WildBrain, the Canadian children's media company behind 'Yo Gabba Gabba!' and 'Teletubbies,' has acquired child-focused generative AI startup Personality AI in a cash-and-stock deal worth up to $69 mi…
Dr. Dre, founder of Aftermath Records and co-founder of Apple's Beats, said in a New York Times interview that only people 'who have trouble creating' see AI as a threat, comparing it to the drum mach…
A secretive coalition of Hollywood filmmakers, executives, and actors, convened by LucasFilm pioneer Kathleen Kennedy and American Film Institute dean Susan Ruskin, has published a framework defining …
Apple Music will begin labeling songs derived from AI platforms with a “Made With AI” tag later this year, requiring record labels and distributors to disclose when a material portion of a track was c…
Agnieszka Smoczynska's sci-fi thriller 'Hot Spot' presents a post-apocalyptic vision where humanity's survival depends on mandatory connection to a sentient AI system called the Head, which provides r…
Music IP Holdings, formed last year in partnership with Universal Music Group and Liquidax, has licensed a portfolio of more than 24 patents covering AI-generated music creation, moderation, watermark…
Hook, an AI-powered music remixing app, has struck a licensing deal with Universal Music Group (UMG) to bring catalogs from Republic Records, Capitol Records, Virgin Music Group and more to its platfo…
Australian hybrid-AI studio Red Empire Productions and Organic Media Group are developing 'Alishan Escape: A Mandopop Ghost Adventure,' an original animated musical inspired by Taiwan's Ghost Month, B…
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences set a $187 million budget for 2027, with awards expenses accounting for 23%, and reported raising $308 million toward a $500 million goal by 2028, accor…
Robin Williams' children Zak, Zelda, and Cody Williams revived his dormant Instagram account on Monday, nearly a month after what would have been his 75th birthday, to combat 'rampant AI abuse' of his…
At Variety's annual Showrunner Breakfast on August 14 in West Hollywood, top showrunners including Jonathan Tropper, Ashley Nicole Black, Debora Cahn, and Dan Harmon discussed network notes, writers' …
Round Hill Music sued AI companies Suno and Anthropic in a California federal court, accusing them of copyright infringement by scraping hundreds of its songs without permission to train their models.…
Stars Collective has acquired Mandarin-language remake rights to 'Thelma,' the 2024 Sundance breakout that became Magnolia Pictures' highest-grossing narrative feature, and is developing an adaptation…
The Motion Picture Association and ByteDance announced a memorandum of understanding to protect film and TV intellectual property across ByteDance's AI video and image generators Seedance and Seedream…
COL Group has launched COL AI Studios, a new entertainment vertical to help platforms, studios and brands develop, test and scale content beyond traditional licensing deals, leveraging a distribution …
Mirage, the AI startup behind the video-editing app Captions, launched a 24-hour AI-generated news channel called Mirage News Network, which reached 50,000 viewers on X and drew 824,000 impressions on…
The Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA) announced the launch of The AFM House, a new 15,000-square-foot venue in Los Angeles that will host the American Film Market's Innovation Hub, present…
AI music generator Suno has struck a licensing deal with music company BMG, paying for BMG's repertoire and training data use, as it prepares new label-backed models. BMG joins Warner Music Group in s…
AI-generated historical drama 'Castle Walls' ('Surlar' in Turkish), produced by Turkish TV powerhouse Ay Yapim, launches Wednesday on Prime Video as the first show made end-to-end using artificial int…
Spotify will affix 'AI Persona' labels to artist profiles it determines are AI-generated starting in mid-September, excluding them from algorithmic recommendations, as part of its effort to combat fak…