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Global entertainment conglomerate operating film studios (Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm), theme parks, the ABC network, and Disney+ streaming.
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Disney's "Endgame Encore" rerelease grossed about $126 million worldwide and put the film $1.8 million ahead of "Avatar" for the all-time record. The money came from a seven-year-old film that has streamed for years, and it still earned more than 12 times the usual rerelease ceiling.
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Netflix is ending its six-year production deal with David Fincher, the arrangement behind Mank and The Killer. Shawn Levy and the Duffer brothers have also gone, though the director deals Netflix keeps suggest it is choosing fewer, bigger bets.
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Disney, ABC and eight owned stations sued the FCC and Brendan Carr in Washington, asking a judge to stop an early license review before it becomes a hearing.
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Guidance issued in January told broadcasters that late-night and daytime talk shows are not necessarily exempt from equal time, and since then two networks have kept the same Senate candidate off air.
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Amazon's new Shop tab opens from the Fire TV remote, and Shop the Show now covers more than 8,000 US titles instead of 1,300. Lens scene matching runs on more than 600, and every purchase still finishes in the phone app.
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Paramount Skydance is readying new Paramount+ features to lift engagement and revenue as it finalizes its $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery deal. Internal documents describe the free tier as a registration funnel meant to turn samplers into paying subscribers at a service struggling with churn.
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The glasses Meta ships in Spring 2027 weigh about 100 grams because compute and battery moved to a tethered puck rated for up to three hours of high-resolution playback. Every launch partner Meta named sells video or live sport.
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Meta's new VR Glasses leave the display and sensors on the face and move the processor, the memory and the battery onto a wired puck in the pocket. The Verge tried them at Meta's campus this week.
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OpenAI's own deprecations page lists four cutoffs between 24 September and 23 October 2026. Finding out whether they touch your code takes one look at the Usage dashboard, in an account plenty of buyers cannot sign into.
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The 32-page report sets 41 percent unrenewed against 11 percent cancelled outright. It also lists Wonder Man at 52 percent retention, two points above the threshold the industry treats as a renewal, among the shows that ended.
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The Verge's Charles Pulliam-Moore argues that streamers are re-creating cable from first principles. The evidence he offers is interface design, and that is what decides how a product team should read it.
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Karandeep Anand becomes Disney's senior executive vice president and CTO on October 2, reporting to Josh D'Amaro. Disney expects an unspecified number of Character.AI engineers to follow him into a remit covering enterprise systems, data and AI.
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The Verge asked Disney, Netflix, Amazon and Lionsgate what they make of the industry's extinction warnings and got no reply. SAG-AFTRA's chief negotiator answered by describing a contract that binds US entertainment employers, with OpenAI, Anthropic and Google outside it.
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An amended class action in Northern California alleges every Meta AI activation on the glasses routed video overseas to low-paid labelers. Some of the plaintiffs were never users, only people who got recorded. Meta intends to fight.
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Disney has decided its streaming business is better run by one executive than by two. The memo announcing the change argues the case in the language of decision speed.
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Fortune reports Hugh Johnston sees live sports as a driver of customer lifetime value, and sports advertising did rise 5% while entertainment advertising fell 1%. The segment itself added about $170m of revenue against streaming's $550m.
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The Los Angeles Times reports Google is offering hundreds of millions for studio libraries plus a slice of YouTube ad revenue, which tells Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Universal what their blessing is worth.
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No agreement has closed, the Los Angeles Times reports, because of legal complexity and how talent and unions would react, which puts the gate on production-grade generative video in the clearance department rather than the research lab.
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Blake Leonard and Jake Tavello already have the titles waiting for them, but the shoppers who stop Stew Jr. for selfies do not know their faces, and closing that gap is what the family's four-year schedule is actually for.
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Twelve states sued to block the $111 billion Paramount-Warner deal. The reply travelling furthest is an Iowa op-ed that totals up the ticking fee while leaving the deal's economics to a promise about movie counts.
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