- Ghana to introduce a new tax incentive program for film production (Deadline)
- Lionsgate rejigs its eOne Canada TV leadership team post-merger (THR)
- What Disney’s executive shuffle means for the studio’s future (Variety)
- Subscription services are making video games more accessible—but there’s a catch (The Verge)
- …meanwhile, Electronic Arts cuts 5% of its workforce and cancels a Star Wars game (IGN)
- Preshow Noël Toys & Games launches Fan Zone, a new event for kidults and collectors (Toy World)
- Tubi gets a brand redesign as it preps for international expansion (Variety)
- How The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth became Henson’s brand pillars (The Wrap Pro)
- MrBeast is one of the biggest YouTubers ever—but can he make a good series? (Decider)
- Sony is cutting 900 jobs from its Playstation gaming division (THR)
- The Academy votes to split animation into two branches for features and shorts (Deadline)
- Jazwares and Mob Entertainment collab on a Poppy Playtime Roblox game (Toy World)
- Customers infuriated by a Wonka-inspired experience that used AI images for promotion (Sky News)
- The 2024 Kidscreen Big LGBTQ+ Charity Dinner raised US$4,000 for the San Diego LGBT Community Center
- ABC Australia and Disney+ set a global premiere date in April for Bluey‘s first special (Deadline)
- The BBFC has raised the age rating for Mary Poppins in the UK due to “Discriminatory Language” (Variety)
- Netflix is not moving forward with Percy Jackson spinoff The Kane Chronicles (Gizmodo)
- Vietnam has emerged from the pandemic as Asia’s fastest-growing film market (Deadline)
- Reddit signs a US$60-million content licensing deal with Google for AI training (Reuters)
- Disney, FX, Warner and NBCU execs are finding success in the “peaked TV” era (The Wrap Pro)
- Paramount is put on negative credit watch by S&P Global (THR)
- Disney is outsourcing its DVD and Blu-ray home video business to Sony (Variety)
- SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP reach a tentative deal on TV animation contracts (Cartoon Brew)
- …But is the threat of a third strike from crew unions already looming in Hollywood? (THR)
- Nielsen says YouTube has been the top US streaming service for 12 consecutive months (DTVE)
- Google suspends the Gemini AI tool from creating images in order to fix some ‘historical inaccuracies’ (Variety)
- Hope on the horizon: Overall spending on TV content is set to increase in 2024 (Deadline)
- Madame Web‘s box-office failure spells the end of a planned Sony franchise (THR)
- Walmart acquires smart TV maker Vizio in a US$2.3-billion deal (Broadband TV News)
- Alan Cumming and Jane Lynch join season two of Big Bad Boo’s The Bravest Knight (Variety)
- The CW picks up Hasbro Entertainment’s game shows based on Trivial Pursuit and Scrabble (Variety)
- US production workers at DreamWorks and Flying Bark are making a unionization push (Cartoon Brew)
- Hollywood execs break down how they plan to rebuild trust following the strikes (The Wrap)
- Apple removes the popular movie piracy streamer Kimi from its App Store (Wired)
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