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Paramount+ Releases Trailer for ‘Red Alert’ Miniseries Due Oct. 7 0

Paramount+ Releases Trailer for ‘Red Alert’ Miniseries Due Oct. 7

Paramount+ Sept. 25 released the trailer for “Red Alert,” a four-part scripted series depicting the true-life events of the massacre in Israel Oct. 7, 2023. All four episodes will premiere on on the streaming service on Tuesday, Oct. 7. The series was created, written and directed by Lior Chefetz and comes from Keshet Media Group … Continue reading “Paramount+ Releases Trailer for ‘Red Alert’ Miniseries Due Oct. 7”

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Classic ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ Due on 4K Digital and Disc Nov. 11 for 50th 0

Classic ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ Due on 4K Digital and Disc Nov. 11 for 50th

Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment will release the 1975 classic One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, from filmmaker Miloš Forman and starring Jack Nicholson in his first Academy Award-winning role, for purchase digitally in 4K Ultra HD and on 4K UHD Blu-ray Disc on Nov. 11, timed to the 50th anniversary of the film’s release … Continue reading “Classic ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ Due on 4K Digital and Disc Nov. 11 for 50th”

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Disney Raising Prices Across All Streaming Platforms in the U.S. 0

Disney Raising Prices Across All Streaming Platforms in the U.S.

Disney Sept. 23 announced it is raising monthly subscription prices across all streaming platforms for the third time in three years, effective Oct. 21, except for the ad-free Disney+/Hulu bundle, which remains unchanged at $20 per month. The price hikes were announced the day suspended comic Jimmy Kimmel returns to “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” after serving … Continue reading “Disney Raising Prices Across All Streaming Platforms in the U.S.”

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Slow Horses Season 5 0

Slow Horses Season 5

Slow Horses Season 5STREAMING REVIEW: Apple TV+; Drama; Not rated. Featuring Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jonathan Pryce. Apple TV+’s Emmy and BAFTA Award-winning espionage drama “Slow Horses,” starring Academy Award-winner and Emmy Award-nominee Sir Gary Oldman, returns for a fifth season Sept. 24 with the first episode, followed by five more weekly installments through Oct. … Continue reading “Slow Horses Season 5”

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Sony’s ‘Demon Slayer’ Holds Off Universal’s ‘Him’ to Become Highest-Grossing Anime Release in the U.S. 0

Sony’s ‘Demon Slayer’ Holds Off Universal’s ‘Him’ to Become Highest-Grossing Anime Release in the U.S.

Sony Pictures/Crunchyroll’s Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle remained No. 1 at the domestic box office for the second weekend in a row, following another $17.3 million through Sept. 21 to bring its total to $105 million. The movie, the first in a three-part trilogy representing the final battle of the award-winning anime “shonen” … Continue reading “Sony’s ‘Demon Slayer’ Holds Off Universal’s ‘Him’ to Become Highest-Grossing Anime Release in the U.S.”

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Samba TV: ‘Wednesday’ Tops Weekly Streaming Viewership Through Sept. 14 0

Samba TV: ‘Wednesday’ Tops Weekly Streaming Viewership Through Sept. 14

Netflix’s “Wednesday” remained No. 1 on Samba TV’s list of top streaming programs for the week of Sept. 8-14. Part two of the second season of the “Addams Family”-based series debuted Sept. 3. It follows Wednesday Addams in her second year at Nevermore Academy. As she continues to develop her psychic abilities, she must face … Continue reading “Samba TV: ‘Wednesday’ Tops Weekly Streaming Viewership Through Sept. 14”

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Lionsgate Reinstates Mask Policy in Santa Monica HQ as COVID Cases Rise in LA 0

Lionsgate Reinstates Mask Policy in Santa Monica HQ as COVID Cases Rise in LA

Lionsgate has quietly reinstated a mask policy for employees at its Santa Monica, Calif.-based headquarters following a resurgence of COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles. The mandate, first reported by Deadline, … Continue reading “Lionsgate Reinstates Mask Policy in Santa Monica HQ as COVID Cases Rise in LA”

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New Home Entertainment Releases for Aug. 22 Include ‘The Blackening,’ ‘You Hurt My Feelings’ 0

New Home Entertainment Releases for Aug. 22 Include ‘The Blackening,’ ‘You Hurt My Feelings’

Among the new home entertainment offerings of Aug. 22 are The Blackening and You Hurt My Feelings on Blu-ray and DVD. Lionsgate will release the comedic horror flick The Blackening on … Continue reading “New Home Entertainment Releases for Aug. 22 Include ‘The Blackening,’ ‘You Hurt My Feelings’”

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Doc ‘Unknown Beauty: Francois Nars’ Due on EST and VOD Sept. 12 0

Doc ‘Unknown Beauty: Francois Nars’ Due on EST and VOD Sept. 12

Virgil Films will release the documentary Unknown Beauty: François Nars on EST (digital purchase) and VOD (digital rental) Sept. 12. Celebrated photographer and makeup artist François Nars reveals his striking … Continue reading “Doc ‘Unknown Beauty: Francois Nars’ Due on EST and VOD Sept. 12”

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Theatrical Comeback Gives Digital Transactional Home Entertainment Business a Q2 Bump 0

Theatrical Comeback Gives Digital Transactional Home Entertainment Business a Q2 Bump

The theatrical resurgence is paying off for the transactional home entertainment business, at least in the digital segment. Consumer spending on digital movie sales, or electronic sellthrough (EST), rose 17.4% … Continue reading “Theatrical Comeback Gives Digital Transactional Home Entertainment Business a Q2 Bump”

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