Inspiration for All of Us in 'The Big Idea' | |
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DEG’s friends at Passion Point Collective, an agency that markets brand-funded films, invite Members to preview a new film series from MIT Solve, made with generous support from HP.
The Big Idea is a three-part documentary short film series that follows the lives of three innovators who are brilliant, bold, and united by the desire to use technology, science, and engineering to solve global challenges. From access to life-saving vaccines, to antiracist technology aimed at reducing the Black maternal mortality rates, to hands-on robot-building kits for underserved Indigenous youth, their big ideas are meant to shake up the status quo and ultimately change lives.
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Each of the subjects is competing to be an MIT Solve innovator, or ‘Solver’, a highly coveted program to help to scale and grow their big idea. This win would raise the profile of their projects and put them in front of the MIT community, global leaders, and major tech brands.
Click at right to see the trailer.
Or watch the full series
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Media Q3 Earnings to Highlight Another Messy Quarter
Variety VIP+ ($)
For all intents and purposes, the media sector is a bit of a mess right now. The writers’ strike may have come to an end, but the ongoing negotiations between SAG-AFTRA, the actors’ union, and the major studios fell apart Thursday. Though the failed negotiations aren’t going to cripple the biggest studios, it’s certainly not good news at a time when the industry needs every possible win. Read more
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Netflix Earnings Preview: Analysts Cut Stock Price Targets As Wall Street Resets Expectations
The Hollywood Reporter
Netflix is expected to post strong subscriber gains when it reports its latest quarterly results on Oct. 18, but you couldn’t tell that from the stock’s performance since the global streamer’s July earnings update, when it added 5.9 million subscribers to total 238.4 million global paid memberships. Read more
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Disney at 100: Seven Ways Walt’s Company Forever Changed Entertainment
LA Times ($)
Over the last century, the influence of the Burbank giant on entertainment and pop culture — not just in the U.S. but also globally — has been profound. The company has shaped the very nature of entertainment through its movies, theme parks that have become vacation destinations, merchandising strategies and television networks. Read more
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Walt Disney Studios staff in 1932. | |
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October 16, 2023 | This past weekend on the SEA Top SVOD Movies (subscription streaming service titles) list, Amazon Prime Video’s drama The Burial debuted at the top spot (No. 1), followed by Paramount+’s horror Pet Sematary: Bloodlines in the second spot (No. 2). Amazon Prime Video’s horror comedy Totally Killer dipped one spot to the third spot (No. 3), and Paramount’s animated action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem held on to the fourth spot (No. 4). Amazon Prime Video’s sports biography Cassandro took the fifth spot (No. 5).
In cumulative streaming views this past week, Paramount’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem came in at No. 1, followed by Paramount+’s Pet Sematary: Bloodlines in the second spot (No. 2) and Amazon Prime Video’s Totally Killer at No. 3.
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October 16, 2023 | This past weekend, the SEA Top PVOD/PEST Movies (premium video on demand or premium electronic sell-through movies) list saw Paramount’s action Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (PEST) debut at the top spot (No. 1), followed by Lionsgate’s action Expend4bles (PVOD/PEST) in the second spot (No. 2). Sony’s action The Equalizer 3 (PVOD/PEST) slipped two spots to the third spot (No. 3), while Sony’s action adventure Gran Turismo (PVOD/PEST) climbed three spots to the fourth spot (No. 4). Warner Bros.’ horror The Nun II (PVOD/PEST) dipped three spots to the fifth spot (No. 5) and Focus Features’ romantic comedy My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 (PVOD/PEST) remained in the sixth spot (No. 6).
For cumulative streaming views this past week, Warner Bros.’ The Nun II placed in the top spot (No. 1), while Sony’s The Equalizer 3 came in at No. 2, and Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One took the third spot (No. 3).
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To find the combined list ranking Top SVOD and PVOD/EEST titles, click here. | |
*Screen Engine/ASI’s Weekly Top Watched VOD Premiere Movies list is based on the incidence of respondents from the syndicated weekly PostVODTM online survey where they state which movies they viewed and how recently from a list of recently released VOD movies, in the past six weeks, including PVOD (Premium Video-On-Demand), EEST (Early Electronic Sell Thru), or SVOD (Subscription Video-On-Demand).
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Can the Actors Beat the Writers’ Deal?
As the “Gang of 4” studio executives walked out of SAG-AFTRA talks, suspending negotiations until who knows when, they may have finally started to understand that not one but two of their worst fears were apparently coming true. First, Hollywood guilds have learned to make strikes work. And second, pattern bargaining has become a one-way ratchet that sets floors, not ceilings, for the unions. Puck ($)
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Netflix Deepens Videogame Push, Ripping Page From Its Hollywood Script
Last year Netflix put up a billboard on Los Angeles’s Sunset Boulevard to poke fun at itself. It read: “Wait, Netflix Has Games?” The company is working hard to clear up any confusion. It is deepening its push into the videogame industry, taking advantage of the studios it has acquired in the past two years to create more titles based on popular Netflix movies and TV shows. Wall Street Journal ($)
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Warner Bros. Discovery’s Max Details 2024 European Rollout Plans
Warner Bros. Discovery will launch its Max streaming service across 22 European countries starting in the spring. Gerhard Zeiler (pictured), president of international at Warner Bros. Discovery, and Leah Hopper Rosa, WBD head of streaming for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), made the announcement on Monday from international television market MIPCOM, where Zeiler was giving the opening keynote address. The Hollywood Reporter
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Europe’s Commercial Giants: How Leading Networks Finally Woke Up To Streaming… But Is It Too Late? – Mipcom Cannes Special
In Europe, the wider narrative has been that the continent’s big commercial beasts have focused far too many resources on retaining their aging linear audiences and, as a result, had left it too late to catch up with the global streamers in their local market. They even trailed public broadcaster services such as Britain’s BBC iPlayer and Italy’s RaiPlay by a distance, according to many analysts and market watchers. Deadline
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FilmRise Licenses AVOD, FAST Content Rights to Nexstar’s The CW
FilmRise inked a deal to license AVOD and free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) rights to Nextsar-owned The CW’s free streaming service, spanning over 1,500 hours of content. The deal covers 429 episodes across 11 different series and four movies. FilmRise CEO Danny Fisher announced the deal, noting popularity of the titles. Stream TV Insider
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