Netflix replaces chief content officer Bela Bajaria with former Disney exec Peter Rice
The leadership change comes amid a stock slump, viewership and engagement concerns, and reports of roughly 1,000 job cuts, and is seen as a back-to-basics shift
Thewrap · +13 outlets
Rajinikanth's Jailer 2 opens with about Rs 125 crore worldwide on day one
The Tamil sequel posted one of the biggest Indian openings of the year, beating the original Jailer and Vijay's Jana Nayagan.
Business Upturn · +14 outlets
Disney and Dude Perfect announce company-wide creative partnership
The deal brings the YouTube trick-shot group into Disney content spanning franchises such as Avengers: Doomsday and Star Wars, plus a Disney+ streaming presence
The Walt Disney Company · +14 outlets
Street Fighter leads weekend box office with $4M in Thursday previews; You Can See Everything takes $1.75M
Paramount's video game adaptation is forecast for a roughly $70 million domestic opening while A24's Elizabeth Holmes documentary paces for the best doc debut s
Variety · +10 outlets
New report says Israeli ad company covertly aided spyware delivery
The findings add to scrutiny of commercial advertising infrastructure being used as a vector for surveillance malware.
SC Media · +10 outlets
Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine beaten by Israeli settlers in West Bank
Levine was hospitalized after being kicked and stripped of her cameras while covering a Palestinian olive harvest near Ramallah, and the paper is demanding an i
Thewrap · +14 outlets
Leaked audio captures tense CBS News meeting over editorial control
A CBS News foreign editor is heard telling staff they do not decide what gets published, amid wider scrutiny of the network's Gaza death-count reporting.
Mediaite · +2 outlets
White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia faces Hannity grilling and questions over Trump's confidence
Zacharia's debut briefing was widely panned, and Fox hosts pressed her on whether she retains the president's backing.
Mediaite · +14 outlets
Reese Witherspoon buys back her production company from French media giant
The move unwinds a 2021 acquisition that valued the company at about $900 million.
Riviera Radio · +14 outlets
CNN launches website paywall bundled with streaming in UK and Canada
CNN is combining web, live and on-demand access into a single subscription as news publishers expand paid digital models.
Pressgazette · +4 outlets
Guardian and Sun back ban on deceptive AI bots and urge PM to support transparency bill
Editors and CEOs from competing UK outlets jointly call for regulation of AI systems that misrepresent themselves online.
Pressgazette · +1 outlets
Meta's new commercial terms will allow scraping of news sites, legal experts say
The terms taking effect October 30 let Meta crawl content from sites associated with business accounts, alarming publishers.
Niemanlab · +8 outlets
Netflix to cut roughly 1,000 jobs, about 6% of workforce, report says
The reported layoffs coincide with the company's content leadership shakeup and engagement concerns.
Anadolu Ajansı · +14 outlets
France Televisions warns far-right privatization plan would devastate French cinema
The public broadcaster's film chief says Rassemblement National's plan would strip French cinema of one of its biggest financiers.
Variety
Comics say AI-generated fake stand-ups are stealing their jokes word for word
Stand-ups are calling out accounts using AI avatars to plagiarize material and funnel audiences to OnlyFans pages.
The Hollywood Reporter · +8 outlets
Reach CEO touts Google AI content deal as template and pressures OpenAI over scraping
The UK publisher aims to make its Google licensing arrangement a blueprint for other AI deals after sending OpenAI a cease-and-desist.
Digiday
Google's News AI pilot expands to more than 400 publications, including US local outlets
The licensing program now feeds content from hundreds of publishers into AI features in Google News.
Niemanlab · +1 outlets
Netflix faces engagement concerns as Wedbush flags steps to address them and Q3 earnings loom
Analysts cite the subscriber engagement challenge ahead of Netflix's quarterly results.
Yahoo Finance · +1 outlets