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As streamers tend to lean on catalog and unscripted content during talent strikes, tracking service Reelgood analyzed both the popularity of streamers’ catalog and the amount of unscripted content at … Continue reading “Reelgood: Streamers May Turn to Catalog During Talent Strikes, But Consumers Aren’t Watching Much of It”

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Cineverse Aug. 14 announced it has licensed its Fandor indie movie streaming service to online TV provider Philo. Subscribers of Philo’s “Movies & More” package can add Fandor for an … Continue reading “Fandor Streaming Service Now on Philo Through New Deal With Cineverse”

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After a brief decline, the largest cable and wireless telecom services in the U.S. – representing about 96% of the market – added about 840,000 net additional high-speed internet (broadband) … Continue reading “Research: 840,000 Consumers Added Broadband in the Second Quarter”

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Lucasfilm’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny will be released through digital retailers starting Aug. 29. A physical media release has not yet been announced.   The fifth film … Continue reading “‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ Set for Digital Home Release Aug. 29”

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About 83% of all U.S. households have a subscription video-on-Demand (SVOD) service from Netflix, Prime Video, and/or Hulu, unchanged from 2022, but up 5% from 78% in 2020, 69% in … Continue reading “Leichtman: 2023 U.S. Household SVOD Subscription Growth Flat”

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4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY REVIEW: MVD; Horror; $39.95 Blu-ray, $49.95 UHD BD; Rated ‘PG.’ Stars Dick Durock, Ray Wise, Adrienne Barbeau, Louis Jourdan, David Hess, Nicholas Worth. While it has … Continue reading “Swamp Thing (1982)”

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Warner Bros. Pictures’ Barbie added another $33.7 million in projected North American ticket sales through Aug. 13, to up its domestic tally past $526 million. The Greta Gerwig-directed summer blockbuster … Continue reading “‘Barbie’ Tops Fourth Weekend Box Office, Nearing 2023 No. 1 ‘Super Mario Bros. Movie’ in Ticket Sales”

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Just as the entertainment business is hitting a content desert due to ongoing talent strikes, a new survey from The Quorum has found that the blockbuster Barbie — which has … Continue reading “Survey: ‘Barbie’ Brought Almost One in Four Lapsed Moviegoers Back to the Theater”

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NBCUniversal and EverPass Media, a media platform distributing premium live sports and entertainment content to commercial businesses, have announced a multi-year agreement in which EverPass will hold the exclusive rights … Continue reading “EverPass Inks Deal for Peacock Exclusive Sports Content Rights”

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Streaming technology and entertainment company Cineverse Corp. has reached a FAST-focused content deal with The Preview Channel, a linear entertainment AVOD channel. The Preview channel programs motion picture, television and … Continue reading “Cineverse Inks Deal With The Preview Channel”

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