- DreamWorks’ The Wild Robot is on track for a successful opening weekend (Deadline)
- Why Disney’s Fantasia was a perfect fit for Harry Styles’ upcoming lifestyle brand collab (THR)
- A new report finds that gamified interventions are helping with youth mental health (JHU)
- A case for bigger-budget movies that don’t talk down to kids in Bollywood (Times of India)
- What subscribers can expect from Disney’s password-sharing crackdown (Deadline)
- How StudioCanal is prepping Paddington to become more than a heritage brand (THR)
- Vanity Fair takes a deep-dive into the history of Disney Channel (Vanity Fair)
- Duolingo is becoming more gamified and leveraging its 2D AI character Lily (PC Mag)
- North American theaters plan more than US$2 billion in upgrades (Variety)
- Video game studios are using AI to make characters more realistic (Fortune)
- Audible is experimenting with the tech to improve discoverability (TechCrunch)
- Disney+ sets release dates for its Inside Out spinoff and Win or Lose original series (Deadline)
- Netflix reportedly agrees to discuss talent payment proposals with agents (Deadline)
- And the steamer’s teen drama Outer Banks is getting a video game treatment (Variety)
- How new legislation will bolster the Brazilian video games business (Games Industry)
- The creators of Max’s animated Gremlins series open up about its future (THR)
- FTC calls out social media’s surveillance practices and failure to protect kids (Washington Post)
- A rundown of potential candidates vying to be Disney’s next CEO (Variety)
- Microsoft will shut down its Xbox Ambassadors program next month after 13 years (IGN)
- Peratech closes a US$31.5-million funding round for force-sensing AI gaming tech (Forbes)
- Instagram rolls out teen accounts with more protections (The Verge)
- Transformers One is pacing to have a US$30-million opening weekend (Deadline)
- How YouTube compares to Netflix in the engagement wars (Variety)
- California lawmakers greenlight AI laws to protect actors (THR)
- Introducing You Got Moxie!, a new podcast by ex-Disney exec Julie Ann Crommett (Animation World Network)
- Dana Walden breaks down Disney’s streaming strategy (Bloomberg)
- …and ex-Pixar employees recall an “unprecedented” crunch for Inside Out 2 (IGN)
- The Biden administration cracks down on Chinese shopping platforms (Omnitalk)
- The Wiggles announce a North American tour next year (The Music Universe)
- And here are some tips on how to succeed in the dystopian YA genre (The AV Club)
- Mattel issues a special US$15-million stock grant to CEO Ynon Kreiz (THR)
- Spotify is testing new “managed accounts” for users under age 13 (TechCrunch)
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice earns US$51.6 million in its second weekend (Variety)
- TikTok heads to court today to argue against its potential US ban (The Guardian)
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