Netflix is preparing to cut 5 per cent of its staff as YouTube takes its viewers and Skydance takes Warner Bros. The disrupter of Hollywood now looks like one of its studios.
Tom Cruise's Digger vanished from Hong Kong and Macau cinemas two days before its National Day opening. The censor, the distributor and a studio in mid-takeover have all stayed silent.
Warner Bros. joins David Ellison's Skydance with $80 billion of debt and its last film a flop. Three earlier takeovers show what such deals cost the studio and cinema.
As Warner Bros. passes to David Ellison, we asks why the Ellisons are buying studios, newsrooms and TikTok, and what it tells Hollywood about criticising Israel.
With cinemas shut and HBO Max short of subscribers, Warner Bros. sends its biggest film straight to streaming and enrages its own filmmakers.
My film journalism usually involves reviewing films and reporting on festivals and awards from around the world.
Having done reboots, sequels and prequels of Superman and Batman, Warner Bros, the studio behind the superheroes franchises, is going to pair them up in a new movie.
