“Barbie” is saying “hiya” to the billion-dollar club. Greta Gerwig’s pink-coated fantasy comedy has surpassed $1 billion at the global box office, including $459 million in North America and $572 million internationally. It’s the first film solely directed by a woman, which makes Gerwig the first-ever solo female filmmaker with a billion-dollar film. Three other[…..] […]
Hasbro Retains Entertainment for Priority Brands, Aligned with Strategy Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAS) a leading toy and game company, announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to sell its eOne film and TV business to Lionsgate for approximately $500 million, consisting of $375 million in cash, subject to certain purchase price adjustments, and the assumption[…..] […]
Netflix said subscriptions to the media streaming service climbed by nearly 6 million in the wake of its crackdown on password sharing in Saudi Arabia. The streaming giant finished the recently ended quarter with a total of 238 million subscribers and a profit of $1.5 billion, according to an earnings release. The pickup in subscribers came[…..] […]
New Products from Lexar Give Gamers Options when Leveling-up Their Rigs Lexar® NM790 M.2 2280 PCIe Gen 4×4 NVMe SSD Exceptional performance of up to 7400MB/s read, 6500MB/s write1 2x faster than PCIe Gen 3 SSDs2 Up to 40% less power consumption than DRAM cache-enabled PCIe Gen 4 SSDs2 Lexar® ARES RGB DDR5 Desktop Memory[…..] […]
First-of-Its-Kind AI Lighthouse Program Lets Partners Collaborate With Customers in Creating Generative AI-Based Initiatives to Transform Their Business Operations ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW), NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA), and Accenture (NYSE: ACN) announced the launch of AI Lighthouse, a first-of-its-kind program designed to fast-track the development and adoption of enterprise generative AI capabilities. Expanding on existing strategic partnerships[…..] […]
Welcome to FANTASMATICA! The new call for animated short films projects of the fantastic genre in Ventana Sur. This initiative aims to highlight talented filmmakers who fuse the creativity and magic of animation with the intensity of the fantasy and horror genre. Bridging two worlds FANTASMATICA is an initiative promoted by the Animation! and Blood[…..] […]
Kartoon Studios Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Its Netflix Hit and Growing Global Consumer Products Phenom, “Bee and PuppyCat” First Launched in 2013 on Frederator Networks’ YouTube Channel with Expansion into Full Series on Netflix Last Year, Rapidly Growing Brand Awareness Sony’s Newly Released “Bee and PuppyCat” Soundtrack Hits Over 1 Million Streams in 1st 10[…..] […]
Brazilian Gaming Studio opens in Wallonia to benefit from EU Gaming Ecosystem Brazilian gaming studio Mito Games today stands on two giant feet following the opening of a European development office in Belgium, the company will announce at Gamescom 2023. Brazil is one of the fastest-growing games markets in Latin America with more than 1000[…..] […]
Strong growth again in game companies and employee numbers in Germany Increase of more than 15 per cent in a year in number of game companies in Germany Number of people employed by developers and publishers up 7 per cent Together with the extended games labour market, the German games industry secures more than 30,000[…..] […]
The owner of popular kids YouTube channel CoComelon convinced a jury to award it $23.4 million from Chinese competitor BabyBus Co. Ltd. for ripping off its videos. Moonbug Entertainment Ltd. accused BabyBus of creating Super JoJo songs that were in some cases virtually frame-by-frame copies of CoComelon songs, in its lawsuit in the US District[…..] […]
