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China’s micro-drama industry has exploded into a $9.4B market in 2025 — surpassing the country’s domestic box office for...
09/17/2025

China’s micro-drama industry has exploded into a $9.4B market in 2025 — surpassing the country’s domestic box office for the first time. With 830M viewers and premium micro-dramas now rivaling traditional TV and film, this short-form format is proving it’s more than a fad. The question now: how soon before the U.S. market, already nearing $1B, follows suit?

Micro-dramas — the bite-sized serialized vertical dramas that have exploded across Asia — are no longer a niche experiment. According to a new report from

BREAKING: StageRunner has the exclusive first look at Netflix’s $1.2B Film Studio in New Jersey. The new renderings reve...
09/16/2025

BREAKING: StageRunner has the exclusive first look at Netflix’s $1.2B Film Studio in New Jersey. The new renderings reveal a 300-acre Fort Monmouth campus with 12 soundstages, backlots, and restored historic buildings — a project set to create thousands of jobs and permanently reshape the East Coast production landscape.

StageRunner has obtained exclusive new renderings of Netflix’s ambitious $1.2 billion production campus at Fort Monmouth — the streamer’s bid to create a

MrBeast just landed a $15M grant from North Carolina — nearly half of the state’s entire annual incentive fund — to film...
09/14/2025

MrBeast just landed a $15M grant from North Carolina — nearly half of the state’s entire annual incentive fund — to film season two of Beast Games. It’s one of the largest single-state grants in recent memory and underscores how creator-led projects are starting to compete head-on with Hollywood tentpoles.

Jimmy Donaldson, better known to his 434 million YouTube subscribers as MrBeast, has landed one of the largest single-state grants in recent memory to

David Ellison just grabbed Paramount and now he’s eyeing Warner Bros. Discovery — and if it happens, Hollywood will neve...
09/12/2025

David Ellison just grabbed Paramount and now he’s eyeing Warner Bros. Discovery — and if it happens, Hollywood will never look the same. HBO, CNN, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Batman, Friends, Yellowstone, South Park… all under one roof? This could completely rewrite the power map of the industry.

David Ellison is wasting no time. Fresh off closing his $8 billion takeover of Paramount, the Skydance CEO is already eyeing an even bigger swing: Warner

EXCLUSIVE: Production assistants on HBO MAX TV’s The Pitt have unanimously voted to unionize, marking the first time sup...
09/09/2025

EXCLUSIVE: Production assistants on HBO MAX TV’s The Pitt have unanimously voted to unionize, marking the first time support staffers on a major TV series have secured collective bargaining rights. The move, backed by LiUNA Local 724, signals a potential turning point for PAs across Hollywood seeking fair wages, benefits, and career pathways.

Production assistants on HBO Max’s medical drama The Pitt have voted unanimously to unionize, marking a historic first for support staffers on a major

California has supercharged its film and TV tax credit program, expanding to $750M and driving a 400% surge in productio...
09/08/2025

California has supercharged its film and TV tax credit program, expanding to $750M and driving a 400% surge in production applications. The move is already bringing shows back to Los Angeles soundstages, offering a much-needed boost to an industry still battling runaway production and global competition--

California’s decision to more than double its annual film and TV tax credit program is already paying off. The Golden State’s $750 million expansion, up

‘Schitt’s Creek’ EP Andrew Barnsley is building a $50M film and TV studio in Newfoundland, Canada. His goal is to give t...
09/04/2025

‘Schitt’s Creek’ EP Andrew Barnsley is building a $50M film and TV studio in Newfoundland, Canada. His goal is to give the province world-class infrastructure so its talent, crews, and stunning locations can compete on the global production stage.

Before Schitt’s Creek executive producer Andrew Barnsley became one of Canada’s most celebrated TV producers, he remembers a piece of advice from his

'I, Robot' director Alex Proyas says Hollywood’s “broken” system can be rebuilt with the help of AI, which he believes w...
09/03/2025

'I, Robot' director Alex Proyas says Hollywood’s “broken” system can be rebuilt with the help of AI, which he believes will lower costs and give filmmakers more creative control. His upcoming film RUR is using AI-driven virtual production to cut budgets dramatically while keeping human vision at the center of the process.

Australian filmmaker Alex Proyas, the director behind cult favorites The Crow, Dark City and the Will Smith sci-fi hit I, Robot, believes artificial

MGM Alternative TV, the unscripted division behind Survivor, The Voice, and Shark Tank, is being folded into Amazon MGM ...
09/03/2025

MGM Alternative TV, the unscripted division behind Survivor, The Voice, and Shark Tank, is being folded into Amazon MGM Studios under Vernon Sanders. The move streamlines Amazon’s scripted and unscripted operations, positioning the company to expand its leadership in reality and alternative programming.

MGM Alternative Television, the unscripted production division behind Survivor and The Voice, is officially being integrated into the larger Amazon MGM

California just made its biggest play yet to reclaim the crown as the entertainment capital of the world. With $256 mill...
08/27/2025

California just made its biggest play yet to reclaim the crown as the entertainment capital of the world. With $256 million in new tax credits fueling 22 productions — from Seth Rogen’s The Studio to Larry David’s new HBO series — the state is projecting more than $1.1 billion in economic impact and thousands of jobs for cast, crew, and background performers. After years of watching runaway production, Hollywood is officially getting some production back on home turf.

Apple TV+’s The Studio and a new Larry David project for HBO headline the first wave of productions receiving subsidies under California’s newly expanded

Indie banner Turnover XXV is building a brand-new film studio in Teesside, inside the U.K.’s first Freeport-based facili...
08/26/2025

Indie banner Turnover XXV is building a brand-new film studio in Teesside, inside the U.K.’s first Freeport-based facility. Think of it as a regional launchpad designed to shoot up to five feature films a year, nurture new talent, and bring global productions into one of Britain’s fastest-growing creative hubs.

The push to expand studio infrastructure in the U.K. is moving north. Indie film company Turnover XXV has unveiled plans for a new production facility in

The Taylor Sheridan-verse is officially staking its claim in Texas. With four major series — including a new Yellowstone...
08/22/2025

The Taylor Sheridan-verse is officially staking its claim in Texas. With four major series — including a new Yellowstone spinoff, Landman, The Madison, and Lioness — now filming out of his new 450,000-square-foot Fort Worth studio, Sheridan is transforming the Lone Star State into Hollywood’s newest production hub.

FORT WORTH, TX – The Taylor Sheridan-verse is expanding faster than a Texas horizon. In a major development that underscores the writer-director’s

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