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Chinese Drama ‘Youth’ Due on Blu-ray Disc Nov. 25 From BayView Entertainment 0

Chinese Drama ‘Youth’ Due on Blu-ray Disc Nov. 25 From BayView Entertainment

BayView Entertainment will release the Chinese drama Youth on Blu-ray Disc Nov. 25. In the film, performing art troupe members each face their own trials and tribulations. From escaping a family scandal to dealing with unrequited love, each experiences rejection that shapes their lives in this coming-of-age tale. From legendary director Feng Xiaogang, Youth was … Continue reading “Chinese Drama ‘Youth’ Due on Blu-ray Disc Nov. 25 From BayView Entertainment”

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Xumo Touts MOOHA Brand Study, Including 24% Ad Recall 0

Xumo Touts MOOHA Brand Study, Including 24% Ad Recall

Xumo, the consumer electronics, digital distribution joint venture between cable giants Charter Communications and Comcast, said it saw a 24% uptick in ad recall and 21% increase in brand awareness following a media campaign with the Moving Out of Home Association (MOOHA), a division of marketing industry association, the DPAA. The study analyzed responses from … Continue reading “Xumo Touts MOOHA Brand Study, Including 24% Ad Recall”

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Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘A House of Dynamite’ Remains Atop Netflix Weekly Streaming Through Nov. 2 0

Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘A House of Dynamite’ Remains Atop Netflix Weekly Streaming Through Nov. 2

Netflix’s dramatic thriller A House of Dynamite from Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, and written by Noah Oppenheim (Zero Day), continues to resonate with streamers, generating 31.6 million views globally to rank No. 1 overall for the second week, including on the platform’s English-language movie chart through Nov. 2. The second season of adult romance “Nobody … Continue reading “Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘A House of Dynamite’ Remains Atop Netflix Weekly Streaming Through Nov. 2”

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‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ Tops Weekly Fandango at Home Chart Through Nov. 2 0

‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ Tops Weekly Fandango at Home Chart Through Nov. 2

Boosted by Halloween, The Conjuring: Last Rites returned to lead the chart of the top 10 titles on Fandango’s transactional digital service Fandango at Home for the week ended Nov. 2. The horror film from New Line Cinema and Warner Bros, available for premium digital rental and sale starting Oct. 7, delivers another chapter of the … Continue reading “‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ Tops Weekly Fandango at Home Chart Through Nov. 2”

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Paramount’s ‘Regretting You’ Tops Dismal Halloween Weekend Box Office 0

Paramount’s ‘Regretting You’ Tops Dismal Halloween Weekend Box Office

Paramount Pictures’ mother/daughter drama Regretting You could have been about the lack of moviegoers over the Halloween weekend box office. The movie’s second-weekend box office tally hovered around $8.1 million, edging out the third weekend offering of Universal/Blumhouse sequel Black Phone 2 at $8 million. Netflix’s re-release of Sony Pictures Animation’s KPop Demon Hunters finished … Continue reading “Paramount’s ‘Regretting You’ Tops Dismal Halloween Weekend Box Office”

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Samba TV: ‘The Perfect Neighbor’ Tops Weekly Streaming Viewership Through Oct. 26 0

Samba TV: ‘The Perfect Neighbor’ Tops Weekly Streaming Viewership Through Oct. 26

The Netflix documentary The Perfect Neighbor was No. 1 on Samba TV’s list of top streaming programs for the week of Oct. 20 to 26. The film, which premiered on the streamer Oct. 10, uses police bodycam footage to recount the death of a Florida woman who was shot by her neighbor, and explores the … Continue reading “Samba TV: ‘The Perfect Neighbor’ Tops Weekly Streaming Viewership Through Oct. 26”

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Parks: TV Set-Top Box Losing Market Dominance to vMVPD, Streaming 0

Parks: TV Set-Top Box Losing Market Dominance to vMVPD, Streaming

With 55% of U.S. households continuing to access television through broadcast (22.3%), cable (22.3%), and other channels (10.2%), according to Nielsen, separate data from Parks Associates finds that  traditional pay-TV providers still serve about 42% of U.S. internet households. But TV access over the internet, including virtual multichannel video program distributors (vMVPDs), is closing the … Continue reading “Parks: TV Set-Top Box Losing Market Dominance to vMVPD, Streaming”

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Netflix Board Approves 10-For-1 Reverse Stock Split Making Shares Cheaper to Own 0

Netflix Board Approves 10-For-1 Reverse Stock Split Making Shares Cheaper to Own

Netflix’s board of directors Oct. 30 approved issuing a 10-for-1 share reverse stock split, effective Nov. 14. At that time, shareholders of record (as of Nov. 10) will receive an additional nine shares for every share previously owned. The SVOD behemoth’s shares have been trading $1,089 per share after falling more than 12% following the … Continue reading “Netflix Board Approves 10-For-1 Reverse Stock Split Making Shares Cheaper to Own”

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Acorn TV’s Crime Drama ‘Harry Wild’ Returns for Feature-Length Special Nov. 24 0

Acorn TV’s Crime Drama ‘Harry Wild’ Returns for Feature-Length Special Nov. 24

Acorn TV will release a feature-length special of the crime drama “Harry Wild” Nov. 24. The special will wrap up season four of the series where, after an apparent poisoning occurs at Vicky’s (Danielle Ryan) and Cormac’s (Muiris Crowley) wedding, Harry (Jane Seymour) springs into action, alongside the FBI. But when the assassin’s target flees, … Continue reading “Acorn TV’s Crime Drama ‘Harry Wild’ Returns for Feature-Length Special Nov. 24”

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Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘A House of Dynamite’ Remains Atop Netflix Weekly Streaming Through Nov. 2 0

Netflix: Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘A House of Dynamite’ Tops Weekly Streaming Through Oct. 26

Oscar–winning director Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) is back on top with the most-viewed content on Netflix for the week ended Oct. 26. The director’s critically-acclaimed thriller, A House of Dynamite, generated 22.1 million views in its first three days of release to rank No. 1 over all and on the English-language Top 10 chart. … Continue reading “Netflix: Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘A House of Dynamite’ Tops Weekly Streaming Through Oct. 26”

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