"About two dozen smaller, low-cost specialty streaming services have generated significant subscriber growth over the last couple of years. … This includes streamers from traditional cable networks (AMC+, BET+) as well as those (for) specific genres, including British television (BritBox, Acorn TV), horror (Shudder) and anime (Crunchyroll, Hidive)." - The New York Times
"The incoming Trump administration has made it clear that deregulation will be at the top of its priority list, and the companies that own local TV stations — Nexstar, Sinclair, Gray, E.W. Scripps and Tegna, among many others — are practically giddy at what it could mean for them." - The Hollywood Reporter
The lead plaintiffs are the dailies Le Figaro, Les Echos, Le Parisien and Le Monde, with smaller outlets such as Nouvel Obs, HuffPost France, and Télérama joining. They accuse the site of violating 'neighboring rights', which are due when social media platforms republish news content." - The Guardian
New data from subscription analytics provider Antenna offer a deeper look at the subscription pausing habits customers are developing as services like Netflix, Disney+ and Apple TV+ become the go-to way of watching TV in many households, instead of cable. - The Wall Street Journal
The docudrama is being shot in Perugia, where Knox was studying in 2007 when her apartment-mate, Meredith Kercher, was murdered; Knox was wrongfully convicted of the crime and spent four years in prison. Perugians have hung banners around town reading "Respect for Meredith." - Variety
"The impulse from liberals to replicate the juice by developing their own Rogan equivalent is understandable but ultimately myopic. The idea is little more than fantasy wish-casting, driven by a top-down desire to inorganically bring into the world something that can only exist organically." - Vulture (MSN)
Months of prophesying about generative AI have now culminated, almost all at once, in what may be the clearest glimpse yet into the internet’s future. - The Atlantic
Using machine learning on data from the Human Connectome Project, the research mapped areas that respond to diverse audio-visual stimuli. The findings could inform future studies on how individual brain responses vary with age or cognitive disorders. - Neuroscience News
“‘If you take your phone and then go to TikTok, you will see a lot of activities, dancing, you know, happy things,’ says Mojez, a former Nairobi-based moderator who worked on TikTok content. ‘But in the background, I personally was moderating, in the hundreds, horrific and traumatising videos.’” - BBC
“I’ll be sitting here like the Michael Jackson popcorn GIF as Jacques Audiard’s musical, a film that until now existed only in the cloistered world of prestige cinema, is instantly thrust in front of millions of streaming subscribers.” (That’s on Wednesday, in case you want to prepare yourself.) - Vulture
Alexey Pajitnov would love that. "Reaching the heights of a global hit like Tetris is improbable for anyone, even the creator of Tetris. But that has not stopped Pajitnov from trying." - The New York Times
"India‘s Film Heritage Foundation (FHF) is teaming with French diplomatic missions in India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives on a two-year project dubbed FISCH (France-India-Sri Lanka Cine Heritage).” - Variety
A prolonged fallow period extending through the summer has left the Beijing film industry wringing its hands, wondering whether a lasting shift in the marketplace may be underway. - The Hollywood Reporter
There are blaring red warnings signs for traditional media everywhere you look. Ratings for the broadcast and cable news channels saw steep declines in ratings from Nielsen (finals showed an average of 42.3 million people, down from nearly 57 million four years ago), with the lowest ratings in decades. - The Hollywood Reporter
