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Bob Iger Explains How Sora’s AI Videos Using IP Will Work on Disney+
The CEO hopes the feature will “greatly enhance engagement” and roll out in fiscal year 2026
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Disney’s Sports Business Took $110 Million Hit From YouTube TV Carriage Dispute
The programming blackout lasted for two weeks before being resolved in November
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Disney Q1 Revenue Climbs 5% to $26 Billion, Boosted by Theme Parks, Streaming
But the company’s operating profit fell 9% due to the YouTube TV carriage dispute, continued declines in its linear TV business and higher programming, production and marketing costs
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Streamers Will Spend $14.2 Billion on Sports Rights in 2026, New Projections Show
The estimate from Ampere Analysis sees Amazon’s Prime Video leading the pack with 27% of the total
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ESPN Closes NFL Network Acquisition
In exchange, the league is being given a 10% stake in the sports network valued at $3 billion
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‘Send Help’ Edges Indie Underdog ‘Iron Lung’ With $20M as ‘Melania’ Takes $7M at Box Office
Sam Raimi and Markplier lead box office, Amazon MGM’s First Lady doc takes third, and Charli XCX’s “The Moment” shines in limited release
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Hollywood Whitewashing ‘Goes a Lot Deeper’ Than Odessa A’zion, Leaving Latinos Weighing What’s Next
“It’s about the change happening when Latinos [are] trusted to lead projects, shape our own narratives and be a part of the decision making,” actress Karrie Martin Lachney tells TheWrap
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Mason Gooding Thriller ‘The Gates’ Sets March Specialty Theatrical Release at Lionsgate Premiere | Exclusive
The film marks the second feature from writer-director John Burr, following his 2017 supernatural thriller “Muse”
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Disney CEO Bob Iger to Step Down Before End of 2026 | Report
The entertainment giant’s board plans to meet next week to vote on the executive’s successor
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What Audience Behavior Tells Us About the Future of a Netflix-HBO Max Combo | Chart
Netflix and HBO Max have the lowest audience overlap among major platforms in the U.S. — that’s an expansion opportunity but an engagement challenge
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Milo Ventimiglia to Star in HBO Max Cop Drama Pilot ‘American Blue’
David Ayer is attached to direct the Jeremy Carver-created project
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Catherine O’Hara Tributes: Macaulay Culkin, Pedro Pascal, Lily Tomlin and More Remember Actress as ‘Full of Joy’
“There is less light in my world, this lucky world that had you, will keep you, always,” her “Last of Us” co-star Pascal writes
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Charter Communications Adds 44,000 Pay TV Subscribers in Q4
The gain was driven by simplified pricing and packaging, the inclusion of streaming services in Spectrum video packages and a “small benefit” from the Disney-YouTube TV carriage dispute
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Paramount Sets Ted Lehman as Head of US Public Policy and Government Affairs
The SVP will lead the company’s Washington, D.C., office after previously serving under four different senators
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What Tucker Carlson Reveals About the Evolution of Conservative Media | Analysis
Biographer Jason Zengerle speaks with TheWrap about his new book, “Hated by All the Right People,” and how the right’s incentive structure shaped Carlson’s bomb-throwing trajectory
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