Here are some posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
Coronavirus Crisis Forces Hollywood Studios to Assess Plans
Variety: As panic roils mainland China and fear escalates throughout globe over the spread of coronavirus, Hollywood studios and content production companies are ramping up their efforts to respond to the human and economic impact of a potential pandemic.
Project Zero Launches Zero Carbon Roadie
TPi: Ocean conservation organisation Project Zero HAS announced Zero Carbon Roadie, an innovative carbon calculator that is set to support touring musicians’ efforts to mitigate their carbon footprints.
This brand-new tool can be used by music artists to reduce their impact on the environment resulting from travel, haulage, power generation and other activities that are part and parcel of touring. The tool uses the latest greenhouse gas emissions data to calculate total emissions and provide a picture of a tour’s overall carbon footprint.
#PayUpHollywood Reveals The Industry's Lack of Diversity
The Mary Sue: Anything worth having doesn’t come easy. It’s an age old adage that is often true: if you want to succeed in competitive fields, you have to bust your ass to get there. Whether you want to have a good career, a healthy life, a functioning relationship, you have to put in the effort to achieve these goals. As the sage philosopher Britney Spears once said, “You want a hot body? You want a Bugatti? You want a Maserati? You better work bitch.”
The Great White Way. A Book of Woke Supremacy about Broadway’s White Supremacy
New York Theater: Are Broadway musicals covert vehicles for white supremacy? That’s more or less the argument that theater writer Warren Hoffman made in his 2014 book. The title apparently proved popular enough to allow a just-published second edition of The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical (Rutgers University Press, 285 pages), which adds a chapter on “The Book of Mormon” and “Hamilton.”
Court Allows Chooseco's Lawsuit Against Netflix Over 'Bandersnatch' To Move Forward
Techdirt: You will recall our previous posts about Chooseco, the company behind those "Choose Your Own Adventure" books from the 80s, and its lawsuit against Netflix. At issue is Netflix's Black Mirror iteration entitled Bandersnatch. The episode essentially runs a choose your own adventure scenario in streaming film, with the viewer being able to control the outcome of the narrative through choice.
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