🛒 Rumors surface regarding potential sale of Imax
Imax Corporation has declined to comment on media reports regarding a potential sale of the business, which triggered a sharp spike in the company’s stock price, surging nearly 11%.
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▶️ Disney+ sharply closes market share gap with Netflix in the US
At the close of the first quarter of 2026, the streaming service Disney+ recorded the strongest year-on-year market share growth in the United States. According to a report by the market aggregation platform JustWatch, the service has closed in on industry leaders Netflix and Prime Video.
🛸 The Force awakens in theaters
The box office debut of The Mandalorian & Grogu—the first Star Wars theatrical release in seven years—gave executives at Disney and Lucasfilm an initial scare.
😱 Paramount-WBD merger threatens market collapse
The potential merger of media giants Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) threatens to trigger a catastrophe for the American entertainment market. Industry experts and financial analysts are sounding the alarm.
🌴 Cannes Film Festival crowns its winners
The 79th Cannes International Film Festival has come to a close. The festival’s highest honor—the Palme d’Or—was awarded to Romanian director Cristian Mungiu for his film Fjord. The feature marks the director’s English-language debut and stars Renate Reinsve and Sebastian Stan.
⚽️ Streaming shifts focus to sports
Sports broadcasting is rapidly becoming one of the cornerstone pillars of the content strategies driving the world’s major video streaming services (SVoD).
📆 Paramount-WBD merger could close as early as July
The landmark acquisition of media giant Warner Bros. Discovery by Paramount could close significantly ahead of market expectations. Defying forecasts by most analysts who had anticipated a late-September timeline, industry circles are now pointing to a mid-summer resolution.
🎦 Michael tops South Korean box office
The musical biopic Michael, chronicling the life of Michael Jackson, effortlessly seized the lead in the South Korean film market. Over the weekend of May 15–17, 2026, the feature claimed the number-one spot at the box office, capturing more than half of the country’s total theatrical revenue.
🤑 5 "golden" content niches defined for FAST TV
For rights holders, content creators, and broadcasters alike, the era of launching “just another channel” has come to a close. Today, the ultimate key to success in the FAST (Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV) market lies in deploying the right, hyper-focused niche project.
〽️ Chinese box office plummeted by nearly half
The past weekend at the Chinese box office brought no change at the top of the charts. According to the consulting firm Artisan Gateway, the family drama Dear You, produced by Jinant Film & TV, firmly maintained its number-one position.