Frozen II exceeded box office expectations this weekend on its way to a record-breaking $127 million opening in the United States. In total, it grossed $350 million worldwide in its first three days since debuting Nov. 22—the biggest global opening of all time for an animated film, not adjusted for inflation.
In The Mandalorian on Disney+, the titular bounty hunter takes out a group of irksome Jawas with his blaster rifle, then scales their massive Sandcrawler vehicle with a grappling hook while it bumps across the Arvala-7 desert.
Five years ago, only 14% of US television episodes were directed by women. Today, that number has more than doubled.
Jordan or LeBron? Montana or Brady? Jennings, Rutter, or Holzhauer? Some debates about the greatest ever will never be answered definitively. But the greatest Jeopardy! player of all time will be settled in a television event for the ages.
With rapturous reviews and a growing drumbeat of Oscar buzz, The Irishman is probably the best film Robert De Niro has been in since Goodfellas in 1990. What happened to the venerable American actor’s career in the intervening years, however, was not so spectacular.
Apple wants its new streaming service to be like the high quality offerings of HBO under its former CEO, Richard Plepler. What better way to do that than to hire Richard Plepler?
From its beloved global brand to its library of popular titles, Disney is well positioned to take on Netflix over the future of streaming entertainment. But first, its new service has to work.
Boba Fett is dead, swallowed by a Sarlacc on Tatooine. But the legacy of the cult favorite Star Wars character lives on—and Disney’s new streaming service hinges on that legacy being a major draw for subscribers.
The streaming wars have begun and there’s suddenly a lot more TV to watch: Apple’s new service, Apple TV+, launched Nov. 1. Disney’s offering, Disney+, debuts Nov. 12. NBCUniversal’s Peacock and WarnerMedia’s HBO Max will be available in April and May, respectively.
Disney’s fiscal-year fourth-quarter earnings report was a good one for the entertainment giant. Shares were up about 4% in after-hours trading today (Nov. 7) after the company announced it beat expectations on earnings per share and revenue.
Martin Scorsese is sad.
Netflix already lets users skip the intro credits to its shows. Now the streaming service will let you skip through some actual content—in one comedy special, at least.
This week, Netflix released the trailer for its upcoming fantasy series The Witcher. Reactions were positive: Wired called it “shockingly good,” while commenters across social media praised the look of the series—especially the chiseled physique of lead actor Henry Cavill.
The HBO you’re used to could soon be a thing of the past.
In the cosmic battle for Hollywood talent, Netflix secured a significant victory over the Disney empire.
AT&T lost more than a million TV subscribers in the third quarter this year, the company reported today (Oct. 28). It was the seventh straight quarter in which AT&T lost more TV customers than it did in the quarter before.
The age of the $15-million-per-episode TV series has already come and gone. We’re now entering the era of the $25 million show.
More than 1.5 million people watched the premiere of HBO’s critically acclaimed new series Watchmen. Alan Moore was not one of them.
Netflix wants investors to know that they shouldn’t sweat the imminent arrival of streaming services from Disney, Apple, WarnerMedia, and NBCUniversal.
Very little about HBO’s Watchmen is safe.
Quartz culture editor Oliver Staley and entertainment reporter Adam Epstein discuss this fall’s television season, touching on the new shows to look out for, the imminent launches of Disney+ and Apple TV+, and how the traditional broadcast networks are trying to survive in the era of streaming. They also examine Disney’s decision to release its episodes weekly (rather than all at once, as Netflix does) and what that might mean for the future of how we consume TV.
Succession, a dramedy about an American media dynasty battling forces both internal and external to prolong its reign, is the TV show of the year. Critics unanimously adored its second season, which culminated Oct. 13 with a twisty, incisive, tragically beautiful finale that took place entirely on the family’s superyacht roving the Mediterranean.
It was only a matter of time.
Pixar’s next film, Onward, is about two teenage Elven brothers who reanimate their dead father—except it goes horribly wrong and he returns to the realm of the living as only a pair of legs, which forces the siblings to drive around their fantasy world with dad’s zombified limbs in the back of a van desperately trying to figure out how to conjure up the rest of his body before he’s lost forever.
