Weekly Journal #44
Industry News
Netflix’s Halloween Nightmare (500ish)
NASA Seeks Hollywood Partners to Bring Artemis Missions to Viewers (Hollywood Reporter)
Film
Borat can't save us from Trump – but he may be the way forward for film (Guardian)
'Mank': Film Review (Hollywood Reporter)
Matriarchs of Steel in “Let Him Go” (New Yorker)
Television
Canada to Force Netflix, Amazon Prime to Pay for Local Content (Hollywood Reporter)
The Queen’s Gambit: A Real-Life Chess Champion on Netflix’s Addictive Hit (Vanity Fair)
'Claws’ Suspends Production For 2 Weeks After Positive COVID-19 Test (Deadline)
'This Is Us' Premiere Scores Big 3-Day Ratings Lift (Hollywood Reporter)
Digital
Interactive Film Releases Across Social Media Alongside A Universe of "Real" Characters: Limited Free Release (PR Newswire)
The Metaverse is coming—computer-generated virtual worlds are going mainstream (Economist)
The problem of selling Quibi: How marketing exposed division at the streamer (LA Times)
In Other News
I’m Your Dead Movie Wife And I Have Some Questions (McSweeneys)
OK, What Is Room-Temperature Superconducting and Will It Change Everything? (Vice)
The Unbelievable Story of History's Most Incompetent Jewel Thieves (Vice)
Why the Election Wasn’t a Biden Landslide (Atlantic)
Steve Kornacki
Where Does Steve Kornacki Get His Election-Night Khakis? (NY Magazine)
I Figured Out Why Steve Kornacki Is Great (Slate)
America fell in love with Steve Kornacki this week (Vox)
MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki Became Twitter’s Boyfriend This Week (Vogue)