OpenAI hopes the Disney deal boosts Sora, which has high costs and limited traction; Sensor Tower: users average 13 minutes per day on Sora vs. 90 on TikTok
Sora has struggled to build an engaged audience despite already hosting bootleg content from the Hollywood studio
Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters says the company is “now on track to more than double ad revenue this year” and is currently using AI to test new ad formats
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Indonesia's film industry is embracing AI tools to produce Hollywood-style movies at a significantly lower cost; the average local film budget is about $602,500
And now, as Indonesia is showing us (Rest of World), cinema might next. … Threads: @ben.makinen : The Future is Now. Your films speak truth: The Soul In The Machine! be a part of INDONESIA's first an...
The success of A Minecraft Movie, set to hit $700M in ticket sales globally this weekend, signals Hollywood's breakthrough in adapting video games into films
While superhero franchises flag, ‘A Minecraft Movie’ shows the industry has finally cracked the formula for translating popular games into films
Nielsen: YouTube was the top TV distributor in February 2025, making up 11.6% of all US TV; over-50s viewers accounted for 36% of time spent watching it on TVs
and it's another alarm bell for Hollywood Sam Gutelle / Tubefilter : Seniors are watching twice as much YouTube on TVs as they were a year ago John Nolte / Breitbart : Disney Loses Top Spot in TV View...
Division in Hollywood's approach to AI is growing, as some studios want to use AI tools more often in production, while unions aim to establish guardrails
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Ampere: seven movie adaptations of video games were released broadly in 2023; Comscore: movies based on video games grossed $712.2M at the US box office in 2023
Two separate articles came out this week, one in The Wall Street Journal and the other in TheWrap both of which talk … Forums: r/boxoffice : Hollywood Finds Fresh Characters And New Worlds In Video Ga...
Nielsen: in July, linear TV made up less than 50% of all US TV usage, a first in over two years of tracking, and streaming hit a record 38.7% high of TV usage
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Netflix says its ad tier has nearly 5M MAUs globally six months after launch and makes up 25%+ of signups in countries with the option; the median age is 34
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Netflix executives say they don't plan to change programming; two bank analysts say a cheaper ad-supported tier could cannibalize the higher-paying subscribers
Long Hollywood's leading innovator, the streaming service is staying the course, despite serious challenges to its business and questions about its content.