• Which superhero movie packed a bigger media wallop, Iron Man or The Dark Knight? (Advertising Age)
• Nick predicts ‘new wave’ of casual games (casualgaming.biz)
• Microsoft seeks ad friend in Facebook (New York Times)
• Disney reups deal with Stan Lee’s Pow! (Variety)
• Mattel, MGA argue in damages phase of Bratz trial (Reuters)
• Pixar dives into comics (IGN Entertainment)
• Analysts expect Q2 pain for entertainment industry (Hollywood Reporter)
• Facebook’s new apps extend web presence (New York Times)
• Most innovative digital celebs (Paid Content)
• Gloomy outlook for back-to-school season (Advertising Age)
• Microsoft to sell home-brewed Xbox Games (Wired)
• Hollywood wants to teach kids to read (Slate)
• Yahoo’s revenues rise, but profits down (New York Times)
• Paramount Pictures creates acquisition arm (Variety)
• Americans dig deeper in debt (New York Times)
• A Q&A with the Nintendo prez (GameDaily)
• Miley Cyrus grows up and away from Hannah Montana (Reuters)
• Credit crunch hits Hollywood (Independent)
• How Dark Knight broke the record (Time)
• Another one bites the dust? US discount department store Mervyn’s on brink of bankruptcy (Women’s Wear Daily)
• Kung Fu Panda a smash in China (New York Times)
• YouTube and Viacom reach a tentative deal (Financial Times)
• Advertisers ready for age of austerity (Advertising Age)
• Nintendo and Microsoft stumble as Sony cruises (San Francisco Chronicle)
• New Batman expected to break box office records (Variety)
• Entertainment will be ‘First Through the Gate’ in digital economy (Advertising Age)
• Coldplay to team up with Miley Cyrus? (Metro)
• Disney’s Frog Princess could be in trouble (The Independent)
• Amazon plans online store for movies and TV shows (New York Times)
• The Yahoo! sale saga continues (Wired)
• MacFarlane discusses his Google content deal (Advertising Age)
• YouTube seals a clips deal with Lionsgate (Variety)
• Sony and Nintendo underwhelm at E3 (New York Times)
• SAG, studios agree to meet (Variety)
• New Batman heads for boffo box office (Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Daily)
• Feist hips up Sesame Street (YouTube)
• Sesame Street upgrading its address on the web (New York Times)
• Retailer’s collapse hits mall owners (Wall Street Journal)
• New Rock Band deals could be the future of music sales (New York Times)
• Netflix, Microsoft seal streaming content pact (Atlanta Business Journal)
• China’s Christmas-toy industry suffers after Olympic visa crackdown (Times Online)
• The ‘Long Tail’ theory is wrong camp grows (Slate)
• New 3-D flick performs modestly at weekend box office (New York Times)
• Why iPhone games rule (Wired)
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