🏴☠️ Piracy in Russia is on the decline
The market for illegal video content in Russia shrank by 5.5% in 2025, falling to 34.4 million dollars.
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🔪 Scream 7 is breaking records
David Ellison’s new Paramount empire has yet another reason to celebrate. While Hollywood is busy dissecting the Warner Bros. Discovery takeover, horror sequel Scream 7 is delivering the best preview opening in franchise history with 7.8 million dollars, beating the sixth film’s 5.7 million and proving the slasher genre is largely immune to bad reviews.
🔥 Olympics 2026 set historic viewing records across Europe
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has released its viewership report for the 2026 Winter Olympics, showing that the Games were the most successful ever for many public broadcasters, with hundreds of millions of viewers watching free-to-air and delivering record market shares on both TV and digital platforms.
🎵 Suno conquers the market
The AI music-generation platform Suno has hit a historic milestone, with the number of paying users surpassing 2 million and annual revenue exceeding 300 million dollars.
🎞 Law on “protecting traditional values” in film comes into force
A new law has come into force under which films that “deny or disparage traditional Russian spiritual and moral values” will no longer be able to obtain a distribution certificate.
💄 SHOT TV refreshes its image
The SHOT TV channel has unveiled a rebrand, switching to a new visual style from 1 March 2026. This is not just a logo change but a statement of intent to move into the premium movie-channel segment.
🧠 Soyuzmultfilm aims for metaverses and AI
The legendary studio has approved a development strategy that will transform it into a global brand holding, where animation becomes just one part of a broader ecosystem and the main goal is to build product universes around each character.
🍾 2026 César winners receive their awards
The 51st César Awards have named their winners: Karin Tardieu’s drama L’attachement was crowned Best Film of the year, while Richard Linklater officially conquered France by taking home the Best Director prize.
👧 Zoomers want caring dads on screen
Generations Z and Alpha (ages 10–24) are tired of grim, lone‑wolf superheroes. According to UCLA’s Teens & Screens report, young audiences in the U.S. want to see not world‑saving, but expressions of fatherly love and emotional closeness.
🔥 Olympics on Okko draws 8 million viewers
The 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan made history for Russian broadcasting: for the first time, exclusive rights belonged not to TV channels, but to streaming service Okko.