Active investor Nelson Peltz has launched a fight for a board seat at The Walt Disney Company ‘to help turnaround the company that he said was “in crisis” due to failed succession planning, mounting streaming losses and overspending on th acquisition of 21st Century Fox. Peltz’s Trian Fund Management has filed documents with the U.S […]
Disney’s new / old boss has told staff who are working from home to return to the office four days a week from March. Bob Iger said hybrid workers will be asked to treat “Monday through Thursday as in-person workdays”, according to an email, reported CNBC. “As I’ve been meeting with teams throughout the company […]
Non-European players have taken a strong foothold in the European AV market. One in four of the top 50 TV groups and more than a third of the top 50 groups for on-demand services has a non-European parent company, according to a report from the European Audiovisual Observatory. US players represent the largest group of […]
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 […]
Boston Strangler, a 20th Century Studios true-crime movie from writer-director Matt Ruskin about the reporters who broke the story of the notorious Boston Strangler murders of the 1960s, will premiere on March 17th, exclusively on Disney+ under the Star banner in the UK. Boston Strangler stars two-time Oscar nominee Keira Knightley alongside Carrie Coon, Alessandro Nivola, […]
House of the Dragon, the Game of Thrones prequel series, was the most-pirated TV show released on torrent sites in 2022 according to data from TorrentFreak, For several years in a row the list was headed by Game of Thrones but that reign came to an end in 2019 after the series ended. In 2020, […]
As SVoD services in the US mature, pricing and bundling are key to retention, according to a report by Ampere Analysis. Newer platforms (including Disney+) tend to have higher levels of both sign-up and churn as they rely more heavily on individual title launches, while established SVoD platforms’ sign-up and churn rates are much more […]
French public funding body Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC) has announced the extension of its financial support to French and European producers, established in France and working with foreign channels and platforms in genres such as drama, animation, documentary and live shows. As of January 2022, content producers such as Disney, […]
Disney+ has announced a season two greenlight for the Original series The Santa Clauses, following its first season finale. Disney icon Tim Allen will executive-produce and continue in the role of Santa/Scott Calvin and Elizabeth Mitchell will reprise her role as Mrs. Claus/Carol from Walt Disney Pictures’ celebrated franchise. Season one, which premiered on November […]