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Warner Bros.' 'Digger' has grossed $35.3 million worldwide after an $8 million domestic opening and a 60% second-weekend drop. Fortune, citing Variety, puts the loss at $245 million; the Los Angeles Times, citing industry sources and counting streaming, says at least $150 million.
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Dhar Mann has bought a four-acre campus with nine sound stages for his YouTube studio, Variety reported from Mipcom. The supporting figures are reach counts, so a brand weighing a place on those sets still needs viewing data.
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Disney will stream Super Bowl LXI and two Monday Night Football games on Disney+ at no extra cost, alongside the ESPN and ABC broadcasts. Its ad slots sold out in August, before the stream was public, so the added reach mainly serves Disney+ and ESPN's live sports offer.
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Dan Houser says Absurd Ventures is developing two untitled games, an open-world comedy built on character memory and a sci-fi story about a rogue AI. More on the comedy is due within months, Houser said, and of the two pitches it is the one that names something players can test.
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RoseBerry Media is using an AI workflow to recut two late-2000s Neighbours storylines into vertical clips for the Epis app. Variety called them microdramas, but The Verge ties that label to cheap, phone-first cliffhanger shows, so teams sizing the category should count recuts on their own.
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Dolly Parton set up She's Alive LLC before she died to look after her legacy. A month later it and her manager were in court against Bryan Seaver, the nephew who ran her security for more than 20 years.
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The labels read Suno's own disclosure that v6 learned from user interactions as an admission that the outputs of its earlier scraped models fed the new one. They put the count at 60,202 recordings and the demand at up to $9 billion.
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Trump now backs a federal production incentive instead of his 100% tariff on foreign films, which leaves Congress to decide how a national credit sits on top of the programs Georgia, Louisiana and New York already run.
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Omdia puts US microdrama revenue at $1.5 billion this year, and the actors now taking these jobs are working under a union contract written for the format, though the platforms are publishing view counts rather than unlock rates.
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NFL Gametime runs beside For You and Following until the 2027 Super Bowl, and the fans it serves have to add it first, which says a lot about whether the audience or the advertiser is the customer here.
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Preorders opened at $79.99 standard and $99.99 Ultimate, digital code only, for a November 19th, 2026 launch. Take-Two keeps the whole price. The union-busting accusations over 30-plus firings stand.
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