- Mattel has launched a line of Barbies aimed at older fans (USA Today)
- Universal Orlando pulls back the curtain on its upcoming Harry Potter experience (THR)
- Animation veterans Fred Seibert and Kevin Kolde to launch a new podcast studio (Variety)
- Edgar Bronfman Jr. still has his eye on Paramount Global (Deadline)
- Disneyland workers call off strike and agree to a new contract (Forbes)
- Europeans flocking to WBD’s Max streamer for Olympics viewing (Variety)
- Hatsune Miku becomes a movie star (Screen Rant)
- Famed anime voice actress Keiko Yamamoto passes away (Crunchyroll)
- Indian TV channel POGO uses WBD’s Teen Titans Go! characters in school program (Indiantelevision)
- Hollywood is embracing companies that support good mental health practices (Deadline)
- English-speaking markets are watching 24% more foreign content (Advanced Television)
- Cineworld to close theaters and cut jobs in the UK (THR)
- Starfleet Academy recruits familiar faces back to the Star Trek franchise (Variety)
- Major video game studios subject of a SAG-AFTRA strike call (THR)
- Michael Bay wants to turn hot Gen Alpha digital IP Skibidi Toilet into a film and TV series (Variety)
- A Candle Media subsidiary has tapped a screenwriter for its plane crash survival kids film (Deadline)
- Still going strong, the Barbie craze scoops up some new ice cream flavors (Food & Wine)
- CAKE sales agent Giannina Antola has died, and industry tributes are pouring in (LinkedIn)
- Manchester City’s owner and Sony Pictures Television have teamed up to create kids content (Deadline)
- Inside Out 2 has surpassed Frozen 2 as the highest-grossing animated film of all time (THR)
- Japan’s booming anime industry is attracting a lot of new investment (Variety)
- The Annie Awards are open for entries (Cartoon Brew)
- Comcast had a mixed Q2, with Peacock’s subscribers up, but theme park earnings down (CNBC)
- WBD has revealed ambitious global plans to celebrate HP’s Return to Hogwarts day (Variety)
- NBC Sports launches a new kids guide to the Olympics (NBC Sports)
- Following in Bluey‘s wake, another Queensland animation studio is taking Hollywood by storm (ABC News)
- Mattel has just launched its first-ever blind Barbie doll (The Guardian)
- Warner Bros. Games acquires MultiVersus developer Player First Games (Variety)
- Is having therapists on set the key to the industry tackling a mental health crisis? (Deadline)
- Amazon Prime Video buys Bray Film Studios to establish a UK creative hub (THR)
- Ampere finds that Olympics sponsorship revenue has skyrocketed, but media rights earnings have not kept pace (Deadline)
- This year’s gaming layoffs have already surpassed last year’s (Variety)
- It turns out Hello Kitty isn’t actually a cat (People)
- IATSE ratifies its three-year contract with AMPTP going into effect on August 1 (Deadline)
- Guerilla Games’ plan to expand its Horizon franchise for younger audiences (GamesIndustry.Biz)
- Amazon generates a record-breaking US$14.2 billion during Prime Day (CNBC)
- Burger King is launching game apps to amplify its QSR marketing strategy (MarketingDive)
- WBD CEO David Zaslav is reportedly drafting a business break-up plan (Deadline)
- OpenAI cooks up a cheaper and faster version of its ChatGPT app (TechCrunch)
- X-Men ’97 is in the running for Outstanding Animated Program at the Emmys (Cartoon Brew)
- Verizon rolls out a new Netflix and Peacock bundle ahead of the Paris Olympics (THR)
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