- The Pinkfong Company may have found its next breakout hit with Sealook (Cartoon Brew)
- New research says Eastern Europe will lose eight million TV subscribers by 2028 (DTV Europe)
- Zigazoo is launching a new TikTok-style video app for Gen Z (TechCrunch)
- The CW’s latest round of layoffs is hitting its marketing and financial divisions (Deadline)
- Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders) will pen the next Star Wars film after two writers quit the project (Variety)
- Gamestop’s collectibles business pulled in US$964 million in 2022 (GamesIndustry.biz)
- Netflix wants to tell more diverse stories in the Nordics, but finding diverse talent there is a challenge (TBI Vision)
- The SEC charges influencer Jake Paul and actor Lindsay Lohan for crypto scheme (THR)
- WGA proposes allowing AI to write scripts, as long as writers still get credits (Variety)
- TikTok CEO pledges to shield user data on the app (WSJ, subscription content)
- Players spent US$820 million in the Epic Games Store last year (GamesIndustry.biz)
- Tencent Holdings reports its first-ever drop in annual revenue (Reuters)
- Despicable Me, Smile and the art of crafting the “perfect” movie title (Variety)
- Netflix’s ad-tier reaches 1 million subscribers after slow start in 2021 (Bloomberg)
- Use of AI in films is under scrutiny by the Screen Actors Guild and WGA (TBI Vision)
- Shazam: Fury of the Gods stumbles domestically with US$30.5 million debut (Variety)
- Microsoft is building a mobile games store to take on Google and Apple (TechCrunch)
- YouTube TV hikes monthly subscription price due to rising content costs (TechCrunch)
- Banijay’s revenues increase to US$3.4 billion following company’s acquisition spree (TBI Vision)
- Can movie theaters survive? It’s the most enduring question in Hollywood (THR)
- Paramount+ to launch its first mobile-only plan in Brazil and Mexico (Variety)
- Former TikTok exec says Creator Fund was launched as a “reactive measure” against competition (THR)
- Disney+ cancels second season of its live-action series Willow (Deadline)
- RTL Group revenues climbed 9% to US$7.6 billion but company’s EBITA fell 6% in 2022 (Variety)
- US threatens to ban TikTok unless Chinese parent company sells its shares in the app (Boomerang)
- Netflix, Disney+ and Hulu are considered essential by over half of their subscribers (Digital TV Europe)
- Warner Bros. Studio Tokyo set to open largest indoor Harry Potter attraction in the world (Deadline)
- Microsoft to introduce 3D avatars to its Teams platform in May (The Verge)
- Family films and French productions topline Cartoon Movie 2023 (Variety)
- Meta to cut 10,000 more jobs, following last November’s mass layoffs (Variety)
- Raid: Shadow Legends video game is getting an animated show adaptation (THR)
- Bear Grylls greenlights doc from his son Jesse for new Outdoors.com platform (Deadline)
- Microsoft lays off ethical AI team as it invests in its partnership with OpenAI (TechCrunch)
- Netflix scoops six Oscars with wins for Pinocchio and The Elephant Whisperers (TBI Vision)
- ABC names former Netflix exec Chris Oliver-Taylor as chief content officer (ABC)
- Italy doubles its film distribution fund to US$2.14 million (Variety)
- Western European pay-TV revenues to drop 18% by 2028 (Digital TV Europe)
- Final sound stage open at Sky’s new TV and film studio complex (Advanced Television)
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