Bold or Reckless? Movie Business Debates AMC and Universal’s Early VOD Deal

Will Thorne Staff WriterOn the first night of the Democratic National Convetion (DNC), which saw Michelle Obama deliver a rousing speech to steal the show, ABC drew the largest total audience, at least according to early estimates.The Disney-owned network drew 2.1 million total viewers to its 10 p.m. coverage of the convention, and scored a 0.3 rating among adults 18-49.

The Bachelorette actually premieres, there's no way to know for sure . Right now, we basically just know that she reportedly fell in love with days after they began filming, , and now .

The cast and crew of Global’s “NCIS” and “NCIS: Los Angeles” are getting rolling.

tracking the company via Yahoo Finance forecasted the media and entertainment company to report earnings of 2 cents per share, and reported revenue of $767.4 million.

The upcoming movie Antebellum, starring Janelle Monae, will be skipping a theatrical release and it will debut on Premium Video On Demand instead.

CBS All Access rebrand in the United States, though both are expected to begin in 2021.CBS All Access originals, including “Guilty Party” and “The Harper House,” will also premiere exclusively on the new streaming service, ViacomCBS said.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorViacomCBS has pulled the curtain back on plans to launch a premium international streaming service, which will premiere new Showtime and CBS All Access originals, and will go live across three big territories in early 2021.The yet-to-be-named streamer — first mooted in May — was discussed on the ViacomCBS second-quarter earnings call on Thursday, with the company drawing up plans to go live in Australia, Latin America (including Argentina, Brazil and Mexico)

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorShares of Disney were up more than 6% in premarket trading Wednesday, as investors rallied around the media conglomerate’s fast-growing streaming footprint and aggressive expansion strategy.Disney on Tuesday reported that its direct-to-consumer streaming services collectively surpassed 100 million paid subscribers worldwide.

If you didn’t learn a TikTok dance during quarantine, did you even quarantine? Over the past few months, I have spent more time keeping up with the day to day lives of TikTok and YouTube stars than I have with my own friends. Between tie-dying entire wardrobes, pranking parents and trolling Trump rallies, social media stars seem to be taking over the world.

Anita Busch Film EditorEditors note: When he ran Universal Pictures and after he left to partner with Ivan Reitman in Montecito, Tom Pollock was a favorite call for journalists. He was not only a humorous truth teller with a spine, but one of those rare people who left us walking away from a call always feeling smarter for it.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Miramax Television is rebooting cult 1997 horror sci-fi thriller movie Mimic as a TV series. Paul WS Anderson is set to direct the potential pilot and executive produce the series with his longtime producing partner Jeremy Bolt.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersJim Danger Gray (Orange is the New Black) will write the adaptation, executive produce and serve as showrunner.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaCinemark isn’t sold on AMC Theatres plans to shorten the length of time that films play in theaters.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot one.

In a stunning reversal, AMC Theatres has struck a historic agreement with Universal that will allow the studio's movies to be made available on premium video-on-demand after just 17 days of play in cinemas, including three weekends, the two companies announced Tuesday. The deal — which presently only covers AMC's U.S.

Universal and AMC Theatres deal enabling the studio to release new movies on premium video on-demand within three weeks of their debut has upended the exhibition industry. That substantially shrinks the amount of time during which films can only show on the big screen.

Naman Ramachandran Popular Bollywood actor Ayushmann Khurrana is teaming with director Abhishek Kapoor on an as yet untitled Bollywood romance. Khurrana will play a cross functional athlete in the film.The project is set up by Kapoor’s outfit Guy In The Sky Pictures (“Kedarnath”) and a producer is being finalised.Khurrana has made it a point of playing diverse characters in his career and each of them have been box-office successes.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Three-time Oscar winning filmmaker Oliver Stone has gone back to his roots for Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador and the Movie Game. Just published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the book is a personal reminiscence, the coming of age of a great filmmaker.

NEW DELHI -- The entertainment capital of India may be reeling under the coronavirus onslaught, but its celebrity inhabitants are being roiled by troubles of another kind. The suicide last month of a young and popular movie actor in Mumbai has fueled a reckoning over the privileges of the Bollywood elite, laying bare the simmering fault lines between the haves and have-nots of the Hindi-language movie industry.

NEW DELHI -- The entertainment capital of India may be reeling under the coronavirus onslaught, but its celebrity inhabitants are being roiled by troubles of another kind. The suicide last month of a young and popular movie actor in Mumbai has fueled a reckoning over the privileges of the Bollywood elite, laying bare the simmering fault lines between the haves and have-nots of the Hindi-language movie industry.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterAfter shocking the world with the idea of shooting a feature film in outer space, Tom Cruise may be a little closer to finding a partner who will join him and director Doug Liman on the untitled film. We have confirmed that Universal Pictures is in early talks to come on to the project that would be the first feature film to shoot in outer space.If a deal were to close, Cruise would star with Liman directing.