Sarah Ferguson has praised Meghan Markle and Prince Harry for making their own "brave" decision to step back from the royal duties and move to the United States to start a new life.
26.05.2023 - 16:37 / deadline.com
Prime Video is not about to let rival Netflix forget about its previously benevolent attitude toward password sharing.
Replying to a blissed-out 2017 tweet by Netflix (“Love is sharing a password”), the UK Twitter handle of Prime Video delivered a jab embedded in a graphic. (See the exchange below.)
In a mock-up of Netflix’s home screen, which presents all of the user profiles associated with an account, the Prime Video account provided a taunting answer to the question, “Who’s watching?” It replied, “Everyone who has our password,” punctuating it with a heart emoji. The tweet has generated more than half a million likes since being posted Thursday.
Netflix, which has cited internal research that as many as 100 households have been sharing passwords, is in the midst of rolling out a new policy to charge those passing along log-in credentials. The crackdown, which the company describes with the less ominous-sounding phrase “paid sharing,” reached the U.S. this week after taking effect in Canada, New Zealand, Portugal and Spain. Subscribers to the company’s $15.49 tier (the most popular plan) have to pay an extra $7.99 for anyone sharing the subscriber’s password.
The effort to rein in sharing has been accompanied by Netflix’s launch last fall of a cheaper, ad-supported subscription tier. Wall Street analysts have said the two initiatives, working in tandem, could generate billions of dollars in supplemental revenue in the coming years. That influx is seen as a difference-maker as the company copes with subscriber saturation in some territories and increased competition in a streaming field it once had practically all to itself.
Newer rivals to Netflix have generally not sought to limit password sharing, determining (as
Sarah Ferguson has praised Meghan Markle and Prince Harry for making their own "brave" decision to step back from the royal duties and move to the United States to start a new life.
Things are about to get royally hot on Prime Video.
Prince Harry left a surprise gift for a flight attendant after he dashed back to California on Thursday.The Duke of Sussex had been in the UK for three days and headed home to be with his wife, Meghan Markle, and their two children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. As he jetted home with American Airlines, he gave a free copy of his tell-all memoir, Spare, to flight attendant and TikTok user Holden Pattern who looked after him during his flight. A delighted Holden took to Instagram to share a snap as he posed and beamed alongside Harry, 38, while onboard the flight.
Netflix have risen by over 100 per cent since the streaming service began cracking down on password sharing.Earlier this year, the streaming service announced details of its password crackdown, making it impossible to use one account in several locations.The rule then came into force last month, with Netflix receiving major backlash from existing subscribers.Since then though, Netflix has experienced a large rise in sign-ups, with the days between May 25-28 – shortly after the May 23 announcement – becoming the platform’s four biggest days of new sign-ups in the United States since 2019, as Variety report.On those days, 73,000 new users signed up for Netflix, a 102 per cent increase on the previous 60 days.In a statement posted by Netflix last month, they explained of the rule: “Starting today, we will be sending this email to members who are sharing Netflix outside their household in the United Kingdom.”The streaming giant said a Netflix account was “for use by one household” and those wanting to share theirs must pay £4.99 to do so.They continued to explain: “It’s why we continue to invest heavily in a wide variety of new films and TV programmes – so whatever your taste, mood or language and whoever you’re watching with, there’s always something satisfying to watch on Netflix.”Since the announcement of the account sharing fee, Netflix has begun receiving backlash. Unhappy customers took to social media to express their annoyance with the new rules that have been implemented.
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Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent “Forest,” an Italian eco-themed animation film about deforestation, has scored some strong pre-sales for Rome-based True Colours at the Cannes Marché du film. The still-in-production 3-D animation feature – the protagonist of which is a young mushroom named Fey – has been picked up for roughly 20 territories by Top Film Distribution which will distribute “Forest” in Ukraine, CIS, the Baltics, and Eastern European countries including former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Poland, Czech and Slovak Republics, Romania, and Hungary. Helmed by Luca Della Grotta and Francesco Dafano, the film is produced by Italy’s AI One, the same team that previously spawned 2020 similarly themed animation feature “Trash” that sold in more than 30 countries.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle made the shocking announcement back in 2020 that they were quitting their roles as senior working royals. Shortly after, they moved over to the US to start a new life as a family with Prince Archie, and welcomed Princess Lillibet.
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