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Here’s one of the dumber anonymously sourced quotes you’ll read today.
“‘The pay is egregious, but it is something we have learned to accept,’ says one longtime entertainment analyst.”
https://deadline.com/2024/05/ceo-salaries-2023-hollywood-media-1…

Media CEO Pay Mostly Up For 2023 Amid Strikes, Industry Contraction
Media CEO pay was high in 2023 amid Hollywood strikes, industry contraction and lots of questions about the future of the industry.

How AI is changing the adult entertainment industry, raising concerns about performers' compensation and rights to their likeness, abuse prevention, and more (Tatum Hunter/Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/3IctOVH

AI ‘dream girls’ are coming for porn stars’ jobs
AI will change porn forever, adult entertainment companies claim. It’s unclear who will benefit.

Everything is a prop...
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Props and set dressing rentals - Everything Props
Everything Props is a full service props, set and equipment rental company serving the live and recorded entertainment industry in the NY metro area.

EY report: the Indian media and entertainment industry grew 8% YoY to $27.9B in 2023; TV shrank 2% YoY to $8.3B due to advertising declining by 6.5% YoY (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/india-media-industry-report-2024…

Indian Media and Entertainment Industry Grows 8% to Reach $28 Billion
The Indian media and entertainment industry grew 8% in 2023 to reach a value of $27.9 billion, according to the annual EY report.

Good Morning #Canada
Happy Bithday to Martin Hayter Short, born March 26, 1950, one of Canada's and finest comedians. Thankfully, his career as a social worker never developed and he was sucked into the entertainment industry. He has been awarded two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award and an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2019. I must say... a remarkable career.

Martin Short - Wikipedia

EY report: the Indian media and entertainment industry grew 8% YoY to $27.9B in 2023; TV shrank 2% YoY to $8.3B due to advertising declining by 6.5% YoY (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/india-media-industry-report-2024…

Indian Media and Entertainment Industry Grows 8% to Reach $28 Billion
The Indian media and entertainment industry grew 8% in 2023 to reach a value of $27.9 billion, according to the annual EY report.

This was a great read. You can expand out the central idea here to everything in our society today, including our government. The people at the top are making too much money to suffer any consequences for their malfeasance.
And so we get to live in a ratfucked world.
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Antenna: 29M people, or ~25% of US streaming subscribers, canceled 3 services over the last two years as Americans increasingly jump between services (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024…

Americans’ New TV Habit: Subscribe. Watch. Cancel. Repeat.
Many more people are jumping from one streaming subscription to another, a behavior that could have big implications for the entertainment industry.

Julia Turner, who led LA Times' entertainment coverage before becoming SVP for content business strategy, is leaving, the fourth high-ranking editor to depart (Meg James/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts

Julia Turner steps down from Los Angeles Times
Turner, a thoughtful editor, led entertainment coverage and encouraged her staff to elevate its journalism to become an essential read by culture aficionados, Southern California residents and people who work in the industry

Alibaba Digital Media and Entertainment Group plans to inject $640M into Hong Kong's entertainment industry, across movies, TV dramas, events, and more (Mathew Scott/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

Filmart: Alibaba Set to Inject $640M Into Hong Kong Entertainment Industry
Movies, TV dramas, events and scholarships were announced as part of the Chinese giant's shift into support for the territory.

Convolutional Neural Networks Towards Facial Skin Lesions Detection
Reza Sarshar, Mohammad Heydari, Elham Akhondzadeh Noughabi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08592

Convolutional Neural Networks Towards Facial Skin Lesions Detection
Facial analysis has emerged as a prominent area of research with diverse applications, including cosmetic surgery programs, the beauty industry, photography, and entertainment. Manipulating patient images often necessitates professional image processing software. This study contributes by providing a model that facilitates the detection of blemishes and skin lesions on facial images through a convolutional neural network and machine learning approach. The proposed method offers advantages such …

Antenna: 29M people, or ~25% of US streaming subscribers, canceled 3 services over the last two years as Americans increasingly jump between services (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024…

Americans’ New TV Habit: Subscribe. Watch. Cancel. Repeat.
Many more people are jumping from one streaming subscription to another, a behavior that could have big implications for the entertainment industry.

A German second division club is also doing this.
You could do it philanthropically; the business model has changed.
“The club began what amounts to a live-action experiment examining some of the most profound issues affecting sports in the digital age: the relationship between cost and value; the connection between fans and their local teams; and, most important, what it is to attend an event at a time when sports are just another arm of the entertainment industry.”

Paris F.C. Set Tickets To $0. Should Others Do the Same?
When Paris F.C. made its tickets free, it began an experiment into the connection between fans and teams, and posed a question about the value of big crowds to televised sports.