Maker Studios has unveiled a slate of 15 original series rolling out this fall and winter on its game channel Polaris and newly relaunched comedy channel The Station. And the Disney-owned mu…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:23PMReed Hastings fired back at cinema chains Friday, with the Netflix chief accusing theater owners of “strangling the movie business” by refusing to budge on windows to allow strea…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:52PMDisney and Google have decided to not move forward with bids for Twitter, which is hoping to secure a deal to sell itself by the end of the month, according to reports. Both Disney and Googl…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:30AMNetflix has inched its foot further through the movie-biz door: The streaming giant has reached a deal with iPic Entertainment, a luxury-theater chain with 15 U.S. locations, to screen 1…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30AMThree months after its launch, Live.ly, the live-streaming video app from Musical.ly, has captured nearly 4.6 million monthly active users on Apple’s iOS platform in the U.S. — maki…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:20PMApple has teamed with five Hollywood studios for six different ten-movie bundles — priced at $9.99, or a buck per movie — in a one-day promotion celebrating the 10th anniversary …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:59PMLive.ly, the live-streaming video app from Musical.ly that burst onto the scene last month, has now been downloaded more than 2 million times — helped by early adopters like singer Jas…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:08PMDisney has struck a deal with Major League Baseball to acquire a one-third stake in the league’s MLB Advanced Media technology arm for about $3.5 billion, Bloomberg reported. Under the…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:31PMDisney has created a secure sandbox for preteens to get a taste of social media — without the risk that they’ll run into something age-inappropriate, scary or offensive. More importa…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:34PMLive.ly, the live-streaming app from Musical.ly that officially launched four days ago, has zoomed to the top of Apple’s free apps chart — with almost 500,000 downloads so far — a…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:54AMProducer Scott Rudin has been elected to the board of Expedia, the online travel-booking company headed by chairman Barry Diller. Expedia disclosed Rudin’s appointment to the board eff…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:46PMA U.S. Senate investigation into pay-TV billing practices found that Time Warner Cable and Charter Communications — which completed their $67 billion merger in May — have regularly overb…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:13PMFor $90, Aaron Sorkin will share his tricks of the screenwriting trade. Sorkin, scribe of such films such as “A Few Good Men,” “Steve Jobs” and “The Social Netw…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:43AMDanceOn, the YouTube network focused on dance culture, has adopted a new name — Izo — as the company looks to stretch its legs more broadly into music content. “We really needed to cre…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:38AMTheAudience, a social-media and digital content marketing agency focused on connecting brands with cultural influencers, has hired Mike Dodge as CEO and Debbie Menin as executive VP of strat…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:07PMHulu announced a straight-to-series order for “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a drama from from MGM Television starring Elisabeth Moss. The series, based on the novel of the same na…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:53PMYouTube and Awesomeness Films have announced “Dance Camp,” a music-and-dance teen drama, as the first feature-length film under their co-production deal. The movie, produced by J…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:35PMESPN cut a content-distribution deal with event-ticketing site StubHub, part of a bigger initiative by the eBay-owned subsidiary to turn itself into a bigger destination for sports fans. Th…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:24PMTwitter has launched live-streaming video app Periscope, developed by the startup it bought earlier in 2015 for a reported $100 million, upping the battle with overnight mobile-app streami…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:59AMThe cyber-attackers who broke down Sony Pictures’ digital doors stole five movies and uploaded them to piracy sites — a move that could cost the studio millions of dollars in lost box of…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMNBC’s broadcast of “Peter Pan Live” Thursday drew a huge social-media following — well above the Peacock’s “Sound of Music” broadcast last year and …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:19PMMove over, Elsa. Apple’s iPad is the No. 1 brand among children 6-12, beating out Disney, Nickelodeon, YouTube, Netflix, Toys ‘R’ Us, McDonald’s, and multiple snack-f…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:33PMJim Louderback, g.m. of Discovery Digital Networks, is leaving the company two years after the cable programmer bought web-video startup Revision3, where he had been CEO. Louderback announc…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:13PMTime Warner Cable’s broadband and video-on-demand services were knocked offline for more than two hours Wednesday, with the cable company saying most services were restored by 6 a.m. E…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:52AMTwitch, the videogame-streaming service that Google is in the process of acquiring for $1 billion, has pulled the plug on Justin.tv. Justin.tv, a website designed for users to “lifecast�…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:31PMYo, Adrian! The entire “Rocky” film franchise starring Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa is scheduled to expire from Netflix’s streaming service as of July 1, 2014, accord…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:18PMYouTube is playing hardball with music companies: The Internet video service this week will begin removing videos from indie labels that have refused to agree to the terms for its music-subs…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:22AMEndemol Beyond USA, the digital multichannel network unit of global TV production firm Endemol, hired former Disney executive and entrepreneur David B. Williams as chief content and tech…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:58PMProducers of Tony-nominated musical “If/Then” starring Idina Menzel are working with Mashable on a digital-marketing campaign, which the parties tout as the first such collaborat…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:19PMCable TV loves Robin Williams in old-lady drag. 20th Century Fox’s “Mrs. Doubtfire” was the most-aired pic on basic cable in 2013. The 1993 comedy was played 66 times across five netwo…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:54AMMr. Moviefone is about to get disconnected. AOL’s Moviefone dial-in lines will no longer be available after next Monday, March 31, according to a recording on the service. The phone nu…
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