Sources: Amazon plans to spend $1B+ per year to produce and release movies for theaters, starting with a few releases in 2023, and eventually 12 to 15 annually (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Amazon plans to spend $1B+ per year to produce and release movies for theaters, starting with a few releases in 2023, and eventually 12 to 15 annually  —  Amazon.com Inc. plans to spend more than $1 billion a year to produce movies that it will release in theaters …

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Analysis: Amazon is projected to spend ~$15B on programming including sports in 2022, ahead of Netflix’s $13.6B, Disney+’s $9.5B, and Apple’s $6B (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Analysis: Amazon is projected to spend ~$15B on programming including sports in 2022, ahead of Netflix’s $13.6B, Disney+’s $9.5B, and Apple’s $6B  —  Good afternoon from Los Angeles.  I am headed to Singapore and Seoul at the end of the month.  If there is anyone I should meet while I am there …

Using translation apps, dubbing software, and VPNs, some Chinese creators are getting millions of views for TikTok videos summarizing Hollywood movies and shows (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)

Viola Zhou / Rest of World:
Using translation apps, dubbing software, and VPNs, some Chinese creators are getting millions of views for TikTok videos summarizing Hollywood movies and shows  —  With machine translation, dubbing apps and VPNs, Chinese creators are shortening movies for Americans.

YouTube rolls out Primetime Channels in the US, with shows and movies from 35 partners, including Paramount+ and Epix, and plans to add NBA League Pass soon (David Pierce/The Verge)

David Pierce / The Verge:
YouTube rolls out Primetime Channels in the US, with shows and movies from 35 partners, including Paramount+ and Epix, and plans to add NBA League Pass soon  —  Streaming services are coming to YouTube.  The company is rolling out a new feature called Primetime Channels that will bring shows …

How Indonesia’s premium streaming video service Vidio is outperforming Netflix and Disney+ in terms of consumption in the world’s fourth most populous country (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
How Indonesia’s premium streaming video service Vidio is outperforming Netflix and Disney+ in terms of consumption in the world’s fourth most populous country  —  Good morning from Seoul, where I’ll spend the week trying to better understand how South Korea became a global hub of pop culture.

Sources detail Netflix’s internal debate over embracing theatrical releases for big-budget movies, something Ted Sarandos and Reed Hastings call a distraction (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)

Nicole Sperling / New York Times:
Sources detail Netflix’s internal debate over embracing theatrical releases for big-budget movies, something Ted Sarandos and Reed Hastings call a distraction  —  The company agreed to some exclusive theatrical distribution for “Glass Onion” and “Matilda the Musical,” but it’s not clear exhibitors will get much more.

Apple releases iOS 16.1, iPadOS 16.1, and macOS Ventura, with iCloud Shared Photo Library, Continuity Camera, Stage Manager for the Mac and the iPad, and more (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch)

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Apple releases iOS 16.1, iPadOS 16.1, and macOS Ventura, with iCloud Shared Photo Library, Continuity Camera, Stage Manager for the Mac and the iPad, and more  —  Apple has released iOS 16.1, iPad OS 16.1 and macOS 13, as it announced it would do last week.