Paramount Responds to Industry Letter, Says WBD Merger Will ‘Strengthen Consumer Choice, Competition’
Paramount Skydance CEO and the company’s PR team April 13 responded to an open Hollywood letter released earlier in the day and signed by more than 1,000 signatories that called the media giant’s pending $110.9 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery bad for business and consumers. Paramount said it understood the concerns, including protecting the … Continue reading “Paramount Responds to Industry Letter, Says WBD Merger Will ‘Strengthen Consumer Choice, Competition’”
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Universal/Illumination/Nickelodeon’s The Super Mario Galaxy Movie didn’t disappoint, adding $69 million in second weekend North American weekend ticket sales through April 12, upping the sequel to 2023’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie domestic gross to $308 million and $629 million globally. “Galaxy” is the top-grossing theatrical release in 2026, moving ahead of Amazon MGM Studios’ sci-fi … 
LAS VEGAS – CinemaCon, the annual conference and trade show for the motion picture theater, opens here April 13 – ironically, the same day StreamTV Europe, a precursor to the June StreamTV Show in Denver, opens in Lisbon, Portugal. Theatrical exhibitors, for whom the buck literally stops the moment a movie leaves the big screen, … 
HBO has renewed the “Rooster” for a second season, citing strong viewership from early episodes of the comedy series. According to HBO, the first four episodes of the first season, which premiered March 8, averaged 5.8 million U.S. viewers, making it the network’s most-watched freshmen comedy in more than a decade. The 10 episode-first season … 
Comcast’s Xfinity premium television platform April 9 added Disney+, Hulu bundle and HBO Max to its discounted “StreamStore” market that already includes Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV available to Xfinity TV and Internet customers. Customers can select combinations of three, four or even all five apps to create one of eight streaming entertainment bundles. The … 
Lionsgate’s The Housemaid remained No. 1 on the DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group’s top 10 digital sales and rentals chart provided by GfK Entertainment for the week ended March 29. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, the film from director Paul Feig stars Sydney Sweeney as an ex-con who is surprisingly hired as … 
Radial Entertainment is making the dystopian sci-fi series “Snowpiercer” available to watch on several of the top ad-supported streaming platforms. The first three seasons are now available on Roku, Pluto TV, Tubi and Plex, and will be available on The CW starting in mid-April. Season four will be available this summer. Based on the 2013 … 
Most of the country’s major subscription streaming video services have begun live-streaming Artemis II’s historic swing around the Moon — the furthest mankind has ever traveled into outer space. The spacecraft with four crew members, including mission specialist Christina Koch, the first woman on a mission bound for the Moon and furthest to travel into … 
The documentary Green Superheroes 2030 will be released on Blu-ray Disc April 14 from BayView Entertainment. In the documentary, hailing from diverse corners of the globe, an extraordinary team of environmentalists, ages 5 to 17, embark on a daring quest to rescue our planet. Armed with boundless creativity and scientific curiosity, they devise groundbreaking environmental …