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The directing team of Gwyneth Paltrow and Mary Wigmore has signed with bicoastal/international Moxie Pictures for exclusive worldwide representation in spots and music videos. Paltrow and Wigmore directed the short Dealbreaker, which was in competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The short was born out of a branded entertainment initiative involving Moxie and Glamour magazine….The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) has announced five nominees in the organization’s annual Outstanding Achievement Awards feature film competition. The nominees are Dion Beebe, ASC, ACS for Memoirs of a Geisha; Robert Elswit, ASC for Good Night, and Good Luck; Andrew Lesnie, ASC, ACS for King Kong; Wally Pfister, ASC for Batman Begins; and Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC for Brokeback Mountain…Bicoastal Post Logic Studios has hired Carrie Holecek for the newly created position of VP of business development. She comes to Post Logic from Santa Monica-based Company 3, where she was executive producer of the features department…Das Werk, a postproduction firm with facilities throughout Germany, , has purchased a da Vinci Resolve RT digital mastering suite for nonlinear grading of feature films, music videos, and commercials. This is part of the company’s Digital Intermediate (DI) style workflow.Category:Street Talk
TikTok’s Fate Arrives At Supreme Court; Arguments Center On Free Speech and National Security
In one of the most important cases of the social media age, free speech and national security collide at the Supreme Court on Friday in arguments over the fate of TikTok, a wildly popular digital platform that roughly half the people in the United States use for entertainment and information.
TikTok says it plans to shut down the social media site in the U.S. by Jan. 19 unless the Supreme Court strikes down or otherwise delays the effective date of a law aimed at forcing TikTok's sale by its Chinese parent company.
Working on a tight deadline, the justices also have before them a plea from President-elect Donald Trump, who has dropped his earlier support for a ban, to give him and his new administration time to reach a "political resolution" and avoid deciding the case. It's unclear if the court will take the Republican president-elect's views — a highly unusual attempt to influence a case — into account.
TikTok and China-based ByteDance, as well as content creators and users, argue the law is a dramatic violation of the Constitution's free speech guarantee.
"Rarely if ever has the court confronted a free-speech case that matters to so many people," lawyers for the users and content creators wrote. Content creators are anxiously awaiting a decision that could upend their livelihoods and are eyeing other platforms.
The case represents another example of the court being asked to rule about a medium with which the justices have acknowledged they have little familiarity or expertise, though they often weigh in on meaty issues involving restrictions on speech.
The Biden administration, defending the law that President Joe Biden signed in April after it was approved by wide bipartisan majorities in Congress, contends that... Read More
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