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Fox News Media Aug. 14 announced that its branded Fox Nation subscription streaming video service will live-stream the first GOP presidential debate of the 2024 federal election on Wednesday Aug. … Continue reading “Fox Nation SVOD Service to Live-Stream First GOP 2024 Presidential Primary Debate on Aug. 23”

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Netflix is expanding video game access beyond the mobile app first launched in 2021. The streamer Aug. 14 announced it has begun a limited beta test to a small number … Continue reading “Netflix Expanding Video Game Access to Televisions, PCs and Macs”

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Kino Lorber on Sept. 12 will release the neo-noir thriller After Dark, My Sweet, starring Jason Patric, Bruce Dern and Rachel Ward, on Blu-ray Disc. The 1990 film, directed by … Continue reading “Neo-Noir Thriller ‘After Dark, My Sweet’ Coming to Blu-ray Disc on Sept. 12”

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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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