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Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Impact entertainment “accelerator” inks deal with Netflix

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Imagine Impact , the entertainment accelerator launched by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard to try and bring Silicon Valley-style mentorship and project development techniques to Hollywood, has inked a development deal with Netflix and is looking for submissions. we were excited to extend our partnership to Imagine Impact on this new endeavor.

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Google partners with Sony Pictures Imageworks to launch an open source VFX render manager

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Google, of course, is interested in bringing these workloads to its cloud and it has made a concerted effort to bring the Hollywood studios to its Cloud Platform. Sony Pictures Entertainment/Imageworks wasn’t a founding member but joined a few months after the foundation got off the ground. .

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Netflix employees stage a trans solidarity walkout, pose list of demands

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The employees who participated in the walkout want Netflix to “adopt measures to avoid future instances of platforming transphobia and hate speech,” they wrote in a letter. But Sarandos doubled down on his defense of the special, writing an internal email that “content on screen doesn’t directly translate to real-world harm.”

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Inside the Realms of Ruin

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Then fans would be tasked with writing their own stories, submitting them to the Realms of Ruin universe by minting them as NFTs on the Solana blockchain. If the authors are inviting fans to write fan fiction about a universe they created, who owns the derivative works? Another unabashed proponent of fan fiction is N.K.

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Interview with Scot Lawrie and John Rhodes, Coverfly

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It is a platform for talent discovery, and a platform for fellowships to manage their programs. It's also a platform for writers. That's been our focus, on centralizing talent discovery on the platform. For those not familiar with the writing process in Hollywood works, fill us in? What is Coverfly?

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As Quibi reportedly seeks another $1 billion, Fiction Riot fills the programming slate for its rival service

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Even as Quibi , the short form video platform from Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo , reportedly looks to raise another $1 billion , rival service Fiction Riot continues to steadily build out its pipeline of short form serials. Michael Scott is simultaneously writing a pilot for linear television.

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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers

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Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. I feel this responsibility to my industry to put the best business practices I’ve learned along the way into a platform so I can help other influencers.”. We are in phase three of the influencer economy.

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