Category: Film & TV
How Publishing Lost James Bond and What It Means for the Industry
In the future, Fleming’s original James Bond novels may be remembered as historical curiosities rather than the foundation of one of entertainment’s most valuable properties.
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Streaming TV Beats Combined Broadcast and Cable – Why Publishing Must Embrace the Inevitable
Why publishing must learn from TV’s streaming milestone and embrace AI-powered subscription models before tech disruptors claim the future.
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DC’s Cinematic Reboot: Superman’s New Dawn Amid Marvel’s Decline. Implications for Publishing
with audiences more discerning (and older film-goers like me wedded to C20 characters that Marvel and DC have lately walked away from) and competition fiercer than ever, success is far from guaranteed.
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AI in Animation: A Tool for Efficiency, Not Replacement. Lessons for Publishers
The industry must prepare for a generation of AI-native creatives reshaping workflows.
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Jennifer Salke Out. James Bond Franchise In. Big Tech in Hollywood: Ramifications for Book Publishing
The ouster of Jennifer Salke from Amazon MGM Studios is a telling sign of the evolving landscape of Hollywood, where the traditional values of studio filmmaking are increasingly being influenced by the data-driven, profit-oriented priorities of Big Tech.
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Adaptation Over Resistance: The film industry’s cautious embrace of Sora offers a blueprint for publishing
Text-to-video is the new cinema frontier, and we’ve been here so many times. If it’s new and shiny, it’s bad, bad, bad, and must be resisted at all costs. Until we can’t live without it.
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Titmouse Unveils Development of ‘Nights’ Animated Series Based on Acclaimed Horror Comics
‘Nights’ follows a group of friends navigating the complexities of life, relationships, and mysterious paranormal events, but don’t think Scooby Doo!
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Lee Child on Tom Cruise’s Casting: “Book Readers Were Right.” Other Book-To-Screen Adaptations Compared
Reacher’s famed ability to know the precise time at any given moment (“the clock in Reacher’s head”) is part of the Reacher superman armoury, despite Reacher wearing a watch and having no such time-keeping powers in the first books.
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Paramount Posts $49M Streaming Profit Amid Subscriber Growth. Publishers using AI to develop content need to think subscription
With two Big 5 publishers now embracing AI for audio, and others ready to follow, a flood of new content will simultaneously offer consumers more choice at better prices while also competing for listening hours. Embracing subscription as an outlet for this new content is just common sense.
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23 million subscribed to ad-supported Netflix. Book-streaming platforms should explore the option
Would a 30 second ad inserted every five or ten chapters really be more disruptive than a knock at...
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Archie Comics a hit in India. Latin America next?
“It isn’t simple so much as it is elegant: to localize an internationally recognized intellectual property to bring in more fans.”
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SAG-AFTRA and the US Writers Guild are ready to deal with AI companies. It’s time the publishing industry followed suit. The dam has broken
The dam has broken. Now to contain the floods and redirect the life-giving water to new pastures....
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