Netflix Falls Short of Q1 Subscriber Targets as Post-COVID Growth Slows

Meghan Markle made a statement about the importance of coronavirus vaccines during Global Citizen’s VAX LIVE Concert.

Big movie chain Cinemark announced Friday it’s now reached agreements to theatrically showcase films from all five major studio partners across its U.S. theaters, although it didn’t provide terms or many details.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorRoku gained 2.4 million new active accounts, demonstrating that the pandemic-driven streaming momentum that buoyed its results in 2020 has slowed down.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaSir Howard Panter, one of the leading forces in live theater, is so convinced that Broadway, the West End and other stage hubs are poised to come back in a big way post-pandemic, that he’s been using the last few months to restore old theaters and hunt for new ones.

Rutherford Falls, one of TV’s first Native sitcoms, is a testament to the show’s creators Ed Helms, Mike Schur, and Sierra Teller Ornelas (the first Native showrunner of a television comedy) and its writers’ ability to harness the nuance of the human experience.It’s also just really funny. “I feel like Native people have always known that we’re funny,” Teller Ornelas tells me over the phone on the afternoon of the show’s premiere on .

WASHINGTON – With President Biden’s first 100 days in office coming to a close, the Equality Act doesn’t appear even close to passage after his campaign promise to sign the legislation into law within that timeframe, although defenders say talks are ongoing and point to his executive actions in favor of LGBTQ rights.

animals, including Indian elephant Sandra, eight camels, five zebras, three ponies and 32 horses, make up the members of the troupe. Feeding the animals and paying their handlers has used up almost all of the circus' financial reserves, and Richter said he still don't know when pandemic rules will allow performances to resume.“It’s all money, money, money.

Spotify saw revenue grow 16% last quarter to €2.147 billion ($2.59 billion) fueled by a 46% jump in ad sales as podcast listening hit a high and monthly active users grew 24% to 356 million, including both free and paid.

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Variety asked some of its editors and critics to answer three questions about this past year in film and discuss its standout moments.1. How do you rate the 2020 slate against previous years?2.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorWhen Ross Riege was in initial conversations for “Rutherford Falls” with fellow cinematographer and now director Lawrence Sher (DP on Todd Phillips’ “Joker”), one of the ideas was how to explore the quirkiness of a small town.The new Peacock sitcom, which premiered April 22, stars Ed Helms as Nathan Rutherford, a descendant of the town’s founder, who is on a mission to stop the removal of the burg’s emblematic statue.

LOS ANGELES -- In Sierra Teller Ornelas’ family, those who could spin a good tale earned a seat at her grandmom’s expansive dining table, with lesser voices banished to the living room.“There was the feeling of holding court that was really big in my family,” said Teller Ornelas, who happily recalled another of the perks: “If I was in trouble and I could say something funny, I would get in less trouble.”The Native American writer is now sharing her narrative gifts with the world at large in

LOS ANGELES -- In Sierra Teller Ornelas’ family, those who could spin a good tale earned a seat at her grandmom’s expansive dining table, with lesser voices banished to the living room.“There was the feeling of holding court that was really big in my family,” said Teller Ornelas, who happily recalled another of the perks: “If I was in trouble and I could say something funny, I would get in less trouble.”The Native American writer is now sharing her narrative gifts with the world at large in

When “Rutherford Falls” premieres its first season on NBC’s new streaming service Peacock, the warm-hearted half-hour sitcom will have already succeeded in raising the bar for Native representation in comedy television.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticThe most memorable moment of “Rutherford Falls” — featuring two characters sitting opposite each other and just talking with startling honesty — deviates sharply from the show’s established norm.

The seed of Peacock’s new sitcom Rutherford Falls — set in a Northeastern town next door to a Native American reservation — emerged from conversations between Ed Helms and Michael Schur, but its spiritual origins may well have come from the comedy hitmaker’s Parks and Recreation, too.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVWhen Sierra Teller Ornelas was in pre-production on her new Peacock comedy “Rutherford Falls,” she found inspiration in a quote she read from showrunner Prentice Penny describing his movie “Uncorked” as “This is Black people on a Tuesday.”The film, which follows a young man on his quest to become a master sommelier, did not take place at a major life event such as a wedding, nor did it result in tragedy; it told a slice of life story.

Netflix reported 208 million global subscribers as of the end of the first quarter, missing its own prediction for 210 million.

its dominance over the rest of the streaming landscape has shrunk from 29% — a drop of nearly one third-  as more services like HBO Max and NBCU’s Peacock have debuted in the last year.In its shareholder letter, Netflix said it doesn’t believe “competitive intensity materially changed in the quarter or was a material factor in the variance as the over-forecast was across all of our regions.” The company said the subscriber-miss was due primarily to a harder time acquiring new customers, since