Weekly Journal #26
News
Testing Emerges As A Main Hurdle To Production Restart Amid Pandemic (Deadline)
A Black Man Was Wrongfully Arrested Because Of Facial Recognition (Verge)
NBC Universal CEO Jeff Shell Has No Time for Hollywood Egos (WSJ)
How Hollywood Is Continuing to Pivot Strategy Amid a Pandemic and Protests (Variety)
Film
Do Movies Still Need Multiplexes? (NewYorker)
Kenya Barris & Pharrell Williams Talks With Netflix to Develop Musical About Juneteenth (Deadline)
'Disclosure' on Netflix: Film Review (Variety)
'Jurassic Park' Gets To The Top Of This Week's Top Ten List (NPR)
Television
Vancouver-Based TV Series Eye Tentative Production Return Dates; Amid Travel Concerns (Deadline)
Brooklyn Nine-Nine to Scrap All Episodes Written for Season 8, 'We Have to Start Over' (TVLine)
‘30 Rock’ Blackface Episodes Pulled From Streaming (Variety)
Jenny Slate Exits 'Big Mouth': 'Black Characters Should Be Played by Black People' (Variety)
Amid Protests Late Night Hosts Become "Megaphone for the Movement" (Hollywood Reporter)
Digital
Twitter Slaps Label On Donald Trump Tweet For Violating Rules About “Abusive Behavior” (Deadline)
Get the Writers You Love, Plus Your Favorite Cartoons, On Your Phone or Tablet (iTunes)
TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer Sheds Light On Disney Exit, Platform’s Role In Tulsa Trump Rally (Deadline)
Quibi before Quibi: The Inside Story of Jeffrey Katzenberg’s First Dot-Com Failure (Fast Company)
Good Reads
The Boom in Fireworks Conspiracy Theories (Atlantic)
'A Chain of Stupidity': the Skripal Case and the Decline of Russian's Spy Agencies (The Guardian)