formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
As Disney and other studios retrofit beloved franchises with ideological messaging, audiences are turning away, leaving Star Wars, Marvel and the remake machine exposed to a new box-office reality. Source: https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/culture/artc-go-woke-go-broke-the-collapse-of-star-wars-and-the-failure-of-hollywood-s-studio-model
With a $50 billion OpenAI deal just closed, the exit from the movie represents the starkest example of Big Tech siding with business interests over creative freedom. Source: https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/business/amazon-mgm-dumps-a-sam-altman-biopic-as-big-tech-crosses-a-line-in-hollywood-analysis/
After two years of strikes, protests and splashy deals, the industry’s AI question has changed. It is no longer whether studios will work with AI companies. It is whether they can build AI they own, govern and defend. Source: https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/hollywood-studios-spending-ai-control-082748011.html
Paramount Skydance has defended its attempt to buy the legendary Warner Bros. studio, in a letter to California’s top lawyer whose office is probing the $110 billion bid. Source: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260513-paramount-defends-warner-bid-amid-california-probe
More than 1,000 film and TV stars and creatives, including Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Thompson and Javier Bardem, issued an open letter opposing Paramount Skydance’s pending acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Source: https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/04/14/block-the-merger-thousands-of-industry-professionals-speak-out-against-paramount-warner-de
Seven major studios have announced the creation of an entity to develop technical standards for digital cinema technology that will streamline distribution to theaters of new release movies using satellite links, fiber optic networks, or DVD-ROM to deliver feature films … Continued