- These key characteristics are defining young shoppers on TikTok (Forbes)
- Behind the enduring popularity of Sanrio’s 50-year-old Hello Kitty brand (SCMP)
- The US Surgeon General calls for social media warning labels for young users (CNN)
- Jennifer Aniston is launching a kids book series inspired by her dog (AP News)
- Disney and DeSantis bury the hatchet, making way for US$17-billion Disney World expansion (THR)
- Netflix cancels Emmy-nominated animated series My Dad the Bounty Hunter after two seasons (Deadline)
- Bluey X Simpsons mashup from BBC Studios and A+C Studio is a viral hit (Skwigly)
- Streamers’ ad-supported tiers face significant rate “rollbacks” from advertisers (Variety)
- Why anime streamer Crunchyroll expects to grow well beyond 13 million subscribers (Deadline)
- Global ad spend to exceed US$1 trillion in 2025, due to higher estimates for the US and China (THR)
- Gotham Group and Gobelins partner to develop animation talent across two continents (Variety)
- Disney’s live-action Moana remake finds its star in Catherine Laga’aia (Digital Spy)
- Netflix has reportedly axed its Power Rangers live-action reboot (Gizmodo)
- Inside Out 2 is trending towards the biggest box-office opening of 2024 (Deadline)
- Pixar’s chief creative officer Pete Docter is not down with live-action remakes (THR)
- Why the power of play has never been more important for kids and parents (The Toy Book)
- Apple is limiting its new Intelligence AI features to new phones amid slumping sales (Wired)
- Billionaire Edgar Bronfman Jr. may be trying to buy a major Paramount shareholder (Reuters)
- New York passes legislation that would ban ‘addictive’ social media algorithms for kids (Tech Crunch)
- A rough cut of the first fully CG-animated Transformers movie gets a standing O at Annecy (Deadline)
- President Macron calls for snap election after a big far-right win in France’s EU vote (BBC)
- Annecy-goers boo a music video that’s among the festival’s first crop of AI films (Variety)
- Streamer spending in Europe to surpass TV spending for the first time this year (THR)
- Disney’s record-breaking animated series Gravity Falls could be returning (Deadline)
- Hollywood is trying to find a balance between content advisories and spoilers (Variety)
- Bob Iger says Tokyo Disney’s US$2-billion resort expansion is key to theme park growth strategy (THR)
- UK retailers have filed a US$1.3-billion lawsuit against Amazon for data misuse (TechCrunch)
- Artists are fleeing Instagram to keep AI away from their work (The Washington Post)
- Supercell’s new game Squad Busters earned US$1.1 million on its launch day (GamesIndustry.biz)
- Rovio, SEGA and Prime Focus Studios are developing The Angry Birds Movie 3 (Deadline)
- A new book in the Hunger Games saga is due out in March 2025 (Variety)
- SAG-AFTRA has introduced terms for performers working on audio commercials that use AI (THR)
- Disney EMEA boss reveals the company spent US$4.4 billion on UK content in the last five years (ScreenDaily)
- Streaming bundles might be hot right now, but they won’t bring back pay-TV’s glory days (Variety)
- Broadway never bounced back from the pandemic, and here’s why (THR)
- IATSE’s work to nail down a three-year deal with studios is going slowly (Deadline)
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