Disney's 90-second Mickey Mouse and Bluey crossover isn't just cute content—it's the legacy entertainment giant publicly acknowledging that an Australian public broadcaster created the most culturally dominant IP in young family viewing.
John Lithgow almost walked away from playing Dumbledore in HBO's Harry Potter series because of fan backlash. When actors fear comparison more than the role itself, legacy casting has become a creative trap.
Judy Greer and Kara Swisher's SXSW conversation revealed that Hollywood's AI fears are really about a much older problem: an industry that already treated aging women as replaceable.
Microsoft and Merlin Entertainments are investing $70 million to build Minecraft World at Chessington World Adventures in 2027 — a deal that confirms gaming IP now commands the same real-world infrastructure investment as film franchises.
Director Valerie Veatch found racism in AI's output and eugenics logic in its design—a system built on the premise that some creative work, and some workers, are obsolete by design.
An Oscar-winning filmmaker has been recruited to direct a Vogue documentary. After decades of controlled access, Anna Wintour is betting that opening the archive is worth more than guarding it.
California's $750 million tax credit program just funded its first game show and animation projects, revealing how streaming's format explosion has made traditional television categories obsolete.
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping entire industries, from finance to media to healthcare, with significant breakthroughs accelerating within the past few months alone. The art world will be no exception, as AI could offer boundless potential, from helping art businesses operate more effic
Miley Cyrus returned to Hannah Montana after 20 years — not for Disney's nostalgia play, but to reclaim the character on her own terms. Child stars are finally rewriting their origin stories, and the studios that profited from them are losing control of the narrative.
The Spice Girls officially disbanded in 2000 and last performed together publicly at the Olympics closing ceremony in London in 2012.
Sarah Soda is a character actress hiding in plain sight on TikTok — with 1.3 million followers, 26 million likes, and no representation. She sat down with Tinsel’s Daniel de Castellane for a Tinsel Exclusive.
Radiohead are gearing up to play 20 shows per year on different continents in the coming years, guitarist Ed O’Brien told Rolling Stone in an interview published late Monday, with the group’s 20 European shows last year apparently being the first in the plan. “It’s definitely happening,” O’Brien sai
Writers Guild of America East members at CBS News 24/7 walked out after their contract expired with no agreement. The real story is how legacy media companies are using streaming services to build parallel newsrooms with weaker labor protections.
Hulu renewed Paradise for Season 3 before the Season 2 finale, signaling streaming's new confidence in Dan Fogelman's long-term brand value after This Is Us proved prestige family drama pays dividends years after launch.
Wanted, the Broadway musical about Black twin sisters who passed as white in 1893 Texas, opens this fall. The question is whether theater can tell their story without turning survival into spectacle.
Bob Iger built Disney into a $200 billion empire through transformative M&A deals. But the conglomerate he leaves behind is too big to innovate and too valuable to break up — a structural problem no successor can solve.
