- Denmark has launched a new children’s show featuring a man with a giant penis…and people are confused (The Guardian)
- Quibi might be dead, but its content is heading to Roku—perhaps people will watch it now? (Wall Street Journal)
- Nickelodeon and Spin Master are in some hot water for making an “inappropriate” JoJo Siwa card game (Business Insider)
- How Pete Docter steered Pixar out of scandal and rebuilt the studio after John Lasseter’s exit (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Disney has shifted its top Disney Studios Content chairmen amid a big investment in streaming content (Deadline)
- …Meanwhile, the Star Wars universe is flying to a new galaxy with The Book of Boba Fett (Engadget)
- Both SpongeBob and the Muppets are getting into football…is this the kickoff of a new trend? (Sporting News)
- MGM inches towards a sale, tapping advisors in the process (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Disney and Lucasfilm are copying the Marvel formula for new Star Wars content (Variety)
- Wonder Woman 1984‘s disappointing weekend in China could be a sign that film recovery has stalled there (The Hollywood Reporter)
- …Meanwhile, rentals may be WarnerMedia’s secret weapon to get its films into territories without HBO Max (Engadget)
- If there’s a silver lining to COVID-19, it might be that kids have found their inner strength (CBC News)
- Can Disney+, the new kid on streaming block, really surpass Netflix in just a few years? (Variety)
- The voices represented in kids books are still overwhelmingly white (Toronto Star)
- Tencent may become the new home of Drake and Taylor Swift as it ups its music game (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Playing games is so last year as the “Roblox of VR” looks to enter the mainstream (Tech Crunch)
- Kids are dealing with the same pandemic anxieties as adults, so how can you help them build resilience (PBS News)
- Skydance is reportedly in talks to send its animated movies to Apple TV+ (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Walmart is looking to turn TikTok into the next big shopping destination…if its acquisition goes through (Tech Crunch)
- HBO Max and Roku have finally buried the hatchet (The Verge)
- The Kyoto Animation arson suspect has been charged with murder (The Guardian)
- ViacomCBS thinks the secret to getting kids to watch football is SpongeBob (Sportsnet)
- How Wonder Woman 1984 is shifting Hollywood’s future (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Inside Universal Studio Group’s push towards more diverse leadership (Variety)
- Avatar was noticeably absent from Disney’s update last week…is there still a place for the franchise? (The Verge)
- Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are working with Spotify on a new exclusive podcast deal (CNN Business)
- The FTC is ordering many of the biggest techcos to explain what they’re doing with all that user data (Tech Crunch)
- Tom and Jerry’s release date is getting pushed as WB juggles sharing content with theaters and HBO Max (Variety)
- ViacomCBS has launched a dedicated diversity and inclusion website that breaks down its demographics (Variety)
- Inside Cartoon Saloon’s new feature Wolfwalkers, and how it fits into a new golden age of animation (The New Yorker)
- The kids edtech boom is going strong as IntellectoKids raises US$3 million in financing (Tech Crunch)
- Netflix has revealed its top global shows, and one kids offering rises above the rest (TBI Vision)
- US SVODs and European governments square off over how much local content is actually being produced (Variety)
- AMC has raised US$100 million in liquidity, but it may not save the chain as more studios go DTC (The Hollywood Reporter)
- …And movies aren’t the only industry that’s hurting—concerts lost US$30 billion this year (Chicago Tribune)
- As it rolls out new content and wins big at the Game Awards, Among Us hype is here to stay (Washington Post)
- Sony is leaning into anime and has purchased AT&T’s Crunchyroll streamer (CNN Business)
- We all knew this was coming: The global cinema industry is in for a US$32-billion loss this year (Variety)
- Netflix has rolled out a new tool that gives parents an easier way to engage with kids content (The Verge)
- Disney+ is working on a movie about the first woman to swim the English channel (Deadline)
January 6, 2021
December 22, 2020
December 21, 2020
December 18, 2020
December 17, 2020
December 16, 2020
December 15, 2020
December 14, 2020
December 11, 2020
December 10, 2020
Newsletter
