historic black box theatre raised the money to buy it - but they were denied, and landlord CulturalDC won’t say why. - American Theatre

Art Critic Renounces Her NYU Degrees After School Punishes Graduating Student

Aruna D’Souza, author of Whitewalling and Imperfect Solidarities, “earned a Master’s in Arts from NYU in 1993 and a PhD in Art History in 1999. Those degrees, the critic wrote, … are ‘valueless’ in the wake of university-sanctioned crackdowns on pro-Palestinian expression.” - Hyperallergic

Advice For Writers From A Bird Observer

"You are a writer, and like a chicken, require certain conditions.” - LitHub

Man Who Attacked Rushdie Gets A Twenty-Five Year Prison Sentence

“Hadi Matar, the man who severely injured novelist Salman Rushdie in a 2022 stabbing attack, was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison — the maximum for attempted murder.” - NPR

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