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Film Can Disney Afford All-Out War With Google Over AI Dispute?
December 11, 2025, might be remembered as a defining day in Hollywood’s dance with artificial intelligence. That’s when Disney gave with one hand (inking a head-turning deal with OpenAI to hand characters to Sora) and took away with another (demanding that Google’s AI products stop behaving like a “virtual vending machine” for the media giant’s IP). In his latest ‘Rendering’ column, Deadline’s International Investigations Editor Jake Kanter looks at what’s next in this battle of the titans.
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‘Night of the Zoopocalypse’ Producer Copperheart Entertainment To Kick-Off Financing Of ‘Fifteen Dogs’ Adaptation at Berlin’s EFM Animation Days
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning director Chris Landreth and Copperheart Entertainment founding head Steven Hoban will launch financing on Fifteen Dogs, an animated adaptation of André Alexis' eponymous novel, at the European Film Market's inaugural Animation Days in February.
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Wunmi Mosaku Joins Short Film ‘Mango’ As Executive Producer As Joan Iyiola’s Body Horror Launches On Disney+
EXCLUSIVE: Wunmi Mosaku has joined Joan Iyiola's short film Mango as an executive producer. The star, who is on the BAFTA Film Award longlist for her role in Sinners, has come on board the live-action body horror as it launches on Disney+ across Europe.
Written and directed by Iyiola in her…
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Top BBC Anchor Amol Rajan Leaving ‘Today’ Programme To “Unleash My Inner Entrepreneur”
Top BBC anchor Amol Rajan is leaving the Today programme after four years and setting up a company.
Rajan will remain with the BBC presenting University Challenge and the Radical with Amol Rajan podcast but he said he will also set up shop.
“Twenty years after I first flirted with the idea, I’m…
AMC Networks International Merging Southern Europe & Latin American Units Under Antonio Ruiz
AMC Networks International is merging its Southern Europe and Latin America divisions under Antonio Ruiz, with John Huff set to exit as a result.
The units will operate as a single structure, with Ruiz, AMCNI’s Southern Europe Managing Director, and his senior team in Europe leading the operation…
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Indian Box Office Hits Record-Breaking $1.48bn In 2025; ‘Dhurandhar’ Heads Year-End Chart
India's box office reached a record-breaking $1.48bn (Rs133.95bn) in 2025, surpassing the record achieved in 2023 of $1.35bn (Rs122.26bn), according to figures from Ormax Media.
Last year was also the biggest ever for Hindi films, which grossed a combined $609.78m (Rs55bn), around 93% of which was…
Rebel Wilson Suffers Blow In Legal Fight With ‘The Deb’ Producers As Judge Guts Star’s Lawsuit
Rebel Wilson has been dealt a major blow in her sprawling legal battle with the British producers behind The Deb, her directorial debut.
LA Superior Court Judge Thomas Long tossed the majority of Wilson’s claims against Amanda Ghost, Gregor Cameron, and Vince Holden during a hearing this…
Eliza Scanlen, Edvin Ryding & Charlie Rowe Lead Psychological Drama ‘Let It Come Down’ From Norwegian Filmmaker Anna Fredrikke Bjerke
EXCLUSIVE: Norwegian filmmaker Anna Fredrikke Bjerke has wrapped production on her debut feature, Let It Come Down, a psychological drama starring Eliza Scanlen (Sharp Objects), Edvin Ryding (Young Royals), and Charlie Rowe (Jay Kelly).
Directed by Bjerke from a screenplay she also wrote, the film…
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Jodie Foster Says She Was “Saved” From Sexual Abuse In Hollywood Because Of Early Oscar Nomination
Jodie Foster has said that she managed to escape sexual misconduct in Hollywood because she accumulated power at a young age.
The Silence of the Lambs actress said her 1977 Oscar nomination for Taxi Driver, in which she played a teenage sex worker, likely “saved” her from predators in the…
BBC Studios Sales Boss Exiting
BBC Studios sales boss Janet Brown is exiting and the role is relocating to the UK.
Brown is the second senior BBC Studios bod based in the States to leave over the past few months following Rebecca Glashow, CEO of BBC Global Media & Streaming.
BBC Studios wants to relocate Brown’s role to…
Robert Downey Jr. & Timothée Chalamet Want To Make “Dunesday” A Thing
First came Barbenheimer, next up Dunesday?
At least that’s what Robert Downey Jr. & Timothée Chalamet would like to will into being when Dune: Part Three and Avengers: Doomsday premiere on December 18.
The actors appeared on stage together in LA on Wednesday for a special screening of Chalamet’s…
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Elon Musk’s X To Stop Grok From Creating Sexualized Images After Backlash
Elon Musk's X has bowed to pressure and will stop the Grok image tool from editing photos of real people in revealing clothing following backlash around the world.
X last night said that it has “implemented technological measures to prevent the Grok account from allowing the editing of images of real…
Agatha Christie For The Netflix Generation? Chris Chibnall & Mia McKenna-Bruce Say ‘Seven Dials’ Evokes Sean Connery’s Bond & ‘The Crown’
How do you serve up Agatha Christie to the Netflix generation?
This was the challenge laid at the foot of Broadchurch creator Chris Chibnall, The Tourist director Chris Sweeney and exec Suzanne Mackie (The Crown), who responded with a cinematic vision, evoking the Sean Connery James Bond Era…
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