- Ukrainian filmmakers are picking up guns instead of cameras to help war efforts (ScreenDaily)
- The European Film Academy will exclude Russian films from its film awards (Variety)
- Ukrainian-Russian conflict is the first ever to play out on TikTok (Wired)
- Russia’s invasion leads to backlash in arts world, where concerts and exhibitions are postponed (The Guardian)
- Nintendo Switch’s latest Pokémon game will come out later this year (Techcrunch)
- Without stricter age restrictions, kids remain vulnerable online (Bloomberg)
- In solidarity with Ukraine, the Stockholm Film Festival bans Russian state-backed films (The Hollywood Reporter)
- …Meanwhile, kids are watching the unfolding war on social media (Today)
- A new Beyblade live-action movie is in the works with producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Deadline)
- Rick and Morty/Solar Opposites workers file to join animation union (ComicBook)
- WarnerMedia Discovery planning profitable streaming growth and conservative content spending post-merger (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Technicolor is spinning off its Creative Studios division as a separate company (Variety)
- Physical stores are making a comeback, but the path forward isn’t a straight line (New York Times/subscription content)
- Reddit is revamping its app with new discoverability features to make it easier for people to find communities (TechCrunch)
- Looking at which studios were the most profitable in the last two years, Disney dipped while Sony and Paramount climbed (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Here’s something to think about: Why are movies so long? (Variety)
- Netflix has inked a deal to shrink the release window between theaters and SVODs in France (Deadline)
- …Meanwhile, the streamer is investing US$45 million in French and European films (The Hollywood Reporter)
- China is set to regulate AI with new rules covering algorithms and pricing (Wired)
- SoundCloud has entered into a joint-venture with a management company to discover new talent (Variety)
- Spotify and Amazon are poised to spark a podcast bidding war (Variety)
- Marking the return of US superhero movies in China, The Batman secures a theatrical release (The Hollywood Reporter)
- In a crowded market, startups have two options: grow fast or die (TechCrunch)
- Ireland attracted US$570 million in 2021 film and TV spend (Deadline)
- Broadcast TV now features a record number of LGBTQ characters, according to GLAAD (The Hollywood Reporter)
- ViacomCBS’s share price dropped by 18% following yesterday’s rebrand (Deadline)
- The Berlin Film Festival found more than 100 positive COVID cases in its daily testing (Variety)
- Spotify has acquired both a podcast measurement and an analytics firm (TechCrunch)
- Meta has agreed to pay US$90 million to settle a long-running data privacy lawsuit (Variety)
- US states are getting more competitive in the race to offer film and TV tax credits (The Hollywood Reporter)
- The next step in protecting consumers is to secure app store supply chains (TechCrunch)
- VidCon is back after three years, with a lineup of digital-first creators (Tubefilter)
- Staff are leaving the company behind MIPCOM and MIPTV as part of a restructure (Deadline)
- A consortium of researchers have released a new report on a place for kids in the metaverse (Brookings)
- YouTube is exploring monetizing shorts, NFTs and collaborative live-streams (Tubefilter)
- Which big companies could get into the video game M&A space next? (Variety)
- The future of social networking could be 3D experiences (TechCrunch)
- Discovery sets March 11 as the date when investors will approve its merger with WarnerMedia (Variety)
- Subscription moviegoing service MoviePass is planning a return this summer (Deadline)
- A UK watchdog has accepted Google’s plan to change how it tracks cookies on the Chrome browser (Engadget)
- As technology develops, could an AI be considered an inventor? (TechCrunch)
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