- Roku surpasses 70 million subscriber accounts worldwide (Variety)
- WBD is focusing on “relaunching and building” its business in 2023 (Advanced Television)
- Amazon plans to lay off 18,000 employees (TechCrunch)
- Hasbro’s Wizards of the Coast reportedly cancels five gaming projects (Bloomberg, subscription content)
- WildBrain development executive Todd Brian has died (Playback, subscription content)
- The UK government scraps plans to privatize Channel 4 (The Guardian)
- …and here’s why Brits spent less on video games last year (Games Industry Biz)
- Apple has been fined US$8.4 million by France over App Store ads (TechCrunch)
- TikTok is launching a film and TV feature that licenses data from IMDb (THR)
- On a fun holiday note, here’s a story on how the Christmas tree became a holiday staple (CBC News)
- Studiocanal has started a legal battle against distributor Wild Bunch (Variety)
- As TikTok succeeds, YouTube is becoming a platform that’s in limbo (Forbes)
- Is Disney’s best sports play to spin off its ESPN business? (Deadline)
- Fortnite maker Epic Games has agreed to pay US$520 million in fines to the FTC (NBC News)
- Avatar: The Way of Water earned US$134 million in its North American box office debut (Variety)
- The new big ad trend in TV might be virtual product placement (Deadline)
- Elon Musk asked Twitter users if he should resign and they voted yes (TechCrunch)
- In a streaming truce, Amazon and Netflix are teaming up to promote Netflix’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (THR)
- Meta’s virtual meet-and-greet app Super will shut down next year (Tech Crunch)
- WBD marks the 100th anniversary of Warner Bros. with a Scooby-Doo/Looney Tunes Funko crossover (ComicBook)
- Avatar’s sequel earns US$15 million on day one in China, bolstering hopes for the movie biz (CNN)
- GLAAD praises improved inclusivity in Disney films (NYT)
- Why uncertainty is brewing around next year’s potential writers strike (THR)
- WBD’s planned content write-offs surpass previous estimates by almost US$1 billion (THR)
- …but DC is prepping a new Superman movie, exploring the hero’s early years (Deadline)
- Why diversity training is in need of more evaluation (Washington Post)
- A big video game publisher is pulling out of Russia and restructuring (Games Industry Biz)
- The nominations for the 2023 Golden Globes are in (Deadline)
- Apple users will need to pay a higher fee for Twitter Blue subscription (TechCrunch)
- Saudi Film Commission offers a grant for local productions, including animation (Arab News)
- Mediawan acquires a majority stake in Brad Pitt’s Plan B studio (Bloomberg)
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