- Content investment growth cools in Asia (Variety)
- Massive sets spring up in Toronto for MrBeast’s Beast Games Amazon series (CBC)
- US news and opinion website Vox launches a Gen Alpha-focused newsletter (Vox)
- Jimmy Fallon scares up a new children’s book for Halloween (dtnext)
- HMD’s new web-free Barbie phone plays into a Gen Z “digital detox” parenting trend (CNBC)
- Antitrust watchdog CCI greenlights Disney India’s merger with Reliance (Deadline)
- TikTok users can now create custom AI voiceovers for their clips (SocialMediaToday)
- Disney is allegedly terminating most of its mobile and connected TV apps (NewscastStudio)
- Netflix UK extends its age ratings agreement with the British Board of Film Classification (Advanced Television)
- Retailers are turning the trick of Halloween sales in the summer into big treats (Modern Retail)
- Bryce Dallas Howard-led Witch Mountain revival cancelled at Disney+ (Collider)
- Transformers One tests a new laser projection system in US theaters (Variety)
- Disney closes Dinosaur exhibit, ending a 30-year relationship with Bill Nye (CinemaBlend)
- Inside Out 2 becomes the first animated film to surpass US$1 billion overseas (Variety)
- Crayola trademarks the “slightly earthy” smell of its crayons (Bloomberg)
- Sony is readying another North American anime hit with Crunchyroll’s Overlord adaptation (THR)
- Scholastic exec talks about IP revivals and kids’ declining interest in chapter books (License Global)
- Skydance pressures Paramount to stop negotiations with Edgar Bronfman Jr. (Investopedia)
- WBD rolls out a first-party data platform with tools for advertisers (Advanced TV)
- Children’s and YA book sales dropped by 5.8% last year: report (Publisher’s Weekly)
- Sony launches a new program to support MENA game developers (Games Industry Biz)
- The UK’s Channel 5 and its streamer My5 will relaunch as 5 next year (Advanced Television)
- Disney+ Star Wars series The Acolyte has been canceled after one season (Deadline)
- Kyoto’s Nintendo Museum is set to open in October (Forbes)
- Aussie kids face challenges in identifying local content, study finds (The Conversation)
- The Animation Guild and AMPTP plan to continue bargaining in September (THR)
- Coraline re-release scores a top-five spot in the US domestic box office (Deadline)
- The Annual Native American Animation Lab has opened workshop applications (AWN)
- Six in 10 Australians support banning kids from social media: poll (ABC)
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- Paramount Global may have a new bid from Edgar Bronfman Jr. (Reuters)
- Kathleen Finch to retire as head of US networks at WBD (Variety)
- Exploring the road ahead for the Gabby’s Dollhouse franchise (THR)
- Epic Games rolls out an iOS app store in the EU to compete with Apple (WIRED)
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is on track for an US$80-million opening weekend (Deadline)
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