YouTube is realizing it needs to treat its creators better, now that rival Instagram is making a play for them with its own video platform, IGTV.
There are shows that you watch with friends and family, chat about around the water cooler, post about on social media, and even host viewing parties for. Then, there are those you view behind closed doors, or with one hand shielding your phone when you’re on the train. You may smile in acknowledgement when your guilty pleasure series comes up in conversation, but your cool demeanor belies the fact that you’ve seen every episode. Twice.
The directors of major US films are still overwhelmingly white and male.
As if seeing a popular movie with MoviePass—where you can’t reserve tickets in advance—wasn’t stressful enough, it’s about to get more expensive, too.
MoviePass’s social media team did not take kindly to AMC Theatres launching a rival movie-ticket subscription on Wednesday, June 20.
Bob Iger, Disney’s CEO, saw Comcast’s $65 billion bet (paywall) on 21st Century Fox, and raised it.
Maybe it’s all that Netflix and chilling. The streaming service found that more than 80 million of its accounts, or about two-thirds of its global subscriber base, watched a romance film on Netflix sometime between March 2017 and March 2018.
If you were in front of the TV in Iceland on Saturday, you were watching the 2018 World Cup.
MoviePass has shown it can persuade its members to see movies they wouldn’t otherwise watch by offering them virtually free movie tickets. Unfortunately, now that it is investing in movies like Gotti, that means paying for those movies and for people to watch them.
Pixar fans have waited 14 years to see Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl, and the rest of the Incredibles family suit up again on the big screen. The much-anticipated follow up to the 2004 movie hits US theaters this weekend. It’s set to crush the debut record for animated films.
The more Comcast’s Brian Roberts and Disney’s Bob Iger duel over Rupert Murdoch’s Fox media empire, the better it could be for Netflix’s Reed Hastings.
Couldn’t make it to Russia for the 2018 World Cup? For the first time this year, audiences in the US will be able to stream the full tournament in virtual reality. Consider it your box seat for the games.
Avengers: Infinity War just became the fourth movie in history to break $2 billion at the global box office. It joins an elite class of movies that also includes Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and James Cameron’s Titanic and Avatar.
The US didn’t make it to the 2018 World Cup, but sports fans in America can still watch teams from 32 other nations compete in the global soccer tournament that rivets the world every four years. (The World Cup is coming to the US, Mexico and Canada in 2026.)
Soccer takes center stage this week as the 2018 World Cup descends on Russia.
The 2018 World Cup is upon us. Soccer teams from 32 nations are descending on Russia to spar over the FIFA World Cup title. Fans in India can catch the month-long spectacle on TV and online.
The media world just got a little smaller.
A tangled web of deals has tied together the fates of the world’s biggest media conglomerates.
Next year, for the first time, we’ll spend more time using the internet than watching TV.
Amazon just inked one of its biggest sports deals yet.
You probably don’t watch videos or play games in virtual reality now, but that could change very soon.
Disney is starting to see the limits of its Star Wars film franchise.
Not long ago, NBC’s new sitcom A.P. Bio, which has the one of the fewest overall viewers among the broadcaster’s scripted shows during the current 2017-2018 broadcast TV season, probably would’ve gotten the axe in its first season. In today’s TV landscape, the Glenn Howerton-starring show was renewed for a second.
Traditional TV has a void to fill after losing top creators to Netflix and Amazon.
