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You Can Cancel Netflix And Subscribe To HBO Max And Apple TV Plus For The Same Price
Severance Apple One problem with Netflix constantly raising its subscription prices? We’ve now reached a point where you can subscribe to multiple competitors at the same prices as a singular Netflix ...
‘Everything, Everywhere’ Tops $40 Million, Survives The ‘Multiverse Of Madness’
‘The Bad Guys’ DreamWorks In Friday box office news that isn’t about Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, DreamWorks Animation’s The Bad Guys earned another $2.3 million (-38%) on ...
‘Uncharted’ Tops ‘The Batman’ On VOD And Nears $400 Million Worldwide
Mark Wahlberg and Tom Holland in ‘Uncharted’ Sony Vudu is reporting that Sony’s Uncharted was tops on its sales charts over the weekend as it “finally” arrived on EST (priced-to-own) digit...
Why Host And Hostess Clubs Are So Important According To Tokyo Vice Star Rachel Keller [Interview]
Tokyo Vice HBO Max In Tokyo Vice, inspired by journalist Jake Adelstein’s memoir of his time in Japan, Ansel Elgort plays Jake as he makes his way through a story that takes him a little too close to ...
Josh Charles And Jamie Hector On The Challenges Of HBO’s True Crime Drama ‘We Own This City’
(Left to right) Jamie Hector and Josh Charles in HBO’s ‘We Own This City.’ HBO We Own This City posed different challenges for actors Josh Charles and Jamie Hector, but they both lea...
Warner Bros. Discovery Won’t Overspend On Content As Last Discovery Quarter Tops 24M Streaming Subscribers
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images) Getty Images In its last quarter before merging with WarnerMedia, Discovery Communications streaming services led by Discove...
‘Fantastic Beasts 3’ Tumbles 67% As ‘Batman’ Suffers HBO Max Hit
Sonic (Ben Schwartz) in SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 Photo Credit: Courtesy Paramount Pictures and Sega of America. In holdover news for the weekend, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 placed second with $15.225 million (-...
‘Fantastic Beasts 3’ Plunges 79% As ‘Sonic 2’ Falls 63%
Jude Law and Eddie Redmayne in ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore’ Jaap Buitendijk In holdover domestic box office news, J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledor...
HBO Max And HBO Rise To 76.8M Global Subscribers
BURBANK, CALIFORNIA – OCTOBER 29: Tony Goncalves peaks onstage at HBO Max WarnerMedia Investor Day … [+] Presentation at Warner Bros. Studios on October 29, 2019 in Burbank, California. (P...
Why ‘The Batman’ Stands Out From Its Superhero Competition
Robert Pattinson in ‘The Batman’ Warner Bros. I have no idea how many people watched The Batman on its first day over at HBO Max, nor do I know how many will choose to rent (for $25) or bu...
Apple TV Plus And HBO Max Are Lapping Netflix With Quality Content
Severance Apple While no one can compete with Netflix on volume, at this point, it’s hard to say that they’re leading the streaming wars in terms of overall quality content. Over the last year or two,...
‘The Batman’ Tops ‘F9’ To Become Fourth-Biggest Covid Era Blockbuster
Robert Pattinson in ‘The Batman’ Warner Bros. The Batman ended its fifth week in theaters with $352.5 million in domestic earnings. We’re probably looking at a $6.6 million sixth-weekend g...
Why ‘Our Flag Means Death’ Seems Destined For A Season 2 Renewal
Our Flag Means Death HBO One of the sleeper hits of the early spring here has been Our Flag Means Death, the pirate comedy turned sweet romance that aired on HBO Max for the last few weeks. But in the...
Here’s Why Streaming Stocks Like Netflix And Disney Could Be Set To Jump After The Oscars
Topline Streaming giants like Netflix, Disney and Warner Media’s HBO Max will dominate the 2022 Oscars ceremony this weekend after gaining a host of nominations—including for Best Picture—and if histo...
‘The Batman’ Opens Soft In China But Tops $515 Million Worldwide
The Batman Warner Bros. First, the bad news: The Batman earned $3.6 million on its first Friday in China, leading what will likely be a $14 million opening weekend and possibly over/under $35 million ...
HBO Max & Discovery + To Give Netflix And Hulu Stiff Competition
Photo by Presley Ann/Getty Images for WarnerMedia. Getty Images for WarnerMedia There are so many streaming options out there at so many different price points, it can make your head spin. There has b...
‘Reacher’ Gives Amazon Its First Nielsen-Topping Series
‘Reacher’ Shane Mahood/Amazon Prime Video In another example of the skewed irony of the streaming era, Nick Santora’s well-reviewed and mostly well-received (especially among genre junkies...
‘Peacemaker’ Production Designer Shares Exclusive Sketches From James Gunn’s HBO Max Hit (Interview)
John Cena in ‘Peacemaker’ Courtesy of KATIE YU/HBO MAX Production designer Lisa Soper can’t say enough positive things about her experience on the set of Peacemaker, a small screen spinoff...
The ‘Peacemaker’ Finale Just Set A Big Record For HBO Max
Peacemaker HBO Max While everyone expects most of Disney’s MCU series to do really well compared to everything else on that service, I don’t think anyone, even James Gunn, expected Peacemaker to do qu...
‘Matrix 4’ And ‘Sing 2’ Top Vudu SVOD Charts
Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss in ‘The Matrix: Resurrections’ Warner Bros. The Matrix Resurrections was tops this weekend at Vudu, even if its triumph may be short-lived. It’s currently...
Netflix And Disney Fall Victim To Inflated Wall Street Expectations
Jonah Hill, Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep and Jennifer Lawrence in Adam McKay’s ‘Don’t Look Up’ Netflix The likes of Disney and Netflix can’t expect subscriptions to exponent...
Deutsche Bank Predicts This Media Company Can Become The Next Big Streaming Giant
Topline Analysts at Deutsche Bank named media and entertainment giant ViacomCBS as a top stock pick for 2022, arguing that it trades at a much lower valuation than its rivals and predicting the compan...
Discovery Shares Jump 16% As Excitement Builds Around WarnerMedia Deal
Topline Shares of media conglomerate Discovery surged 16% on Friday, gaining momentum as investors eagerly anticipate a massive $43 billion merger with AT&T’s WarnerMedia, which cleared several re...
Danny McBride And Cassidy Freeman Evangelize About The Return Of ‘The Righteous Gemstones’
‘The Righteous Gemstones’ has already been renewed for a third season ahead of the second’s debut. HBO When the first season of The Righteous Gemstones landed on HBO’s platform...
HBO, HBO Max Top Forecasts WIth 73.8 Million Subscribers For 2021
(Image courtesy of Warner Bros.) HBO and streaming sibling HBO Max ended 2021 with nearly 74 million subscribers, beating internal forecasts by adding 4.4 million subscribers in the year’s final quart...