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Concord’s $400 Million Failure Still Haunts Sony One Year Later — Sony Execs Make Big Changes After Concord Disaster

Concord’s $400 Million Failure Still Haunts Sony One Year Later — Sony Execs Make Big Changes After Concord Disaster

One year ago, just two weeks after its release, the hero-shooter known as Concord was permanently shut down due to its abysmal sales and astonishingly low player count. Just a couple months later, Sony, in an attempt to cut losses, disbanded Firewalk studios, which had developed the game over the course of 8 years.

Colbert Wins First Late Show Emmy After Being Cancelled: Is This Recognition or a Hollywood Political Statement?

Colbert Wins First Late Show Emmy After Being Cancelled: Is This Recognition or a Hollywood Political Statement?

In one of the strangest twists in recent Hollywood memory, Stephen Colbert has finally won an Emmy for The Late Show—just weeks after CBS announced his program is being canceled. After nearly a decade on the air and 33 nominations without a single victory, Colbert’s show secured its first statuette in the Outstanding Directing for a Variety Series category.

The timing couldn’t be more suspicious. Was this really about rewarding creative merit, or was Hollywood sending a political message after CBS pulled the plug on the partisan host?

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Child Actors’ Agents Call for ‘No AI’ Clauses, After Peppa Pig Studio Controversy

Child Actors’ Agents Call for ‘No AI’ Clauses, After Peppa Pig Studio Controversy

As the entertainment industry continues to navigate the challenges posed by artificial intelligence, a new controversy has taken center stage. A group of talent agents is now calling for the adoption of blanket “No AI” clauses for all child actors. Deadline recently reported that Hasbro, the owner of the Peppa Pig franchise, introduced contractual language requiring child voice actors to grant the company broad rights to use their voices with AI technology.

Former MCU Star Jonathan Majors Daily Wire Movie Gets Franchise-Expanding Title

Former MCU Star Jonathan Majors Daily Wire Movie Gets Franchise-Expanding Title

Jonathan Majors’ first major film project since his departure from the Marvel Cinematic Universe appears to be part of a larger franchise strategy. The first trailer for the the actor’s action thriller from the Daily Wire revealed the title Run Hide Fight: Infidels, a name that explicitly connects the film to Daily Wire’s 2020 thriller Run Hide Fight. While The Hollywood Reporter describes the upcoming film as a “standalone sequel,” the naming convention suggests that it may also serve as an expansion of an existing intellectual property.