- A closer look at Netflix’s new Roald Dahl deal (The Hollywood Reporter)
- …And how it feeds into the SVOD’s big bet on kids IPs (The Verge)
- Lucasfilm’s new animated anthology series Visions is its most ambitious project since A New Hope (Variety)
- Extremists are using video game chats to spread hate, which isn’t a surprise for anyone who has ever been in a game chat (BBC News)
- Why Instagram is really no place for children (The Washington Post)
- Sony has bought regional rival Zee Entertainment, and now dominates India’s broadcast landscape (Reuters)
- IATSE is looking to go on strike, which would shut down film and TV production in the US (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Thanks to streaming and ScarJo, talent deals are going to look very different moving forward, says Disney’s CEO (Los Angeles Times)
- Paramount+ is still looking to compete in the SVOD world, and is introducing a bundle to do so (The Verge)
- The French market is heating up with acquisitions as Canal+ buys 70% of SPI International (Digital TV Europe)
- Disney’s newest Behind the Scenes documentary showcases a new generation of Pixar creators (Variety)
- Forget big stars—for advertisers, the best returns right now are with nano-influencers (Ad Age)
- Netflix has made its SVOD free in Kenya to boost growth (Tech Crunch)
- The UK’s public broadcasters are reportedly in talks to set up a new joint streamer (Telegraph)
- Talk about kicking butt—Shang-Chi topped the box office for a third week in a row (BNN Bloomberg)
- France is looking to make changes to its outdated windowing laws, but everyone disagrees on what to change (Variety)
- The Crown and Ted Lasso were the biggest winners at last night’s Emmys; here’s what else you missed (The Washington Post)
- Kids under 14 in China now have a limit on how much time they can spend on TikTok (The Verge)
- Inside TV’s massive on-demand marketing shift (Variety)
- US network FX is a cautionary tale in spreading your brand across too many platforms (The Ringer)
- Netflix’s US TV boss is fighting back against the claim that the streamer wants “down-the-middle” programming (The Hollywood Reporter)
- How blockchain and the metaverse will affect gaming in the future (Tech Crunch)
- In the middle of a big discussion on the future of pubcasting, the UK government shuffled its cabinet…now what? (Variety)
- JoJo Siwa is calling out Nickelodeon for not letting her perform her own songs and treating her “only as a brand” (Vanity Fair)
- Remember Quibi? Its lawsuit with Eko over who owns a piece of tech has finally wrapped up (Deadline)
- Canal+ parentco Vivendi is looking to acquire the rest of Lagardère (Digital TV Europe)
- Netflix is preparing for its big preview/fan event next week, and it needs to go well (Wall Street Journal)
- Company documents reveal that Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls (Wall Street Journal)
- The UK is baking-crazy—a new study reveals that the word “cake” is used 10 times more on TV than “climate change” (The Guardian)
- Streamers outperform broadcasters when it comes to hiring women and putting them in positions of power on shows (Variety)
- Despite the sunshine luring kids outdoors, video game spending hit record highs in August (BNN Bloomberg)
- Why is there still a fall TV season despite the streaming boom? (Variety)
- Extra studying won’t help with COVID-19 learning loss…but playing might (The Conversation)
- YouTube is on a mission to shut down music bots (Tubefilter)
- In creepy internet news, soon everyone will be able to clone their voice (The Verge)
- More staff shakeups at ViacomCBS: David Nevins will reportedly take over Paramount+ (Variety)
- Disney is planning to release several movies, including the animated Encanto, exclusively in theaters (Deadline)
- Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal beat out stiff competition to win Best Animated Series at the Primetime Emmys (IndieWire)
- How Hollywood sold out to China, and now can’t turn away (The Atlantic)
- With Hulu raising its price, how much is too much for consumers to spend on a streamer? (Los Angeles Times)
- Brian Robbins is reportedly going to take over leadership of Paramount Pictures (Wall Street Journal)
- Netflix has set up an anime creators lounge in Tokyo to help new talent work on their art (Variety)
- …And here’s how the SVOD creates fake movies within its own original content (Vanity Fair)
- As China cracks down on video games, Tencent lost US$60 billion in value as investors fled (BNN Bloomberg)
- If you still don’t understand blockchain, now’s your chance to figure it out (The Verge)
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