Netflix Adds Nearly 9 Million Subscribers in Q3; Streamer Says Ad-Supported Plans Up Nearly 70% From Q2

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Crunchyroll, the Sony-owned anime streamer, is getting its game on — adopting a strategy similar to Netflix’s foray into the video-game space. On Tuesday (Nov. 7), Crunchyroll launched Game Vault, which provides unlimited access to a collection of mobile games selected with anime fans in mind.

Jeff Zucker, former head of CNN who now runs media investment fund RedBird IMI, believes the media is overplaying polls showing former President Donald Trump leading Joe Biden.

Global streamers released 228 original European fiction titles in 2022, up from 2021’s 127, in an uptick led by Netflix, according to research by the European Audiovisual Observatory.

K.J. Yossman King Charles III confirmed the Government’s plan to push through with its long-discussed Media Bill on Tuesday morning local time during the traditional opening of Parliament ceremony in London.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Subscription video subscriptions in Taiwan increased by 315,000 in the July to September quarter, to reach 5.8 million, according toa new research report. Netflix and Disney+ were responsible for the bulk of the growth. The “Online Video in Taiwan” report from consultancy Media Partners Asia and its AMPD Research sister company showed premium VOD engagement and subscriptions were up 6% quarter on quarter.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer More than 3,600 SAG-AFTRA members have signed an open letter stating that they would rather stay on strike than “cave” to a bad deal. The group, calling itself Members in Solidarity, includes Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jon Hamm, Maya Hawke, Marisa Tomei, John Leguizamo and Bryan Cranston, among many other notable names.

big professional embarrassment from Spotify, Meghan Markle is allegedly close to making a big deal with its competitor, Audible. “Word of mouth is spreading that it will lead to a huge payout—even bigger than the millions Spotify splashed out—and Meghan is thrilled that she’ll be in the company of Michelle and Barack Obama, who signed a multi-year contract with Audible last year,” a source told “The Mirror.”Meghan, who the source said “seems very confident at the moment” in the potential deal, “knows her new deal with Audible could be make or break for her Hollywood dream.” The Duchess of Sussex, 42, and her husband Prince Harry, 39, have been the subjects of ridicule – and mockery on “Family Guy” – for their multi million dollar deals with Netflix and Spotify, which haven’t produced much content.

Old Dads, a new film on Netflix, has sharply divided viewers upon its release this week.With a 17 per cent critic score on Rotten Tomatoes, the film has already received a wholly negative response from journalists, whereas viewers on social media are much more divided. The audience voted score on Rotten Tomatoes currently stands at 89 per cent.Old Dads is about a trio of late-middle-age fathers Bill Burr, Bobby Cannavale and Bokeem Woodbine, who “find themselves battling preschool principals, millennial CEOs and anything created after 1987,” according to the official synopsis.

This is day 103 of SAG-AFTRA strike.

Pink had a big wake-up call in the nick of time.

Ethan Shanfeld Jay-Z has weighed in on one of social media’s favorite debates, or, the half-million dollar question. When asked by CBS News’ Gayle King if it’s smarter to take $500,000 in cash or have lunch with Jay-Z, the rapper and entrepreneur said bluntly: “You’ve gotta take the money.” When King explained the other side of the argument — that the insight one might glean from a meal with Jay-Z could be valued higher than half a million dollars — Hov insisted that all his wisdom is embedded in his records.

“60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday, Alecia Moore Hart, aka Pink, 44, revealed that before she was a global superstar known for singing up-side down and performing aerial stunts to sold-out stadiums, she nearly died from a drug overdose, just weeks before signing a record deal. The Grammy winning singer, who has two kids — son Jameson, 6, and daughter Willow, 12, with her motocross star husband Carey Hart, 48 — described the incident.She revealed that during Thanksgiving of 1995, she went to a rave where she took “ecstasy, angel dust, crystal. All kinds of things…Then I was out.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer You’d think that volunteering to go on a reality TV series based on a show about a deadly competition would mean you were prepared to at least fake die — but based on the new trailer for “Squid Game: The Challenge,” that thought didn’t occur to every contestant. In the new promo for the unscripted show, which debuts Nov.

Netflix subscribers have been delighted to learn one of the top coming-of-age films from the noughties has been added to the platform.

Valerie Wu Intern Fans of the iconic British secret agent James Bond will have to wait a while to see who the next 007 will be, according to franchise producer Barbara Broccoli. In a recent interview with The Guardian, Broccoli shared that executives “haven’t even begun” modernizing the franchise, adding that there is a “big road ahead” before the James Bond character is “reinvented for the next chapter.” Broccoli praised what Daniel Craig, who retired from the role of James Bond in 2021 after the release of “No Time to Die,” brought to the character.

Hocus Pocus fans were ecstatic when Disney released a long-awaited sequel to the classic last year, but one key player was missing: original director Kenny Ortega.

Jordan Moreau This weekend at the box office is a showdown of two pop culture titans: Martin Scorsese and Taylor Swift. The “Mean Streets” director and “Mean” singer each have a movie facing off this weekend, “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour.” Scorsese’s latest movie has so far made $2.6 million in Thursday previews at the box office. “Eras Tour” made $5.9 million on Thursday, Oct.

A mother has spoken of the terrifying moment she thought her new-born son might die from a life-threatening illness, caused by a bacteria passed over during childbirth which she had no previous symptoms of.

Kris Jenner found out Kourtney Kardashian was pregnant with the rest of the world? Yeah, fans are calling B.S. on that!!

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Netflix is increasing the price of both its basic and premium plans in the U.S., as well as in France and the U.K. Prices for the ads and standard tiers remain the same.