Traditional Hollywood movie studios are sitting on a cornucopia of finished films they can’t put in theaters right now. So they’re letting streaming services take some off their plates.
What do rock bands do when they’ve run out of new songs? They release a greatest hits album, of course. For the film industry, it’s pretty much the same.
After a four-month pause, the NBA resumes its season tonight where it left off. Sort of.
Universal Pictures and AMC Theatres struck a deal yesterday that will fundamentally change the economic model that’s sustained Hollywood for decades.
After several years of stalemates, Netflix has opened up a dominant lead over rival HBO in Emmy nominations.
The Major League Baseball season is falling apart right after it started. The same fate will befall the National Football League in September if it doesn’t drastically reimagine its protocol for a return to play.
The coronavirus pandemic erased the entire 2020 summer movie season. For a while, Hollywood held out hope it’d still be able to release its biggest movies in theaters this fall and winter. But now studios are finally realizing that probably can’t happen either.
The coronavirus pandemic has been great for streaming services as consumers quarantine at home and watch more video. The same can’t be said for regular TV.
Netflix is being exceedingly transparent about its desire to make the next big cinematic universe.
Netflix acknowledged Disney, WarnerMedia, and NBCUniversal are among its main global competitors. But it reserved its praise only for TikTok.
Most companies are having a tough time these days. Netflix, however, is doing just fine.
For most of the history of Hollywood, the US would get to see new blockbuster movies first, while the rest of the world had to wait. The coronavirus pandemic could reverse that model.
Four months after FX began debuting some of its original series on Hulu rather than cable TV, the companies say the new arrangement is going swimmingly.
If buying Hamilton tickets was never an option for you—and it’s not an option for anyone this year—worry not: You’ll soon be able to watch the record-breaking Broadway musical from your couch.
Eight months after launching, Apple TV+ is still searching for the series that can help it stand out against the throng of streaming services jockeying for viewers’ money and attention. Enter Foundation.
Perhaps one reason why America’s national reckoning on police brutality took so long to arrive is because TV is conditioning its citizens to view cops as reliable heroes.
Not many people in Denmark are going to the movies right now. The ones that are, however, are going to see Little Women.
Movie theaters in Japan began reopening a month ago. But it’s going to take much longer for the country’s box office to return to pre-pandemic levels—if it ever does.
This weekend of new movie releases looks like it could be a typical summer weekend for Hollywood: a big-budget Disney franchise flick, a Spike Lee drama getting Oscar buzz, and a comedy from Judd Apatow. But for the first (and probably not the last) time, none of these movies will be seen in theaters. On June 12, what would normally be a competitive weekend at the box office will play out entirely in a digital arena.
Starting June 12, Hollywood can resume film and TV production, California governor Gavin Newsom announced over the weekend. While shoots are still subject to approval by public health officials, this opens the door for the entertainment industry to get back to work after the coronavirus pandemic forced a three-month hiatus.
From mid-March until recently, most movie theaters around the world were closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
This week, several news outlets reported on a purported “Netflix ad” that appeared at bus stops around Madrid. The ad was for the dystopian sci-fi series, Black Mirror, accompanied only by the caption, “6th season. Live now,” written on a reflective surface mirroring the observer—a suggestion that we are living in an episode of the show. It quickly made the rounds on Twitter and Reddit and was met with near universal acknowledgment that the current reality of pandemics and racial unrest resembles the bleak futuristic world depicted in the Netflix series.
Movie theaters might seem like a Covid-19 breeding ground: audiences crammed into confined spaces, climbing over each other to get to their seats, unwashed hands probing self-service food stations. But the spread of coronavirus in Japan suggests theaters may not be especially susceptible to outbreaks—provided the right guidelines are in place.
The streaming wars have another new entrant, with HBO Max launching today in the US.
