- Magic Light’s The Velveteen Rabbit wins a BAFTA for Best Children’s Craft Team (BAFTA)
- Banijay Group is eyeing a potential takeover bid for ITV and ITV Studios (THR)
- How Universal could redefine retail and dining at its new UK theme park (Forbes)
- Alliance backs out of buying Diamond Comics, with more details to come on May 2 (ICv2)
- Walmart hosted an exclusive gender-reveal moment on Peppa Pig Tales today (USA Today)
- US book sales were down slightly in Q1, but the YA genre experienced a little boost (Publishing Perspectives)
- TV and film marketing bosses got together in LA yesterday to talk about reaching Gen Z (Variety)
- The EU fines Apple US$568 million for deterring third-party payments in the App Store (GamesIndustry.biz)
- Thanks to China, Imax’s box-office recovery continued in the first quarter (THR)
- Adobe has released a new version of its AI image generation tool (TechCrunch)
- New data from Virgin Media shows kids are on screens right after school (Advanced Television)
- Peacock narrowed its losses to US$215 million in Q1, hitting 41 million subscribers (Broadband TV News)
- Most teens say social media is a positive space for friendships and creativity (Pew Research)
- Netflix has released a season-two teaser for its YA hit Wednesday (Variety)
- The EU fines Apple and Meta for allegedly breaching fair competition rules (The Guardian)
- Talk about competition: More than 20 trillion videos have been uploaded to YouTube (THR)
- Chinese animated film phenom Ne Zha 2 is going global with an English dub (Variety)
- Disney has unveiled new Lilo & Stitch merch for the live-action remake (THR)
- Google is back in court today for an antitrust case that could result in it being broken up (NPR)
- A UCLA survey highlights what content teens turn to when they’re stressed (Scholars and Storytellers)
- How Sephora, Foot Locker and other retailers are winning with Gen Alphas (Retail Dive)
- …Meanwhile, US retail spending surged in March as consumers brace for price hikes (CNBC)
- Trade tariffs could leave Disney’s theme parks a lot more vulnerable (LA Times)
- Looking at A Minecraft Movie’s “chicken jockey” mayhem in a positive light (Vulture)
- A new op-ed urges the US government to reverse tariffs and save the toy industry (The Toy Book)
- …and THR takes a closer look at how tariffs could impact the entertainment biz (THR)
- Florida’s Epic Universe theme park is on track to make US$2 billion in year one (CNBC)
- Niantic is laying off 68 employees in the wake of selling its game biz to Scopely (Game Developer)
- LA location shoots declined by 22% in Q1, but have bounced back since the fires (Variety)
- Elmo is among the latest star-studded batch of Bluey Book Reads narrators (The Standard)
- …and Bluey has joined Moana 2 in Nielsen’s top-10 streaming ranking for March (THR)
- Regal Cinemas is navigating the chaos of A Minecraft Movie with a special screening (Forbes)
- WGA says there were 42% fewer TV writing jobs in the 2023/2024 season (THR)
- A new US$28-million fund is looking to support indies in the EU (VideoAge International)
- South Korean content is second only to US content in terms of Netflix watch time (Advanced TV)
- The King of Kings had a US$19-million opening weekend, setting a new animated Biblical film record (Deadline)
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