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Sunday, March 31, 2024

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week:

After Quiet On Set, Is Hollywood Protecting Child Actors?

www.thewrap.com: The shocking revelations from the Investigation Discovery docuseries “Quiet On Set” pulled back the curtain on a slew of workplace abuse allegations involving various Nickelodeon shows from the 1990s and 2000s — and the network’s former longtime writer, producer and showrunner Dan Schneider.

Disney and Florida Reach Settlement Deal, Ending Legal War

www.businessinsider.com: The yearlong beef between Disney's CEO Bob Iger and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is over. The board of the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District — which was DeSantis hand-picked to take control of Disneyworld's special tax district — agreed on Wednesday to settle the state lawsuit brought by Disney.

Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes on the shop floor

www.thefabricator.com: Putting yourself in someone else's shoes is a pretty simple concept. It makes me think of job shadowing, when a student is required to find someone to shadow at work for a day and then write a report about it.

Tomorrow’s Tamoras and Titanias: How to Heal the High School Space

AMERICAN THEATRE: As some kids grow, they shrink. Standing tall and speaking loud can become impossible when every morning you wake for a school theatre curriculum that denies or defiles your existence. Stories, you quickly learn, can harm as easily as they heal. There are stories that crack open a teenager’s mirror with an outreached pale grip binding them to centuries of tropes and words like barbarous, savage, exotic, ethnic, sexy to the white male gaze.

Shooting in ILM’s New StageCraft Volume Virtual Production Facility: DP Pierre Gill on Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Filmmaker Magazine: In the first season of Disney+’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the titular teenaged demigod and his compatriots travel across the country, with stops from St. Louis to Las Vegas, on a mission to prevent war among the Greek gods. However, cinematographer Pierre Gill and his crew never left the vicinity of Vancouver.

 

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