MEDIA

Microdramas may be the only thing that’s growing in Hollywood. The format is expected to generate $1.5 billion in revenue in the U.S. this year and jump to nearly $2 billion next year, according to research firm Omdia. - Reuters

ByteDance and the Motion Picture Association on Monday signed an ​agreement to strengthen copyright safeguards ‌on the Chinese company's AI video and image-generation models, months after the ​Hollywood trade group challenged its ​handling of intellectual property. - Reuters

Nine PBS in St. Louis filed a lawsuit against information management corporation Iron Mountain Data Centers July 28, seeking to recover over 50 terabytes of archival materials stored in one of the company’s Denver-based data centers. - Current

RuntimeWire has been operating since May, publishing nearly 2,000 stories that it sources by crawling the internet, including court databases, web forums, traditional and new media, company filings, social feeds, and more. - Wired

A Heated Rivalry actor had to “pause” his account on Cameo after possibly revealing that they're filming two seasons of the hit show at once. - CBC

For instance: “There’s a seven-minute ... tale of a mountain biker who rushes straight from a race to support his wife who’s giving birth, only to get killed by the very ambulance carrying her—all narrated from the POV of his bike.” - Slate

And now, after an improbable path whose twists and turns even the Roadrunner would have a hard time navigating, it’s a feature film. - The New York Times

"Games on Netflix have had mixed results,” but the plan is to focus on kids and sports, or so it seems. So much for narrative synergy. - Los Angeles Times (MSN)

The big thing is “Disney’s push into the booming vertical media space — aka microdramas and other shortform clips designed to be viewed on mobile phones .” - Variety

Here are eight that did it right — landed that unwieldy plane, circled back, etc. — did whatever they needed to do to wrap things up well. - The Atlantic

Looking across five major noncommercial formats — news/talk, contemporary Christian, classical, AAA (adult alternative) and jazz — RRC says combined cume across PPM and continuous diary measurement markets is 9.6% higher than it was two years ago at the end of Q1. - InsideRadio

That’s what Georgian filmmaker Uta Beria did with his latest feature, titled Tear Gas, filming amid demonstrations which have continued nonstop for more than 600 days. “We had a plan A, plan B, plan C, plan D,” says Beria. “And there were days where we needed to ... (simply) follow the flow.” - The Hollywood Reporter

"So that's how Ellison wants to prove that he will be a steward of (Hollywood's) flailing entertainment industry — by threatening to rip out a big part of its still-beating heart and implant it in Texas or Tennessee?" - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)

“By threatening to leave the state because it doesn’t want the government to enforce the law, Paramount further proves the danger of its outsized power over the industry and what that will mean for writers and the creative community." - Deadline

If the art of filmmaking is inseparable from that of adaptation, it’s because almost all feature films are made by way of a fundamental form of adaptation: that of a script. - The New Yorker