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Gearoid Reidy / Bloomberg:
A look at Nintendo's movie push, as the company partners with Sony to work on a Zelda live-action movie, after the huge success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie — It's dangerous to go alone, and in teaming up with Sony and the man who made Marvel successful, Nintendo shows it has learned from past mistakes.
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Nintendo Co., Ltd., @nintendo, RTÉ, Financial Times, Bjoern Eichstaedt on LinkedIn, Forbes, @Infrapink@mastodon.ie, The Playlist, GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT, Screen Rant, @nintendo, KUSA-TV, The Verge, Ars Technica, Hollywood Reporter, TechCrunch, The Wrap, SlashFilm, VentureBeat, KTLA and Collider, more at Techmeme »
Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Disney reports Q4 revenue up 5% YoY to $21.24B vs. $21.33B expected, net income of $264M, and 7M new core Disney+ subs, with total of 150.2M including Hotstar — - Disney reported quarterly earnings after the closing bell. — Profit topped expectations, but revenue came up short.
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Variety, The Wrap, CNN, Bloomberg, Deadline, Disney Dining, Media Play News, Walt Disney Company, The Hollywood Reporter and NBC 7 San Diego
Jill Goldsmith / Deadline:
WBD shares fell 16%+ on November 8 after its CFO described a US ad market that continues “to be weaker than we had hoped”, and an unpredictable 2024 recovery — - WBD CEO David Zaslav “Hopeful” For Resolution To SAG-AFTRA Strike As He Touts Studios' Final Offer; Hints At M&A
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
WBD reports Q3 revenue up 1% YoY to $9.9B, a $417M net loss, down from a $2.31B loss YoY, global DTC subscribers fell 0.7M to 95.1M, and ad revenue fell 12% YoY — The owner of CNN, the Warner Bros. studio and the Max streaming service said its net loss narrowed to $417 million …
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The New York Times reports Q3 revenue up 9.3% YoY to $598.3M, an $89.8M adjusted operating profit, 10M+ subs, and subscription revenue up 15.7% YoY to $282.2M — The company reported an adjusted operating profit of $89.8 million in its latest quarter, up from $69 million a year earlier.
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
A woman sues former Grammy Awards CEO Neil Portnow, claiming he drugged and raped her in 2018 and the Recording Academy was negligent in investigating her claim — The woman, who is not named in the lawsuit, said that she was drugged by Neil Portnow, and that the Recording Academy was negligent in investigating her complaint.
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Forbes and Rolling Stone
Alexandra Topping / The Guardian:
Presenter Carol Vorderman quits her BBC Radio Wales show, saying she will “not be silenced” by the BBC's new social media rules on voicing political opinions — Presenter says bosses had decided she ‘must leave’ after she continued to express political opinions online
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Experts criticize NBC News for partnering with Salem Media, a promoter of 2020 election denialism and producer of 2000 Mules, for the third GOP primary debate — How Salem Media Group — a powerful network of pro-Trump talk-radio programming and producer of the discredited ‘2000 Mules’ documentary …
Brent Lang / Variety:
An interview with Chairman of Netflix Film Scott Stuber on scaling back annual film releases to focus on quality, being more selective in bidding wars, and more — In 2018, “Saturday Night Live” captured the public perception of Netflix as a ceaseless river of content.
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The Streamable, The Playlist, @variety, The Hollywood Reporter, @brentalang, @nreviewed, @lanceulanoff, @nreviewed, @nreviewed and @nemtastic1
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Reuters:
OCCRP co-founder Drew Sullivan says analysis shows government-tied hackers tried to plant NSO spyware on Indian journalist Anand Mangnale's iPhone on August 23 — Government-backed hackers tried to plant spyware made by NSO Group on the iPhone of an Indian journalist working for the Organized Crime …
Margi Murphy / Bloomberg:
Ahead of the 2024 US election, Microsoft plans to offer a free watermarking tool to help US politicians authenticate their videos and photos to fight deepfakes — - Tool offering comes as concerns grow over fake photos, videos — Microsoft says Russia is ‘huge’ cyber, disinformation threat
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The Wrap, The Verge and @rumtin, more at Techmeme »
Kenneth Chang / New York Times:
Nature retracts a high-profile paper on the discovery of a superconductor, the second paper by Ranga P. Dias retracted by the journal in just over a year — It was the second paper led by Ranga P. Dias, a researcher at the University of Rochester, that the journal Nature has retracted.
Discussion:
Ars Technica, @dangaristo, @ionerrea, Nature, Las Vegas Review-Journal and TechCrunch
Caitlin Huston / Hollywood Reporter:
Spotify now offers US paid subscribers 15 hours of free access to 200K+ audiobooks per month, after launching the service in the UK and Australia on October 3 — The podcast and music platform will offer U.S. paid subscribers 15 hours of free listening to audiobooks as it continues its rollout of the new offering.
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Engadget, Spotify, Billboard, The Bookseller, 9to5Mac, @yogscastlewis, @richontech, Variety, @engineering_bae, The Verge, Publishers Weekly, @spotifynews and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
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