Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s chief content officer: “Why would we want to hold back a movie for an enormous number of people to enjoy throughout the entire country that a few hundred, maybe a few thousand people could see the film in Paris? … It seemed to me like the right thing to do was to give the people, our subscribers, who pay to make these movies, access to them immediately all over the world.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
In A Bit Of Good News, The Philadelphia Orchestra Has A New National Radio Deal
The Orchestra hasn’t had a series on national radio since 1990. Now ,”starting with a broadcast Monday night and continuing three times a week for at least the next year, concerts recorded in Verizon Hall will be carried on SiriusXM radio, a paid service with a monthly fee, to listeners across the U.S. and Canada.”
Ravi Shankar’s Opera, Composed From His Deathbed, Is All About Myth, And Love
Ravi’s daughter Anushka Shankar: “Here he was aged 90, not yet content to rest on his laurels but still wanting to push the boundaries to further horizons. It was simply another area in which my father was able to imagine something that hadn’t been done yet – an Indian opera. Such a thing had incredible scope for creating bridges between two wonderful traditions from the east and west.”
You’re Keeping At Least Five Secrets You’ve Never Told Anyone Else, And That’s Cool, If You Don’t Think About Them
Having a secret is mostly about thinking about the secret, alone (which makes sense, really). “The actual act of hiding — the moment a person makes up a lie, or changes the subject, or simply omits certain information from a conversation — proved to be only a minor part of the experience of having a secret. Instead, what seems to affect people much more is how often they think about the secret.”
British Architects Are Starting To Flip Out About Brexit
They’re not happy with the Tories’ discussion of forcing non-British EU members – who make up a considerable number of their coworkers – to leave. “We are appalled that the government should use those who have made considerable personal and professional commitments to this country, and who enrich our culture, as a negotiating chip. This is not the behaviour of a civilised society.”
Someone Stole A Handwritten Harry Potter Prequel Postcard
J.K. Rowling wrote the story – about Sirius Black and Harry Potter’s father, James – for a charity auction. “The manuscript was auctioned in 2008 to raise money for literacy causes, selling for 25,000 pounds, or about $32,100 at current exchange rates, according to the BBC. Police said that burglars had also taken jewels.”
How Do People Feel About Having To Pay Admission At The Met Museum?
Pretty OK, it seems. “Some regulars love the Met so much that they don’t need new enticements. Melinda Fuller, an art teacher from Connecticut who has visited the Met more than 50 times, excitedly said on her way out of the museum that she had just signed up become a member. She volunteered that she’d be willing to pay $30 for admission.”
India’s Film Industry Goes Way, Way Beyond Bollywood
Consider the runaway success of Baahubali 2, whose numbers – it was “budgeted at $39m, made in Telugu and Tamil, with Hindi and Malayalam dubbed versions – are astonishing by Indian standards. The film opened on 28 April and grossed $194m in 13 days, making it the highest Indian grosser of all time and putting it on track to become the first Indian film to gross $200m.”
So Canada Isn’t A Great Place For Journalists Of Color, As This Twitter Pile-On Pledge Shows
Just as a half-hearted apology flew out after an editor wrote an entire piece on how great cultural appropriation was, and the whole thing was dying down “thanks to the vicious half-life of the news cycle, a bunch of high-ranking members of Canadian media — all white — decided to go lose their shit on Twitter.:
This 12-Year-Old Is Relatively New To Ballet And Is Already Rising In The Ranks
The girl started late for a classical ballerina, and her teacher doesn’t usually send in kids so young for the Joffrey summer program – but Dayanara Villanueva is heading to the summer intensive in New York.