A last-minute agreement between the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) helped avert a strike that would have shut down Hollywood: The...
Read MoreScreen Queensland CEO Kylie Munnich said the new Cairns film and TV studio will attract productions from around Australia and around the globe, while building on Screen Queensland’s history of supporting the Far North Queensland...
Read MoreNetflix estimates that its latest megahit, “Squid Game,” will create almost $900 million in value for the company, according to figures seen by Bloomberg, underscoring the windfall that one megahit can generate in the streaming...
Read MoreRatcheting up the stakes in an already tense labor battle, members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) have voted to authorize union President Matthew Loeb to call a strike, the group announced...
Read MoreApple, signaling its major entertainment-industry ambitions, is significantly boosting its L.A. footprint: The tech giant said it’s building two new facilities, along the border of Culver City and the City of Los Angeles, that...
Read MoreNetflix’s global TV head, Bela Bajaria, says her colleagues at Netflix Korea, under the guidance of regional content chief Minyoung Kim, had long expected big things from Squid Game, particularly when the first footage started...
Read MoreThe aspect ratio isn’t a new problem for Seinfeld fans, dating back to the original HD remaster that was produced in 2008 for TBS HD’s syndicated reruns, which were newly made scans of the original film (hence the ability to add...
Read MoreAfter COVID stalled nearly all productions last year, Netflix is expected to boost content spending on an amortized basis by a healthy 26% in 2021 to $13.6 billion — and the streamer’s budget could hit $18.9 billion by 2025, as...
Read MoreThe company acquired comics creator Mark Millar’s MillarWorld in 2017 — the value of that deal was pegged at between $30 million and $50 million — and acquired the kids brand StoryBots in 2019 (for a price that was “immaterial...
Read MoreReelgood released two charts on September 14 th that show how much SVOD content overlap there is between the top 9 services in the US. Hulu’s catalog of TV shows is three times large than Peacock’s (at least, according to...
Read More(Reminder: The streaming ratings report compiles data from Nielsen’s weekly top ten viewership ranks, Netflix datecdotes, Top Ten lists, Google Trends and IMDb to determine the most popular content. is even smaller at 31 minutes...
Read MoreAmpere Analysis created its Critical Rating score to track the popularity of shows and movies. The data that crosses my desk does not support the idea that Netflix’s original content is bad at all.
Read MoreShowing the growing power of the SVOD leader in the film sector, a study from Ampere Analysis has estimated that roughly a quarter of titles released in the last five years expected to achieve long term popularity are Netflix...
Read MoreThe past few years have seen ad-supported video on-demand (AVOD) services increasingly finding success in competing for viewing time, amongst a crowded streaming market which has generally been dominated by the paid subscription...
Read MoreThe Roku Channel is snatching up the recently canceled NBC comedy “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” for a new holiday special, which will be first original feature-length film. That connection with the audience is what makes...
Read MoreThe BBC and Netflix will consider projects from UK producers that have been created or co-created by writers who identify as deaf, disabled and/or neurodivergent. The BBC and Netflix have formed a groundbreaking partnership to...
Read MoreA spokesperson at Foxtel told Mumbrella: “The Foxtel Group is a committed local champion for Australian stories and voices in all genres – drama, lifestyle, factual, sports and news. “More than anything else, it is the decrease...
Read MoreFour of the major SVOD platforms – Amazon Prime, Disney, Netflix, and Stan – spent more than $260 million collectively on Australian programming in 2019-20, according to data from the ACMA. The ACMA report comes a week after The...
Read MoreLocal titles, led by huge hits like Beijing Culture’s Hi, Mom ($822.1 million) and Bona Film Group’s Chinese Doctors ($197 million), collectively earned $3.9 billion at China’s box office from Jan. 1-July 31, considerably better...
Read MoreThe data shows that global streaming platforms Amazon Prime, Disney+, and Netflix, as well as Nine-owned local platform Stan, spent over $153 million combined on Australian programming in 2019 and 2020. The ACMA broke down...
Read More(The Writers Guild of America minimum for a TV staff writer is $5,069 per week, not to mention the $100 million contracts signed by top showrunners like Ryan Murphy and Shonda Rhimes.) It’s about opening up an industry that has...
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