Inside CNN Plus: A First Look at the New Streaming Service (EXCLUSIVE)

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Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorViacomCBS said second quarter profit rose as advertisers spent more robustly on its media assets and the company saw new revenue from a host of streaming initiatives.The New York owner of the CBS broadcast network, Showtime, Nickelodeon and the Paramount movie studio, said revenue  rose 8% to $6.6 billion, fueled by gains in ad sales, fees from affiliates and streaming activity.

launch its streaming service, CNN+, in the first quarter of 2022. The move into streaming is highly anticipated given CNN has lagged behind competitors Fox News — which has three different streamers — and MSNBC in this space.

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The first photo from Amazon Studios’ “The Lord of the Rings” is here, along with the long-awaited premiere date.

Filming wrapped today on Season 1 of Amazon Studios’ highly anticipated Lord of The Rings TV series and we now have a premiere date. The studio has set Friday, September 2, 2022, for the debut of the first season of the yet-to-be-titled series. New episodes will be released weekly, exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 territories and countries worldwide. Amazon Studios also released the first series image tied to the wrap of filming in New Zealand.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“The Lord of the Rings” series at Amazon officially has a premiere date.The highly-anticipated epic fantasy series will debut on the streamer on Sept. 2, 2022, with new episodes dropping weekly after that.

Bruce Springsteen has turned down the opportunity to have a service station in his hometown of New Jersey named after him.As Consequence Of Sound reports, the US state is honouring a number of its famous residents along the Garden State Parkway as part of Governor Phil Murphy’s plan to expand the NJ Hall Of Fame.Among those to have received the special nod include Jon Bon Jovi, Whitney Houston and late Sopranos actor James Gandolfini.

The Strokes‘ Julian Casablancas showed his baseball skills off yesterday (July 26) as he threw out  the first pitch at today’s New York Mets game against the Atlanta Braves.The singer showed off his skills during the start of the game, although Strokes fans were left momentarily worrying after the game’s broadcaster mistakenly referred to Casablancas as the “former” lead singer of the Strokes.A rep for Julian Casablancas has since confirmed that the comment was made in error.Speaking during a

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterStarz has succeeded in blocking Disney from launching a streaming service in Brazil under the name “Star Plus.”A judge in Sao Paolo granted a temporary restraining order on Friday, holding that Disney cannot use the brand name when the service debuts on Aug.

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Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in the highly anticipated film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s.

Without a doubt, one of the biggest films coming later this year is the highly-anticipated drama, “The Tragedy of Macbeth.” Not only does it feature the debut of filmmaker Joel Coen as a singular director (Ethan Coen is not attached), but it has one of the strongest casts of 2021, led by Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand.

CNN will hire 450 people to help launch new streaming service CNN+, which will debut in the first quarter of 2022. CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker was joined by executive vice president Andrew Morse, head of product and general manager of CNN+ Alex MacCallum and senior vice president and head of programming for CNN+ Rebecca Kutler for a town hall broadcast Tuesday.

French cinema’s favorite enfant terrible is back at the Cannes Film Festival. Gaspar Noé returns to the French Riviera with his latest film, “Vortex,” to premiere out of competition this week in the Cannes Premiere section.