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Warner Bros. Discovery puts itself up for sale, citing interest from ‘multiple’ suitors
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/21/media/warner-bros-wbd-sale-paramount-skydance-suitors
Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent of CNN, is contemplating a sale. … …
Financial and stock performance
- Market Valuation: As of late October 2025, the market cap is approximately $45.36 to $50.37 billion.
- Profitability: The company has a low net margin of around 2% and a low operating margin of 2.5%, indicating profitability challenges.
- Valuation Ratios: The P/E ratio is high at around 61.07, while the P/S ratio is 1.18 and P/B ratio is 1.26, which are near historical highs.
- Growth: The 3-year revenue growth rate is negative at -4.4%, and the company’s Altman Z-Score is in the distress zone at 0.76.
Analyst ratings and market sentiment
- Consensus Rating: The average rating is a “Hold,” based on analyst coverage.
- Analyst Breakdown: Out of 24 analysts, 16 have a “Hold,” 7 have a “Buy,” and 1 has a “Strong Buy” rating.
- Stock Performance: The stock price has surged more than 46% since early September 2025, following reports of interest from other companies.
Strategic review and future outlook
- Strategic Review: The company is exploring “strategic alternatives,” including a potential sale, which has led to interest from potential buyers like Paramount.
- Asset Value: The interest in Warner Bros. Discovery underscores the value of its diverse portfolio, which includes its film and TV studios, HBO Max, and cable networks.
- Separation Plan: A plan to separate the company into a streaming/studios entity and a cable counterpart is still being considered.
- No Guarantee: A sale is not guaranteed and the company has not provided a specific timeline for the review process.
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Adobe buys InvokeAI and launches Adobe AI Foundry
https://mlq.ai/news/adobe-stock-rises-following-launch-of-adobe-ai-foundry/
https://theaieconomy.substack.com/p/adobe-ai-foundry-invoke-acquisition
Adobe is announcing the acquisition of Invoke, a generative media solution for creative production. The startup’s team will join the AI Foundry to build out AI-powered creative workflows for businesses.
“AI Foundry unites years of Adobe innovation and expertise, spanning our generative AI models and modalities, to help businesses solve today’s most complex content and media production challenges,” Hannah Elsakr, Adobe’s vice president for GenAI new business ventures, says in a release.
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DeepBeepMeep – AI solutions specifically optimized for low spec GPUs
https://huggingface.co/DeepBeepMeep
https://github.com/deepbeepmeep
Wan2GP – A fast AI Video Generator for the GPU Poor. Supports Wan 2.1/2.2, Qwen Image, Hunyuan Video, LTX Video and Flux.
mmgp – Memory Management for the GPU Poor, run the latest open source frontier models on consumer Nvidia GPUs.
YuEGP – Open full-song generation foundation that transforms lyrics into complete songs.
HunyuanVideoGP – Large video generation model optimized for low-VRAM GPUs.
FluxFillGP – Flux-based inpainting and outpainting tool for low-VRAM GPUs.
Cosmos1GP – Text-to-world and image/video-to-world generator for the GPU Poor.
Hunyuan3D-2GP – GPU-friendly version of Hunyuan3D-2 for 3D content generation.
OminiControlGP – Lightweight version of OminiControl enabling 3D, pose, and control tasks with FLUX.
SageAttention – Quantized attention achieving 2.1–3.1× and 2.7–5.1× speedups over FlashAttention2 and xformers without losing end-to-end accuracy.
insightface – State-of-the-art 2D and 3D face analysis project for recognition, detection, and alignment.
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AnimationXpress.com interviews Daniele Tosti for TheCgCareer.com channel
You’ve been in the VFX Industry for over a decade. Tell us about your journey.
It all started with my older brother giving me a Commodore64 personal computer as a gift back in the late 80′. I realised then I could create something directly from my imagination using this new digital media format. And, eventually, make a living in the process.
That led me to start my professional career in 1990. From live TV to games to animation. All the way to live action VFX in the recent years.I really never stopped to crave to create art since those early days. And I have been incredibly fortunate to work with really great talent along the way, which made my journey so much more effective.
What inspired you to pursue VFX as a career?
An incredible combination of opportunities, really. The opportunity to express myself as an artist and earn money in the process. The opportunity to learn about how the world around us works and how best solve problems. The opportunity to share my time with other talented people with similar passions. The opportunity to grow and adapt to new challenges. The opportunity to develop something that was never done before. A perfect storm of creativity that fed my continuous curiosity about life and genuinely drove my inspiration.
Tell us about the projects you’ve particularly enjoyed working on in your career
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Types of Film Lights and their efficiency – CRI, Color Temperature and Luminous Efficacy
nofilmschool.com/types-of-film-lights
“Not every light performs the same way. Lights and lighting are tricky to handle. You have to plan for every circumstance. But the good news is, lighting can be adjusted. Let’s look at different factors that affect lighting in every scene you shoot. “
Use CRI, Luminous Efficacy and color temperature controls to match your needs.
Color Temperature
Color temperature describes the “color” of white light by a light source radiated by a perfect black body at a given temperature measured in degrees Kelvinhttps://www.pixelsham.com/2019/10/18/color-temperature/
CRI
“The Color Rendering Index is a measurement of how faithfully a light source reveals the colors of whatever it illuminates, it describes the ability of a light source to reveal the color of an object, as compared to the color a natural light source would provide. The highest possible CRI is 100. A CRI of 100 generally refers to a perfect black body, like a tungsten light source or the sun. “https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-color-rendering-index
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