“The dinosaur film has collected $402.8 million domestically in 10 days and $584.4 million overseas since its international rollout began on June 10, according to studio estimates. Internationally, the latest installment will pass the $640-million lifetime box office total of “Jurassic Park” (which includes the first run, reissues and 3-D) and become the highest-grossing film in the “Jurassic” franchise.”
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Everything About Canadian TV Is Changing
“All the change is symbolized, illuminated, in CBC actually firing a well-connected person of privileged background on a heap-of-cash issue. It’s still a racket, the Canadian TV business, but the old version is dead. And some people dance on its grave.”
A Star Retires: Julie Kent’s Last Night At ABT
“After the curtain went down on the last act, she received a 23-minute ovation and enough bouquets to stock a small flower shop. They were tributes to Julie Kent, who danced her farewell performance with American Ballet Theater on Saturday night after 29 years with the company — a final “Romeo and Juliet” — and stirred strong emotions among fans and fellow dancers.”
Amazon Will Pay Writers Based On How Many Pages Readers Read. Is This Fair?
The move has dismayed some authors, who believe it sets a dangerous precedent and could spread across the industry. It has also raised concerns about the amount of data Amazon is able to mine from its customers. “We’re making this switch in response to great feedback we received from authors who asked us to better align payout with the length of books and how much customers read,” the company said.
Was It Really Taylor Swift Who Got Apple To Pay Musicians?
Many small and mid-sized labels had protested Apple’s free trial. “Collectively, the protesting labels – which included Beggars Group, home to Adele and Britain’s largest indie – represented about a quarter of the global market. Not to have Swift’s album 1989 on Apple Music, when it launches at the end of the month, is one thing; to be missing tens of millions of songs from independent acts is a whole other matter.”
The New Cardiff Singer Of The World Is –
– a 32-year-old soprano from Belarus. The Audience Prize went to a 29-year-old Mongolian. Obscure? Not for long.
If The Internet Was Once An Egalitarian Utopia, Have Corporations Paved Paradise?
“In the early days of the web, much more of what we encountered was home-made by people who shared those values and that vision. … But then Facebook happened. … Blogs were ours. Facebook is not ours.” Nevertheless, argues David Weinberger, if they’ve turned paradise into a parking lot, there’s still a lot of grass growing through the pavement.
The Marvelous Manhole Covers Of Minneapolis
“Most visitors to new cities don’t come home raving about the location’s manhole covers, but the city of Minneapolis has made its underfoot sewer covers a point of artistic pride, with designs that celebrate the area’s art, history, and wildlife.”
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“Artless” In America: Why, Oh Why?
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Commercial, Not Collegial: British Museum’s Major Loans to Abu Dhabi’s Zayed National Museum
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Visit from a gaggle of fractious critics
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Twitter, in four sentences
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Chamber Ballet in a Church
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Picnics, Plato and Pleats: Death in Venice at Wormsley
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Gunther Schuller On Book 3
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Monday Recommendation: Kenny Dorham
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The Berlin Phil Has Chosen Its New Conductor
Kiril Petrenko “is best-known for his work in the opera pit; he spent five years at the helm of the Berlin Komische Oper, and has been general music director of the Bavarian State Opera since 2013.”