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These are the biggest wins in the WGA’s new labor contract

From its new writers room staffing minimums to guarantees that staffers will receive a bigger cut of streaming residuals, the WGA’s new labor contract is set to fundamentally improve working conditions in the entertainment industry.

Charles Pulliam-MooreSep 30, 2023

Disney’s password-sharing crackdown has begun

Monica ChinSep 27, 2023

Alex CranzSep 27, 2023

Disney’s next animated film has a trailer showing off its blend of animation styles.

Wish is meant to blend modern CGI animation with the gorgeous watercolor animation Disney was originally known for. That should make it similar looking to films like Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. Those are gorgeously animated films with the latter looking like a hand drawn book brought to three-dimensional life.

Wish definitely has more of a Frozen vibe than that, but you can see sparks of that blended animation in a few moments...in between clips of a goat talking about its butt.

David PierceSep 27, 2023

The marathon meeting that helped end the writers strike.

The Hollywood Reporter has a good read this morning on the last-minute negotiations to end the writers strike. It seems to come pretty much entirely from the studios’ perspective, but it’s a good read anyway.

Apparently the writers guild and the studios were barely even negotiating — everybody was waiting on the other side to make a move. But with the help of some showrunners and some late-night negotiating, a deal finally got done. And then almost fell apart. And then finally got done for real.

How the Writers Deal Got Done: Inside the Room

[The Hollywood Reporter]

Streaming giants have banded together for lobbying power

Wes DavisSep 26, 2023

Hollywood’s writers strike might come to an end soon

Richard LawlerSep 21, 2023

Jess WeatherbedSep 19, 2023

Disney is doubling investments into its most magical places on earth over the next decade.

The company is planning to drive growth by pumping roughly $60 billion into its parks, experiences, and cruise lines, noting in a blog post that Disney parks have “significant room for further expansion on land and at sea.”

Here’s hoping these new experiences will be more affordable than the $5,000 Star Wars hotel that Disney is shutting down later this month.

Disney Plans to Expand Parks Investment, Doubling Capital Expenditures Over 10 Years - The Walt Disney Company

[The Walt Disney Company]

Wes DavisSep 18, 2023

That 100-film Disney Blu-ray collection is ready for preorders.

All 118 discs (including Pixar special features) are available exclusively at Walmart, and it’s $1,499.96. Before you run out and buy it, though, a word of caution: these are HD Blu-rays, so you won’t be watching Frankenweenie in crispy 4K resolution.

I’m not sure who feels this is worth the price of entry, but there you go.

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