- A Minions TikTok trend has kids showing up to theaters in suits—and some are causing chaos (CBC News)
- Arizona wants to become a US film hub with a new US$125-million tax credit (Variety)
- Are we in a box-office boom right now? And if so, how long will it last? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Canal+ is reportedly looking at buying a stake in Lionsgate as part of a US content push (TBI Vision)
- Minions: The Rise of Gru rules the North American B.O. with US$108.5 million opening weekend (Bloomberg)
- It’s belt-tightening time at Warner Bros. Discovery as it scraps original HBO Max programming in parts of Europe (Variety)
- Stranger Things 4 tops seven billion minutes of US viewing time, setting a massive streaming record (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Muppets Mayhem crew involved in truck accident on the set of the upcoming Disney+ comedy series (Deadline)
- Disney extends CEO Bob Chapek’s contract by three years (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Super Sema creator Kukua raises US$6 million in funding for kids’ edutainment universe (TechCrunch)
- Warner Bros. Discovery announces upcoming Comic-Con panels (Deadline)
- Universal shifts release of Illumination’s Migration to Christmas 2023 (The Wrap)
- Ukonwa Ojo departs as CMO of Prime Video and Amazon Studios (Variety)
- Disney and Israel’s YES have canceled an exclusive Disney+ streaming deal (Reuters)
- Stephen Fry will host a new Channel 5 series on dinosaurs (Deadline)
- Netflix is the most indispensable SVOD in a Whip Media survey (Variety)
- How teachers are using tech to stay attuned to student emotional health (EdSurge)
- WildBrain is celebrating Pride with a Teletubbies fashion line for adults (Licensing Biz)
- Studio execs, stage operators discuss coping with inflation (The Hollywood Reporter)
- MIPCOM expands space to include focus on co-production business (Variety)
- Top Gun: Maverick crosses US$1 billion at global box office (Deadline)
- Creators Matt and Ross Duffer confirm a Stranger Things spinoff is in development (TBI Vision)
- Netflix cuts 300 staffers in a second round of layoffs (Variety)
- Banijay to explore metaverse originals with ‘significant’ investment (TBI Vision)
- Screen time for six to 10s went up by 83 minutes a day during pandemic, study shows (The Guardian)
- Value of UK film and TV production could reach US$9.4 billion by 2025, but 21,000 more crew are needed (Deadline)
- Netflix chief Ted Sarandos confirms AVOD model and says Google and Roku are potential ad sales partners (Deadline)
- Ukraine’s production industry is urging continued support as the war with Russia enter its fifth month (TBI Vision)
- PwC says the annual value of media and telecom deals has hit a record US$469 billion (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Pixar VFX supervisor Jane Yen used VR to help produce Lightyear from home (Cartoon Brew)
- Netflix’s message to Hollywood: We’re still spending money (Variety)
- Canada is preparing to put local content quotas on streamers (TBI Vision)
- TikTok has updated its EU ad disclosure policies following child safety complaints (TechCrunch)
- An X-Wing model from Star Wars: A New Hope fetches US$2.3 million at auction (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Netflix’s stock is continuing to drop, and the streamer is bracing for another round of layoffs (Variety)
- Hollywood execs are preparing to slash marketing budgets as a recession looms (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Meta is rolling out new monetization tools for creators on Facebook and Instagram (Tech Crunch)
- Free delivery is the top reason most shoppers choose online retailers, a new survey shows (RTIH)
- Paramount+ to commission 150 international originals by 2025, new chief says (The Hollywood Reporter)
- …Meanwhile, Paramount’s FAST unit Pluto TV launches four new channels with Sony Pictures Television (TBI Vision)
- Pixar’s Toy Story spinoff Lightyear fails to meet box-office expectations with a US$51-million debut weekend (Variety)
- Meta breaks down how it plans to make VR indistinguishable from the real world (TechCrunch)
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