Disney had announced that Marvel Studios’ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will debut on the Disney+ streaming platform on February 1st. The title will join 16 other Marvel Cinematic Universe movies already streaming in IMAX Enhanced on Disney+. In anticipation of the film’s streaming debut, Proximity Media, in collaboration with Marvel Studios and Marvel Entertainment, has […]

Ampere Analysis expects global content expenditure to increase by just 2 per cent year-on-year – the lowest growth in over a decade (excluding the pandemic slump of 2020). This is in stark contrast to 2022 during which global content spend is projected to have grown by 6 per cent to $238 billion (€230bn), driven primarily […]

The number of unique users of SVoD platform users in Italy amounted to 15.3 million in September 2022, a drop of 287,000 users year-on-year, according to the Communications Authority (AgCom). Netflix had 8.9 million average unique users (+4.2 per cent), followed by Prime Video with 6.4 million (+11.5 per cent), Disney+ with 3.4 million (+41.7 […]

Cricket Australia (CA) has extended its broadcast partnership with the Foxtel Group and Seven West Media for a further seven years in what is described as a record media rights deal for Australian cricket. Under the agreement, the Foxtel Group (including Fox Sports on Foxtel and streaming service, Kayo Sports), Seven and 7plus will broadcast […]

Governor Phil Murphy and Netflix have announced that the streame will develop a state-of-the-art East Coast production facility on the former Fort Monmouth campus in Monmouth County, transforming a property that has been largely vacant for more than a decade into an economic engine that is estimated to create more than 1,500 permanent production jobs […]

On the heels of becoming the highest-grossing domestic and global film of 2022, the studio’s #1 film of all time, as well as the #1 best-selling Digital release ever, Paramount has confirmed that Top Gun: Maverick is the most watched movie globally in its premiere weekend streaming on Paramount+. “The runaway success of this film […]

In its first three days of release (December 23rd – 25th), Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery was Netflix’s #1 film, watched by 35 million household (82.1 million view hours divided by 2.3 hours of runtime) from over 93 countries, as audiences tried to solve the mystery and identify the murderer.  Meanwhile, viewers were eager […]

Hallmark Media has confirmed that its SVoD service, Hallmark Movies Now, is now available on VIZIO Smart TVs. The launch comes as the service closes out its annual holiday programming stunt Movies & Mistletoe, which features beloved Hallmark holiday programming, and gears up for a strong January line-up of offerings, including hit films such as […]

The National Football League has announced a multi-year agreement with Google granting YouTube TV and YouTube Primetime Channels the right exclusively to distribute NFL Sunday Ticket to consumers in the US starting with the 2023 NFL season. According to the NFL, the strategic partnership will provide fans greater access to NFL Sunday Ticket while tapping […]

A Mediavision study reports that streaming services in the Nordics are largely dominated by English-language content. Almost 70 per cent of all hours of fiction and entertainment on the SVoD services are of non-Nordic origin. The substantial libraries of the global SVoD services are mainly built up by international and specifically US content. Nordic programming […]