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Outside Lands is underway in Golden Gate Park, but Amazon Music’s official livestream is turning the festival into a second live event for viewers far beyond San Francisco.
Madden NFL 27 is expanding the presentation around the game with seasonal broadcast packages, Scott Hanson recaps, stadium traditions and dynamic weather. The result increasingly resembles an NFL broadcast players can control.
ProSiebenSat.1 is bringing ZDF programming into Joyn and seeking more domestic partnerships while its parent prepares a six-market streaming platform. Europe’s broadcasters are responding to global streamers by pooling distribution, not just producing more content.
U.S. box-office revenue is running ahead of last year, but attendance remains far below 2019. The recovery is increasingly being driven by higher ticket prices, premium formats and event films rather than a broad return to moviegoing.
The streaming company says generative AI is moving through its production pipeline, with the heaviest use in post-production.
A Munich court found that the AI music company needed licenses for works represented by GEMA, raising the stakes for music-model training.
Disney Ad Creative Studio is entering a closed beta designed to help advertisers produce connected-TV video from existing brand materials.
Franchise releases and filmmaker-driven films helped Universal reach the milestone before the end of the summer.
Paramount agreed to address European theatrical-distribution concerns as the proposed combination moved closer to completion.
The restoration preserves the landmark’s curved screen while adding a 14-screen Alamo Drafthouse complex next door.
