www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/disney-to-release-4-fox-animated-features-but-the-future-of-blue-sky-in-question-173867.html

Disney has not announced any Blue Sky titles beyond Nimona in 2021, which creates uncertainty about how (or if) they will integrate the Greenwich, Connecticut-based Blue Sky into the Disney brand. The waiting game about the studio’s future will continue for the time being.

https://www.eurogamer.net/shadow-of-mordors-brilliant-nemesis-system-is-locked-away-by-a-warner-bros-patent-until-2036-despite-studio-shutdown

The Nemesis system, for those unfamiliar, is a clever in-game mechanic which tracks a player’s actions to create enemies that feel capable of remembering past encounters. In the studio’s Middle-earth games, this allowed foes to rise through the ranks and enact revenge.

The patent itself – which you can view here – was originally filed back in 2016, before it was granted in 2021. It is dubbed “Nemesis characters, nemesis forts, social vendettas and followers in computer games”. As it stands, the patent has an expiration date of 11th August, 2036.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/disneys-price-hikes-usher-in-era-of-the-not-so-cheap-ad-tier-1235200218/

“When Disney+’s ad tier launches, in December, it will cost U.S. customers $7.99 a month, the current price of the service’s ad-free tier. The price of the no-ads version will be hiked to $10.99.”

This is balanced out by the company’s plan to keep the rate of content spending for all its platforms at around $30 billion for the next few years and its measured revision of subscriber goals. “It now looks like Disney+ is tracking towards tightened and trimmed sub guidance, while the ad-supported tier + price increases + content rationalization = a much improved long-term profit outlook,” Wells Fargo analyst Steven Cahall wrote in an Aug. 11 note.

https://variety-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/variety.com/2017/biz/news/21st-century-fox-disney-sale-talks-stock-1202607912/amp/