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Daily Archives: January 23, 2025
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The Recruit Season 2 is almost here and we can feel the chaos beginning to set in. More than two years after Noah Centineo‘s action series released its first season on Netflix, the show is […]
When it comes to this year’s Oscar nominations, the love was spread across the distributor scoreboard, from legacy Hollywood studios and their specialty divisions, to streamers and maverick indie distributors. Netflix walked away with the […]
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and what better way to celebrate the season of love than by snuggling up with your significant other and watching a romantic movie or show on Netflix? While […]
The Wild Robot soared to No. 1 at the box office last September — and now the family-friendly movie has scored three Oscar nominations, including for best animated feature film. DreamWorks Animation and Universal’s film […]
If you’re a Netflix subscriber, expect your monthly subscription plan to increase in price very soon. On Tuesday, Netflix said it’s raising the prices for nearly every one of its streaming subscription tiers in the […]
Paramount+’s February slate includes the return of several highly anticipated series, starting with the season three premiere of thriller Yellowjackets (Feb. 14). The show, which received a handful of Primetime Emmy nominations, follows a group […]
For those who want to watch Twin Peaks following the death of co-creator David Lynch, it’s not going to be easy. Premiering in 1990 on ABC, the series follows an investigation led by Kyle MacLachlan’s […]
Christmas week brought a bounty of viewing to streaming platforms, with eight titles crossing the billion-minute mark in Nielsen’s streaming ratings. Netflix’s Squid Game, however, stood well apart from the pack. The Korean hit posted […]
Novak Djokovic is set to face Alexander Zverev in the 2025 Australian Open semi-final, aiming for a record 25th Grand Slam title. Tennis fans can watch Djokovic vs Zverev from anywhere with a VPN and […]
The Wild Robot just picked up three Oscar nominations for best animated film, best sound and best original score, and you can stream the 2024 flick about a marooned machine on Peacock tomorrow. The animated […]
The Night Agent Season 2 went out with quite the cliffhanger — one that finds Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Bass) once again waiting for a phone to ring. This time, however, he’s not in the White House […]
Table of Contents The nominations for the 2025 Oscars are now live. Netflix’s Emilia Pérez asserted its dominance with 13 Oscar nominations, one short of the record shared by All About Eve, Titanic, and La La Land. The […]
NBCUniversal’s long-awaited restructure is now official. Donna Langley, Chief Content Officer and Chairman, NBCUniversal Studio Group and Matt Strauss, Chairman of NBCUniversal Media Group have restructured their teams after their promotions last year. For Langley, […]
American cinephiles everywhere just added a new movie to their watch list: I’m Still Here, the Brazilian drama that nabbed a surprise bid for Best Picture in the 2025 Oscar nominations this morning. But before […]
Prime Video has ordered a four-part docu-series on Blake Robbins, the Pennsylvania student who filed a lawsuit against his prestigious public school for allegedl spying on him when he was accused of selling drugs. Spy […]
The new Lucy Liu horror movie, Presence, is going to be, well, present in movie theaters this weekend. Directed by Steven Soderbergh, with a screenplay by David Koepp (who also collaborated with Soderbergh on the […]
Table of Contents Netflix has one of the best movie libraries in streaming, if not the best. Often considered the king of streamers, Netflix has a strong collection of pictures, both original and acquired, that […]
Listen, there’s a lot going on right now, and it may feel indulgent to get excited about something frivolous like the Academy Awards. But watching movies is self-care, and trying to catch up on the […]
Each month, great movies come to the best streaming services. But, sadly, each month we also lose great movies when they leave these platforms. This month we’re losing Parasite from Max, and given it’s one […]
Inspiration teacher stories will never go out of style, as proved by the upcoming Jared Harris movie, Brave the Dark, opening in theaters this weekend. Directed by Damian Harris (who is Jared Harris’s brother)—and with […]
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has added Seoyeon Jang (Butterfly), William Fichtner (Mom, The Talamasca), Mikaela Hoover (Superman, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3) and musician BM — in his acting debut — to the Season 2 cast […]
Mel Gibson’s so-called movie jail continues to be lenient, because the director is once again back with a new action blockbuster starring Mark Wahlberg, aka Flight Risk, which opens in movie theaters this weekend. Flight […]
Image: The Verge CNN is developing a new streaming service — and it sounds a lot like the one it shut down nearly three years ago. In an internal memo shared with The Verge, CNN […]
Emilia Pérez led the pack with 13 Oscar nominations Thursday, allowing Netflix to claim bragging rights as the year’s most-nominated distributor for a second year in a row. France’s Spanish-language International Feature entry became the […]
A post-Venu pay-TV landscape is beginning to take shape, with Comcast Xfinity launching a new skinny (or at least skinnier) streaming bundle of channels focused on sports and news programming. The offering, Sports & News […]
Sports streaming bundles are on the rise, and Comcast is now joining the game. Launching Thursday, the company is offering Xfinity Sports & News TV, a new package that includes more than 50 channels and […]
The notion that all the best horror is deeply rooted in reality is certainly debatable. After all, sometimes it’s the alienness of a horror movie that gives it power, forcing us to fit its strangeness […]
Severance is back, baby! And though we’re only one episode into Season 2, we can barely remember life without it. After an agonizing three-year wait for new episodes, Apple TV+‘s hit workplace thriller returned with […]
Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images Comcast is launching a $70 per month “Sports & News TV” streaming bundle featuring live games from the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, and NCAA. The package, which marks the latest […]
The 2025 Oscar nominations have been confirmed. After multiple delays (due to the ongoing wildfires impacting Southern California), Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott took to the stage to announce this year’s crop of hopefuls competing […]
CNN is cutting about 200 jobs as it focuses on a digital future, the network announced today, while its CEO Mark Thompson unveiled plans for a new subscription streaming service. In a memo to staffers, […]
CNN on Thursday announced major layoffs and a new strategic plan, in a post-election maneuver meant to help transform the cable channel during a challenging time for the media business. CNN CEO Mark Thompson announced […]
“The Traitors” is a genuine television phenomenon. Ever since the first season launched on Peacock in February 2023, viewers have been delighting in each dramatic twist and unexpected banishment as a group of “faithfuls” attempt […]
BBC Gives First Peak At ‘Walking With Dinosaurs’ Revival Here’s a first look at Walking with Dinosaurs, as the BBC brings back the hit natural history show after a 25-year hiatus. Check out pic above as the […]
Prime Video is shifting a greater share of its overall TV spend to Britain, according to Amazon UK boss Chris Bird. Bird was speaking on a Royal Television Society (RTS) panel predicting the year in […]
Netflix’s “Emilia Pérez” exists between two extremes. In recent weeks, my social media feed has been rife with jokes at the flick’s expense — with a particularly infamous musical number becoming something of a meme […]
The Netflix movie library is always churning, and while that means that new flicks are being added at a regular clip, it also means that every month subscribers have to wave goodbye to a few […]
Scientists say that our universe is constantly expanding. But some universes should know when to quit, as evidenced by the first television film (well, technically streaming film) and the fourteenth overall in the venerable Star […]
Netflix legal drama The Lincoln Lawyer just got a big update. Just a few months after Season 3 dropped, the streaming giant has announced that the Manuel Garcia-Rulfo-led series has been renewed for a fourth […]
For the first time, three streaming services (Netflix, Max and Paramount+) have earned duPont-Columbia Awards, broadcasting’s equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes, in a single year. Columbia Journalism School announced the 16 winners of the 2025 […]
UPDATED: 5:10 PM: Warner Bros Discovery‘s lawsuit against over South Park streaming rights looks like it’s headed to trial. In a legal win for WBD, a Manhattan judge ruled today that defendant Paramount Global might […]