Weekly Journal #33
News
Hollywood Is Missing Out on Latinx Representation Both in Front of and Behind the Camera (Variety)
COVID Compliance Officers: Inside the Pivotal New Production Position (Variety)
Behind Hollywood's Executive Ousters: "It's the Great Reckoning Now" (Hollywood Reporter)
Film
COVID Protocols Guests Can Expect At The Venice Film Festival (Deadline)
‘We Are the Guinea Pigs’: Hollywood Restarts Its Blockbuster Machine (New York Times)
Hans Zimmer created an extended version of Netflix’s ‘ta-dum’ sound for theaters (Verge)
Alamo Drafthouse Offers Private Theater Rentals With Over 40 Movies (Variety)
My streaming gem: why you should watch Sand Storm (Guardian)
Television
Martin Scorsese Inks First-Look TV, Film Deal With Apple (Hollywood Reporter)
Hulu: Generation Stream Unpacking the Streaming Experience (Hulu)
Are we ready for the big Generation X animation comeback? (Guardian)
Netflix soured the live-action remake of Avatar: The Last Airbender, its showrunners say (Vox)
Digital
Matthew Ball - The Future of Media (Investor's Field Guide)
Shot on iPhone by Damien Chazelle – Vertical Cinema (Presented by Apple on YouTube) (Watch Here)
Apple goes to war with the gaming industry (TechCrunch)
Apple Just Kicked Fortnite off the App Store (Verge)
Apple Is About to Announce Its Most Important Product Ever, and It Isn’t an iPhone (Inc.)
How a Hit Spotify Playlist Is Made in 2020 (Complex)
Good Reads
What We Know About Long-Term COVID-19 (Cut)
Google Is Launching a Global Earthquake-Detection Network (Wired)
We Got A Black Woman on the Ticket. At Last. (New York Times)
American Passports Are Useless Now (Atlantic)
What Is MasterClass Actually Selling? (Atlantic)
We're Just Trying to Understand What's Going On With The Bachelorette This Season (E!)