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DIRECTV's MySports Genre Pack is $45/month for 2 months. Everything you need for March Madness. Notice in the graphic the $64.99/month regular price is crossed out -- that used to be $69.99 for the same plan. First time I saw the change. Deal updates: https://t.co/8d9YkqONHx https://t.co/4sMmF2qaCv
Sarandos: "One of the things we saw in recent months is a real deep misunderstanding about what YouTube is and isn’t... YouTube is in the same exact game that we are... About 55% of all YouTube engagement now is on...
🏀 That’s Billion With a B 🏀 March Madness Broadcast Rights Top $1 Billion for First Time https://t.co/wV2UeL7y93 via @sportico @novy_williams
Variety’s 10 Creators to Watch on Going Independent and Why ‘To Make Something and Own Something, You Have to Sell Something’ https://t.co/JLoEWzTTZg via @variety
The Movie Business Has Never Been Harder, So Why Are All These New Distribution Companies Launching? https://t.co/0fH8NhD3Wu via @variety
"there is tremendous power in owning a consumer’s journey from the moment he or she powers up the TV, to the content that’s displayed, to what they end up watching." “If I were David Ellison, I would have bought Roku,” Greenfield...
Netflix’s Ted Sarandos Warns EU Regulators: YouTube Isn’t a ‘Bunch of Cat Videos,’ It’s a ‘Straightforward Direct Competitor’ https://t.co/r4CVEqxuMc
Hitman maker IO Interactive confirms it's cut publishing ties with MindsEye and the Hitman DLC is dead. https://t.co/zw5PpjdHE3
Roku is scaled, growing, and profitable, so why hasn't anyone bought it? Via @loudmouthjulia. ⬇️⬇️ https://t.co/dyvtlQl7RB
#TheBride hits new low of $225K Monday for $11.5M domestic total against $90M budget Good thing WB did so well Sunday night to mask this DISASTER 💀💀💀 https://t.co/jO9ZQ0PIWZ
As Disney CEO Bob Iger Steps Aside, a Look at His Tenure as a Dynamic, Transformative Leader — With an Asterisk or Two https://t.co/zmQnYUUxDV via @variety
Spotify’s top 80 artists generated $10M+ each in royalty payouts in 2025. I estimate that these artists generated $2B total, nearly 20% of Spotify’s payout pool. Here’s how I see it:
Coca-Cola plans to serve up Diet Coke and SmartWater in 'The Devil Wears Prada 2,' and use tie-ins with the movie to drive conversations about its drinks.... https://t.co/8apnCYoH31 via @variety
🔥 The most interesting/exciting part of Disney's leadership reorg that is not getting talked about is that former Google/YouTube chief product officer Adam Smith has been elevated to co-head of Disney's DTC businesses. Placing a tech/product person, without legacy...
What's $1 Billion More, if NFL Certainty Through 2033 is of Paramount Importance? Ultimately, each NFL media rights partner will have to decide whether they can envision life without the NFL beginning in 2030 (TLDR: doubt it) https://t.co/sBcrU0H3Og
Between Hoppers and the Super Mario Galaxy Movie, the box office should be doing alright https://t.co/Kb0Rh7NdVs
DEAL ALERT: New and returning subscribers can get two months of either Paramount Plus plan for only $2.99/month. Offer ends 3/31/26. Since both plans are the same price, go for the Paramount Plus Premium plan. That one gets you live...
FCC chair threatens to pull TV licenses over Iran news coverage. Why that's highly unlikely https://t.co/FUyte9qk68 @latimes
When I say that one day people will have a real look at #DavidZaslav’s role at WB’s fate… In the latest SEC filing submitted by WBD, it was unveiled that Zazzy expects to earn almost $900M in total compensation payouts for...
David Zaslav to Receive $887 Million in Compensation Related to Warner Bros.-Paramount Merger https://t.co/2887qml6gI via @variety
Apparently it’s 3:16 day. There are very few men in the history of mankind who could get 60,000 people jumping out of their seats, screaming at the top of their lungs, and millions around the world on the edge of...
New: ABC News Group President Debra OConnell is being elevated to chairman of Disney Entertainment Television… Move is part of Disney restructuring that unites streaming, film, and television businesses with games and digital entertainment under one division.
Seedance 2.0 and Google's Veo 3 now produce video so good you cannot tell whether it was made by a fan messing around or a creator building a business. That is the real problem. No platform — not ByteDance, not Google, not...
Neon has been a fixture at the Oscars since its founding a decade ago. We obtained some finances that are very revealing about the state of the indie film business. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-03-16/oscars-2026-how-much-neon-made-from-a-best-picture-oscar
😱😱 The Hollywood Horror story that nobody talked about at the #oscars last night Year-to-date box office through mid-march last 20 years... https://t.co/pbmX0QAaT4
The Associated Press is known for its deep ties to newspapers -- but with that business in decline, it has been ramping up its efforts to join the streaming era, with live-streamed shows that make anchors out of its correspondents.... https://t.co/hZI5mvEXQZ...
For Trump’s FCC Chairman, Trolling Liberals Is the Point in His Threat to Pull Licenses of TV Networks That Air ‘Fake News’ About Iran War https://t.co/IKR86ZvW81 via @variety
Disney announced Bob Iger's return to the CEO seat on November 21, 2022 and $DIS shares closed that day at $97.58. Iger is set to leave the Disney CEO seat for the last time this Wednesday. Legacy media is hard... https://t.co/sKLyHF0iVo
Another detail regarding Oscar wins which reiterates a point about PR strategy. Why did Netflix win so many Oscars? Because it's easy for everyone/anyone to watch their films. Not screening enough / gatekeeping screener access leads to failure nowadays. It's...
#TheDeathofRobinHood and #DisclosureDay are two of the summer's more interesting bets. Both have sub-26% awareness right now, but interest scores above 43%. This puts them among the strongest persuadable-audience films tracked across the past several weeks.
Looks like Trump already views Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery as a done deal based on this infographic he shared on Truth Social https://t.co/xUKYoMv9hq
Who says America gets nothing from Israel? Trump stopped the country from imposing antimonopoly rules on Netflix. https://t.co/Nn6N69vcuQ
⚽️🚲🦵 Pelé’s Renowned Mid-Air Bicycle Kick at Heart of Copyright Lawsuit https://t.co/oKDfBQBzF4 via @sportico @McCannSportsLaw
Yeah, gonna double down on this. ABC is a dinosaur. Maybe YouTube will cut down the self-gratifying bits and let the winners speak.
40% of college aged women absolutely do not do OnlyFans. OF would love to have that many MAUs. Does this guy just go online and make stuff up all day?
2029: "This is not a normal Oscars ..." because it will be on @YouTube, not on @Disney's @ABCNetwork
Global #BoxOffice Top10 2026 releases ONLY #Pegasus3🇨🇳$616.4M #WutheringHeights 🇺🇸$226.4M #BladesOfTheGuardians🇨🇳$198.9M #SilentAwakening🇨🇳$187.9M #Scream7 🇺🇸$176.9M #HOPPERS🇺🇸$164.7M #GOAT🇺🇸$162.8M #BoonieBearsTheHiddenProtector🇨🇳$150.4M #SendHelp🇺🇸$93.4M #TheKingsWarden🇰🇷$86.7M https://t.co/hVNSja7l3q
Of course, @AGomezFCC never said this when she and fellow Biden appointee @JRosenworcel let @FOX29philly twist in the wind for 18 months while a left-wing group tried to seize the @FCC operating license from the Murdoch-owned station. Had the @MAD_Democracy...
Disney made The Lion King in 1994.... Then they made it again in 2019 with a completely different cast. Both were massive. Same story. Different distribution. Create once. Distribute forever.
#A24’s over-performs at US #BoxOffice with their new R-rated #Undertone, after grossing SPECTACULAR 9.3M over just 2.570 theatres on #5 BIGGEST 3-day Opening weekend in #A24’s history, and almost on par with 2023 #TalkToMe’s 10.4M debut, with a solid $3.6k...
Solid $9.3M opening wknd #boxoffice for paranormal fright flick #undertone. Produced for only $500k, A24 release takes #3 spot nationwide and is already a moneymaking horror hit.
New pod: NWSL commish Jessica Berman defends the league's "High Impact Player" rule, sheds light on expansion plans and dives into coming media rights negotiations. https://t.co/JC3OmIxnfx
The Economist: “‘Main melody’ films, as big-budget productions carrying nationalist propaganda are known, are in a rut. Such titles were once blockbusters, topping the box office every year between 2017 and 2023, except 2019. Those days are now gone.” https://t.co/kCR1KEu0O6
Sad for those who have lost a job. Daily infotainment really has been eaten alive by YouTube and Tik Tok. Yet, people have a tendency to focus on areas that really can’t be and not the ones that really are...
Twitter will never be a serious platform for creators if the higher ups manually tweak payouts It's not structurally set up to be one anyways, but still...
Friday the 13th #BoxOffice - FRI MAR 13: $8M - #RemindersOfHim $7.1M - #Hoppers $4.4M - #undertone $2.6M - #Scream7 $1.2M - #GOAT $650k - #TheBride $545k - #WutheringHeights
New romance #RemindersOfHim opened to $8M on FRI incl pre-shows. CinemaScore is a B while RT aud score is faring better with 89%. Opening wknd #boxoffice looks on track for about $19M beating out last pic based on Colleen Hoover novel,...
Customer satisfaction is paying off for #Hoppers which will rule the #boxoffice over Oscar wknd. $7.1M 2nd FRI going to about $29M for 2nd wknd giving Pixar pic a drop of just 37%. Domestic cume will climb to $87M in 10 days,...
"Some of the new investors have ties to the administration: --> Larry Ellison, a co-founder of Oracle, is friendly with Mr. Trump and is backing the acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by his son, David Ellison, the chief executive of Paramount -->...
New horror pic #undertone kicked off its release with Friday the 13th launch of $4.4M incl THU pre-shows. C CinemaScore here and RT aud score of only 54%. Opening wknd #boxoffice might get to around $8M.
