Killers of the Flower Moon is gearing up for its wide release!
09.08.2023 - 21:35 / variety.com
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Disney, trying to swing its streaming business into the black, has set substantial price hikes for Disney+ and Hulu standalone premium plans in the U.S. — while also rolling out a heavily discounted Disney+/Hulu ad-free combo bundle. As of Oct.
12, Disney+ Premium (with no ads) will jump 27%, rising from $10.99 to $13.99/month for U.S. customers. Hulu without ads will increase 20%, from $14.99 to $17.99/month.
The price for Disney+ and Hulu standalone ad-supported tiers will remain at $7.99/month each, and with the bundle still $9.99/month. In addition, the monthly price of the two Hulu + Live TV packages will each go up by $7 as of Oct. 12 (the plan with ads increases to $76.99; the tier with no ads on VOD rises to $89.99).
And ESPN+ pricing will increase by one dollar, from $9.99 to $10.99/month. Internationally, the company is set to expand Disney+ ad-supported plans to Canada, the U.K. and eight other European countries beginning Nov.
1. The monthly pricing will be $7.99 in Canada, £4.99 in the U.K. and €5.99 in the European markets (France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Norway, Sweden and Denmark).
According to Disney, in December 2023, it will increase subscription prices of Disney+ without ads in those markets. Since launching the ad-supported version of Disney+ in the U.S. in December 2022, the company has signed up 3.3 million customers for the plan, CEO Bob Iger said on the earnings call Wednesday.
Killers of the Flower Moon is gearing up for its wide release!
Hayley Williams is on the mend and in the studio. The Paramore singer offered a health update earlier this week after a lung infection derailed the band's recentThis Is Why tour.«We've been off the road for a couple weeks now… mainly in LA,» Williams wrote on Discord. «Thankfully got some down time but we put some work in too.
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Selena Gomez is back and on the attack. The 31-year-old pop star released an upbeat new dance track on Friday, putting a happy twist on the breakup anthem in «Single Soon.» In the song, Gomez plans to call it quits with her significant other over the phone or with a written note as she gears up for a wild girls night out with her friends. She even makes a playful reference, leaving a Post-It note that reads, «I'm sorry, I can't, don't hate me,» a la Jack Berger's (Ron Livingston) message to Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker).The fun, single vibe continued with -like visuals as Gomez prances around in a shimmery pink top, sky-high heels, and a feather coat.
This looks intense!!
Gisele Bundchen is celebrating Tom Brady‘s son Jack‘s birthday!
Wondering what’s up with Apple TV+’s Monsterverse spin-off from Legendary and Warner Bros’ feature films featuring Godzilla and Kong? Wait no longer; we finally have answers. Today, Apple TV+ announced the title of its highly anticipated sci-fi drama based on Legendary’s Monsterverse as “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.” Additionally, the streamer unveiled the first images from the 10-episode series starring Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell, Anna Sawai, Kiersey Clemons, Ren Watabe, Mari Yamamoto, Anders Holm, Joe Tippett, and Elisa Lasowski.
Wondering what’s up with Apple TV+’s Monsterverse spin-off from Legendary and Warner Bros’ feature films featuring Godzilla and Kong? Wait no longer; we finally have answers. Today, Apple TV+ announced the title of its highly anticipated sci-fi drama based on Legendary’s Monsterverse as “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.” Additionally, the streamer unveiled the first images from the 10-episode series starring Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell, Anna Sawai, Kiersey Clemons, Ren Watabe, Mari Yamamoto, Anders Holm, Joe Tippett, and Elisa Lasowski.
Rehearsals for the upcoming series of Strictly Come Dancing have kicked off, with the show's pro dancers being snapped leaving the studio following a hard day at work.The dancers all appeared in high spirits as Johannes Radebe led the way, just days after former celeb partner John Whaite opened up about how he "fell in love" with Johannes during his time on the show. Johannes was joined at the studio by his fellow professional dancers Neil Jones, Nancy Xu, Graziano Di Prima,Lauren Oakley, Dianne Buswell, Katya Jones, Nikita Kuzmin, and Karen Hauer.The pros will soon be paired up with a celeb partner, in the hopes of taking home the coveted glitterball trophy.
She has kept a relatively low profile this year while her husband has been involved with promotional activity for his memoir and upcoming Netflix documentaries. But now it looks as if the Duchess of Sussex could draw on her experiences of acting and the film industry to return to the bright lights of Hollywood in a move described as clever by a royal expert.
Katie Price has shown off the latest changes to her appearance after her candid chat about going to prison was heard for the first time. The former glamour model took to social media to debut her new look with a selection of glamorous photos.
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 Katie Drummond, formerly head of Vice Media’s global news and entertainment operations, is the new editorial director of Condé Nast’s Wired tech and culture publication. Drummond earlier this month left Vice after more than four years, along with other top editorial staffers, after the company exited bankruptcy and was sold to a consortium of its prior lenders. Drummond — the first woman to hold the top editorial post at Wired since it was launched in 1993 — replaces Gideon Lichfield, who announced his exit from the mag this May.
Get ready to pay more for Disney+ and Hulu if you’re a subscriber.
Disney is following through on stated plan to raise streaming prices (welcome news to investors if not to many consumers), as well as launching a bundled version of Disney+ and Hulu and expanding the ad-supported version of Disney+ to Europe and Canada.
Cynthia Littleton Business Editor The Walt Disney Co. saw its streaming losses narrow in the second quarter amid an exodus of 12.5 million subscribers from its Disney+ Hotstar streaming platform in India. For the quarter, Disney exceeded Wall Street’s targets on earnings per share but missed on revenue.
Arthouse Crunch Over the last decade, theatrical arthouse markets have imploded soufflé-like. “We used to make 5,000 admissions per title, now the target audience is 500,” Peter Bognar, at Hungary’s CinefilCo, told Variety at Locarno. So, to close the gap and move hopefully into a little upside, having tapped subsidies and local TV pre-buys, producers are looking ever more to overseas public-sector coin, channelled via international co-producer partners.
Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish isn’t ruling out the possibility of the company teaming with other players in the media space to create a more viable streaming bundle.