- Pixar CCO Pete Docter reflects on the “mixed blessing” of Disney+ release strategy (Variety)
- …and the studio’s new pic Elemental debuts with US$45 million at the global box office (Reuters)
- Chicken for Linda! earns Cristal award for best feature at this year’s Annecy film fest (THR)
- Video game and eSports revenues hit US$54.1 billion in the US last year (Games Industry Biz)
- Disney EMEA VP Orion Ross says they have only “scratched the surface” of African animation (TBI Vision)
- …meanwhile, the studio’s CFO Christine McCarthy is stepping down (Digital TV Europe)
- UAE has banned Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse over pro-trans poster in one scene background (IGN)
- Research: TikTok and YouTube are key to reaching US Hispanic audiences (Variety, subscription)
- Disney to shut down linear TV channels in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea (Variety)
- WBD closes its Danish production arm and consolidates operations in Stockholm (Deadline)
- Producers talk about the use of AI in animation scriptwriting (TBI Vision)
- Amazon and Disney are launching their new voice assistant built on Alexa technology (TechCrunch)
- Netflix draws a roadmap at Annecy outlining how it will invest in animation (Variety)
- Disney and Pixar unveil a teaser of their new animated movie Elio (Deadline)
- WBD is increasing the price of HBO Max in the Nordics, Iberia and Bulgaria (TBI Vision)
- Legendary Marvel artist John Romita Sr., co-creator of Wolverine, dies at age 93 (THR)
- WBD relaunches its feature animation division under a new name (Cartoon Brew)
- Vidgame developer Embracer Group is closing studios, cancelling games and laying off staff (IGN)
- Sphere Entertainment opens a new facility to produce immersive projects (Deadline)
- From a Lionel Messi series to Mariposas Negras, a roundup of new projects being animated in the Canary Islands (Variety)
- Funko is letting consumers create personalized figurines online (THR)
- Animation exec and Portfolio Entertainment CEO Joy Rosen has died at age 65 (Animation Magazine)
- Canadian broadcasters team up to focus on environmentally sustainable production (Advanced Television)
- Transformers: Rise of the Beasts does US$170 million in worldwide ticket sales on opening weekend (Variety)
- Sony unveils a new Spider-Verse short film tackling mental health (THR)
- “Like proud new parents,” ITV measures the success of ITVX on its six-month birthday (DTVE)
- Gamestop fires CEO and appoints new executive chairman (Reuters)
- The EU pressures Meta to take online child protection action (TechCrunch)
- Producers share how they hired teen talent to animate a key Spider-Verse sequence (NYT)
- Sony Pictures Television looks to expand its global footprint with more EMEA co-productions (TBI Vision)
- Universal says its on-demand film strategy has boosted viewership (NYT)
- Why the Spider-Verse franchise has such long legs (Variety)
- Twitch reverses course on controversial changes to its ad policy (The Verge)
- SkyShowtime CEO talks programming strategy and the writers strike (Deadline)
- Instagram recommendation algorithms promote pedophile networks, research shows (The Verge)
- Disneyland Paris is rocked by a wave of protests and an employee strike (Variety)
- Apple buys an LA-based startup that makes AR headsets used at Nintendo World parks (TechCrunch)
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