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Liverpool City Council’s planning committee has approved plans to transform the iconic former Littlewoods building in Liverpool into a film and TV studio and campus.

Disney’s SVP of Original Content for EMEA Liam Keelan is leaving the company after nearly five years in the role.

Freely, the new live streaming platform from the UK’s public broadcasters, has secured a distribution deal with Amazon Fire TV.

Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, has announced the generative AI model Meta Movie Gen, which allows users to create image, video and audio clips from text prompts.

World Rugby has extended its partnership with Host Broadcast Services (HBS) to produce the host broadcast for the men’s and women’s Rugby World Cup events until 2029.

FC3 (the Framestore and Company 3 Group) has appointed David Kassler as Group Chief Executive Officer.

Lisa Opie has been confirmed as the Chair of industry skills body ScreenSkills, to support “sustainable careers” in the UK’s film and TV industry.

CNN is starting to ask some of its visitors to pay $3.99 a month for access to its news website. The news organisation said it is introducing the paywall to help pay for CNN’s journalism around the world.

The Film and TV Charity has released headline data that shows mental health is worsening compared to 2022 survey results. The data comes from more than 4,300 film, TV, and cinema workers responding to its 2024 Looking Glass Survey, the industry’s biggest and most robust dataset on this topic.

Communications giant AT&T has agreed to sell its remaining 70% stake in US pay-TV firm DirecTV to private equity outfit TPG Partners for $7.6bn.