AVOD service Crackle April 9 will debut the original docu-series “Yelawolf: A Slumerican Life.”
The 10-part series follows hip-hop artist Yelawolf as he drifts through Southern backwaters and Northern inner cities, unlocking a world the likes of which you’ve never seen before.
Also in April, Crackle hosts the exclusives Wonders of the Sea 3-D, a science documentary narrated by Arnold Schwarzenegger and co-directed by Jean-Michel Cousteau, and Memory: The Origins of Alien, a 2019 documentary tracing the origin of the classic “Alien” franchise through the script from Dan O’Bannon, the work of James Cameron and other filmmakers, the dark arts of H.R. Giger, to the unsettling works of H.P. Lovecraft and even the mythos of ancient Greek legends.
Sony Pictures Entertainment has rebranded its Crackle streaming service to Sony Crackle. Founded in 2004 as Grouper.com featuring licensed movies and TV shows, Sony acquired the service in 2006 for $65 million and named it Crackle in 2007. As over-the-top…
Sony Pictures Television March 28 announced it has merged its Sony Crackle AVOD service with Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment Inc., a media company producing content for all screens, to form a new AVOD joint venture branded, “Crackle Plus.”…
National Geographic’s first-ever scripted series, “Genius,” about the life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein, will hit DVD April 17 from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. Geoffrey Rush stars as Einstein in the series from executive producers Brian Grazer and…
Comcast Feb. 25 announced the acquisition of Xumo, the ad-supported streaming service based in Irvine, Calif. Xumo will continue to operate as an independent business inside of Comcast Cable. Xumo offers free, live and on-demand streaming entertainment, news, sports and…
