- Paramount extends the deadline for WBD shareholders to accept its hostile bid (Reuters)
- San Diego Comic-Con has banned AI art after backlash (Times of San Diego)
- The Oscars nominated diverse talent this year, but there’s still room for improvement (Variety)
- Common Sense Media warns that AI toys it tested are “dangerous” (Education Week)
- Disney is expected to name Bob Iger’s successor next month. Who will it be? (LA Times)
- The latest APAC breakout kids movie comes from Malaysia (ScreenDaily)
- Ubisoft is renewing its focus on family-friendly games in a major reorg (Variety)
- MGM and Mattel shared the first teaser for their Masters of the Universe movie (Deadline)
- Stranger Things drove a big viewing boost for Netflix in December (TheWrap)
- Meta seems to be abandoning its ambitions to build a metaverse (TechCrunch)
- TikTok quietly hopped onto the microdrama bandwagon with a new app (PC Mag)
- Kenny Ortega looks back at High School Musical, which turns 20 today (People)
- TikTok will start rolling out age-verification tech across the EU (The Guardian)
- French film Arco won Best Animated Feature at the European Film Awards (Cartoon Contender)
- It’s official, a Speedy Gonzales feature film is in the works (THR)
- Roger Allers, the co-director of The Lion King, has died (Deadline)
- Roblox’s age-verification efforts aren’t going so well (WIRED)
- Disney greenlights a third Phineas and Ferb movie (Variety)
- …plus, a look inside the studio’s AI battle with Google (Deadline)
- YouTube outlines how it defines high-quality and low-quality teen content (YouTube)
- It looks like Hotel Transylvania 5 is happening (Cartoon Brew)
- Meta axed 550,000 accounts under Australia’s kids social media ban (ABC)
- The UK will soon publish its first screen time guidance for under-fives (BBC)
- Disney’s Jared Bush breaks down his creative leadership style (Creative Salon)
- Animation helped boost France’s international box office last year (Deadline)
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