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NewsFremantle Appoints Marco Tombolini as CEO of Italian Division
Fremantle has promoted Marco Tombolini to CEO of Fremantle Italy.
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London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art to offer virtual production training
The London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art (LAMDA) is to become one of the first drama schools in the UK to offer virtual production technology training to students.
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Warner Bros. Discovery to keep Discovery+ as standalone service
Warner Bros. Discovery is planning to maintain Discovery+ as standalone streaming service, in addition to merging HBO Max and Discovery+ into a combined service.
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Disney to cut 7,000 jobs and make $5.5 billion in savings
The Walt Disney Company is to cut 7,000 jobs and make $5.5 billion in savings as part of a major restructure to trim costs and return power to creative executives.
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Australia set to introduce local content quotas for streamers
Major streaming platforms such as Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime Video will be obliged to make more Australian programming from 2024.
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HBO Max unveils first price rise
Warner Bros Discovery is raising the monthly cost of HBO Max for the first time since the streaming service was launched in 2020.
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Industry Trends
Best of CES 2023: Tech trends to keep an eye on
CES2023 may have come and gone, but it has - as usual - left a considerable amount of food for thought. From the downright weird, such as Withings urine-scanning smart toilets, Smart bird feeders and L’Oreal’s robot lipstick applicator, to a slew of new EV launches and some serious TV ...
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Disney+ to offer IMAX Signature Sound By DTS
Disney+ is adding high fidelity audio via IMAX signature sound by DTS to a selection of Marvel films and other titles in 2023.
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Streamer launches: ITVX in the UK, Paramount+ in Germany and Disney+ Basic in the US
UK broadcaster ITV has launched its new and expanded streaming service ITVX, in a slew of streamer launches across the globe.
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Bob Iger brings the changes after returning as Disney CEO
Returning Walt Disney chief executive Bob Iger has announced plans to restructure the company to place more decision-making in the hands of creative teams.
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Disney announces hiring freeze to cut costs
Disney is planning to freeze hiring and to “make some small staff reductions”, according to a memo sent by chief executive Bob Chapek to the company’s leaders.
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Industry Trends
Star Wars: Andor - Behind the scenes
Series co-producer and editor John Gilroy says filming the old fashioned way on location in the UK suited the Star Wars spin-off’s gritty look
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Streaming wars: Disney overtakes Netflix in subscriber battle
Disney has overtaken Netflix as the world’s largest streaming operator, reporting a total of 221.1 million paying streaming customers across its platforms in its latest financial quarter.
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Stranger Things and Obi-Wan Kenobi smash streamer records
Netflix and Disney+ both claim to have broken their own streaming records for new releases with the respective launches of season 4 of Stranger Things and Star Wars spin-off Obi-Wan Kenobi.
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Denmark hits streamers with production levy
Denmark has become the latest European country to rule that global TV streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon and Disney must pay a levy to support local production.
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ILM to open virtual production stage in Vancouver
Industrial Light & Magic is to expand its StageCraft LED virtual production services to Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Disney+ reveals strong subscriber growth
Streaming service Disney+ added nearly 12 million subscribers in its first financial quarter of 2022, bringing its total to 129.8 million.
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Industry Trends
What to expect in 2022
Apple will make the next streaming move; media goes wild for NFT; Avatar 2 kicks the metaverse into mainstream and England win the World Cup? Not all of these predictions will come true…
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Disney to raise content spend to $33 billion
The Walt Disney Co. is to increase its spend on content to $33 billion for the 2022 financial year.
