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Thursday, October 29, 2026
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CEO Kyle Hall to present in Los Angeles at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time SURREY, BC / ACCESS Newswire / October 6, 2026 / INEO Tech Corp. (TSXV:INEO)(OTCQB:INEOF)(FSE:0OQ) (the "Company" or "INEO"), a provider of connected…
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,…
Monthly long-form interviews will air on Bloomberg Television across four regions and on New to The Street TV's YouTube channel, which has more than 5.3 million subscribers (over 6.5 million together with its NewsOut channel).…
De Luca and Abdy are out at Warner Bros. Donna Langley poached Taylor Sheridan. Ben Affleck used AI on his Netflix film. The fallout is just starting.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Greenlight authority, equity stakes, and development infrastructure have replaced visibility metrics as the real measures of creative power in media. Felicia Pride and Debbie Allen reboot A Different World for Netflix. Issa Rae accepts an…
The Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger cleared its final regulatory hurdle with a settlement that tells you more about the next five years of studio operations than any earnings call will. California and 11 other state…
Busan International Film Festival isn't just screening films anymore. It's exporting filmmakers. The 31st edition brings Japan Pitch to its market floor, where four directors from a government-funded accelerator will pitch original features to international…
The path from festival screening to commercial production used to take years. Tenzin Dalha appeared at Toronto in Jennifer Peedom's Apple-backed "Tenzing" and within weeks landed the male lead in "Chheledhora," a Bengali-language thriller opposite…
Coca-Cola is hunting for a new agency, and the job description tells you everything about where marketing budgets are moving. CMO Manolo Arroyo said it plainly at Brandweek: creator economy fluency and retail media expertise…
The last quarter of 2026 is making one thing obvious: editorial authority that used to compound over decades now evaporates in quarters. Metro in London just lost two senior editors as its parent company admits…
Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" has been the number one film in South Korea for six consecutive weekends. Six. In China, the same film just crossed $100 million and still sits in second place behind a…
The gatekeepers are losing their grip. A Serbian sci-fi film starring a Canadian actress just landed U.S. distribution. An Israeli-Colombian action series is being engineered for global buyers from the start. A Chinese distributor is…
The production market is saying the quiet part loud: if you can point to a book, a franchise, or a back catalog title that someone over 35 remembers fondly, you have a better shot at…
The story underneath the story is usually the one that matters most. While media companies announce restructurings and launch new platforms, the foundational systems that make those announcements possible are being quietly rebuilt. Public media…
Food and Viewing Upgrades ATLANTA, GA / ACCESS Newswire / September 4, 2026 / As college football returns, former All-Pro football player and sports analyst Ovie Mughelli turns his attention to the game-day traditions that…
Internal data from more than 200 professional AI citation audits documents a widening gap between brands working under a documented five-signal AEO methodology and brands working with agencies that claim AEO without a documented standard,…
The Cerfinity-powered platform binds every individual bottle to its distillery, batch, and barrel - with optional first-open detection - giving producers a proof of authenticity a counterfeiter can't copy NEWTON, NJ / ACCESS Newswire /…
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / September 3, 2026 / Sullivan & Worcester is expanding its international capital markets platform with a focused initiative to help Japanese companies evaluate and pursue opportunities to access…
The federal government's relationship with the media has split into two tracks. One offers production incentives designed to bring film and television jobs back to U.S. soil. The other involves public threats against news organizations…
TDD reserved a private Ranch House at the Omni PGA Frisco for its roster of fashion, home, family and lifestyle creators, representing more than 5 million combined social followers LOS ANGELES, CA / ACCESS Newswire…
Three stories broke recently that all land on the same question: where should media professionals place their trust, and their money? The Federal Trade Commission alleges Amazon secretly manipulated ad auctions to pocket $20 billion…
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