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On April 15th, 2021 with 79 comments
The lion's share of U.S. consumers say the streamer has the best original programming, according to a new Morgan Stanley survey. Variety reports: Netflix...
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On August 23rd, 2020 with 244 comments
70% of America's movie theatres have now re-opened for business, reports NPR:
"When our patrons come back, they'll see the safe environment we've provided for...
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On August 20th, 2020 with 90 comments
In honor of its 100th anniversary, AMC is reopening theaters across the nation today after closing down because of the coronavirus pandemic. "[F]or one day...
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On June 25th, 2020 with 42 comments
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Walt Disney Company is closing down its three Disney Channels in the U.K. this fall and moving the content to its...
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On June 4th, 2020 with 69 comments
Sarah Whitten writes via CNBC: The coronavirus pandemic has fundamentally changed the entertainment industry. With movie theaters shuttered, studios have been...
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On May 3rd, 2020 with 103 comments
DevNull127 writes: You probably remember Zoe Bell strapped to the hood of a speeding 1970 Dodge Challenger in the Death Proof half of Quentin Tarantino's...
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On April 25th, 2020 with 230 comments
Nearly 16 years ago, Slashdot's original co-founder CmdrTaco posted that liberal film-maker Michael Moore had won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival for...
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On March 21st, 2020 with 42 comments
An anonymous reader shares some free streaming media options:
There's over 10,000 public domain audiobooks at LibriVox.org, created by volunteers reading...
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On January 27th, 2020 with 102 comments
The US film industry may have generated revenues somewhere in the region of $40 billion last year, but it seems Hollywood still has plenty of work to do if it...
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On December 28th, 2019 with 81 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Clint Eastwood's new movie Richard Jewell recounts the incredible tale of the security guard. Jewell was later...
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On December 24th, 2019 with 36 comments
Over the past decade, Netflix and its rivals have come to rely heavily on the power of algorithms, those top-secret computer programs designed to connect...
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On November 14th, 2019 with 284 comments
Freshly Exhumed shares a report from The Guardian: George Lucas, whose departure from all things Star Wars seems to have been greatly exaggerated -- appears to...
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On November 4th, 2019 with 194 comments
An anonymous reader shares a column: Derek Thompson, writing in the Atlantic last month, highlighted the ways in which contemporary millennial lifestyles are...
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On October 4th, 2019 with 44 comments
Disney is banning advertising from Netflix across its entertainment TV networks, according the The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter....
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On August 27th, 2019 with 29 comments
Netflix has shipped a total of 5 billion DVDs to its customers since first sending out those iconic red envelopes 21 years ago. The milestone was announced by...
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On August 22nd, 2019 with 140 comments
An anonymous Slashdot reader shares an opinion piece from The New York Times, written by Matthew Ball, former head of strategic planning for Amazon Studios....
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On August 7th, 2019 with 118 comments
Disney will offer a bundle package of its three streaming services -- Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ -- for $12.99 a month starting on November 12th, the company has...
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On August 7th, 2019 with 118 comments
Matt Levine, writing for Bloomberg: Is there a Harvard Business School case study of MoviePass yet? I feel like there are a lot of lessons to be learned from...
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On July 29th, 2019 with 284 comments
An anonymous reader writes: To stay on Beijing's good side, U.S. filmmakers are willing to kowtow to China's authoritarian regime, and there seems no limit to...
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On July 24th, 2019 with 347 comments
With TVs now delivering images faster than movies, TV manufacturers have tried to make up for that discrepancy via a digital process called motion smoothing....
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On July 18th, 2019 with 58 comments
Netflix said on Wednesday that it will roll out a cheaper subscription plan in India, one of the last great growth markets for global companies, as the...
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On July 6th, 2019 with 172 comments
According to a recent Hub Entertainment Research survey, twenty-three percent of respondents said they would definitely or probably drop their Netflix...
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On June 10th, 2019 with 136 comments
Spielberg's After Dark horror series will only be able to be streamed when it's dark outside. It'll be available exclusively on Quibi (short for "Quick...
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On May 19th, 2019 with 143 comments
Jason Koebler shares Vice's analysis of demoparties -- "gatherings where programmers showcase artistic audiovisual works, known as demos, after a day- or...
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On April 9th, 2019 with 53 comments
Video streaming services like Netflix and Hulu don't appear to be negatively impacting the box office like many would assume. Michael Pachter, analyst at...
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On March 19th, 2019 with 50 comments
The subscription plan that made MoviePass explode in popularity is coming back. If you're willing to pay for a full year (via ACH payment), "MoviePass...
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On January 23rd, 2019 with 139 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Hollywood Reporter: Netflix has joined the membership ranks of the Motion Picture Association of America alongside the...
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On January 22nd, 2019 with 287 comments
According to new research from marketing technology firm Audience Project, the majority (57%) of UK customers would stop watching Netflix if commercials were...
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On January 18th, 2019 with 52 comments
In its fourth-quarter 2018 earnings report, Netflix disclosed some of its viewership numbers for hits such as "Bird Box." "Overall, Netflix said it serves...
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On January 3rd, 2019 with 49 comments
The video games sector now accounts for more than half of the entertainment market in UK, according to new figures. From a report: The Entertainment Retailers...
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