The US box office remains virtually nonexistent, with many theaters still closed and no new movies to put in the ones that are open. But 5,000 miles across the Pacific, Japan’s box office is booming.
If you ever thought the podcast you obsess over would make a good movie or TV series, that’s probably because it’s supposed to be one.
Every week, the majority of the most popular streaming TV shows are found on Netflix. But Netflix hardly makes any of them.
Donald Trump needed a hand—and once again, NBC was happy to oblige.
Disney had no streaming platforms three years ago. Today, its business revolves around them.
US vice presidential debates are often an afterthought, sandwiched between the first and second presidential debates at a time when voters would rather hear directly from the main candidates. But this year’s event between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris could be more momentous than normal.
If you watched the chaotic first US presidential debate and hoped the remaining ones would get scrapped, you may be in luck. Donald Trump has the coronavirus, putting all his future campaign events—including the debates—in doubt.
One of the most popular video games in the world today had almost no players a few months ago.
Disney’s theme parks division has long been one of its most lucrative businesses. Now, after years of reliably churning out huge profits, it’s been annihilated in the span of a few months by the coronavirus pandemic.
When Joe Biden and Donald Trump face off in the first of three US presidential debates tonight, it will likely draw a television audience of near 100 million viewers. That could be the last time a live TV event—other than the Super Bowl—attracts so many eyeballs at once.
In the mid-2000s, Donald Trump was drowning financially. That’s when NBC and The Apprentice threw the failed businessman a life raft.
AT&T chose the respected HBO brand to represent its new streaming service, HBO Max. But it’s really banking on a different part of its WarnerMedia content library to lure subscribers: superheroes.
Of the immigrant characters on US TV last year with an explicitly stated immigration status, 63% were undocumented, according to a report by the USC Norman Lear Center and the nonprofit advocacy group Define American. In reality, just 24% of US immigrants are undocumented.
Quibi, the short-form mobile streaming service, may be a short-form company. Just five months since its launch, Quibi is exploring several “strategic options,” including a sale, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday.
HBO’s obituary may have been premature.
Wrangling a big group of busy celebrities to appear together can be a tough job. In a pandemic, it’s one of the few things Hollywood can do at all.
Sunday’s Emmys will be the most chaotic in history. That might be just what the 72-year-old award show needs to stave off irrelevance.
Video games were already growing in popularity before the coronavirus pandemic. But now they’re everywhere.
When in doubt, just add a plus sign.
TikTok’s proprietary algorithm has been called its “secret sauce” and is one reason why companies have jumped at the chance to buy the app’s US operations. But if the algorithm is TikTok’s secret sauce, then its consumer-friendly advertising experience is the protein: A critical part of the app’s growth and the foundation of its still untapped potential.
Netflix doesn’t have commercials—and it won’t any time soon. But that doesn’t mean it won’t embrace advertisers.
Almost a century ago, advertisements were so important to TV that we named an entire genre after them. Soap operas are only called soap operas because Procter & Gamble—the US personal care behemoth that makes, among many other products, bars of soap—produced a number of popular series in the 1950s and 1960s. Some shows, like Texaco Star Theater, even carried the name of their sponsors. Today, we’d call that a supercharged version of branded content.
If you own a Roku, you’re likely using it more than you ever have before.
Mulan will soon be coming to Disney’s streaming service. But there’s a catch: Subscribers who want to watch the highly anticipated movie will have to pay a premium—on top of their $7 monthly subscriptions.
