- Apple is limiting its new Intelligence AI features to new phones amid slumping sales (Wired)
- Billionaire Edgar Bronfman Jr. may be trying to buy a major Paramount shareholder (Reuters)
- New York passes legislation that would ban ‘addictive’ social media algorithms for kids (Tech Crunch)
- A rough cut of the first fully CG-animated Transformers movie gets a standing O at Annecy (Deadline)
- President Macron calls for snap election after a big far-right win in France’s EU vote (BBC)
- Annecy-goers boo a music video that’s among the festival’s first crop of AI films (Variety)
- Streamer spending in Europe to surpass TV spending for the first time this year (THR)
- Disney’s record-breaking animated series Gravity Falls could be returning (Deadline)
- Hollywood is trying to find a balance between content advisories and spoilers (Variety)
- Bob Iger says Tokyo Disney’s US$2-billion resort expansion is key to theme park growth strategy (THR)
- UK retailers have filed a US$1.3-billion lawsuit against Amazon for data misuse (TechCrunch)
- Artists are fleeing Instagram to keep AI away from their work (The Washington Post)
- Supercell’s new game Squad Busters earned US$1.1 million on its launch day (GamesIndustry.biz)
- Rovio, SEGA and Prime Focus Studios are developing The Angry Birds Movie 3 (Deadline)
- A new book in the Hunger Games saga is due out in March 2025 (Variety)
- SAG-AFTRA has introduced terms for performers working on audio commercials that use AI (THR)
- Disney EMEA boss reveals the company spent US$4.4 billion on UK content in the last five years (ScreenDaily)
- Streaming bundles might be hot right now, but they won’t bring back pay-TV’s glory days (Variety)
- Broadway never bounced back from the pandemic, and here’s why (THR)
- IATSE’s work to nail down a three-year deal with studios is going slowly (Deadline)
- Taylor Swift and Olivia Rodrigo are among this year’s Kids Choice Awards nominees (Deadline)
- Paramount’s leaders share their vision for the studio if the merger doesn’t happen (THR)
- Warner Bros. Discovery has increased the pricetag for ad-free Max (Variety)
- A new documentary breaks down why subscription service MoviePass failed (Vanity Fair)
- X could become less safe for kids with a rule tweak to allow adult content (TechCrunch)
- Prime Video has the lowest churn rate of all streamers at 8%, according to report (DTVE)
- MENA streaming revenues are set to hit more than US$1.2 billion by 2025 (TBI Vision)
- Sony has released a trailer for the third and final film in its Venom trilogy (Forbes)
- WBD’s David Zaslav anticipates M&A opportunities in the next couple years (Variety)
- Activist investor Nelson Peltz has reportedly sold his Disney stake after losing his proxy battle (The New York Times)
- Sony Pictures Entertainment’s CEO dreams of more IPs and a bigger library to sell (Deadline)
- Moana 2 becomes the most-viewed trailer in Pixar/Disney Animation history (THR)
- CARU claims YouTube channel Vlad and Niki has violated its advertising guidelines (BBB National Programs)
- David Zaslav shares what a Disney-Max bundle would have to offer in order to work (THR)
- Amazon Fire TV to add an AI-powered search feature that recommends content (TechCrunch)
- A new study looks at entertainment industry employment in the year of the strikes (Deadline)
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