#lightsh

[eir-parade]

time for kanade's turn in the torture maze 🙏🙏 her time was coming sooner or later

i saw some people on twt mention the empty frames representing kanade's lack of life experiences due to her guilt and isolation and the mirrors being used to represent possible self-reflection and likely kanade will finally have to face herself

but i'd like to mention the hallway

firstly, it may just be me seeing this but this hallway actually contains each of the unit members image colours. kanade is the walls. ena is the picture frames. mizuki is the floor. and mafuyu is the roof.

secondly, this hallway is LOOOONG but there is a light at the end, which actually is also niigo's unit image colour (the light is there, at 25:00). niigo is each others's light. niigo is kanade's light.... but it's oh so so far away.... despite moving towards it, albeit slowly, the light never seems to get closer

kanade is so far away from this light

[tosruyi]

Vancouver 2019

[saintmeghanmarkle]

Brian Robbins may be out at Paramount? by u/Ruth_Lily

Brian Robbins may be out at Paramount? “A day earlier, I had begun to receive a barrage of incoming texts and emails from Paramount insiders expressing genuine concern that Charles Phillips, the 65-year-old former Morgan Stanley banker and Paramount board member who sits on the board’s special committee, had been trying to thwart the Ellison/RedBird deal. According to these people, Phillips had been against the sale pretty much from the beginning and had been whispering in Shari’s ear that she could do better—perhaps even with Phillips himself leading a new management team. “It’s a disgrace,” someone involved in the M&A process told me yesterday. (Rich Greenfield, at LightShed Partners, wrote in a note on Wednesday that it was “likely” that Shari would appoint Phillips to replace the three men now acting as the company’s co-C.E.O.s, who are known on Wall Street as the Pep Boys.)” excerpt rom puck news & I can’t archive the entire articlehttps://puck.news/why-shari-redstone-killed-paramount-skydance-deal/ALSO THIS was the lede on the article”Deal chatter around Shari Redstone’s shocking, and yet perhaps not entirely unsurprising, decision to kill the Skydance/RedBird acquisition at the thirteenth hour, and forgo billions in order to preserve her place at Sun Valley and table at Dan Tana’s. As one deal observer put it, “It’s why people shouldn’t inherit companies.”” post link: https://ift.tt/6d7SAtr author: Ruth_Lily submitted: June 13, 2024 at 07:56PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit disclaimer: all views + opinions expressed by the author of this post, as well as any comments and reblogs, are solely the author's own; they do not necessarily reflect the views of the administrator of this Tumblr blog. For entertainment only.

[comicweek]

The drama is being rehashed at a time when DC Entertainment toppers James Gunn and Peter Safran are poised to close the book on the previous regime’s superhero slate with the Dec. 20 release of “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.” Since Warner Bros. chiefs Pam Abdy and Mike De Luca joined the studio in June 2022, followed by Gunn and Safran’s entrance four months later, the four have been saddled with DC duds they inherited, including this year’s “The Flash” ($271 million worldwide) and “Blue Beetle” ($128 million worldwide).

Still, the “Aquaman” sequel held promise considering that the character’s first outing earned $1.15 billion worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing DC movie ever. But sources say the sequel has endured challenges outside of the Heard saga and was testing in the 60s before being recut in the summer of 2022. Despite the overhaul, the film continued to test in the 60s, prompting a new cut. “The movie is like this echo of regimes,” says one insider. “It’s the last remnant of the Snyderverse, and no one really wants to take ownership of it.” Reshoots took place right up until this year’s WGA strike in May. The on-set source disputes the idea that “Aquaman 2” is troubled, noting that the film was on time, under budget and needed only about a week of reshoots.

Like “Flash,” “Aquaman” can’t shake its lame duck trappings, with the DC universe getting overhauled under new leadership, marking Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav’s top priority.

In fact, none of the stars cast by Zack Snyder for 2016’s “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” and 2017’s “Justice League” — including Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Ezra Miller and Momoa — will reprise their roles in the new DC universe in character. Momoa may return, just not as Aquaman. Sources say the actor has engaged in talks to play Lobo, either in the 2025 reboot “Superman: Legacy,” written and directed by Gunn, or in a standalone film. In a confusing twist, Viola Davis, who played Amanda Waller in both of the recent “Suicide Squad” movies, will remain as that character in the Gunn-Safran DC universe in next year’s Max series “Waller” and possibly in the new “Superman” tentpole. Another outlier is Gunn’s Max series “Peacemaker,” which will be back for a second season with John Cena in the lead.

Meanwhile, there has been some confusion on the series front about who is the ultimate gatekeeper. Unlike the Marvel-Disney relationship in which Marvel controls the creative process and Disney+ merely releases the content, Max is creatively involved with the DC slate. Gunn and Safran don’t enjoy the same autonomy as Marvel’s Kevin Feige. (A Max source says the collaboration between the DC team and Max executives Sarah Aubrey and Casey Bloys has been seamless, including on the upcoming series “The Penguin,” which was forced to shut down production after the WGA strike began but is expected resume shooting as soon as the SAG-AFTRA strike ends.)

Regardless, some on the lot are convinced that another company, most likely Universal, will buy Warner Bros. within two years, making recent DC subplots and upheavals feel quaint.

“The bottom line is they need to get DC to work whether Zaslav owns it, whether Brian Roberts owns it, whether somebody else owns it,” says LightShed’s Rich Greenfield, a Wall Street analyst and venture capitalist.

[girlnooo]

Not only lightshed. Change the color into red in night to help the night vision. We can use less energy that way because red light make our vision better with even less power used in compared to white/yellow light. White/Yellow lights require a lot of energy so we can focus better.

its been p common knowledge for decades that light pollution can be massively reduced by just putting shades on streetlamps, and that doing that would save energy, help wildlife, and let us see the stars better, but are society says if u wanna change any minor little tiny thing u gotta dedicate ur whole life to campaigning for it and this is a good ways down the list of priorities for most ppl, so instead i gotta walk past newly-installed streetlamps that are just dumb glass globes that use half their electricity to blast half their light directly into the sky where it does only bad things for no reason and think "we should overthrow the government"

[aiorbit]

#AIArtProtection #LightShed #GenerativeAI #ArtistRights

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Alex Weprin at THR:

At a moment when the news cycle is moving at a breakneck pace, top cable news executives are grappling with an uncomfortable reality: The future of the business has never been more uncertain. As one veteran executive argues, it is more likely than not that by the end of President Donald Trump’s term, CNN, MSNBC and, yes, even Fox News will have new ownership as the power structures that have defined media for the past four decades break down. MSNBC is already set to be spun off from Comcast and NBCUniversal, joining sister channel CNBC at “SpinCo,” a cable-focused venture to be led by Mark Lazarus. And at Warner Bros. Discovery, a restructuring has placed CNN into a “global linear networks” division, seemingly destined for future dealmaking.

Even Fox News, with its relative financial and ratings strength, isn’t immune from speculation. Rupert Murdoch, who effectively controls Fox through an irrevocable family trust, has been trying to amend that trust to give his son (and Fox CEO) Lachlan Murdoch control. Should that legal effort fail, multiple Wall Street sources believe that Murdoch would engage in sale talks or work with Lachlan to figure out a way to buy out his siblings, thus avoiding a Succession-style public battle for the family empire. “We believe there is a near zero percent chance that Rupert wants to leave planet earth with the future of the assets he spent his life building left in limbo,” Lightshed Partners’ Rich Greenfield wrote in a note in December. “If Lachlan is unable to cement control through a buyout, we suspect Rupert would look to sell Fox’s assets.” It’s not hard to understand why the cable news business is seemingly on the edge of a precipice, despite the fact that there’s more news than ever with a president who is an avid viewer and has stacked his Cabinet with TV veterans. As CNN CEO Mark Thompson told staff Jan. 23, there are “profound and irreversible shifts” in the way consumers get their news, and the product needs to reflect that.

Those shifts are even more stark when looking at the troubled economics of cable TV. By now everyone knows that the challenges that cord-cutting has wrought, with younger consumers largely opting not to pay for TV, and instead spending their dollars on streaming platforms. And while cable news channels suck up a higher percentage of cable’s declining viewership (MSNBC viewership has increased 57 percent during the past decade despite 33 percent fewer pay TV households, for example), the business challenges remain stark.  The finances of cable news channels have traditionally been obscured, buried within larger divisions of their parent companies. A recent defamation lawsuit against CNN, however, brought those finances (or at least a partial version of them) into the open. According to the data disclosed at trial, revenue at CNN fell from $2.2 billion in 2021 to $1.8 billion in 2023, and while profits remain robust, those too are slipping fast. CNN earned net income of $600 million in 2021 and $400 million in 2023. A CNN spokesperson says that “the numbers represent the plaintiff’s interpretation of a subset of data as presented in litigation, and they do not represent financial data for the whole of CNN’s business.” The finances will be different at MSNBC and at Fox News (especially at Fox, which has far higher subscriber fees and substantially more viewers), but the overall trend lines are still driven by the fortunes of pay TV, and that pain is being felt everywhere. CNN’s decision to cut some 200 jobs in January is just the latest example.

All this is reflected in the “new normal” for talent deals, according to multiple sources. Some, like Rachel Maddow, are signing new contracts for less money or in other cases new deals without a pay increase (i.e., CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and MSNBC’s Jonathan Lemire). Still others opted to abandon their respective channels after being presented with new deals that offered sharply slashed salaries, with Fox’s Neil Cavuto and CNN’s Chris Wallace among the high-profile examples. [...] Fox, meanwhile, is in many ways ahead of the game, having launched its Fox Nation streaming service in 2018. Still, that service, geared toward super fans, still only has about two million subscribers as of a year ago, and its content lineup is heavy on entertainment fare. [...] Now it has decided to take the biggest leap of them all. On Feb. 4, Fox said that it would launch a streaming service by the end of 2025, one that would include sports and, yes, Fox News programming. Lachlan Murdoch said his company is still committed to the pay TV bundle, but added that “we do want to reach consumers wherever they are, and there’s a large population, obviously, that are now outside of the traditional cable bundle.” While executives at the company have long maintained that they could “flip a switch” and start streaming Fox News’ full lineup, the company will now need to grapple with the same questions facing ESPN, which will make its full programming lineup available via streaming later this year: How do you take one of the most lucrative wholesale products of all time and price it for retail consumers without destroying the business? When every pay-TV consumer is paying for every channel, a company like ESPN or Fox News can make billions annually. But if you have a product that appeals only to fans of the brand, pricing and retention strategy becomes a much bigger problem to solve. And at MSNBC, the spinoff could end up being a saving grace. Until now, MSNBC’s streaming strategy has centered on Peacock, NBCUniversal’s streaming service. But freed from that corporate structure, MSNBC can figure out its own path forward in streaming, whether that be a licensing deal, or a direct-to-consumer offering like its sister channel CNBC has developed for its (smaller, more niche) audience. The clock, however, is ticking.

The state of cable news media is a revealing one, per The Hollywood Reporter.

CNN and MSNBC are hemorrhaging ratings post-elections, though MSNBC is beginning to see some rebound in recent weeks. Fox, as ever, rules the cable news ratings race, but even Fox isn’t immune to the trends, as a post-Rupert succession race could change everything.

[daughter-of-woman]

Tradwife Tango

PLAY [Verse]Barefoot in the morning lightShe brews her coffee tightWith apron strings she ties her dreamA little house beside the stream [Chorus]She whispers to the stars aboveIn simple words she finds her loveWith hands that sew and heart that singsShe crafts her world with humble things [Verse 2]Her garden blooms with summer greensEmbroidered quilts and homestead scenesShe greets each day…

[loislane-ana]

Comcast's cable spinoff is them saying 'we don't want to be in the cable biz': LightShed co-founder

[poetyca]

Tutto è luce - All is light

🌸Tutto è luce🌸Selene notte di luna incontra le stelle e respira magia in emozione celesteTutto è luce lei sempre dice ed un passo per voltasi deve sempre cercare09.11.2023 Poetyca 🌸🌿🌸#Poetycamente🌸Everything is lightSelene moonlit nightmeet the starsand breathe magicin heavenly emotionEverything is lightshe always saysand one step at a timeyou always have to search09.11.2023 Poetyca

[seldlaterre]

Full Moon in Gemini - Return to Innocence

yearning for play

a return to innocence

and ignorance

from the horrors that have lied

behind the curtains of our eyes

now the sun shines

a disturbance from the comfort

uncovered in the dark

where our eyes had adjusted

seen colors in the shadows

it was our home so we weren’t afraid

though we were

we were hiding and didn’t know

what we should’ve been afraid of all along

a new lightshed on our time in…

[rogerrcoyle]

your walk

[claudiocastelli]

Another Christmas vision

[eda11y]

2017 Total Eclipse by frank_delargy

[dbloom]

Does Roku Need To Invest In More Shows To Justify Sky-High Share Prices?

Does Roku Need To Invest In More Shows To Justify Sky-High Share Prices?

Roku share prices have been on a rocket ride this past couple of weeks, jumping $101 to more than $418 per share just since Jan. 4. What made the company suddenly worth almost a third more to the market in just 10 days? Just as importantly, what does it need to do to justify those stratospheric share prices for the long run? Admittedly, the company has had a very strong past year: It just…