‘Bridgerton’ Tops Nielsen’s Expanded U.S. Streaming Chart Over New Year’s Week; ‘Soul’ And ‘The Office’ Lead Movie, Acquired-Show Lists

Save Your Tears by The Weeknd rises to Number 1 on the Official Trending Chart as it gears up to land at a new Official Singles Chart peak.

Ariana Grande’s fans have a lot to say about her extended album Positions (Deluxe)‘s release.

Henry Danger, a popular superhero show on Nickelodeon from 2014 to 2020, saw its first three seasons on Netflix land at No. 4 on Nielsen’s U.S. streaming rankings for January 18 to 24.

Jesy Nelson left Little Mix – also made up of Perrie Edwards, Jade Thirlwall and Leigh-Anne Pinnock – last year and it's thought she could now be working with Little Mix’s producers for the release of her own music. The singer, who shared a picture from a recording studio this week, recently followed two of Little Mix’s former producers, Patrick Jordan Patrikios and Sunny on Instagram.

On Wednesday, Chinese New Year box office achieved yet another new milestone with grosses for the holiday period growing to an estimated RMB 7.78B ($1.2B). This beats the previous all-time high set during the comparable 2019 holiday (RMB 5.9B). China often outdoes itself, but the fact that 2021’s Lunar New Year frame came with Covid capacity restrictions makes the performance even more staggering.

The Supreme Court of Canada is examining the right of comedian Mike Ward to make fun of Jérémy Gabriel and the latter’s right to dignity.

pizza, Amelia Riba, Chief Brand Officer, Pizza Hut UK & Europe said: “We’re so happy to be able to put the Pizza Hut’s KFC Popcorn Chicken Pizza back on the Pizza Hut Delivery menu. It was overwhelmingly popular with customers last year, so we want to keep delivering them products they love.

Rebecca Davis editorThe world’s largest film market is living up to its title with world-record-setting sales.

China’s box office is primed for a sparkling Lunar New Year frame as new titles start rollout on Friday. As we noted this past Sunday, pre-sales had alread begun to pop, with threequel Detective Chinatown 3 in the lead. The film from Chen Sicheng as of 11:30PM local time on Thursday had hit over RMB 673M ($104M) in advance tickets for opening day Friday and more than RMB 950M ($147M) for the first week, according to Maoyan.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThis month’s Chinese New Year holidays will be a litmus test for the strength of China’s film industry recovery following a period of unprecedented turmoil.This time last year, China’s wrecked Spring Festival celebrations were emblematic of the coronavirus crisis that had dramatically engulfed the world’s most populous nation and was soon to become a global pandemic.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThis year’s Super Bowl once again will be livestreamed for free online. And CBS, which has the broadcast rights to the 2021 NFL championship game, is expecting a record rushing record from the internet.“Every year I feel like we’re on the verge of breaking the internet,” says Jeff Gerttula, EVP and GM of CBS Sports Digital.He’s only half joking.

Protesting Indian farmers won global attention on Wednesday with prominent Western activists joining pop superstar Rihanna in support of their months-long campaign against agriculture reforms but India said the intervention was irresponsible.

Vivienne Chow Hong Kong cinema operators and filmmakers are crying for help following a government announcement on Monday that COVID-19 social distancing measures will remain in place until Feb. 17.

direct to your inboxMatt Hancock has not ruled out tighter lockdown restrictions following the emergence of a new South Africa strain of coronavirus.Speaking at Monday's Downing Street press conference, the Health Secretary said 'further measures' were always possible, but added a 'very strong set of rules' were already in place.Mr Hancock had earlier said the UK has now identified 105 cases of the South Africa variant, 11 of which have no links to international travel.

Cristiano Ronaldo has shared an intimate family photo from home, featuring his girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez and his four children: Cristiano Ronaldo Junior, Eva Maria, Alana Martina and Mateo.The image showed the family of five in bed, and Cristiano captioned it: "Home sweet home!" along with a heart and heart eyes emoji.