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justincone.com/posts/nft-skeptics-guide/

www.cnn.com/style/article/beeple-first-nft-artwork-at-auction-sale-buyer-intl-scli/index.html

netflixtechblog.com/remote-workstations-for-the-discerning-artists-8155a8fbd190

Netflix is poised to become the world’s most prolific producer of visual effects and original animated content. To meet that demand, we need to attract the world’s best artistic talent. Artists like to work at places where they can create groundbreaking entertainment instead of worrying about getting access to the software or source files they need. To meet this need, the Studio Infrastructure team has created Netflix Workstations.

Netflix Workstations are remote workstations that allow content creators to get to work wherever they are.

https://medium.com/@ollierankin/nftease-22f095dc72d6

www.cartoonbrew.com/books/cinefex-ceases-publication-after-41-years-a-victim-of-coronavirus-202462.html

https://cinefex.com/backissues/issue172.htm

www.cnn.com/2021/01/28/media/china-box-office-coronavirus/index.html

“In 2020, China overtook the United States to become the top movie market in the world. The country, perennially the second-largest movie market, brought in $3.1 billion at the box office in 2020, according to Comscore (SCOR) — nearly $1 billion more than the United States did last year.

“If China doesn’t need US movies, Hollywood studios will have to dramatically reduce their spending on big budget blockbusters,” Aynne Kokas, the author of “Hollywood Made in China,” told CNN Business. “The current budgets are unsustainable without access to the China market. That could fundamentally change the model of the US film industry.”

“Regardless of what happens with Covid, we have at a minimum entered a world where the Chinese and US box offices are equally important,”

So where do Hollywood and China go from here? That question, like so many in the film industry right now, has no easy answer. Yet whatever the future of the film industry is, it’s likely to be one where Hollywood and China remain the two major pillars holding up the global box office.

www.thestar.com/news/gta/2021/02/11/netflix-plans-to-open-an-office-in-canada-and-grow-its-relationship-with-its-creators.html

deadline.com/2021/02/blue-sky-studios-closing-disney-ice-age-franchise-animation-1234690310/

Blue Sky’s top grossing animation features at the worldwide box office were Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (’09, $886M), Ice Age: Continental Drift (’12, $877M), Icen Age: Meltdown (’06, $660M), Rio 2 (’14, $500M), Rio (’11, $484M), Ice Age: Collusion Course (’16, $408M), Ice Age (02, $383M), Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! (’08, $297M), Ferdinand (’17, $296M), Epic (’13, $268M), Robots (’05, $260M), and The Peanuts Movie (’15, $246M) and Spies in Disguise (’19, $171M).

www.awn.com/news/post-production-shake-streamland-media-acquire-technicolor-post

www.awn.com/news/warnermedia-release-six-superhero-films-year

www.awn.com/news/20-new-series-coming-disney-next-few-years

“In yesterday’s big Disney investor meeting, Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy revealed plans for 10 Star Wars and 10 Marvel series to stream on Disney+ in the next few years. PHEW! That’s 20 series in less than five years, which is ambitious to say the least.”

www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55232418

Fiona Bevan, who has written songs for One Direction, Steps and Lewis Capaldi, said many writers were struggling because of the way streaming services pay royalties.

Bevan revealed she had earned just £100 for co-writing a track on Kylie Minogue’s number one album, Disco.

“The most successful songwriters in the world can’t pay their rent,” she added.

www.sidefx.com/community/epic-games-invests-in-sidefx/

Epic Games is now a minority investor in SideFX

In a press release, Framestore said the acquisition and resulting scaled-up business “represents the next phase of the industry, uniquely uniting all aspects that support the making of entertainment and communications content – from concepts, through to digital and post-production.”

www.broadcastnow.co.uk/tech/framestore-acquires-company-3-/-method/5154656.article

deadline.com/2020/10/titmouse-vancouver-animation-studio-iatse-union-vote-first-canadian-studio-1234600790/

Animators at Titmouse Vancouver have unionized, voting 98% to 2% to join the Animation Guild, IATSE Local 938. IATSE says it’s the first animation studio in Canada to become unionized.

The studio’s many animated titles include Black Panther for BET, Star Trek: Lower Decks for CBS All Access, and Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures for Disney XD.

www.cartoonbrew.com/streaming/netflix-to-release-six-original-animated-features-every-year-says-co-ceo-ted-sarandos-197509.html

montreal.ctvnews.ca/mobile/dying-for-movies-suicide-highlights-labour-issues-in-canada-s-visual-effects-sector-1.5175793#_gus

www.awn.com/blog/true-costs-working-home

“…what are the long-term negative ramifications of working from home…

As entertainment industry freelancers, we know how to deal with these extra costs. When we supply our own equipment for a job, we charge a “kit fee.” A Kit Fee is billed as a daily expense, on top of our working fee, to cover our hard and soft costs such as supplies, software and computers.”

www.awn.com/news/netflix-signs-huge-animation-studio-lease-burbank

Streaming giant takes on over 170,000 square feet to house its first dedicated animation studio.

www.awn.com/news/microsoft-acquires-fallout-and-elder-scrolls-publisher-bethesda-softworks

Microsoft this morning has just announced plans to acquire ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks, one of the largest, privately held game developers and publishers in the world.

The game studio, which publishes a number of best-selling gaming franchises including The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, brings to Microsoft and its Xbox platform an impressive portfolio of games, technology, talent, as well as a track record of blockbuster commercial success.

www.bbc.com/news/technology-54063648

Netflix’s chairman has said working from home has no positive effects and makes debating ideas harder.

But Reed Hastings, who founded the platform, also said its 8,600 employees would not have to return to the office until most of them had received an approved coronavirus vaccine.

And he predicted most people would continue to work from home on one day a week even after the pandemic was over.

Y Combinator provides seed funding for startups. Seed funding is the earliest stage of venture funding. It pays your expenses while you’re getting started.

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www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/dc-universe-possibly-shutting-down-as-warner-focuses-on-hbo-max/

news.toyark.com/2020/08/10/dc-direct-shut-down-in-massive-lay-offs-at-warner-bros-398330

DC Universe, DC’s streaming and digital comics platform, may be shutting down as WarnerMedia shifts all of its streaming efforts to HBO Max and perhaps looks for a new digital strategy for the comic books.

screenrant.com/mulan-movie-streaming-release-date-disney-plus-price/

“This news of Mulan skipping a theatrical-only release to debut on Disney+ and in theaters the same day is quite shocking.

Disney’s Mulan is without question the biggest film to move to a streaming release so far (with, perhaps, the exception of certain movies that were already in theaters when closures began), even if it’s a combination of streaming and theater screenings. Mulan was expected to be a big box office earner for Disney, particularly as it’s one of the first blockbusters with a predominantly Asian cast.

Although Mulan can still prove to be a financial success, it will never be known whether the movie could’ve seen massive, record-breaking success like that which Black Panther earned when it released in 2018.”