On Thursday, Netflix announced that it had purchased InterPositive, an AI firm founded by Ben Affleck. The news came less than a week after the streaming giant exited the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery. According to Deadline, Netflix executives and Affleck had been in discussions since last fall.
Plans for a sequel to the animated film KPop Demon Hunters are reportedly moving forward, but studio executives now indicate that the project will likely not be completed in time for a planned 2029 release on Netflix. Studio leaders have responded directly to...
Andrew Weisblum, an editor associated with the upcoming Netflix Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew, adaptation has said he is not referring to original source material "on a film (whose) source material is very well-known." Although he never mentions Narnia...
The high-stakes media consolidation battle surrounding Warner Bros. Discovery took another dramatic turn this week as Paramount Skydance formally upgraded the financial terms of its hostile takeover bid — escalating pressure on WBD leadership as it weighs competing...
David Ellison is taking direct aim at Netflix as the battle for control of Warner Bros. Discovery escalates — and he’s doing it in public. In a newly published open letter addressed to the U.K. creative community, the Paramount Global chief laid out his vision for the...
The proposed Netflix WBD deal is no longer being viewed solely as a high-dollar Hollywood consolidation. What began as a business transaction involving two major entertainment players has now evolved into a broader debate about cultural power, ideological influence,...
The high-stakes Paramount WBD takeover battle appears to be entering its final and most decisive phase — and the message coming out of Warner Bros. Discovery is blunt: act now or step aside. According to reporting from The New York Post, Warner Bros. Discovery has...
The KPop Demon Hunters toys, inspired by the Netflix animated film of the same name, has begun to emerge in retail previews following licensing agreements between Netflix and major toymakers Mattel and Hasbro. The first public presentations of the products were shared...
As Wall Street waits to see which media giant will ultimately control Warner Bros. Discovery, tensions between Netflix and Paramount are no longer confined to backroom negotiations and proxy filings. They’re now playing out in public — and the gloves are officially...
The battle for Warner Bros. just escalated again, with Paramount Skydance formally extending the deadline on its hostile takeover bid, signaling that David Ellison has no intention of backing down—despite repeated rejections from WBD’s board and an increasingly...
According to Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos, the streaming giant had considered theatrical distribution before its move to acquire Warner Bros. At the time, Netflix decided that the company was better served focusing on its current business model.
For years, the assumption baked into Hollywood’s financial worldview was simple: scale wins. Theme parks, resorts, cruise ships, cable networks, broadcast television, and century-old intellectual property portfolios were supposed to be unbeatable advantages. Yet...
The Netflix Cash Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery has entered a decisive new phase, intensifying one of the largest and most consequential media acquisition battles in years and sharply raising the pressure on rival bidder Paramount Skydance. According to an amended...