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Major studios, streamers and creator-led companies are moving into short vertical dramas, a format once treated as a social-video sideshow but now drawing serious investment.
Phone-native creators are being watched more closely by agents, studios and producers as vertical storytelling starts to influence mainstream development.
The singer says the Universal-backed project, once set to star Julia Garner under her own direction, fell apart over money and creative authorship, with even a cost-cutting shoot in Serbia failing to save it.
A reported research partnership between A24 and Google DeepMind has stirred fan backlash and sharpened questions about how prestige studios should handle AI tools.
The former England captain was honoured in Los Angeles by wife Victoria Beckham and longtime friend Tom Cruise, as the city geared up for the World Cup.
Music and celebrity biopics may frustrate critics, but estate-approved versions of famous lives are proving increasingly useful to studios hunting reliable box office.