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Tom Cruise lost $150M the same weekend China's genre films turned a profit. Two business models. One is failing.
Tom Cruise's "Digger" opened to $8 million domestic, $20 million worldwide. Production budget: $160 million. Marketing spend: undisclosed but likely $80-100 million given the star and the scope. The film will lose approximately $150 million,…
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Craft Skills Meet Purpose-Driven Media A pattern worth watching: several of today's featured media job listings share a through line that has little to do with chasing algorithms or maximizing impressions. They're about applying specific…
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The Build-From-Scratch Editorial Job Is Back Something worth watching is happening on the hiring boards right now: organizations at wildly different stages are all looking for the same type of person. They want editors and…
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The Organic Growth Specialist Is Having a Moment Social media hiring has shifted. Companies aren't just looking for someone to post three times a week and monitor comments. They want people who can reverse-engineer why…
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Ted Sarandos spent the past decade arguing that theatrical windows were obsolete. Now he's promising a broad theatrical release for KPop Demon Hunters 2, the sequel to an animated hit that racked up 325 million…
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Brands Want Creators Who Can Actually Make Things A clear pattern runs through today's freshest job postings: companies want content people who produce, not just plan. Two of the most interesting new listings explicitly ask…
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Amazon made two moves that sound unrelated until you line them up. The company is scaling Spanish-language content production across Spain and Mexico while simultaneously collapsing programmatic ad-buying silos through AI automation. One side makes…
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The audience problem isn't volume. It's distribution. Apple TV+ just logged its largest weekly viewership in seven years. MTV's VMAs pulled 8.4 million viewers, the highest number in 11 years. Disney+ watched Toy Story 5…
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Mission-Driven Organizations Are Hiring Entire Communications Teams Something worth watching: the American Council of Learned Societies just posted two complementary communications roles on the same day. A Media Relations and Content Manager alongside a Marketing…
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The media industry is building its future on existing intellectual property. Alexandros Avranas, who won Venice's Silver Lion for "Miss Violence," is helming a Greek adaptation of "The Others," a Brazilian series from Globoplay. ABC…
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