Greta Gerwig is directing a Barbie movie with Margot Robbie (Ryan Gosling plays Ken). Lena Dunham has a Polly Pocket film coming. Tom Hanks will star as Major Matt Mason. There will even be movies based on Hot Wheels toy cars and Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots. - The Guardian
"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
