Studio Strategy & Slates

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Paramount Pictures water tower seen over LA with palm trees in foreground
Entertainment

States let Hollywood’s historic merger proceed

The twelve states that sued over Paramount merging with Warner Bros. have agreed to drop the antitrust lawsuit.

Sam Klebanov
Still from Coyote vs. Acme showing Will Forte and Lana Condor sitting in the front of a car as viewed through the windshield, with Wile E. Coyote sitting in the backseat, all looking shocked or concerned.
Entertainment

Coyote vs. Acme finally opens in theaters after multiyear detour

It was a long road.

Matty Merritt
Illustration of ring lights in the shape of a Mickey Mouse head, with smartphones showing Mickey's silhouette in them. Tinkerbell is flying through the lights sprinkling pixie dust, in a reference to the intro to most Disney movies.
Entertainment

Disney and TikTok made a deal to share clips

Welcome to the clip show.

Matty Merritt
Illustration of a film camera emoji, which is viewed from the side, with the A24 logo on it and a beam of light coming from the lens. The beam is colored like the Google Gemini gradient, made up of Google's brand colors blue, red, yellow, and green, with the Gemini AI spark on top of it (a 4-sided star).
Entertainment

Google invests $75 million into A24 to make AI film tools

The partnership marks a major step in an industry that has been vocally anti-AI.

Matty Merritt
James Bond on screen
Entertainment

Britain’s got talent: James Bond edition

The casting process for the next James Bond has officially begun.

Brendan Cosgrove
Coyote vs. Acme
Entertainment

‘Coyote vs. Acme’ finally gets a trailer after Warner Bros almost deleted it

Just a short six years after it was initially greenlit.

Matty Merritt
Joaquin Phoenix, Kristen Stewart, Tiffany Haddish
Entertainment

Hollywood celebs protest Paramount-Warner merger

A who's who list of Hollywood spoke out against further industry consolidation.

Sam Klebanov

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