Where one starts, others tend to follow when it comes to corporate layoffs. Microsoft and Sony have slashed staff, and now Electronic Arts just announced their cuts. They will lay off nearly 5% of their workforce – 700 people. They also announced a reduction in games made based on licensed
Apartheid Returns Via The Theatre
There is a lot of comment among the chattering classes across the pond in Merry Ol’ England this morning, as Apartheid once again returns in a most unexpected place. Theaterland! A new West End play has allocated two nights for Black-only audiences to watch “free from the white gaze”. Slave
Apple TV In For NEUROMANCER
Apple TV+ remains the dark horse of streaming that just keeps on delivering. We say it here a lot. While everyone talks Netflix, Disney+, and Amazon, and while Paramout+, Peacock, and the others create news by wondering what the hell to do with themselves, Apple TV just quietly sits there
DUNE PART TWO Tracking Ahead Of Studio
Dune Part Two is finally here. The wide release starts tomorrow. Potentially the year’s first blockbuster arrives at a depressing time for the cinema industry, with revenues through the floor and a product pipeline drought. The movie opens tomorrow, and many hopes rest on it. So where does Denis Villeneuve’s
Who Screamed At Ferguson? A Hollywood Mystery
There is a lot in the press these days about behavior on various sets, around productions, and wider in Hollywood. Whether it is the fragile ego of an A-lister shattering in public, a put-upon runner being victimized, or sexual predators stalking the industry, it seems that the kind of thing