- Jeff Bezos is stepping down as Amazon’s CEO, 30 years after founding the company (CBC News)
- …And his second act could be bigger than his first (Recode)
- The 2021 Golden Globe nominations are unsurprisingly dominated by streaming content (Variety)
- Why are former “gifted kids” so burnt out? How teaching kids to strive for academic perfection has lasting consequences (Queen’s Journal)
- Idris Elba has signed a deal with Crunchyroll to produce an original animated series (Polygon)
- That was fast: The GameStop stock saga is headed to Netflix and big screens (Wall Street Journal)
- Sony is making a live-action Harold and the Purple Crayon…but why? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- How Netflix is trying to impress the kids (TBI)
- Why Disney fans are clamoring to go to Disneyland Japan the second they can travel (Bloomberg)
- After reopening in 2019, Toys ‘R’ Us reboot Tru Kids has closed its only two stores permanently (CNN)
- Nintendo just had its best quarter since 2008, which is impressive since it’s been a really great decade for the gameco (Bloomberg)
- Many years and a lot of pressure later, LEGO is adding bike lanes to its little cities (The Verge)
- Sustainability in Hollywood is backsliding during COVID—will we get back to where we were before? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Why The Monster at the End of the Book still sells so well after 50 years (The Washington Post)
- How production crews are still shooting live action all over the world (TBI Vision)
- It’s not going to end with GameStop and AMC—teens have been using TikTok to learn about investing and trading (Business Insider)
- Maybe we don’t actually learn much at school…two-thirds of parents need Google to help kids with homework (People)
- While everyone was focused on prestige dramas, kids TV became the most competitive arena for the streaming wars (Variety)
- Peacock is actually doing pretty well—it hit 33 million signups before The Office even dropped (The Verge)
- HBO Max is considering making an animated Game of Thrones (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Emperor’s New Groove almost didn’t happen, and Disney will never make another movie like it again (Vulture)
- How gaming is helping people connect outside their homes during lockdown (BBC News)
- A volcanic agate rock was cracked open to reveal…Cookie Monster? And it could be worth US$10,000 (CNET)
- Not something you see often in the world of streaming: Disney has licensed one of its biggest hits to both Hulu and Peacock (TBI Vision)
- One of the first video game workers unions went from a Facebook group to a reality (WIRED)
- ByteDance is still looking to sell TikTok, but now it wants double the original asking price (Bloomberg)
- Why Hilda is the perfect show for winter (Vulture)
- Disney is removing “negative depictions” of some cultures from its Jungle Cruise ride…but it also made a movie about that ride (The Guardian)
- …And the media giant is acknowledging racist content in several of its movies (The Hill)
- Before he died, Kobe Bryant had a lot of plans for the entertainment world—including animation (Variety)
- Some people thrive on Zoom: Who are the top pandemic dealmakers in film and TV? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Pixar’s Soul beat some stiff competition to become last month’s most popular streaming title (Business Insider)
- Peacock is ready to rumble after snagging exclusive WWE streaming rights (CNBC)
- When it comes to unscripted content, there are a few networks producers love working with (Deadline)
- Fornite developer Epic Games is funding a new animated film (Tubefilter)
- Hollywood is rewriting its own rules, since COVID and streaming broke everything anyways (Wall Street Journal)
- Kids are using this extra screen time to connect and explore creatively…we should let them (The New York Times)
- How YouTuber Marcus Brownlee is scaling up his influence (The Verge)
- Execs from ViacomCBS, Univision and Canal+ have adopted new strategies for reaching audiences (Variety)
- Kidcos need to shift their definitions of “normal” to support gender-atypical kids (CNN News)
- That’s, like, crazy: Across her multiple channels, Like Nastya has hit 200 million YouTube subscribers (Tubefilter)
- The UN thinks it can teach kids about climate change through a new mobile adventure game (Engadget)
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