Last night’s episode of Saturday Night Live, hosted by Elon Musk, was far from its worst ever. And yet it still may have marked the long-running sketch show’s nadir. Musk’s presence, and the sketches that followed, were part of a cynical ploy to boost the show’s pop culture capital within an entertainment landscape that has largely passed it by.
What are consumers seeking when they head back to movie theaters after a year’s absence? “The whole enchilada,” Adam Aron, the CEO of AMC Entertainment, said on the theater company’s earnings call yesterday.
At least one major theater chain has finally warmed up to the idea of giving Netflix movies a wide release.
As the calendar turns toward the summer months, Hollywood really needs you to remember that movie theaters still exist.
On TV, cops are almost never the bad guys. But one television series has become the most popular in the UK by subverting that long-running trope.
Amazon wants everybody to know that its streaming service is absolutely crushing it.
Netflix is aiming for a 20-fold increase in subscribers in India, but its journey in the nation has been bumpy. And now it’s getting a lot bumpier.
Sony’s video game business had its most profitable year ever, thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic turning seemingly everyone in the world into gamers. That was despite an ongoing global semiconductor shortage that prevented the company from selling as many of its PS5 consoles as it wanted to.
After a year in which hardly anyone went to the movies, the Oscars made a perplexing decision to not show off its nominated films and performers. It was the award show’s biggest blunder in recent memory (and there have been many.)
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has realized the only way to properly honor a very abnormal year for movies is to put on an equally abnormal award show. The result is sure to be unlike any Oscars you’ve ever seen.
The nerdiest gig in Hollywood is also one of its most coveted. Actors, athletes, journalists, and TV personalities are lining up to be the next host of Jeopardy! And some of them are publicly lobbying for the position.
Following a record-breaking 2020, Netflix’s subscription growth has slowed dramatically so far this year. The company says that has everything to do with the Covid-19 pandemic, and nothing to do with increased streaming competition from the likes of Disney.
It took Amazon only five years after launching a TV studio to win its first Emmy award. But almost nine years since starting a video games division, not only is Amazon not winning any game awards, it’s also struggling to make any games at all.
A dozen elite European soccer clubs announced plans yesterday to create a new league that would upend more than a century of the sport’s history. The primary reason for the proposed league, according to a statement from its founders, is, essentially, “money.” Most of that money would come from TV networks aching to broadcast the league’s matches to the world.
Amazon Studios is risking a lot on its upcoming Lord of the Rings series. But there’s another entity that wants the TV show to be a success even more than Amazon: the government of New Zealand.
Yesterday, dozens of entertainment companies and Hollywood celebrities—including Netflix, ViacomCBS, J.J. Abrams, and Leonardo DiCaprio—signed an open letter condemning Georgia’s new restrictive voting laws. Disney, which films many of its blockbuster Marvel movies and TV series in the state, was not a signatory.
More than 6 million consumers have secured a PlayStation 5 since Sony’s next-gen gaming console launched in November. Untold millions more have tried and failed. That’s because—for a variety of reasons well outside the average consumer’s control—buying a PS5 is more challenging than any of the games they can play on one.
The most beloved movie theaters in Los Angeles are closing. Now cinephiles in the movie-obsessed city are shining a Bat-Signal into the sky, hoping a deep-pocketed company (or individual) will swoop in and rescue them. The question is: Who will answer the call?
The Covid-19 pandemic decimated the live music industry in 2020. Now organizers of some of the world’s biggest festivals think concertgoers will be ready to descend on venues as early as the summer.
Fox News or Newsmax? That’s the choice of employment facing former Trump officials in the months after the US president lost his bid for reelection. There aren’t many other high-profile opportunities for members of a twice-impeached president’s inner circle.
Staplers. Glass bowls. A baked potato.
James Bond is one of the most lucrative roles an actor can hope for. That is, until he makes a deal with Netflix.
There is a moment in Godzilla vs. Kong when King Kong, weary from battle, needs a jumpstart before he can get back to punching Godzilla in the face. His human allies resolve to explode a vehicle directly on his chest to help resuscitate him.
If a film is nominated for an Oscar, but isn’t seen in theaters, does it make a sound? A recent survey says no, not really.
