Roku Userbase Grows to 43 Million Active Accounts

James McClain An elegant mansion in a particularly celebrity-favored pocket of L.A.’s Brentwood neighborhood has sold for $16.5 million in an all-cash deal.

 First Lady Melania Trump  officially reopened the White House Rose Garden on Saturday, Aug. 22.

#metoo (a brilliant communication tool, not a movement) from Tarana. You co-opted my movement, the Cultural Reset, for fame, jealous of me for outing my rapist.

The feud longtime feud between Charmed alums Rose McGowan, 46, and Alyssa Milano, 47, is making headlines once again. Rose responded to Alyssa’s series of tweets defending the Democratic party, accusing her former on-screen sister of making The WB set “toxic” behind the scenes.

Alyssa Milano is calling out Rose McGowan over her political comments.

Actress/activist Rose McGowan and her former "Charmed" co-star Alyssa Milano had a nasty Twitter feud on Friday night, accusing her ex-castmate of stealing the #MeToo movement. McGowan has been outspoken with her fierce condemnation of Joe Biden and the Democratic Party in various tweets amid this week's Democratic Convention, calling the candidate and the party "monsters" and "frauds." "What have the Democrats done to solve ANYTHING?" McGowan asked late Thursday night.

They may be sisters on the small screen, but these actresses have an icy relationship in real life. Charmed co-stars Rose McGowan, 46, and Alyssa Milano, 47, are still on bad terms, proven by their latest Twitter exchange on Aug.

Alyssa Milano is calling out her former Charmed co-star Rose McGowan for falsely claiming that the Democrats have achieved nothing.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterSeth MacFarlane and Chadwick Boseman are teaming as executive producers on a limited series about the Little Rock Nine that is currently in development at Universal Content Productions (UCP).The untitled series is set in 1957 after the landmark Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education.

Twitter has started labeling the accounts of "state-affiliated media" companies and has committed itself to stop amplifying their tweets via its recommendation system, notifications and search function on its site. Among the accounts to be labeled as "state-affiliated media" are Russian media companies RT and Sputnik and Chinese companies Xinhua News, People's Daily, CGTN and Global Times.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorRoku smashed Wall Street analysts’ consensus estimate for revenue in the second quarter, reporting a jump of 42% from a year ago to $356.1 million.Analysts had expected $315.4 million.The company now has 43 million active accounts, a rise of 41% over the same period in 2019. The Roku Channel, a key part of the company’s strategy to serve as a comprehensive streaming enabler, grew to reach households with an estimated 43 million viewers in the quarter.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorRoku, helped again by stay-at-home streaming during the coronavirus pandemic, topped Wall Street earnings estimates for the second quarter of 2020 and saw streaming hours skyrocket a whopping 65% year over year.Roku added 3.2 million incremental active accounts in Q2 to reach 43 million, while streaming hours increased by 2.3 billion hours over last quarter to 14.6 billion.“Roku and our partners also saw a surge in growth for AVOD, SVOD and TVOD services during

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has put together a monstrous package around the satirical Simon Rich New Yorker short story Everyday Parenting Tips that has Rich scripting for Ryan Reynolds to star and Paddington‘s Paul King to direct.

Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson, RedBird Capital and Dany Garcia, Johnson's ex-wife and business partner, teamed up to purchase the XFL for approximately $15 million just hours before the once-bankrupt league was set for auction. RedBird Capital is an investment firm that focuses on providing flexible and long-term capital to help entrepreneurs grow their businesses, and the XFL will be its latest challenge.

Rose McGowan, 46, gave Charmed fans a special treat when she held an Instagram Live chat reunion with her former co-star Holly Marie Combs, 46, and went into never-before-known details about the show and its other stars Alyssa Milano, 47, and Shannen Doherty, 49. Alyssa and Shannen, who are known for having a feud with each other, came up in the conversation when a fan asked if the women “really hated each other.” Rose didn’t hesitate to respond and set the record straight with the truth.

“He would lift all the weans in and sit them behind the wheel. “He said we were the first local group to have him as a personality and if ever Creetown Gala needed his help we were just to contact the family.“We never have done.”

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentThe Riga International Film Festival in Latvia is set to host Magnetic Series, a Nordic industry platform dedicated to drama series and streamers for the Nordic region, Russia, Germany and Greenland. Magnetic Series, which will be running Oct 16 only, will have a hybrid format allowing Baltic and Nordic producers to pitch their episodic content in person or online.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorSpotify’s user and subscriber growth came in at the top end of expectations, but the company’s bottom line was hit by a 48% increase in operating costs from stock-related compensation charges. In addition, ad revenue fell 21% — which Spotify blamed on the coronavirus pandemic — but the drop wasn’t quite as bad as forecast.Total monthly active users grew 29%, to 299 million, and Spotify Premium subscribers globally grew 27%, to 138 million.