Tag: Media
Original Content podcast: The pandemic thriller ‘Songbird’ could have been a lot worse
Let’s be clear: “Songbird” is not a good movie. It’s hard to see how it could have been any good, since “Songbird” was written shortly after the pandemic began and filmed a few months later — so the filmmakers had to write a screenplay, shoot it in the midst of…
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Disney+ has plans for 10 Marvel shows and 10 Star Wars shows in the next few years
Disney just wrapped up the first segment of an investor day in which it laid out its plans for its direct-to-consumer streaming business, including Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+ and Hotstar/Star. The company kicked off the presentation with some new subscriber numbers — 86.8 million for Disney+ (roughly 30% of those are…
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COVID-19 made our tech addiction worse: It’s time to do something about it
Stuart Wall Contributor Stu Wall is a technology executive and entrepreneur who founded Signpost, a cloud-based customer communication platform that helps small businesses scale. The coronavirus pandemic accelerated America’s addiction to technology, and it’s making us sad, anxious and unproductive. Companies like Facebook, TikTok and Snapchat earn more advertising revenue…
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AT&T is selling Crunchyroll to Sony for $1.18B
AT&T announced yesterday that it’s selling anime streaming service Crunchyroll to Sony’s Funimation for an acquisition price of $1.18 billion. According to the announcement, Crunchyroll has 90 million registered users and 3 million paying subscribers. The service started out in 2006 as a site for fan-uploaded, fan-subtitled (and often pirated)…
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Original Content podcast: Hulu’s ‘Happiest Season’ casts fresh characters in a familiar story
“Happiest Season,” a new film on Hulu, feels like a traditional, Christmas-themed romantic comedy — with one important exception. The movie stars Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis as Abby and Harper, a lesbian couple who are visiting Harper’s parents for the holidays. As they drive back to Harper’s childhood home,…
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