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Major Hollywood studio producing films, TV, and streaming content (HBO Max), part of Warner Bros. Discovery.
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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More than 200GB of Cartoon Network production files is reported to be circulating online, though no one has confirmed the size or the source. Dexerto lists editable character rigs and layered Photoshop files among the contents.
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Warner Bros.' Digger opened to $20 million worldwide against up to $250 million in production and marketing spend. It lands days before Paramount Skydance takes control of the studio, whose new owners will decide what kind of films Warner makes next.
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Skydance now owns Warner Bros and Paramount, cutting Hollywood's major studios from five to four and putting HBO, CBS and CNN under one owner. Writers and directors feel the lost buyer first, while cable distributors and streaming subscribers meet the combined company later.
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The twelve attorneys general leave with two promises they will have to police themselves, and Free Press says parts of the deal ask less of Paramount than the two companies already do separately.
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Warner Bros. valued a finished $70m film below the deduction its cancellation would generate, sold worldwide rights for about $50m, and then watched the buyer collect $15.5m in a single weekend.
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Techdirt traces years of Oracle-funded attacks on Section 230 to a board seat at TikTok, where a 15% stake and a hosting contract put Oracle on the paying end of the legal weather it helped make.
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Twelve states sued to block the $111 billion Paramount-Warner deal. The reply travelling furthest is an Iowa op-ed that totals up the ticking fee while leaving the deal's economics to a promise about movie counts.
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The Justice Department says nothing irreversible happens when the FCC designates a broadcast licence for hearing. Disney's filing is about the remedy that gets harder once it does.
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Kavan Cardoza lost a Batman fan film to a Warner Bros. claim. His own series is registered script by script and design by design, while the finished episodes are still pending.
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