Warner Bros.' Digger opened to $20 million worldwide against up to $250 million in production and marketing spend. It lands days before Paramount Skydance takes control of the studio, whose new owners will decide what kind of films Warner makes next.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption18
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives55
- Confidence60
The twelve attorneys general leave with two promises they will have to police themselves, and Free Press says parts of the deal ask less of Paramount than the two companies already do separately.
Reality
- Evidence33
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives76
- Confidence41
Warner Bros. valued a finished $70m film below the deduction its cancellation would generate, sold worldwide rights for about $50m, and then watched the buyer collect $15.5m in a single weekend.
Reality
- Evidence54
- Adoption66
- Hype gap+26
- Incentives58
- Confidence50
Techdirt traces years of Oracle-funded attacks on Section 230 to a board seat at TikTok, where a 15% stake and a hosting contract put Oracle on the paying end of the legal weather it helped make.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives74
- Confidence44
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.
Reality
- Evidence32
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+38
- Incentives82
- Confidence38
The Justice Department says nothing irreversible happens when the FCC designates a broadcast licence for hearing. Disney's filing is about the remedy that gets harder once it does.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives74
- Confidence48
Kavan Cardoza lost a Batman fan film to a Warner Bros. claim. His own series is registered script by script and design by design, while the finished episodes are still pending.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives74
- Confidence42