New York Post may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you buy through our links. Those ditching the city for Long Island’s beaches this Memorial Day weekend will be in for a treat: the annual Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach is celebrating its 20th anniversary with none other than the Navy’s elite … Read more
Netflix is paying big money to the NFL for some Christmas Day football. The Wall Street Journal reports that the streaming giant will pay about $75 million per game for the two games on Dec. 25: Chiefs vs. Steelers and Ravens vs. Texans. Netflix will begin hosting this year’s games while also snagging a holiday … Read more
The sports-streaming service set to be launched by Walt Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox will be called Venu Sports and is on track for launch this fall, Pete Distad, the venture’s CEO, said Thursday. Announced in February, the service will try to woo younger viewers who are not tuned in to cable TV with a bundled offering of … Read more
‘How to Have Sex’ (2024) Stream it on Mubi. The title is provocative, but this is no how-to manual; instead, the writer and director Molly Manning Walker tells a contemporary coming-of-age story that will reverberate with viewers of all ages and sexes. Her focus is on Tara (Mia McKenna-Bruce), a 16-year-old British girl on a … Read more
Comcast is set to launch a streaming bundle combining its Peacock service with Netflix and Apple TV+, as the media and broadband company looks to retain subscribers in the face of stiff competition. The new bundle, StreamSaver, will be available to all its broadband, TV and mobile subscribers and at a “vastly reduced price to anything in the market today,” Comcast CEO Brian Roberts told … Read more
It’s almost impossible to measure the impact Roger Corman, who died Thursday at 98, had on independent genre filmmaking and the careers of emerging young directors, performers and crew members who cut their teeth under his tutelage. As a producer, Corman mastered the economics of drive-in movies and B-pictures, turning out consistently profitable work that … Read more
For years, decades actually, it was more like “Don’t Let It Be.” But for the first time, The Beatles’ 1970 documentary “Let It Be” — which had never been available on DVD, Blu-ray or, basically anything other than VHS — is finally available to stream on Disney+ this week. Was it worth the 54-year wait? … Read more
In a rare moment of solidarity, two entertainment giants are teaming up to try to get consumers to stop canceling their streaming services so frequently. Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery announced on Wednesday that they would start offering a bundle of their Disney+, Hulu and Max streaming services this summer, a sign of how rivals … Read more
Walt Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery will offer a bundle of the Disney+, Hulu and Max streaming services in the US starting this summer, the companies said in a statement on Wednesday. Customers will be able to sign up on any of the three individual websites and chose from an ad-free or ad-supported plan. No prices were disclosed. Both Disney and … Read more
Warner Bros. Discovery will reportedly implement paid-sharing on Max as it gets stricter later this year about subscribers letting other people use their accounts. Bloomberg reported this week that Warner Bros. Discovery will roll out an option for members to pay for “extra members” streaming with their Max subscriptions to have their own username and password as … Read more
All of this makes Shout! TV one of the very best streaming values since it doesn’t cost you a single cent — just the time you’ll spend watching ads. Here are a few recommendations: Mystery Science Theater 3000: “The Skydivers”: Shout has been in business for quite some time with the various iterations of “Mystery … Read more
‘The Royal Hotel’ (2023) Stream it on Hulu. Kitty Green’s follow-up to the taut drama “The Assistant” is a feminist riff on the ’70s classic “Wake in Fright,” in which two Canadian tourists who have run out of money in Australia take on a gig as bartenders at a grimy watering hole in the middle … Read more
Netflix blew past Wall Street expectations for the second straight quarter on Thursday as ad-supported streaming plans helped bring in 9.3 million new customers as the streaming giant’s decision to crack down on password sharing continue to pay dividends. Earnings per share for January through March came in at $5.28, compared with $2.88 a year earlier. … Read more
I’m going to guess that Peacock held off on its premiere of “Hapless” until “Curb Your Enthusiasm” ended its storied run on HBO. That’s because “Hapless,” premiering April 10 on Peacock, is extremely similar in tone and context to “Curb,” with a few exceptions — and is even described as a “cringe comedy” a la … Read more
Walt Disney’s streaming service will start cracking down on password-sharing from June, Chief Executive Bob Iger said Thursday, as the entertainment conglomerate looks to boost subscriber growth and make the business profitable. Iger also signaled a need for consolidation in the streaming industry and said Disney was “eventually” looking at double-digit margins for the business, in a wide-ranging interview … Read more
When most people think of the venerable character actor Louis Gossett Jr., who died Friday at 87, they understandably summon up his Oscar-winning turn in the 1982 drama “An Officer and a Gentleman.” But he accumulated over 200 credits over a screen, stage and television career that spanned more than 60 years, and brought a … Read more
“It’s a city that seems alive with its goodness and lightness and darkness as well.” Giancarlo Esposito on why his new series “Parish” is set in New Orleans. Source link #Giancarlo #Esposito #Parish #alterego #Hes #drowning #hes #trouble
It came to blows. “America’s Got Talent” judge Heidi Klum was miffed with her co-judge Sofía Vergara after she failed to cast Klum in her Netflix mini-series “Griselda.” “I was upset because I was like, ‘Why couldn’t I have been one of your cousins?’ I could have been a cousin that doesn’t speak, because obviously I don’t … Read more
“My name is David Lowery, and I adapted and directed The Green Knight. This is a scene in which Sir Gawain, who is not yet Sir Gawain— he is not a knight yet— played by Dev Patel, stops for rest in what he thinks is an abandoned cottage in the countryside and discovers that it … Read more
New York Post may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you buy through our links. Baby, let the games begin. Starting tonight, “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version)” will be available to stream exclusively on Disney+. Just three days after the surprise announcement of her upcoming 11th album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” … Read more