film makers are focusing on solving wedding invite list headaches during the pandemic - by live streaming the big day.
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Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorXumo, the free, ad-supported streaming TV service now owned by Comcast, wants to make the case that it’s in the same league as its two primary rivals, Fox’s Tubi and ViacomCBS’s Pluto TV.Since January, according to Xumo, its user base has soared 2.5 times to reach more than 24 million U.S. monthly active users.
Total hours streamed over that period more than doubled, Xumo says. It’s the latest salvo in the secondary front on the streaming wars: free ad-supported
.film makers are focusing on solving wedding invite list headaches during the pandemic - by live streaming the big day.
Short-form streaming service Quibi is closing down just over six months since launching, the company has announced.
Elaine Low Senior TV WriterNetflix, in its third quarter earnings report Tuesday, touted “The Old Guard” as its most popular title of the summer quarter.According to the streamer, 78 million subscriber households tuned in to watch the action thriller, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood and starring Charlize Theron, in its first four weeks on the platform.Other Netflix original features that proved popular included Jamie Foxx starrer “Project Power,” which drew 75 million households in the same
Discovery. led by CEO David Zaslav, said Tuesday that it will rebrand its dplay streaming service in the U.K.
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorAre we there yet?WarnerMedia is bringing its premium video programming to bored kids and other road-weary passengers through WarnerMedia Ride, a new video service for smartphones and tablets connected to in-car Wi-Fi hotspots connected to AT&T’s wireless network — available at no extra cost.Content in WarnerMedia Ride includes news and sports programming from Bleacher Report, Boomerang, Cartoon Network, CNN, TBS, TNT and other brands.
Rebecca Davis editorFox Entertainment streaming service Tubi announced a partnership with China’s Wanda Pictures on Monday, saying it will now stream at least two of the latter’s films in both Chinese-language and English-dubbed versions.The headlining film in the deal is Wanda’s “Detective Chinatown 2,” which currently reigns as China’s sixth-highest grossing movie of all time thanks to $541 million in local receipts. The title grossed a mere $2 million in North America.
Dade Hayes Finance EditorTubi has begun a content relationship with Chinese film and television studio Wanda Pictures, with two titles coming to the Fox-owned free streaming outlet.Original and exclusive English-dubbed versions of Detective Chinatown 2, which is No. 6 on China’s all-time box office chart, will be on Tubi soon in the U.S.
Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorEXCLUSIVE: Vanna Krantz, chief financial officer of Disney Streaming Services, will be named to the board of Skillz, the mobile e-sports platform that’s completing its merger with Harry Sloan’s Flying Eagle Acquisition Corp.
made the rounds on the festival circuit in 2019, it's made its way into theaters — albeit at a time when many cinemas have shuttered or are struggling to stay afloat amid a pandemic.
Dade Hayes Finance EditorAll five seasons of Narcos, one of Netflix’s most prominent original series, will premiere next week on Pluto TV in the show’s first streaming run on a free, ad-supported U.S. platform.The distribution plan, which involves a partnership with Gaumont, will kick off on October 20.
Pearl Jam have shared their new song ‘Get It Back’ on streaming services – hear it below.The track was previously only available on ‘Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy Vol.
The weekly streaming ratings are in and Netflix had another huge week!
Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorNBC News’ streaming service NBC News Now is launching a morning show next week. Morning News Now will be hosted by NBC News correspondent Joe Fryer and NBC News correspondent and NBC Stay Tuned co-host Savannah Sellers and run 7-11 p.m.
The streaming service numbers are in, and we now know the most watched shows and movies across every streaming service from August 31 to September 6.
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorNBC News Now, the 24/7 streaming service from NBC News, was going to expand its live coverage to the East Coast’s morning hours in April. Then the coronavirus hit.Six months later, the four-hour weekday “Morning News Now” is now ready to roll, starting Oct.
The 1975’s old band Drive Like I Do appeared on streaming services yesterday (October 3).The Matty Healy-fronted band went existed under several monikers, including Drive Like I Do, before settling on The 1975. However, in 2017 Healy clarified that the groups were “separate entities”.Now, two old tracks have surfaced on streaming services, including Spotify and Apple Music.
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