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Faced with an aging audience and a younger generation more interested in social media than the silver screen and television, studio executives are increasingly hiring talent made famous on digital platforms, such as Charli D’Amelio and Addison Rae Easterling, known as Addison Rae, two of the most-followed creators on TikTok, for high-profile film and TV Read More …
France’s strict windowing rules are looking increasingly outdated in the pandemic era, but local players and streamers disagree on changes. At stake is the distribution of movies financed by studio-backed streaming services, such as Disney and WarnerMedia, as well as a related dispute with Canal Plus, which is leveraging the level of its investment in Read More …
RCRDSHP’s seed round was supported by NFT collectors Metakovan and Twobadour (via PortKey Technologies), and Dapper Labs. Metakovan and Twobadour bought the highest priced NFT in history back in March, a $69 million digital art piece created by Beeple and auctioned at Christies. Source: Dance music NFT platform RCRDSHP closes multi-million dollar seed round, backed by the buyers Read More …
Hipgnosis CEO Merck Mercuriadis, whose fund invests in publishing rights and would benefit from higher payouts, says he already has hundreds of songwriters on board for a guild he’s planning similar to Hollywood’s Writers Guild of America. “There’s no secret the songwriter is the worst-paid person in the equation,” says Mercuriadis. “No negotiation should ever Read More …
Believe is refusing to share domestic market data with SNEP, which is responsible for tracking the size of the French recorded music market. That has led SNEP to choose not to publish first-half figures for the French recorded music market for the first time in more than a decade. Source: French Labels Body SNEP Blames Read More …