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From internet creepypasta to BookTok bestsellers, the money is chasing properties that already have fans.
Paramount paid $36 million for Florence Pugh to star in "The Midnight Library," the adaptation of Matt Haig's BookTok phenomenon. A24's "Backrooms," based on a YouTube creepypasta series by Kane Parsons, pulled $9 million in…
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The most revealing media news stories right now aren't about innovation. They're about "failure modes." A "60 Minutes" correspondent walking away after two decades. Netflix pouring resources into a reality show that fundamentally misunderstands what…
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The Design Beat Is Alive and Hiring Design journalism rarely gets its own hiring moment. For years, the beat has been folded into tech coverage or treated as a lifestyle niche. So when Fast Company…
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The Memorial Day weekend stretched across three very different entertainment ecosystems, but the same question ran through all of them: do the old attention engines still work? The American Music Awards programmed for social distribution…
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Specialist Knowledge Is the New Currency Two of today's latest listings share something unusual: they require deep subject-matter expertise in areas most generalist communicators can't fake. One demands fluency in Near East geopolitics and multilingual…
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Singapore-based film investment group Triple Green CineCapital just made its first Vietnamese bet: "The Scourge," a horror adaptation of a video game with 100,000 downloads. TGC formalized a partnership with Chánh Phương Films on the…
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The Cannes Film Festival's marketplace has become a geography lesson. Sales agents are closing deals on Spanish survival thrillers. Hungarian filmmakers are crediting Budapest post houses on competition titles. Japanese producers are partnering with Indian…
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The Cannes market is a real-time ledger of what the industry considers financeable. Four projects launching at this year's festival represent four distinct theories of bankability, each a data point in how capital flows toward…
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The infrastructure that validates what's true in media is getting squeezed from every direction. A federal lawsuit filed by fact-checkers and academic researchers argues that government policies targeting misinformation work could chill free speech and…
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The Cannes Film Market closed registration for 2026 with 16,000 participants from more than 140 countries. Highest attendance in the market's history. Among the 40,000 industry professionals on the Croisette, the growth is most striking…
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