Soccer Streaming Platform FIFA Plus Launches, Will Have 40,000 Live Games Annually

Marcelo Cajueiro Rio2C 2022, one of Latin America’s largest entertainment industry trade meet wrapped May 1 reflecting the huge competition between streaming players in Brazil, the region’s main market.The first in-person Rio2C since 2019 featured sessions with over 200 market players, including Netflix, Prime Video, Disney Plus, HBO Max and local giant Globoplay, which are said to figure in this order on informal Brazil’s SVOD market rankings, as companies do not disclose subscription figures.Even though Brazil has a population of 214 million, only about 20 million pay for video content, noted Fabio Lima, founder and CEO of local Sofa Digital, a VOD aggregator. It is not for lack of interest – 100 million Brazilians or more watch free-of-charge videos on YouTube and telenovelas on free-to-air TV –  but of money, in a country where income is highly concentrated and the majority of the population has to cope with severe economic crisis. “In order to break this 20 million growth barrier, streaming companies will have to offer Brazilian content in Portuguese with extremely high appeal for the local audiences,” Lima told Variety.He speculated that the favorite genre could be an evolution of  telenovelas, which have a long tradition in Brazil dating back to radio dramas.

Harry Styles is on track to be Number 1 for the fifth consecutive week with As It Was this Friday.

Studio brass wowed theater owners this week with Maverick: Top Gun, Avatar: The Way of Water and Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse among other tentpoles. But they were also clear at the just-wrapped CinemaCon that a reviving box office requires a wide breadth of content.

Guy Lodge Film CriticAt a crucial point in “Firebird,” two perfectly chiseled servicemen steal away from the Soviet Air Force base where they’re stationed for a skinny dip in the Baltic Sea. Behind craggy rocks and away from prying eyes, they kiss, before one gives the other a charged underwater handjob; as they jointly climax, director Peeter Rebane cuts to an image of two fighter jets blazing overhead, the lovers’ clenched moans drowned in a roaring sonic boom.

Love Island star Tyne-Lexy Clarson has had a scare after her beloved mum Tracey Clarson had a heart attack. Unfortunately, the reality TV beauty was on holiday in Spain and found herself stuck abroad when her mum went into hospital for emergency treatment without her daughter by her side. After finally being able to get back to the UK, the 25 year old shared a series of updates on her first visit with her mum and gave an update on her condition.

Guy Lodge Film CriticWhat comes to mind when you picture the likely protagonist of a film titled “Anaïs in Love?” If it’s not a flighty, free-spirited young Frenchwoman, cycling around Paris with flowers in her bike basket, completing a Masters literature thesis (long past deadline) on “17th-century descriptions of passion,” and wearing bright floral sundresses in all weathers, you’ve tried too hard to avoid the obvious — not something you could easily accuse Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s blithe, gossamer-light debut feature of doing in imagining said heroine. Is it too on the nose if she’s played by reliably winsome starlet Anaïs Demoustier? Don’t answer that: she is.At first rosy blush, then, “Anaïs in Love” appears to gently parody an idealized screen vision of Gallic femininity (a manic pixie dream fille of sorts) that has endured in various incarnations from the French New Wave to “Amelie” and beyond.

We first meet the intriguing heroine of “Anaïs in Love,” appropriately enough, when she's rushing. The opening scene of the French romantic comedy has her running down a Paris street with a bouquet of flowers.She's late, which is a constant thing.

MONSTA X have returned with a stunning music video for ‘Love’, the title track of their newly-released mini-album ‘Shape Of Love’.In the new visual, the boyband showcase their duality on a fashion runway-inspired set, showing off their vibrant streetwear outfits. They later dress up in extravagant, glittery tuxedos, taking the stage to perform to the groovy new track.“You’re my love, it started at the first sight / Cuz you’re my, cuz you’re my love for me, baby / Finding love, I can’t hide anything from you / Cuz you’re my, cuz you’re my love for me, baby,” they sing on the chorus.‘Shape Of Love’ arrives half a year after MONSTA X released their tenth Korean mini-album ‘No Limit’ and their sophomore English album ‘The Dreaming’.

Sigur Rós have announced the Asia leg of their upcoming world tour.The Asia leg of the upcoming tour will take place in August with shows in Singapore, South Korea, Japan and Thailand. Venues have yet to be confirmed for the band’s concerts in Seoul, South Korea and Bangkok, Thailand.Posted by Sigur Rós on Monday, April 25, 2022The tour will see Sigur Rós perform in Singapore on August 17, with fan presales starting on Wednesday (April 27) and general tickets going on sale via Sistic this Friday (April 29).

EXCLUSIVE: New Line has picked up the rights to Rebecca Serle’s New York Times bestselling novel In Five Years for HBO Max and set No Good Deed scribe Aimee Lagos to adapt. Working Title’s Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will produce.

Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury are some of the UK’s most successful influencers, and Maura Higgins produced some of the most memorable meme fodder in Love Island history. But like every series, there were some that didn’t get a star on the Villa Walk of Fame, with the Casa Amor casualties most likely to disappear without a trace.

Neon said Wednesday that it has come aboard Fire of Love, Sara Dosa’s documentary that world premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival. That’s where Deadline boke the news that National Geographic Documentary Films acquired worldwide rights to the pic, which explores the lives and work of French volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft through rare archival footage.

Former Love Island contestant Anna Vakili has claimed that she was nearly arrested while on a trip to Iran after wearing jeans that were too tight. The TV personality, who’s recently spoken about her time on the show, made the admission on Johnny Seifert's Secure The Insecure podcast as she recalled how she was “dragged” into a police van. As she opened up about the experience, the 31 year old alleged that she “got arrested in Iran for wearing jeans”.

FIFA has announced an ambitious plan for its own streaming service app, a global, ad-supported platform that aims to feature up to 40,000 live matches in 2022 alone, the association announced Tuesday.Called FIFA+, the service will offer live domestic league games, match stats, a massive archive and premium original content. Soccer’s highest governing body will not feature World Cup games on the service, however.FIFA says the streams will cover more than 29,000 men’s and 11,000 women’s matches across 100 member associations and all six global confederations.