- Amid news that Disney will furlough 43,000 employees, it’s also reportedly frozen development budgets (New York Times)
- A lot of companies aren’t paying their mortgages right now, and the ripples of that could cause a huge financial crisis (Vanity Fair)
- Since global lockdowns aren’t likely to lift soon, it might be time to rethink kids’ relationship with screens (National Geographic UK)
- Maybe cool it with all of the Zoom calls, as fatigue is starting to settle in (Digiday)
- Is the fact that Trolls World Tour is skipping theaters a sign of the times, or the future of film releases? (Variety)
- How the global film market is working to quell massive layoffs (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Disney+ has reached 50 million paid subscribers (Digital TV Europe)
- Sony is investing big money in Chinese platform Bilibili (Reuters)
- Disney has found a way to keep its theme parks alive, even if everything is closed (CNET)
- …And as live events disappear, what happens to the companies dedicated to putting them on? (Digiday)
- The UK’s Film & TV Charity has found that 93% of industry freelancers are out of work (TBI Vision)
- Everyone is stuck at home, yet no one has time for Quibi (Variety)
- Canada’s biggest province declared the Easter Bunny an essential service—here’s why it might help kids cope (CTV News)
- Broadcasters are struggling to figure out what their programming schedules will look like a few months from now (The Hollywood Reporter)
- How kids TV in the UK has begun to celebrate diverse cultures (The Guardian)
- Disney Animation has been making a new series of Frozen shorts, entirely from home (The Verge)
- TV viewership is up! Digital viewership is up! But European pay-TV is going to slide anyways (Digital TV Europe)
- Hollywood agents always want to discover the next big thing, and now they’re all looking to TikTok (The New York Times)
- Quibi is finally here—without any kids content—but is it worth watching? (Variety)
- ViacomCBS is looking to up its stake in Miramax (Digital TV Europe)
- Leading video game developers are encouraging people to stay at home with new in-game ads (BBC News)
- Why exactly did WarnerMedia pick Jason Kilar as its new leader? (Digiday)
- Disney will begin to furlough employees in a few weeks (Los Angeles Times)
- Movie theaters are looking for creative ways to generate revenue while closed, which means going virtual (Variety)
- YouTube is reportedly looking to emulate TikTok with a competitor called “Shorts” (Tubefilter)
- …But TikTok has several elements that make the app very hard to replicate (Tech Crunch)
- WarnerMedia’s new CEO Jason Kilar on what the future of streaming looks like (Variety)
- When the NFL returns, it’s turning to Nickelodeon to reach a younger audience (Bleacher Report)
- Forget playing doctor—playing coronavirus is all the rage with kids at home right now (The Atlantic)
- Is Bluey Australia’s biggest export since The Wiggles? (The New York Times)
- How Nickelodeon, Disney and Sesame are trying to talk to kids about COVID-19 (Variety)
- Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the screen time debate is over, and screens won (The New York Times)
- Zoom is all the rage right now, but the video call platform has some drawbacks from scaling too quickly (Tech Crunch)
- JK Rowling has launched a digital Harry Potter hub for kids (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Top Disney execs are taking a pay cut (Variety)
- HBO Max doesn’t launch for more than a month, but the SVOD has already gained major momentum with viewers (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Spotify is launching its kids app in the US, Canada and France (Tech Crunch)
- Children are now getting into Facebook’s Messenger Kids…and all it took was a pandemic (Technology Review)
- As movie theaters around the world close, drive-ins are flourishing (The Atlantic)
- Disney+ is reportedly surveying subscribers on whether it should offer content for older viewers (TV Guide)
- Dispatches from around the entertainment industry: How COVID-19 is affecting individuals (Variety)
- Sesame is expanding its Caring for Each Other initiative to help kids tackle COVID-19 (The New York Times)
- The HQ Trivia app is back only two months after its shutdown—can it make a comeback? (The Verge)
- Prix Jeunesse and another Reed MIDEM event have both been cancelled and moved online (Kidscreen)
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