Since his high-profile departure from FX, Disney TV Studios chief Eric Schrier has become actively involved with shaping the Disney+ APAC content slate through his other mandate as president of Disney’s global original television strategy. He and APAC original content head Carol Choi sat down with Deadline at the Disney APAC Showcase in Hong Kong…
As the YouTube–Disney carriage battle approaches the 2-week mark, it is following the financial trajectory of many such standoffs: Both sides appear to be losing, to varying degrees. The question now is, how willing are the combatants to endure more pain if the impasse continues? ABC, ESPN and other Disney networks went dark October 30…
EXCLUSIVE: Amid explicit misconduct allegations on both sides, Jeremy Renner is vowing to sue a documentary filmmaker for “multi-millions” over what the Hawkeye star claims is the unauthorized use of his voice in an AI-created film. However, with a timeline, a press release, a previous legal action and an alleged signed release, director Yi Zhou…
As gets set for a hotly anticipated matchup between the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers, ABC, ESPN and other Disney networks remain dark on YouTube TV due to a carriage dispute. It has been more than a week since the standoff began between Disney and YouTube TV. The latter has grown into a dominant…
Even in an industry increasingly accustomed to head-snapping change, this has been quite a week. After Paramount Skydance made the third in an escalating series of acquisition offers for Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent of Warner Bros., HBO and CNN officially declared it was for sale. Netflix’s co-CEOs then confused Wall Street by not slamming…
Many industry executives look back at the $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit brought by Paramount (then Viacom) against YouTube in 2007 as a signpost of an era when linear broadcasters and online video platforms just couldn’t play nice, let alone share the same space. Paramount had accused the online video platform of illegally streaming its…