- Wonder Woman actor Lynda Carter is defending the character’s bisexuality during Pride Month (Deadline)
- How Disney’s Obi-Wan Kenobi is restoring balance to Star Wars lore (The Hollywood Reporter)
- A Super Nintendo World theme park is opening at Universal Studios Hollywood in 2023 (Engadget)
- And in a bit of random news, the violin used in The Wizard of Oz is expected to sell for US$20 million at auction (The Guardian)
- A former CBS and Tristar CEO is slamming the streaming business model as being terrible for profit-sharing (Deadline)
- Warner Bros. is adamant about not recasting The Flash actor Ezra Miller despite several bizarre brushes with the law (Variety)
- Facebook owner Meta is experimenting with metaverse classrooms in universities (EdSurge)
- Amazon is pulling its Kindle products and retail from China by 2024 (Engadget)
- Star Wars and Disney are defending actor Moses Ingram from racist online attacks (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Netflix’s password-sharing test in Peru is confusing subscribers (TechCrunch)
- Nielsen is banking on its new Gracenote tech to measure bingeability (Variety)
- The future of the metaverse might see consumers having digital offspring (The Guardian)
- Bob’s Burgers: The Movie is Disney’s most successful 2D-animated feature release since The Princess and the Frog (Cartoon Brew)
- …Meanwhile, its live-action Pinocchio remake will premiere September 8 on Disney+ worldwide (Variety)
- Xbox is launching a dedicated sign language channel on Twitch to engage deaf gamers (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Edtech companies will need to review and evolve to avoid a “doom and gloom” future (EdSurge)
- As audio content continues to take off, the latest question for kidcos is: do you have an Audible deal? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Non-English series are finally becoming Emmy contenders (Variety)
- Animation Guild, Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers reach a new agreement (Deadline)
- Taking its cues from Hollywood, Netflix is using its subscribers as focus groups (Engadget)
- Star Wars’ future is full of TV series, but where’s the movie plan? (Variety)
- Twitter shareholders are suing Elon Musk, alleging he drove down the company’s value (Deadline)
- On Broadway, creative teams are no longer seeing filmed versions of their plays as a threat (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Sony’s gaming future is focused heavily on continually updated online games (TechCrunch)
- Netflix has a big opportunity in gaming, but will it seize this chance? (Variety)
- The publishing world is muscling in on Hollywood deals, creating a “multi-hyphenate” future for authors (The Hollywood Reporter)
- TikTok is partnering with Hootsuite and others to make it easier for users to manage marketing (TechCrunch)
- Twitter is paying US$150 million to settle the FTC/DOJ charge that it gave user data to advertisers (Deadline)
- Hulu is leaning on a ‘complementary’ relationship with Disney+ to grow its audience (Variety)
- New Gen Z livestreaming social app Yubo is adopting tech to check if its users are minors (TechCrunch)
- Edtech experienced a bump during the pandemic, but what’s next for the sector now that things are leveling out? (EdSurge)
- SAG-AFTRA has reached a tentative agreement for TV contracts with the big four broadcast networks (Deadline)
- Last week’s market crash is forcing Hollywood to embrace digital release strategies (Variety)
- Upfronts see Netflix TV rivals poke fun at its “afterthought” AVOD plans (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Roblox has hired Zynga’s former CTO (TechCrunch)
- Chief strategy officer Jay Levine is leaving Warner Bros. (Deadline)
- Disney+ ad-based tier is predicted to mirror Hulu’s reach in AVOD subscribers (Variety)
- Movie theaters are using old-fashioned promo tactics to boost attendance (IndieWire)
- Global nonprofit Women in Toys elects nine new board members (License Global)
- NFT sales are flatlining: Is this the beginning of the end for them? (WSJ)
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