With worries about the impact of a global tariffs war, recession fears and stock market volatility, where should media and entertainment investors put their money in such tumultuous times? Morgan Stanley analyst Benjamin Swinburne recommends […]
Georg Szalai
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It has taken a few years, but more legacy Hollywood studios’ streaming businesses have started turning annual profits, with the rest touting progress toward that goal. Netflix, crowned on Wall Street as the undisputed king of streaming, […]
Global streaming giants didn’t mince their words on Thursday when they reacted to a call from a U.K. parliamentary committee for a levy of 5 percent of U.K. subscriber revenue on foreign streaming services, including […]
“Urgent action” is needed “to protect distinctly British content,” the Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the House of Commons of the U.K. parliament has concluded after holding an inquiry via a series of hearings. In […]
The Beijing International Film Festival has unveiled the 15 titles that will screen in the Forward Future section of its 15th edition later this month. The Forward Future section, launched in 2014, is dedicated to discovering […]
Comcast has hired former DirecTV and Apple executive Jon Gieselman to take on the newly created role of chief growth officer for the residential domestic businesses of its Connectivity & Platforms unit that reaches more […]
Anne-Marie Duff (Bad Sisters) is really happy that her latest project, the revenge thriller series Reunion, set in the deaf community and debuting in the U.K. on Monday, is airing on public broadcaster BBC and its iPlayer […]
Will streaming platforms take a hit from a Squid Game-style tariffs war kicked off by Donald Trump? Or will Netflix & Co. be mostly spared from the roiling disruption throughout the global economy? One of […]
Bestseller author Harlan Coben (The Stranger, Missing You, Stay Close) is launching his new novel, Nobody’s Fool, on Tuesday. What may surprise some fans is where the inspiration for it came from. “This new book […]
Netflix chairman and co-founder Reed Hastings has donated $50 million to launch the Hastings Initiative for AI and Humanity at Bowdoin College in Maine at a time when artificial intelligence continues to be a hot-button […]
Paramount+, the streaming service of Paramount Global, will launch two new subscription tiers in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, namely its basic (with ads) and premium plans. They will join the standard tier in the three countries. […]
“There’s an epidemic of knife crime amongst young, young lads … up and down the country.” That’s how British star Stephen Graham (Bodies, Boiling Point) describes the origins of the idea for his Netflix crime […]
Austrian writer-director Bernhard Wenger‘s feature directing debut Peacock dissects the themes of identity and self-presentation in the age of social media but it doesn’t hit you over the head with a hammer. Actually, it doesn’t […]
Warner Bros. Discovery, led by CEO David Zaslav, reported on Thursday that it ended 2024 with 116.9 million global streaming subscribers, compared with 110.5 million as of the end of September. The figures include subs for […]
Warner Bros. Discovery‘s streamer Max, which just unveiled its Australia launch date, and Fox Corp.’s Tubi were in focus at MIP London on Wednesday, with a focus on their U.K. strategies. Leah Hooper Rosa, executive […]
China and collaborations with Chinese partners in the TV space were in the focus at MIP London on Tuesday as a session entitled “In Partnership With China: Trends, Challenges & Strategies” explored opportunities and hurdles. […]
Netflix has committed to invest $1 billion in Mexico for the production of series and films over the next four years, meaning from 2025 through 2028, co-CEO Ted Sarandos said during a press conference with […]
Spanish-language media giant TelevisaUnivision reported a 2 percent U.S. revenue gain to $835.5 million for the fourth quarter of 2024 and a 5 percent U.S. subscription and licensing revenue improvement to $346.5 million. The company, led by […]
Mao Zedong, Socrates, Mickey Mouse, Ayn Rand, elephants, and echoes of Monty Python in a Dadaist animation film – that is one way to describe Mexican filmmaker Aria Covamonas’ first feature, The Great History of […]