Cordkillers 575: Your AI Slop is Disney’s Future
Disney is exploring user-generated AI content on Disney+, raising questions about how far they're willing to open their walled garden. Meanwhile, trailers, renewals, and big franchise moves fill out a packed week of streaming news.
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Supply Run
Disney CEO Bob Iger says Disney+ will let users create and consume mostly short-form user-generated content, potentially including AI-generated videos and games.
Search Party
Fallout Season 2 premieres December 17 on Prime Video.
Hearst Network ordered a generative-AI-assisted history series, Streets of the Past.
Apple Books released an excerpt from Bloodsong of Wycaro, the fourth Pluribus novel.
Starting in 2026, all MLS matches will be included with an Apple TV subscription at no extra cost.
A new Star Trek film is in development outside the Kelvin timeline and not tied to previous series.
Alien: Earth renewed for Season 2; production shifting to London.
Shōgun Season 2 begins production in January in Vancouver.
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters returns February 27 on Apple TV+.
Sony is developing a film franchise based on the Chinese brand Labubu.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie trailer introduces Rosalina.
Jake Paul will fight Anthony Joshua on December 19, streaming live on Netflix.
Comcast is reviving NBC Sports as a cable channel, launching first on YouTube TV.
MSNBC has rebranded as MS Now and is leaving Peacock for its own apps.
Nintendo shared first-look images from the live-action Legend of Zelda movie.
Buried Treasure
Brian: Death by Lightning
Tom: Death by Lightning
Scanning the Horizon
Disney and YouTube TV reached a new deal restoring channels and enabling ESPN Unlimited authentication.
Disney reported 195.7 million combined Disney+ and Hulu subscriptions, up 12.4 million from last quarter.
Netflix launched party games playable on TV using phones as controllers.
Rep. Darrell Issa raised antitrust concerns about a possible Netflix acquisition of HBO Max.
Tubi is expanding its slate of creator-driven originals.
Roger Rabbit creator Gary K. Wolf says rights to the characters have reverted to him under copyright termination.