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Why Brad Pitt’s Plan B Is Looking for Buyers – and Who Will Ultimately Snatch It Up | PRO Insight
The prestige production company isn’t a great buy just because the actor is behind it, it happens to make great content too (and the actor’s behind it)
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‘It’s the Technology Behind NFTs We’re Really Interested in,’ Banker Says
TheGrill 2022: “Because right now, the ecosystem is very archaic,” City National Bank VP Attila Csutak says
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Kevin Mayer Predicts TikTok Will Outlast Other Social Media (Video)
TheGrill 2022: “As great as TikTok is, it is much smaller than YouTube,” the Candle Media co-CEO says
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How Hollywood Is Making Sure the Metaverse Goes Beyond ‘This Moment in Time’ (Video)
TheGrill 2022: “If you don’t play the game, you’re almost guaranteed to lose the game,” Paramount futurist Ted Schilowitz says
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Take-Two Interactive CEO Says Acquiring Zynga Created a Broad-Appeal IP ‘Powerhouse’ (Video)
TheGrill 2022: The gaming company’s catalog “speaks to every part of the interactive interface,” Strauss Zelnick said
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Big Tech Acquisitions of Media Companies Are on the Horizon – Who’s Next? | PRO Insight
In this down market, major entertainment businesses have become affordable merger and acquisition targets
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Neil deGrasse Tyson’s ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Theory Debunked by Astronaut Scott Kelly: ‘Ejection Would Be Very Survivable’
The fall back to Earth? Sorry Maverick, the astrophysicist was correct: “He be dead”
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Innovators List 2022: 12 of Hollywood and Media’s Most Exciting Disrupters, From José Andrés to Michelle Yeoh
Bad Bunny, Ryan Condal and Beyoncé producers Nova Wav also make our annual list of influencers
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How Hyperreal CEO Remington Scott Is Giving the Metaverse a Soul
Innovators 2022: The “Lord of the Rings” FX maestro is writing a new textbook for creating digital humans, from a young Paul McCartney to a new AI pop star
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Why NFTs Aren’t Dead – and How the Right Ones Will Transform Entertainment | PRO Insight
While the non-fungible token trading market has been in freefall, Hollywood and music companies are continuing to make deals based on the technology
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The Metaverse and NFTs Are ‘Here to Stay,’ Says CAA’s Head of Business Development (Podcast)
“Tech vs Media” podcast: Michael Yanover predicts non-fungible tokens will shape our daily lives, entertainment and anything IP-based
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Russell Brand Jumps to Rumble After YouTube Flags COVID-19 Video ‘Mistake’ as Misinformation
The rapid-fire, free-thinking firebrand will continue uploading to YouTube “for as long as they’ll allow us”
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Vox Media CEO Thinks Companies Are Missing the Boat Tech-Wise: There’s More Than Streaming TV (Podcast)
“Tech vs Media” podcast: Jim Bankoff identifies gaming and the metaverse as growing media trends
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BeReal Is Gen Z’s Fave New Social App That Hollywood Can’t Crack – But Paramount Is Taking a Stab
Paramount used the authenticity-preaching platform to market its upcoming “Scream 6” — the first studio to do so officially
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Patreon Lays Off 17% of Workforce, Closes European Offices
The membership platform laid off its entire security team last week