Marvel Studios’ ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ Streaming on Disney+ Beginning May 28
Disney May 13 announced that Marvel Studios’ Captain America: Brave New World will begin streaming exclusively on Disney+ beginning May 28. Starring Anthony Mackie in the title role, Brave New World generated $415 million at the global box office, including $200.5 million across North American screens. The movie was the No. 1 box office release … Continue reading “Marvel Studios’ ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ Streaming on Disney+ Beginning May 28”
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A24’s military film Warfare topped the chart of the top 10 titles on Fandango’s transactional digital service Fandango at Home for the week ended May 11. The actioner, available for premium digital rental and sale, is the true story of a U.S. Navy Seal platoon surveillance mission gone dangerously wrong. Landing at No. 2 on … 
Marvel Studios’ anti-superhero release Thunderbolts* maintained its grip on the weekend box office, selling an estimated $33.1 million worth of tickets to remain No. 1 across the North American box office. The Florence Pugh headliner added another $34 million internationally to up its 10-day domestic tally to $128.5 million and more than $272.2 million worldwide. … 
Satellite TV operator Echostar Corp.’s pioneering vMVPD distributor Sling TV lost 198,000 subscribers in the first fiscal quarter, ended March 31. That was up 47% from a loss of 138,000 subs in the previous-year period. Sling, which pioneered the online TV platform market in 2015 when it was the first service to offer standalone streaming … 
Season two of HBO’s “The Last of Us” on Max remained No. 1 on Samba TV’s list of top streaming programs for the week of April 28 to May 4. Based on the popular video game series of the same name, the series depicts a post-apocalyptic world 20 years into a pandemic caused by a … 
Apple TV+ has announced a new eight-episode drama “The Wanted Man,” starring SAG and Golden Globe Award winner Hugh Laurie (“House,” “The Night Manager”). “The Wanted Man” charts the rise and fall of Felix Carmichael (Laurie), the elusive and powerful head of notorious British crime syndicate The Capital. Untouchable for 20 years, Carmichael is finally … 
Peacock has announced the series pickup of the new comedy “DIG,” from Emmy Award-winning executive producer Mike Schur (“A Man on the Inside,” “The Good Place,” “Parks and Recreation”) and Emmy Award-winning actor and executive producer Amy Poehler (“Parks and Recreation,” Inside Out 2). Schur and Poehler will co-write the pilot episode and executive produce … 
Comcast has officially named its SpinCo media assets “Versant” as the new corporate name when the media giant’s former cable assets become a separate publicly-traded company later this year. Versant assets include USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel, in addition to digital assets Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and SportsEngine, among others, … 
President Trump May 5 appeared to backpedal on his proposed 100% tariff on foreign-made movies, saying he would be discussing the issue with Hollywood studios. “I’m not looking to hurt the industry, I want to help the industry,” Trump told reporters at the White House. The president said he would talk with media CEOs to … 
Marvel Studios’ newest antihero movie franchise, Thunderbolts*, got off to a solid start, generating an estimated $76 million in North American ticket sales through May 4. The $200 million production budget release, which stars Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, Lewis Pullman, Geraldine Viswanathan and David Harbour, had been projected to reach $79 …