Amazon and Michael B. Jordan’s production banner, Outlier Society, have enhanced their partnership, signing the Hollywood actor and his company into a first-look film deal and an overall television deal. Amazon said the deal will see Outlier “produce and acquire elevated films showcasing diverse, bold filmmakers and talent for the studio’s ever-growing original movies slate.” […]
Findings from research firm Parks Associates indicates that 60 per cent of pay-TV subscribers (accounting for nearly half of US broadband households) are interested in streaming movies and TV shows from an online video service as part of their pay-TV subscription. The company’s study, Pay TV: Perception, Adoption, and Retention, notes that pay-TV providers are […]
Cloud gaming will fundamentally change the video games industry over the next ten years, according to data and analytics company GlobalData, bidding farewell to traditional disk-based PC and console games and hefty downloads in the process. Just as video and audio streaming has reshaped the music, film and TV markets, cloud gaming is expected to […]
The HbbTV Association, a global initiative dedicated to providing open standards for the delivery of advanced interactive TV services through broadcast and broadband networks for connected TV sets and set-top boxes, has announced that Amazon, Discovery and TELE System Digital have become members of the industry association. The three international players have joined the HbbTV […]
The latest update of the European Audiovisual Observatory’s LUMIERE VOD, the European directory of films and TV content, shows there are currently 44 000 European film titles and over 12,650 TV seasons on European VoD platforms (TV content is analysed at season level; one TV title corresponds
New Amazon Original dramatic anthology series Solos, from executive producer and showrunner David Weil (Hunters), will boast a heavyweight A-list cast comprising of Morgan Freeman, Anne Hathaway, Helen Mirren, Uzo Aduba, Nicole Beharie, Anthony Mackie, Dan Stevens and Constance Wu Solos will launch later in 2021 exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in over 240 countries […]
Amazon has announced a behind-the-scenes documentary on FC Bayern Munich, which will launch exclusively on Prime Video in Autumn 2021, giving Prime members front row seats to the German record champions, treble winners and current most successful club in the world, as well as an insight into the inner workings at Säbener Straße. Produced by […]
Spanish movie distributor A Contracorriente Films has signed with Magine to put their TVOD service SVdC on the Magine Pro platform. The concept of Virtual Cinemas has expanded in different countries during the 2020 lockdown. However SVdC is taking this further. Being a joint effort together with movie theatres, SVdC is inviting all cinemas and […]
Eleventh Hour Films has announced that stage and screen actor Toby Stephens (Die Another Day, Jane Eyre, Lost In Space, Black Sails), Rakie Ayola (Holby City, Hermione Granger in Harry Potter And The Cursed Child) and newcomer Charithra Chandran are among the names joining the cast of season two of Alex Rider. Stephens will be […]
Documentary+, a global streaming platform, has gone live. The service is a joint venture between non-fiction studio XTR and the late Tony Hsieh. With a large curated collection of feature-length and short-form content, the Documentary+ library ranges from Academy Award-winners to festival darlings and is available to audiences for on any device. Documentary+ launches with […]