Netflix Will Mark End of DVD Biz by Sending up to 10 Randomly Selected Discs to Customers

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Disney+ customers can start streaming Pixar’s “Elemental” animated adventure next week. “Elemental” will hit Disney+ worldwide on Sept. 13, coming 89 days after the movie’s theatrical open.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Roku will cut more than 300 staffers — laying off 10% of its workforce — as the streaming-platform company continues its battle to control costs. In addition, Roku will remove certain licensed and owned content from its platform as part of a “strategic review of its content portfolio,” resulting in an impairment charge of up to $65 million in the current quarter, the company disclosed in an SEC filing Wednesday. Other cost-cutting measures Roku outlined are consolidating office space and reducing outside services expenses.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Netflix just kicked off its big crackdown on illicit password-sharing users this spring — but co-CEO Greg Peters says there’s still a long road ahead of the company on this front. “We’ll be in the password-sharing business for some time,” Peters said, speaking Tuesday at the 2023 Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference. According to Peters, Netflix “built an elegant solution” to address the issue of informing users who were piggybacking on someone else’s account that they would need to pay for their own plan (or get added as an “extra member” for an additional fee).

Another season of “The Crown”, another big wedding.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are enjoying a fun night out!

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor It’s the end of the podcast road for Jemele Hill and Spotify, as they have agreed to end their partnership. Hill, an award-winning journalist, author and cultural commentator, launched her podcast “Jemele Hill Is Unbothered” on Spotify in April 2019.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Max, taking a page from Netflix, is giving subscribers insight into daily top-trending movies and TV shows on the platform. Warner Bros. Discovery launched the new Max top 10 lists on Thursday, beginning in the U.S.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Elon Musk’s X, the service formerly known as Twitter, will again begin accepting political advertising — with some caveats. In a blog post Tuesday, X said, “Building on our commitment to free expression, we are also going to allow political advertising,” beginning in the U.S.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor OnlyFans, the subscription platform that caters to sexually explicit content creators, reported $5.55 billion in total spending by users for the fiscal year ended Nov. 30, 2022, up 17% from the year prior, with creators taking home nearly $4.5 billion of that. U.K.-based OnlyFans generated a pre-tax net profit of $525 million for the most recent fiscal year, up 21% on an annual basis, according to a regulatory filing Thursday by parent company Fenix International.

Prince William has faced criticism from football fans after he failed to attend the Women's World Cup final, which saw England's Lionesses face off against the Spanish team on Sunday, 20 August. Despite a valiant effort, the Lionesses were beaten 1-0 by Spain in a tense clash. However, they’re still being lauded for changing the face of women’s football - and for being the first England team to make a World Cup Final since 1966.

Kristin Chenoweth is enduring a painful loss. The 55-year-old Broadway star took to Instagram over the weekend to share that her biological mother, Lynn, has died. «The angel that brought me into this world has passed.

Former Love Island stars Jessie Wynter and Will Young have sparked engagement rumours after she posed with a ring during a romantic trip to Ibiza.The pair met on the hit series of the show last year and hit it off straight away after Jessie was introduced as a bombshell into the famous villa. Since exiting the show the pair have been living their best life and have travelled extensively across some beautiful parts of Europe. But in recent snaps the pair have seen speculation arise that there could be wedding bells in the not too distant future after a ring was spotted on the finger of the Aussie-born Jessie.Taking to Instagram to share snaps from their luscious trip to Ibiza the Aussie personal trainer wrote: "WE ARE IN IBIZAAAA! I can’t believe it, a girl from small Tasmania traveling Europe, living the dream.

Dua Lipa is stepping out for the day with her boyfriend Romain Gavras and friends.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Elon Musk set off a firestorm Friday by announcing that Twitter, now called X, would “delete” the service’s longstanding user-blocking feature — raising the prospect that, as a result, the app could be booted from Apple and Google’s app stores. “Block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature’, except for DMs,” Musk wrote.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor In this week’s podcast news roundup, Hallmark sets its first-ever scripted podcast, a “romance mystery” starring Malinda Williams, Amanda Seales and Keith D. Robinson; Ron Howard executive produces an improv workplace comedy with iHeart; Audible and the Obamas’ Higher Ground launch “Your Mama’s Kitchen,” in which guests tell host Michele Norris about… their mama’s kitchen; ex-UTA agent Jed Baker launched kids and family podcast network Starglow Media; and more.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Comedian Chris Gethard, after more than seven years and almost 400 episodes of his “Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People,” has taken the podcast independent. Previously, Gethard’s weekly podcast — also known as “Beautiful/Anonymous” — had been produced with and distributed by SiriusXM’s Earwolf comedy podcast network ever since he launched it in 2016.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Netflix, two years after initially launching a selection of games on mobile devices, is kicking the tires on letting customers play titles on computers and internet TVs. The company announced that is is rolling out a limited beta test to a “small number” of members in Canada and the U.K. on select TVs starting Monday (Aug.

A new Netflix documentary about the life and career of cycling legend Mark Cavendish has left viewers in tears.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Italian officials are open to the the country hosting a charity cage match between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg — seemingly moving closer to reality the is-it-a-joke-or-isn’t-it fight that would pit the tech world’s billionaire tech barons against each other. However, contrary to Musk’s latest claim that the cage match will be set in “ancient Rome,” Italy’s minister of culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano, said such an event will not be held in Rome. “I had a long and friendly conversation with Elon Musk,” Sangiuliano said in a statement Friday (per Google’s translation).

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Zoom changed its terms of service to say that it won’t use any customer content — at all — in training generative artificial intelligence models. The update, which the videoconference company announced Friday, comes after observers raised the alarm about a recent change in Zoom’s TOS that appeared to grant the company royalty-free rights in perpetuity for customer video calls and presentations for the purposes of training AI models.