Digital
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Lisa Nishimura Joins Netflix’s Film Group
Longtime Netflix documentary/comedy executive Lisa Nishimura is getting expanded duties as the subscription streaming video pioneer consolidates management. Nishimura, a former home entertainment executive at Palm Pictures until joining Netflix almost 12 years ago, expands her title to VP of independent film & documentary features, overseeing independent films, English & non-English docs, documentary shorts, and … Continue reading “Lisa Nishimura Joins Netflix’s Film Group”
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Gravitas Ventures Launches Indie Film SVOD Service
Gravitas Ventures has bowed a subscription-based over-the-top video service – dubbed GravitasMovies.com – offering its branded slate of indie films for $4.99 a month. The service aims to fill the void left by WarnerMedia’s shuttered FilmStruck platform, in addition to competing services such as Fandor.com, Shout! Factory TV, Shudder, Tribeca Shortlist and Le Cinema Club, … Continue reading “Gravitas Ventures Launches Indie Film SVOD Service”
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Lisa Nishimura Joins Netflix’s Film Group
Longtime Netflix documentary/comedy executive Lisa Nishimura is getting expanded duties as the subscription streaming video pioneer consolidates management. Nishimura, a former home entertainment executive at Palm Pictures until joining Netflix almost 12 years ago, expands her title to VP of independent film & documentary features, overseeing independent films, English & non-English docs, documentary shorts, and … Continue reading “Lisa Nishimura Joins Netflix’s Film Group”
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Gravitas Ventures Launches Indie Film SVOD Service
Gravitas Ventures has bowed a subscription-based over-the-top video service – dubbed GravitasMovies.com – offering its branded slate of indie films for $4.99 a month. The service aims to fill the void left by WarnerMedia’s shuttered FilmStruck platform, in addition to competing services such as Fandor.com, Shout! Factory TV, Shudder, Tribeca Shortlist and Le Cinema Club, … Continue reading “Gravitas Ventures Launches Indie Film SVOD Service”
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Paramount Releasing ’13 Hours’ in 4K UHD June 11
Paramount Home Media Distribution will release director Michael Bay’s 2016 docudrama 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray and digital June 11. Starring John Krasinski, James Badge Dale and Pablo Schreiber, 13 Hours recounts the story of the unite of elite ex-military operators who fought to protect a CIA compound … Continue reading “Paramount Releasing ’13 Hours’ in 4K UHD June 11”
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Amazon Channels Adds Major League Baseball Streaming Service
Just in time for the start of the 2019 Major League Baseball season, Amazon March 20 announced it has added the league’s MLB.tv subscription streaming video service to its Channels platform. Amazon Channels affords Prime members direct access to third-party over-the-top video services, including Starz, Showtime OTT, Dove Channel and HBO Now. Prime members in … Continue reading “Amazon Channels Adds Major League Baseball Streaming Service”
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‘Aquaman’ Makes Another Splash on FandangoNow Chart
Aquaman emerged at No. 1 on FandangoNow’s chart of top movies for digital rental and purchase for another week. FandangoNow is movie site Fandango’s transactional VOD service. Warner’s DC Comics superhero feature held off the studio’s Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, which levitated to No. 2 (from No. 8) on the chart for the week ended … Continue reading “‘Aquaman’ Makes Another Splash on FandangoNow Chart”
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Research: U.S. SVOD Household Spending Steady Since 2016 at Just Under $8 Per Month
U.S. broadband household spending on subscription OTT video services has held steady for three years, averaging just under $8 per month since 2016, according to research from Parks Associates. The figures suggest adoption of multiple services or expensive services by some consumers is offset by a larger base of consumers who either subscribe to one … Continue reading “Research: U.S. SVOD Household Spending Steady Since 2016 at Just Under $8 Per Month”
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‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’ Casts Spell on Redbox Charts
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald worked some magic the week ended March 17, levitating to the top spot on both Redbox charts. “Harry Potter” writer J.K. Rowling’s followup to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them took the No. 1 spot on both the Redbox kiosk chart, which tracks DVD and Blu-ray Disc rentals … Continue reading “‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’ Casts Spell on Redbox Charts”
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Four Brits Sentenced to Multiyear Jail Terms for Illegally Streaming Hollywood Movies
Four British men have been sentenced a combined 4.5 years jail time for operating a website that afforded users illegal access to Hollywood movies, including Lionsgate U.K.’s The Expendables 3, before they were available in theatres. Prosecutors say the group – which included Steven Pegram (40), Mark Rollin (37), Paul Taylor (54), and Alan Stephenson (42) — … Continue reading “Four Brits Sentenced to Multiyear Jail Terms for Illegally Streaming Hollywood Movies”
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Google Unveils ‘Stadia’ Video Game Service
As expected, Google is entering the $140 billion video game business with hopes its cloud-based Stadia service will rival industry benchmarks Xbox (Microsoft), PlayStation (Sony) and Switch (Nintendo) among consumers. Google announced the new service March 19 at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The search behemoth, which plans to roll out the service … Continue reading “Google Unveils ‘Stadia’ Video Game Service”
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Cinedigm Inks Distribution Deal with China’s CMC Pictures
Cinedigm March 19 announced a partnership with CMC Pictures, distributor of Chinese movies and television shows. Under the deal, Cinedigm will release select CMC Pictures theatrical titles on DVD/Blu-ray Disc, digital, and television. CMC Pictures titles include sci-fi title The Wandering Earth, Pegasus, Wolf Warrior 2, Detective Chinatown 2, and Animal World, among others. “CMC Pictures represents the … Continue reading “Cinedigm Inks Distribution Deal with China’s CMC Pictures”