"Univision and the Mexican TV giant Televisa completed their $4.8 billion merger on Monday, (combining) Televisa's media content and production assets with Univision's assets, which will include dozens of cable channels, multiple broadcast networks, and a vast array of Spanish-language content." - The Hollywood Reporter
With movies facing what feels to many like an existential crisis and the box office for adult-oriented films all but decimated, few in the business are in a celebratory mood. - Los Angeles Times
All streaming services see a portion of U.S. customers unsubscribe every month and have been signing up more users than they lose over time. But viewers who join a service right after a big release tend to leave significantly faster than the average streaming customer, according to an analysis of Antenna data. - Wall Street Journal
"It's fine to boast about having Amazon and Netflix in our back yard but if they got a better tax credit in France or Mexico, they'd go there. We have amazing landscape, brilliant, technicians, writers, actors but we're not really nurturing the next generation." - BBC
"Horror cinema has long been in the business of mining terror from the everyday, of linking surface scares to primal subtexts ... there’s no denying that Sundance has played a particular role in fostering this latest strain of cinematic scare-making." - Los Angeles Times
Go big or go home? "The rise of streaming video game services ... could sweep Hollywood players into the sector in a bigger way by motivating them to double down on their offerings or, alternatively, exit it for a lack of scale." - The Hollywood Reporter
Director Jonas Rasmussed "had been searching for years for a way to tell the story of an Afghan man’s journey as a refugee that the subject ... would be comfortable with. When Rasmussen attended a workshop with animators, the pieces fell into place." - Variety
Something about another wave, the seeming impossibility of it all - and a family pulling together, maybe? Or, well, a lot of repeat watchings and non-stop soundtrack listens, driven by at-home kids - The Guardian (UK)
That's 7500 workers - plumbers, electricians, drivers, animal trainers, etc. - without whom Hollywood would have a very hard time pumping out content. - Variety
Twitch is now being criticised for encouraging streamers to spend an unhealthy amount of time on the platform and then not doing enough to support them. - BBC
The key to cutting through the confusion is to see that digital transformation is not a single thing, but a multi-faceted journey with differing goals depending on your industry and digital maturity. - Harvard Business Review
Anne Archer shooting Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. Julia Roberts dancing with Rupert Everett to end My Best Friend's Wedding. The freeway dance that opens La La Land. All there thanks to test audiences. And that Kevin Costner baseball movie nearly went out under the title Shoeless Joe. - BBC
