- Pixar’s Soul took home Best Animation and Best Original Score at the BAFTAs (BBC Newsround)
- Godzilla vs. Kong topped the weekend box office once again, bringing in US$350 million (SyFy)
- Why are European IPs like Winx Club so popular with streamers right now? (Variety)
- Is MIPTV more relevant than ever thanks to COVID-19? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Have you seen a plush plague doctor? They’re everywhere now as COVID-19 toys go viral (The Walrus)
- Sony and Netflix have signed a big movie output deal (Variety)
- The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo took home the GLAAD Award for Outstanding Children’s Programming (YouTube)
- Instead of the “next big thing,” maybe what we need is to spend some time unbundling all of the everyday things (WIRED)
- YouTube is admitting that roughly 1.6 million of every billion videos violate its content policies (Reuters)
- Not only are WarnerMedia’s movies returning to the big screen, they’re moving back to typical windowing strategies (Recode)
- Film and TV is an author’s market right now—the pandemic has given them more leverage than ever before (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Twitter is reportedly looking to acquire Clubhouse (Tech Crunch)
- California plans to fully reopen its economy in June, with plenty of filming scheduled (Variety)
- E3 will be virtual this year, and Nintendo and Xbox still plan to be there (Washington Post)
- …But what are the benchmarks for returning to full filming and live event attendance, and when can we resume regular life? (The Verge)
- A new documentary about how Sesame Street was made will brighten your day (Entertainment Weekly)
- Roku is rolling out a new sponsored discoverability tool to showcase programming (Digiday)
- Clubhouse partners with Stripe to help its influencers monetize (Business Insider)
- Why is there such a booming black market for LEGO bricks? (CBC News)
- Non-fungible tokens were created to protect artists…but that’s not how things worked out (The Atlantic)
- The box office may be coming back to life as Godzilla vs. Kong brings in US$32 million this weekend (CNBC)
- The 2021 Oscars have nominated a group of animated short films with wide-ranging styles and approaches (Variety)
- Even though digital sales are booming, indie video game stores are thriving right now (WIRED)
- Japan is a case study for possibilities and perils of the “always online” kid (Japan Times)
- From Snoopy to Animaniacs, the Annecy 2021 TV competition field is full of familiar brands (Variety)
- YouTube is considering hiding dislikes on videos to protect creators (Business Insider)
- Snap is still trying to make AR spectacles happen, and now it’s also working on a drone (Tubefilter)
- The TV screenwriter behind the original Muppet Babies lost his lawsuit against the reboot…on a technicality (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Disney+ Hotstar is absolutely crushing the competition in India (TBI)
- Nick has pulled two SpongeBob eps, one about a virus and one that’s not “kid-appropriate” anymore (New York Times)
- If Facebook’s “Instagram for kids” works, it will have huge financial repercussions (Wall Street Journal)
- Comic-Con is planning to come back in November, but do stars and producers really want to be there? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- As allegations mount against Armie Hamer, Disney has big decisions to make about his upcoming feature (Variety)
- Minecraft videos are crazy-popular with kids…but YouTube has a problem with disturbing game content (WIRED)
- A look at how one video game developer is trying to get more women into the industry (Washington Post)
- LEGO opened hundreds of stores last year while bricks-and-mortar retail floundered—can others follow suit? (Toy News)
- Netflix and Amazon fed some provocative projects through India’s industry that are now under fire (CNN)
- News Corp is beginning a new chapter, acquiring publisher HMH’s consumer division (Variety)
- Godzilla vs. Kong is off to a strong start in China (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Scholastic has pulled a Captain Underpants spinoff amid concerns of “passive racism” (Deadline)
- Schools in Canada are getting take-home COVID-19 tests so kids can help identify cases (The Star)
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