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Sunday, November 12, 2023

DP Weekly Wrap Up

couple days late this week...

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Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...

SAG-AFTRA and Hollywood Studios Agree to Deal to End Actors’ Strike

The New York Times: One of the longest labor crises in Hollywood history is finally coming to an end. SAG-AFTRA, the union representing tens of thousands of actors, reached a tentative deal for a new contract with entertainment companies on Wednesday, clearing the way for the $134 billion American movie and television business to swing back into motion.

Posted by David at 11/09/2023 11:39:00 AM

More Cultivation, Less Crane Machine: Who Gets to Design in LORT Theatres

HowlRound Theatre Commons: “Who Designs and Directs in LORT Theatres by Pronoun”—the latest and final installment of which will be published tomorrow!—has been a clear-eyed look at the gender equity issue in theatre in the United States. With eight seasons of data to analyze now, what new questions have you been trying to answer? Is the question in your mind still who gets to design and direct in League of Resident Theatres (LORT) member theatres?

Posted by David at 11/09/2023 10:44:00 AM

Hispanic and Latino Actors and Filmmakers Still Underrepresented in Hollywood

www.thewrap.com: Hispanic and Latino performers and filmmakers continue to be underrepresented in top movies. That was the key finding from a new report from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative covering top films from 2007 to 2022. The latest study, tracing Hollywood’s efforts (or lack thereof) in terms of onscreen and offscreen inclusivity examined Hispanic and Latino representation.

Posted by David at 11/07/2023 10:42:00 AM

Actors’ Equity Association and Broadway League Settle Waitress Grievance

Playbill: Actors’ Equity Association and The Broadway League have settled a grievance that was filed in May 2022 against Waitress producers Barry and Fran Weissler and Waitress licensor National Artists Management Company that alleged "double-breasting," simultaneously profiting from union and non-union workers.

Posted by David at 11/07/2023 10:36:00 AM

‘We Need Humanity in Art’: Game Actors Speak Out Against Microsoft’s AI Partnership

www.inverse.com: Microsoft recently announced a new partnership with InWorld AI to create a suite of what it calls “AI game dialogue and narrative tools.” Predictably, many of the humans currently responsible for bringing that dialogue to life aren’t thrilled.

Posted by David at 11/09/2023 11:44:00 AM

Sunday, November 05, 2023

Worth a Look

Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...

As the 'Hollywood of the South,' Atlanta has boomed. Its actors and crew are now at a crossroads

AP News: For more than a decade, work had been nonstop in Atlanta’s booming film industry thanks to Georgia’s extremely generous tax break. Dubbed the “Hollywood of the South,” metro Atlanta became a ubiquitous backdrop for huge projects, including Marvel films and Netflix’s “Stranger Things.”

Posted by David at 11/02/2023 11:05:00 AM

Nightshade "Poisons" AI Art Generators to Help Defend Artists

mymodernmet.com: In history, the nightshade plant was used to poison kings and emperors. So it's only fitting that a new tool used to poison AI art generators is named Nightshade. Created by Ben Zhao, a computer science professor at the University of Chicago, the tool is designed to help artists combat copyright infringement by AI art generators that are trained using their artwork.

Posted by David at 10/30/2023 10:13:00 AM

AI is on a collision course with music — Reservoir’s Golnar Khosrowshahi thinks there’s a way through

The Verge: You might not have heard of Reservoir, but you’ve definitely heard of the artists it works with. Everyone from A-ha and John Denver to Evanescence to Joni Mitchell and even legendary film composer Hans Zimmer. What makes Reservoir different is that Golnar built the company through acquisitions.

Posted by David at 11/01/2023 09:58:00 AM

Robert Brustein Raised the Bar for Us All

AMERICAN THEATRE: You could not ignore Bob Brustein. His admonitions were in your face, in your ear, in your mailbox. If you were young and ambitious and desired all the things that the young and ambitious desire—fame, fortune, glittering prizes—Bob was your conscience. To be Bob’s student or colleague or friend (I was all three, and for more than 50 years our lives were intertwined) was to be always held to the strictest moral standard.

Posted by David at 11/01/2023 10:07:00 AM

How Corinne McFadden Herrera has Maintained Wicked's Choreography and Staging for 20 Years

Dance Magazine: Unlike lyrics or lines preserved in scores and scripts, a show’s movement is ephemeral, passed from body to body with every new cast. Ensuring that the choreography and staging stays true to the original is crucial to the integrity of a show. Such is the task of Wicked’s associate choreographer Corinne McFadden Herrera, who has been with the production from its inception in 2003.

Posted by David at 10/31/2023 10:25:00 AM

Friday, November 03, 2023

DP Weekly Wrap Up

Sunday, October 29, 2023

Worth a Look

Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...

AI Is Changing the Future of Acting

nofilmschool.com: Meta and other AI companies hired actors during the Hollywood Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA strikes to train AI with their expressions, movements, and voice, paying as little as $300 to use the data collected "in perpetuity."

Posted by David at 10/26/2023 11:44:00 AM

REX creates "holy grail" combination of performance spaces in Providence

www.dezeen.com: New York architecture studio REX has completed the "most automated" performance building in the world at Brown University's campus in Providence, Rhode Island. Called The Lindemann Performing Arts Center (The Lindemann) the 101,000 square-foot (9,383-square-metre) structure consists of a shoebox theatre with a long bridge-like walkway.

Posted by David at 10/25/2023 10:05:00 AM

How Some Film Schools Are Getting More Woke

www.thewrap.com: “Take a good look, my dear. It’s a historic moment you can tell your grandchildren about—how you watched the Old South fall one night.” That’s perhaps not the most famous line from the 1939 classic “Gone With the Wind,” but it’s possibly the most cutting example of the complicated legacy contained within it.

Posted by David at 10/26/2023 11:42:00 AM

How Counter Culture & Communism Created Renaissance Fairs

The Mary Sue: The first Renaissance fair (or faire, if you’re into it) in the United States took place just outside of Los Angeles in 1963. The creation of the faire was a direct result of the communist witch hunt headed up by Joseph McCarthy, which inadvertently created a community of progressively-minded creatives in the neighborhood of Laurel Canyon, California.

Posted by David at 10/25/2023 10:09:00 AM

SAG-AFTRA Forced To Clarify They Don't Actually Care What Actors' Kids Dress Up as on Halloween

The Mary Sue: SAG-AFTRA released some “tips & tricks” last week for celebrating Halloween during the strike and caused a bit of a stir among its members. A lot of actors and even the former president of SAG-AFTRA, Melissa Gilbert, had something to say about the guidelines. The union instructed members to avoid characters from struck work this spooky season. That includes no Barbies, Kens, or Oppenheimers in their futures.

Posted by David at 10/24/2023 10:20:00 AM

There are no bad ideas

Sunday, November 12, 2023

DP Weekly Wrap Up

Worth a Look

SAG-AFTRA and Hollywood Studios Agree to Deal to End Actors’ Strike

More Cultivation, Less Crane Machine: Who Gets to Design in LORT Theatres

Hispanic and Latino Actors and Filmmakers Still Underrepresented in Hollywood

Actors’ Equity Association and Broadway League Settle Waitress Grievance

‘We Need Humanity in Art’: Game Actors Speak Out Against Microsoft’s AI Partnership

Sunday, November 05, 2023

Worth a Look

As the 'Hollywood of the South,' Atlanta has boomed. Its actors and crew are now at a crossroads

Nightshade "Poisons" AI Art Generators to Help Defend Artists

AI is on a collision course with music — Reservoir’s Golnar Khosrowshahi thinks there’s a way through

Robert Brustein Raised the Bar for Us All

How Corinne McFadden Herrera has Maintained Wicked's Choreography and Staging for 20 Years

Friday, November 03, 2023

DP Weekly Wrap Up

Sunday, October 29, 2023

Worth a Look

AI Is Changing the Future of Acting

REX creates "holy grail" combination of performance spaces in Providence

How Some Film Schools Are Getting More Woke

How Counter Culture & Communism Created Renaissance Fairs

SAG-AFTRA Forced To Clarify They Don't Actually Care What Actors' Kids Dress Up as on Halloween

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