Disney-YouTubeTV Spat Results in Google Play/YouTube Leaving Movies Anywhere
The carriage agreement spat between Disney and YouTube TV has resulted in a casualty in the transactional space. In a brief note on the Movies Anywhere site, the digital locker service — which allows consumers to consolidate their digital purchases from various outlets such as Fandango at Home and others — announced it no longer … Continue reading “Disney-YouTubeTV Spat Results in Google Play/YouTube Leaving Movies Anywhere”
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GOATS Entertainment and AEG’s SLVR Sports & Entertainment Channel announce the digital premiere of season one of the critically acclaimed documentary series “GOATs: The Greatest of All Time” with photographer Walter Iooss, launching Nov. 10 on Samsung TV Plus. The sports docuseries celebrates the legendary work of renowned photographer Walter Iooss and offers unprecedented access … 
Disney-owned 20th Century Studios’ Predator: Badlands set a franchise record with $80 million in opening weekend global ticket sales through Nov. 9, including $40 million across North American screens. The sci-fi adventure movie, starring Elle Fanning and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, among others, had been projected to generate about $30 million in domestic revenue. The tally bodes … 
EchoStar’s 10-year-old virtual multichannel video program distribution (vMVPD) pioneer Sling TV upped its paid subscriber base 11% to 1.99 million in the third quarter ended Sept. 30, from 1.79 million subs in the previous-year period. EchoStar’s Dish brand lost 152,000 satellite TV subscribers to end the period with 5.2 million. EchoStar combines the two platforms for … 
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 … 
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 … 
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 … 
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 … 
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 … 
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 …