Oscar winner Florian Zeller (The Father), fresh off Venice Film Festival drama The Son, is launching production firm Blue Morning Pictures with backing from European studio Mediawan (Call My Agent).
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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefVietnamese pay-TV provider K+ is launching the HBO Go entertainment package on its platform. The bundle is being launched in time for viewers in Vietnam to catch the beginning of “House of the Dragon” and the second season of “Industry.” K+ is jointly owned by France’s Canal Plus group and by local firm VEV. It currently offers the K+SPORT1, K+SPORT2, K+CINE, K+LIFE, K+KIDS channels and a VoD library.
HBO Go is currently operational in eight East Asian territories where the new HBO Max offering has not yet been made available.The new HBO Go option is initially being offered as an VND34,000 ($1.45) per month add-on to the full K+ package. It is available for viewing via devices including set-top-decoders, mobile, web, tablets and Smart TV. It comprises two film channels (HBO and Cinemax) and thousands of hours of on demand content.
“House of the Dragon,” the prequel to “Game of Thrones,” will be released simultaneously with its North America upload. That translates as 8:00 a.m. Vietnam local time, every Monday from Aug.
22, 2022. “Our strategy for K+ in Vietnam is the same as that in all territories where we are operating, by bringing the best of sports, movies, series and local contents to our subscribers,” said Manuel Rougeron Canal+ International VP in charge of Asia & Pacific. “With this new partnership between K+ and MSKY, the local agent of Warner Bros Discovery which licenses HBO Go services in Vietnam, we continue to improve the value we offer to our customers by bringing them the best and most qualitative international series and movies in the world.”K+’s own content includes detective series “Scarlet Hill,” directed by Victor Vu, available as a VoD offering, and the recently
.Oscar winner Florian Zeller (The Father), fresh off Venice Film Festival drama The Son, is launching production firm Blue Morning Pictures with backing from European studio Mediawan (Call My Agent).
's latest episode will be reworked by HBO after eagle eyed fans spotted a significant visual effects error, sharing the moment far and wide on social media. In the prequel's third episode, titled «Second of His Name,» King Viserys (Paddy Considine) — who is missing two fingers on his left hand — is seen wearing highly visible green tape around those digits to have them digitally removed in post production. The mistake will be corrected, according to, with an edited version of the episode going to streaming platforms this week. Not the green screen glove on Viserys’s missing fingers
Getting her ass to work. Kim Kardashian has added another business venture to her ever-growing resume: SKKY Partners.
Steven Soderbergh is returning to the world of TV, and for his next project, “Full Circle,” the filmmaker is bringing along an actor he has previously worked with. According to Deadline, Zazie Beetz has been cast in the upcoming six-episode limited series, “Full Circle,” from filmmaker Steven Soderbergh. In the series, Beetz is expected to play an agent for the United States Postal Inspection Service.
Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer HBO drama chief Francesca Orsi has extended her contract with the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned pay TV channel through 2026, Variety has confirmed. As part of Orsi’s re-upped pact, she has been given the new title of executive vice president of HBO programming, head of HBO drama series and films. Orsi first joined HBO in 2003 as an executive assistant. She has been the solo head of drama series development and programming since her former co-head David Levine exited in February 2019. They were both appointed to the position originally in 2016. News that Orsi, a direct report to HBO and HBO Max content chief Casey Bloys, will be continuing her tenure at HBO comes on the heels of the enormous launch success for “Game of Thrones” prequel “House of the Dragon,” a series Orsi has played a big part in developing and marketing.
EXCLUSIVE: As she is getting ready to mark her 20th anniversary at HBO next year, Francesca Orsi has officially extended her contract at the premium network through 2026. Her new title is EVP, HBO Programming, Head of HBO Drama Series and Films.
UPI.Guidelines set forth by the ministry declare that education needs to be strengthened so that medical providers have the correct information about “lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people,” and that LGBTQ people should be treated equally in medical settings. The guidelines reiterate that LGBTQ identity cannot be treated as a disease, instructing health workers not to “interfere nor force treatment” on LGBTQ patients, and recommending that mental health services for LGBTQ people should be provided by people “who have the knowledge of sexual identity.”The announcement is seen as a “huge paradigm shift” in a nation where same-sex unions were banned until 2013 and where transgender identity was criminalized until 2015, and where the government-run media had, two decades ago, declared homosexuality to be a “social evil” comparable to prostitution, gambling, and drug use. Already, some LGBTQ advocates are hoping the declaration will make it easier to lobby for marriage rights or legal recognition for same-sex couples.“We cannot overstate how big a fix this announcement is,” Kyle Knight, an LGBTQ researcher at Human Rights Watch, told the English newspaper The Guardian.
To the surprise of no one, especially after the show debuted to the largest audience for an original series in the network’s history, HBO has renewed their “Game Of Thrones” prequel “House Of The Dragon” for a second season. The series premiere drew in nearly 10 million on Sunday night.
Margarethe von Trotta To Receive Lifetime Achievement Honor At The European Film Awards German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 35th European Film Awards. von Trotta will receive the honor at a ceremony in Reykjavik, Iceland, on December 10 where she will be an honorary guest. Born in Berlin and raised in Düsseldorf, von Trotta started her career as an actress, in theatre and appeared in films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Volker Schlöndorff before moving behind the camera in 1978 with The Second Awakening of Christa Klages, her solo debut as a director. In 1981, her film Marianne and Juliane about the “German Sisters” Christiane and Gudrun Ensslin won the Golden Lion in Venice as well as two German Film Awards and an Italian David di Donatello. Previous winners of the European Film Academy’s lifetime achievement award include Agnès Varda and Judi Dench.
is off to a flying start. HBO's prequel — set 200 years before Daenerys Targaryen's quest for the Iron Throne — scored nearly 10 million viewers in its Sunday night debut, making it the most highly-rated original new series premiere in the history of HBO. Officially, the cable network reports 9.986 million viewers across both linear and HBO Max streaming platforms in the United States on Sunday night -- even as the streaming app crashed on Amazon Fire TV devices, leaving a portion of potential viewers in the dark. A press release from HBO indicates that Sunday's viewership is expected to make up just a small portion — 20 to 40 percent — of the show's total gross audience. While a direct comparison would be impossible to nail down -- due in part to shifting landscapes in streaming and evolving fandoms — the and both note that first season premiered to 4.2 million viewers in 2011, while its eighth and final season premiere was watched by a record-setting 17.9 million people in 2019. brings to life George R.R.
History was made at HBO with the debut of House of the Dragon. The Game of Thrones prequel drew 9.986 million viewers across linear and HBO Max platforms in the U.S. Sunday, the largest audience for any new original series in the history of pay cabler.
HBO Max launched a new limited-time deal for new and returning customers. The streaming service is offering 30% off a one-year subscription when signing up and prepaying the full year. If you've been waiting for an opportunity to catch up on HBO Max's Emmy-winning show and the new prequel series , then this might be it. With the HBO Max deal, you can sign up for a year of the ad-free plan for $104.99 (regularly $149.99) or get HBO Max with ads for $69.99 (regularly $99.99). Compared with the streamer's regular month-to-month pricing, the discount represents a 42% savings. HBO Max’s latest offer is good for a single year’s subscription and after the 12-month discount period, subscriptions will auto-renew at the regular subscription price. Don't miss out on this limited-time deal to sign up for a discounted HBO Max yearly subscription before the promotion ends on October 30, 2022. When you sign up for 12 months of HBO Max, you save over 40% compared to a month-by-month plan.
Sunday night at 9:00 pm Eastern Standard time the long-awaited Game Of Thrones prequel titled ‘House Of The Dragon’ premiered on HBO Max. Fans of Games of Thrones have been looking forward to new content for a very long time as the original show ended on May 19th, 2019.
“House of the Dragon” on Sunday evening — but some viewers were in for an infuriating night when the much-anticipated 10-episode series finally dropped after months of hype.So many fans were trying to stream the show simultaneously — that HBO Max actually crashed. This led to thousands of users not being able to watch the first episode.Many subscribers reportedly fell victim to the streamer’s app fizzling out, with the website outage service Down Detector reporting that there were at about 3,000 blackouts between 8:40 p.m. and 9:25 p,.m.
prequel,, premiered on Sunday, several beloved alumni could be spotted in a star-studded new mega trailer for the network's upcoming slate of programming. Most notably, perhaps: Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey in brand new footage for their new series, . The show, based on the 2013 video game of the same name, will debut next year and follows a smuggler (Pascal) as he's tasked with escorting a teenage girl (Ramsey) through a post-apocalyptic world.
The upcoming 53rd season will be available on the streaming service, the outlet reported.HBO and “Sesame Street” joined forces in 2015, which gave the streaming service priority to air all new episodes first, before it can be seen on the show’s longtime home, PBS. This agreement is effective until The “Sesame Street” cut comes after HBO made an announcement on Wednesday saying that at least 36 additional shows will be leaving the platform this week. That includes 20 HBO original shows, as well as “Generation,” “Infinity Train,” and earlier this month, all eight of the “Harry Potter” films were axed.Warner Bros.
All eyes are on our HBO tonight. Its new flagship show, “House Of Dragon,” its critical new “Game Of Thrones” spin-off, the first one since the hit series went off the air, premieres tonight (read our review, spoiler alert, it’s pretty good).
Jennie Kim is making her HBO debut!
Zac Efron is on a mission to bring cases of beer overseas to his friends serving in the Vietnam War in his new movie, "The Greatest Beer Run Ever." The first trailer for Apple TV+‘s wartime comedy - based on a true story - gives a sneak peek at Efron’s role as Chickie Donohue, a real-life hero who traveled from New York to the front lines of the Vietnam War to gift soldiers American beer. The film features Hollywood stars Russell Crowe and Bill Murray, and is based on the New York Times bestseller "The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War" by Donohue and J.T. Molloy. Zac Efron is on a mission to bring cases of beer overseas, to his friends serving in the Vietnam War. (Apple TV+) "The Greatest Beer Run Ever" is set in 1967 and focuses on Donahue's plan to support his friends fighting in Vietnam by personally bringing them beer.
Zac Efron has a little freak out in the trenches in the new trailer for his new movie, The Greatest Beer Run Ever.