- Major US studios have resumed filming, but for some it’s just too soon (The Hollywood Reporter)
- YouTube has Kelly Merryman to thank for its new status as Hollywood’s darling (Los Angeles Times)
- The data is in, and unsurprisingly, price hikes are the top reason consumers will drop a streamer (Variety)
- Don’t underestimate teens: How Wattpad is turning fan fiction into mega-hits (The Verge)
- Streaming may be the future, but many are using it to watch old network hits (The New York Times)
- …And while blockbusters are attracting SVOD subscribers, they aren’t necessarily keeping them (The Verge)
- A rival is suing Google for US$2 billion for monopoly abuse (Business Insider)
- What will award shows and festivals look like this year? Even they don’t know (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Netflix’s 2021 film slate includes a new movie every week, many of which will be for kids (Variety)
- The players are all in place for the streaming wars, and now the real spending battle begins (The Hollywood Reporter)
- If you want Sky to commission your show, it had better be environmentally sustainable (Deadline)
- For Sony, the future of filmmaking is…drones? (Engadget)
- New series, avant-garde choices and fresh starts are the future for MCU in the streaming age (Deadline)
- …Meanwhile, a Walt Disney column from 1953 is surprisingly relevant for today’s House of Mouse (Variety)
- Turning an ear to families, Spotify Kids is expanding with playlists that parents can share with their children (Engadget)
- It might seem an unlikely match, but the Nickelodeon and NFL broadcast was a touchdown (Sportsnet)
- Several former Disney and Discovery execs have banded together to launch…you guessed it, another streamer (TBI Vision)
- You can thank the kids: Print book sales were up 8% last year, with juvenile titles making up one-third of US sales (Publishers Weekly)
- Caillou may have been cancelled in the US, but it’ll keep going in Canada and beyond (The Globe and Mail)
- Fan-made Star Wars films are gaining a lot of traction…how long before Disney steps in and shuts them down? (New York Times)
- Here’s how governments are providing aid to their respective entertainment industries (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Netflix has opened new studio facilities in South Korea to expand its capacity there (Variety)
- After 20 years on air, Caillou is coming to an end (CNN)
- Following a rollout of modern “work from home” toys in 2020, Fisher-Price is now going retro (USA Today)
- Denmark has launched a new children’s show featuring a man with a giant penis…and people are confused (The Guardian)
- Quibi might be dead, but its content is heading to Roku—perhaps people will watch it now? (Wall Street Journal)
- Nickelodeon and Spin Master are in some hot water for making an “inappropriate” JoJo Siwa card game (Business Insider)
- How Pete Docter steered Pixar out of scandal and rebuilt the studio after John Lasseter’s exit (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Disney has shifted its top Disney Studios Content chairmen amid a big investment in streaming content (Deadline)
- …Meanwhile, the Star Wars universe is flying to a new galaxy with The Book of Boba Fett (Engadget)
- Both SpongeBob and the Muppets are getting into football…is this the kickoff of a new trend? (Sporting News)
- MGM inches towards a sale, tapping advisors in the process (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Disney and Lucasfilm are copying the Marvel formula for new Star Wars content (Variety)
- Wonder Woman 1984‘s disappointing weekend in China could be a sign that film recovery has stalled there (The Hollywood Reporter)
- …Meanwhile, rentals may be WarnerMedia’s secret weapon to get its films into territories without HBO Max (Engadget)
- If there’s a silver lining to COVID-19, it might be that kids have found their inner strength (CBC News)
- Can Disney+, the new kid on streaming block, really surpass Netflix in just a few years? (Variety)
- The voices represented in kids books are still overwhelmingly white (Toronto Star)
- Tencent may become the new home of Drake and Taylor Swift as it ups its music game (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Playing games is so last year as the “Roblox of VR” looks to enter the mainstream (Tech Crunch)
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