- Sony Pictures’ Q2 profits dropped to US$300 million due to the pandemic’s impact on theater business (Variety)
- The hottest new job on set is the COVID-19 compliance supervisor (LA Times)
- Despite the wave of #MeToo attention, sexual harassment is still incredibly common in Hollywood (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Joe Biden won Nickelodeon’s Kids Vote poll, despite bot interference (Deadline)
- Social media pressure, the pandemic, the climate crisis—it’s all taking a toll on kids (The Walrus)
- …And to cope, some parents are buying a lot more toys for them (Marketplace)
- Remote learning has created a hot new market for offices for kids (Marker)
- Google is cracking down on kids apps that violate data collection policies (Gizmodo)
- Japanese anime has become one of Netflix’s most bankable categories (The Hollywood Reporter)
- What’s the hot item that kidfluencers are hawking right now? Junk food, apparently (The New York Times)
- Without school and the free meals that often come with it, a lot of UK kids are going hungry (CTV News)
- Italy is shutting down its cinemas again as Europe lives through a second COVID-19 wave (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Children’s resilience during earlier pandemics provides a blueprint of how the current pandemic could affect them (CBC News)
- How streamers are redefining family movie night (The Hollywood Reporter)
- What happens when the Chinese box office overtakes the US? (Variety)
- TikTok will keep taking videos down, but it now plans on telling users why (Washington Post)
- A few theories on why Quibi crashed and burned in less than a year (The Verge)
- WarnerMedia didn’t have the best quarter (The Hollywood Reporter)
- …But on the bright side, HBO Max now has more than 28 million subscribers (The Verge)
- Quibi is officially shutting down, and with it goes US$2 billion in major Hollywood investment (Variety)
- Macmillan is shutting down it’s children’s publishing imprint (Book Stacked)
- Netflix’s COVID bump has slowed; its Q3 subs and earnings missed the mark slightly (Variety)
- Even as most movie releases move to SVOD, Disney preps its next big animated epic for March (Polygon)
- A conversation about race and diversity in eSports (ESPN)
- Politicians are hopping on the Among Us bandwagon, drawing huge crowds (The Verge)
- The producer behind the Master Moley TV series has a message for creatives: Get investors before going to broadcasters (Evening Standard)
- Netflix has been having a great 2020…but 2021 is going to be a tough one (CNN Business)
- Is Disney’s quick pivot to streaming a sign that the worst is yet to come for the House of Mouse? (The Conversation)
- New research shows that less than 2% of writers in British TV are Black (The Guardian)
- Forget in-flight entertainment—WarnerMedia is prepping more in-car options (Variety)
- YouTube’s biggest kids show, Cocomelon, is about to take over streaming services (The Verge)
- Children are driving a boom in smart speakers, using them more during the pandemic than ever before (The Guardian)
- Disney+ has added warnings about racist stereotypes to some of its older films (New York Times)
- China’s box office hit US$2 billion this year, overtaking North America’s (Variety)
- The UK’s insurance scheme for live-action TV and film production during the pandemic is now live (Variety)
- Why Africa’s animation scene is booming right now (BBC News)
- NBCU’s Peacock came out on top in September, capturing 17% of all new SVOD subscribers (Digital TV Europe)
- As Disney focuses more on streaming than ever before, why is Hulu being sidelined? (BNN Bloomberg)
- The next generation of gaming has become an environmental nightmare (WIRED)
- A new report on streaming warns that Disney+ could “lose momentum” (Fast Company)
- Why kids and teens are flocking to the computer game Among Us (The New York Times)
- Natalie Portman has written a children’s book that puts a modern twist on classic tales (Romper)
- Teachers and parents are finding new ways to keep kids playing as they learn online (CBC)
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