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MPA And TikTok Owner Reach Agreement On Curbing IP Use In Deepfakes

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The Motion Picture Association said that it had reached an agreement with TikTok owner ByteDance on a restriction framework over the use of studio intellectual property in AI video and images.

The agreement follows a cease and desist letter that the trade association fired off in February to ByteDance over its use of IP in Seedream 5.0 Lite and Seedance 2.0. Users were prompting the Chinese AI tool to repurpose copyrighted material from major studios, including a video in which Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt are fighting.

MPA Chairman Charles Rivkin said in a statement, “For the past several months, we have had constructive engagement with ByteDance to implement meaningful guardrails on Seedance and Seedream, and this MOU reflects our shared determination to continue our work together to further fortify those guardrails.”

The agreement applies to image models provided by TikTok, the TikTok USDS Joint Venture, CapCut and Dreamina, per the MPA. The trade association said that recent launches of Seedream 5.0 Pro and Seedance 2.5 have shown ByteDance’s “continued advances in IP protections.”

John Rogovin, the general counsel for ByteDance, said in a statement, “This MOU establishes an important framework for continued collaboration as the technology evolves, across a variety of products and platforms.”

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‘The Terminal List’ Reveals Season 2 Premiere Date & First-Look Photos

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Prime Video‘s The Terminal List is kick-starting promotions for Season 2 with a set of first-look photos featuring Chris Pratt as James Reece (above and below). All eight episodes will premiere on Wednesday, October 21.

From the best-selling novels by Jack Carr of the same name, The Terminal List centers on Navy SEAL Commander James Reece as he battles unknown conspiratorial forces seeking to upend the world order.

Season 2 comes from Carr’s second novel, True Believer, where he puts Reece on a journey of violent redemption, finding a new purpose after finishing his list. The psychological revenge story of Season 1 expands into a globe-trotting espionage thriller, taking Reece across the Indian Ocean, Southern and Northern Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.

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Joined by returning fan favorites like Raife Hastings (Tom Hopper), Katie Buranek (Constance Wu), Mohammed Farooq (Dar Salim), Jules Landry (Luke Hemsworth), and newcomer Freddy Strain (Gabriel Luna), Reece will uncover a conspiracy that reaches from Moscow to Langley and ties into his own family’s history.

The cast also includes Costa Ronin, Olga Kurylenko, Yul Vazquez, Martin Sensmeier, Arnold Vosloo, and Shiraz Tzarfati.

The Terminal List is executive produced by Chris Pratt through Indivisible Productions, writer and showrunner David DiGilio, author Jack Carr, Antoine Fuqua and Kat Samick through Fuqua Films, former Army Ranger and writer Max Adams, and former Navy SEAL, writer, actor, and technical advisor Jared Shaw. The series is produced by Amazon MGM Studios, MRC, and Civic Center Media.

Additional photos can be seen below.

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DramaBox Sets Brazilian Series From Cimarron & Three Colombian Shows

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EXCLUSIVE: DramaBox is going deeper into the Latin American verticals world.

We can reveal the microdrama platform has put into production a Brazilian series starring telenovela actor Duda Reis with regional production powerhouse Cimarrón and is rolling out a trio of productions from Colombia: Mi Barco del Amor Zarpó Sin Ti, Besando al Hermano Equivocado and Soy la Novia de mi Peor Enemigo.

The Brazilian show has begun filming in São Paolo with Cimarrón’s Diego Robino and Lourenço Sant’Anna producing. A Q4 release date has been slated.

Production details are scarce, but will star Reis, whose credits include TV Globo’s telenovelas Vai na Fé, Vale Tudo and Coração Acelerado, and Flávio Leming, whose has acted in the likes of Record’s series Reis and Se Eu Fosse Você 3.

We understand it follows a woman who marries a stranger, not knowing he is the billionaire who destroyed her past.

Cimarrón’s Star+’s titles include Star+’s Impuros, Amazon Prime Video’s September Mornings and Dom, and Society of the Snow, which was a Netflix co-production nominated for an Academy Award in 2024. The company produced 17 titles across Latin American in 2025. Sant’Anna is also known for I’m Still Here, the Brazilian feature film that won the Oscar for Best International Feature Film last year, while Robino produced Netflix’s The Two Popes, which received three Academy Award nominations in 2020.

For DramaBox, the microdrama app that’s been downloaded more than 460 million times since launch in 2023, the production is part of a wider expansion into Brazil. With microdrama production much shorter than regular TV series, DramaBoz recently released its first Brazilian original, has another scheduled to launch late this month and two others are in post-production.

Colombian expansion

A similar expansion is ongoing in Colombia, where three titles are debuting this month, each of which was developed with Willy Barragán’s Dos Ke Tres Films.

Mi Barco del Amor Zarpó Sin Ti dropped on August 4 and stars Mattias Vega, Laura Cano, Johanna Fadul and Jose Luis Uribe Ochoa, while Besando al Hermano Equivocado goes live on Monday (August 17), with Eros Castillo, Karol Saavedra, Alejandra Tejada and Miguel Ángel Ramos leading the cast.

The third, Soy la Novia de mi Peor Enemigo, premieres on August 27.

Mi Barco del Amor… follows a woman trapped in a loveless marriage who discovers that her husband still loves his ex-girlfriend, then files for divorce and revives her career as a fashion designer, while Besando al Hermano Equivocado sees a woman ending up romantically involved with the wrong brother after an unexpected mix-up. Soy la Novia de Mi Peor Enemigo follows a sassy young woman who makes a one-night mistake with her childhood nemesis, and then team ups with him annoy their exes

“Directing for DramaBox has been a deeply enriching experience,” said Barragán. “The vertical format allows for an immediate, intense connection with the audience, and the support from producer John Lozada and the entire team has been exemplary. I am grateful for the trust DramaBox placed in us and look forward to our future collaborations.”

This comes after DramaBox launched its first Colombian original, Su Amor Fue una Mentira, which was from Albereda Films and directed by Felipe Paredes.

“Colombia possesses an extraordinary pool of talent, and these productions are a testament to that,” said Marcela Kartaszewicz, Head of Comms at DramaBox. “Each show brings a distinct voice to the vertical format while delivering the intense emotion and strong character performances our audience craves. We are proud to expand our presence in the country by partnering with local creators who master this fast-paced, immersive format.”

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A New Search For Barack Obama’s Tan Suit

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There’s a special anniversary coming up on August 28: It’ll be 12 years since Barack Obama wore a tan suit to a press conference at the White House, creating a sartorial stir that has since become an ongoing joke about what generated controversy back then vs. the chaos of today.

What’s a mystery is just what happened to the suit. The Chicago Sun-Times and its former Washington bureau chief Lynn Sweet are launching “Pursuit of the Suit,” an effort to track down just what happened to the outfit.

The suit has been even more in the spotlight lately with the opening of the Barack Obama Presidential Center, as some attendees paid homage by wearing their own, and Stephen Colbert, in one of his final shows, queried the former president on whether it was in the museum. It is not.

More recently, Obama and Larry David spoofed the 2014 suit controversy in a skit for the HBO series Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness, but a replica of the tan outfit was created.

Sweet, now special correspondent, wrote in a column published on Monday, “This is more than hunting for a needle in a haystack. I don’t even know where the haystack is.

“I wasn’t sure at first how to proceed. It’s not like the suit was taxpayer-funded traceable public property or an official gift that had to be transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration upon leaving office.”

What Sweet did find is that the suit was made by Martin Greenfield, who was a prisoner at Auschwitz who first sewed when he was there, repairing the torn shirt of an SS soldier. Greenfield, who died in 2024, became a famous tailor in New York.

Sweet covered Obama’s rise, from the Senate to the campaign to the White House and afterward, including the long development of the new presidential center. She spotted Obama wearing the color before, in 2006, but didn’t think to write about it. Valerie Jarrett, the CEO of the Obama Foundation, told her that Obama “gave it away when he was cleaning out his closet.” So it’s a bit vague as to what happened to it.

There is a replica that was made for the Larry David series by designer Christina Mongini, Sweet reported.

But right now there are few clues as to where the suit is, and the Sun-Times is taking tips at tansuit@suntimes.com. In the meantime, Sweet plans to update in print, digital and video, as well as to also shed light on what the “uproar over the suit means in 2026.”

In the recent Larry David skit, Obama is convinced to wear the tan suit to a press conference. David, who recommended it, predicts, glowingly, “People are going to be talking about this for a long, long time.”

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