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[+] bonjour, madame
This is the beta of foofaraw[+], the temporary home of something new.
Thanks for coming along for the ride, let me know what you think and if you have any ideas for how it can be improved.
One question I’ve had for myself while doing this experiment is:
What links get reserved for this [+] offering and what links should make their way to TIV immediately.
I’ve mixed and matched a bit so far, but ultimately, anything media and entertainment is going to be reserved for this and TIV will end up having less of a focus on those areas (unless I’m super excited for something) and have more of a focus on culture, “the internet,” sports, politics, technology, and other news related topics. Feels simple enough…
Still thinking about pricing (I’ll comp a certain timeframe for anyone reading this if you reach out, but I’ll remind you when that switch happens) and a way to call out gift articles, which I want to use more so that there is additional value through the newsletter in readers getting to read NY Times, FT, Puck, and more for free basically.
But that’s all I have for today’s preamble.
Top of the News
The Paris Review - The Review Wins the 2024 National Magazine Award for Fiction - The Paris Review
I wish I had kept up with reading The Paris Review. Just this past week I ended up cancelling before another renewal hit because I’ve just fallen so far behind on it due to all the newsletters, books, comics, magazines, and sci-fi short story magazines I have in rotation…
But here I am thinking about not only renewing, but subscribing to some more things like LRB, NYRB, Zoetrope All-Story… oy vey…
Well deserved for the team at The Paris Review though.
Emma Stone in Talks to Star in Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Save the Green Planet’ Remake (EXCLUSIVE)
I don’t know if Stone is as great as some people make her out to be, but if she continues to make films with Lanthimos, I’m definitely not going to complain.
I have yet to see Poor Things, but The Favourite is still one of my favorite films.
Will Tracy as the writer also sounds like a pretty great pairing for these two since Tony McNamara, who wrote the previous two and The Great, isn’t on-board. Tracy spent time at Last Week Tonight, wrote The Menu, and is the creator of the upcoming Kate Winslet show, The Regime, on HBO—which looks superb.
After redefining fantasy with Game Of Thrones, can David Benioff and D.B. Weiss pull it off with sci-fi saga 3 Body Problem?
The one thing Benioff and Weiss showed they can do is execute if they are given a blueprint to work against. People soured on later seasons of Thrones, I think, because they had to actually be creative in how they would execute without that roadmap to show them the way.
All that being said, the 3 Body Problem trilogy is complete and should make for a solid blueprint for them to execute against.
The only counter to that is, the books are not very cinematic (at least the first one, which is the only one I’ve read). The trailers we’ve seen so far are quite appealing though, so I do have high hopes for this still.
Fubo sues Fox, Disney, and Warner Bros. to block their combined sports streaming app
Saw this coming a mile away. The big boys will have to offer something up to the smaller streamers. At least that’s how I understand it.
The smaller streamers, like Fubo have tried to offer a skinnier sports offering forever, but the congolmerates wouldn’t allow them. They can’t then turn around and offer it themselves without allowing their channels to be packaged that way by other businesses.
Ineveitably, they will either concede and allow the likes of Fubo (and YouTube for that matter) to offer a similar package or they will just pull the plug on the whole thing—this would not surprise me at all.
Borderlands (2024) Official Trailer - Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black
Killer cast in this (minus Kevin Hart. I’m sorry, but him and Ryan Reynolds are just in too much stuff and they aren’t as funny as they think they are).
Eli Roth is directing, which is interesting to me. I don’t know that he’s ever done a big, bombastic movie like this before.
I agree with THR that there is a bit of a Guardians of the Galaxy thing going on here.
TV
Comics
Upstart digital comics service Omnibus loses its co-founder (and head software engineer)
Top Comics to Buy for February 21, 2024: Two buzzy new superhero books get second issues
Oni Press Grabs Adventure Time Comics License From Boom Studios
Movies
Bong Joon Ho’s ‘Mickey 17’ Returns with New 2025 Release Date
Paramount’s ‘Ferris Bueller’ Spinoff Film Lands Director David Katzenberg
Other
The Letterboxd Page That Became Something Much More – IndieWire
Universal Music Takes Stake In Major Artist Catalog Firm For $240M
Music Industry Moves: Rae Khalil Signs With Def Jam and Anderson .Paak’s Apeshit Label (EXCLUSIVE)
Apple launches Apple Sports app with scores and betting odds
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