Paramount Boss Promises 45-Day Theatrical, 90-Day TVOD Movie Windows Before Streaming
Paramount CEO David Ellison is pledging 45-day windows for the company’s theatrical releases, in addition to a subsequent 90-day transactional VOD window before streaming movies on Paramount+. Ellison, who is trying to nail down industry support for Paramount’s $110.9 billion equity acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, made the promises while attending the CinemaCon confab in … Continue reading “Paramount Boss Promises 45-Day Theatrical, 90-Day TVOD Movie Windows Before Streaming”
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The Hong Kong crime thriller Under Current will be released on Blu-ray Disc April 28. In the film, when the director of a charity organization (Simon Yam) dies mysteriously, a lawyer (Aaron Kwok), who was close to him, teams up with a police officer (Francis Ng) to investigate. Uncovering layers of deceit, the lawyer must … 
In the growing fragmented world of content access across streaming services, legacy and virtual multichannel video program distribution’s aggregated access to content is winning over consumers. New data from Parks Associates (in partnership with Philo) found that 33% of online TV customers continue to subscribe because they can find more of the content they want … 
Paramount Skydance CEO and the company’s PR team April 13 responded to an open Hollywood letter released earlier in the day and signed by more than 1,000 signatories that called the media giant’s pending $110.9 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery bad for business and consumers. Paramount said it understood the concerns, including protecting the … 
Universal/Illumination/Nickelodeon’s The Super Mario Galaxy Movie didn’t disappoint, adding $69 million in second weekend North American weekend ticket sales through April 12, upping the sequel to 2023’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie domestic gross to $308 million and $629 million globally. “Galaxy” is the top-grossing theatrical release in 2026, moving ahead of Amazon MGM Studios’ sci-fi … 
LAS VEGAS – CinemaCon, the annual conference and trade show for the motion picture theater, opens here April 13 – ironically, the same day StreamTV Europe, a precursor to the June StreamTV Show in Denver, opens in Lisbon, Portugal. Theatrical exhibitors, for whom the buck literally stops the moment a movie leaves the big screen, … 
HBO has renewed the “Rooster” for a second season, citing strong viewership from early episodes of the comedy series. According to HBO, the first four episodes of the first season, which premiered March 8, averaged 5.8 million U.S. viewers, making it the network’s most-watched freshmen comedy in more than a decade. The 10 episode-first season … 
Comcast’s Xfinity premium television platform April 9 added Disney+, Hulu bundle and HBO Max to its discounted “StreamStore” market that already includes Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV available to Xfinity TV and Internet customers. Customers can select combinations of three, four or even all five apps to create one of eight streaming entertainment bundles. The … 
Lionsgate’s The Housemaid remained No. 1 on the DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group’s top 10 digital sales and rentals chart provided by GfK Entertainment for the week ended March 29. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, the film from director Paul Feig stars Sydney Sweeney as an ex-con who is surprisingly hired as … 
Radial Entertainment is making the dystopian sci-fi series “Snowpiercer” available to watch on several of the top ad-supported streaming platforms. The first three seasons are now available on Roku, Pluto TV, Tubi and Plex, and will be available on The CW starting in mid-April. Season four will be available this summer. Based on the 2013 …