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Comcast is willing to sell its 30% stake in Hulu to Disney as the dust settles on its victorious $39 billion bid for Sky over the weekend.
Following Disney winning the bidding to buy Fox, and then Comcast winning the bidding to buy Sky - Comcast is reported to be preparing to sell its 30% ownership of Hulu to Disney which would give the mouse house a 90% share of the streaming service.
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It has a $1 billion budget and multiple projects in development, but questions about the product on Apple’s upcoming streaming on-demand service have been on the rise and now The Wall Street Journal has posted a report which says the company’s need to protect its image is proving a problem. The paper says Apple’s own […]
The upcoming $1bn Apple On-Demand Service is coming along and many of its programming projects remain secret. A new report has said that Apple is planning to aggressively protect its corporate image and as such is said to be avoiding any content that includes sex, violence, politics or religious imagery.
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It’s official, Netflix has acquired the international streaming rights to the DC Universe series “Titans” and will broadcast the series everywhere it’s available excluding the United States and China. This marks the latest instance of Netflix acquiring international rights to a new series an American network or streaming service following the likes of “Star Trek: […]
Netflix have hovered up the worldwide rights to the DCU Service's Titans. Episodes will hit the service a few hours after they hit the DCU in the US
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This is how the world ends... not with bang but with a tangled weaved web of streaming services and licensing agreements...
Warners has decided to keep the DCU Service restricted to the USA only meaning they have to have other services show its shows outside the US. It's like Star Trek: Discovery and highlights what a mess digital service subscriptions are going to become in coming years.
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Yep. In the short term, it's our gain here but splitting rights across territories is messy (yet seemingly still necessary) business and tends to lead to restrictions and legal messing later on where a show might be available in one place and yet vanishes everywhere else. Having multiple streaming services splitting content will ultimately mean we lose out. Having multiple streaming services that vary hugely from territory to territory will basically just be local pay TV channels. Then some will come in and offer bundles and you'll be paying your Sky subscription all over again.
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Amazon Studios has hopped onboard Sony Pictures Television’s upcoming series adaptation of Robert Jordan’s high fantasy novels “The Wheel of Time”. There are fourteen novels in total, beginning with ‘The Eye of the Universe’ in 1990 and concluding with ‘A Memory of Light’ in 2007, and the books have sold more than 90 million copies […]
Amazon is double dipping on fantasy following the greenlight the LOTR series received and has picked up a series based on The Wheel of Time. The fourteen novels long series will follow Moiraine, the lead character in a world where magic exists but only women can use it.
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https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3q45v/bittorrent-usage-increases-netflix-streaming-sitesBitTorrent usage has bounced back because there's too many streaming services, and too much exclusive content.
Here's an interesting one: Torrent pirating of film and TV is on the rise again due to the growing abundance of streaming services overcomplicating the market for consumers.
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Up until the Bordersdown Purge the Netflix Recommendations thread was mostly just that but with the explosion of services it makes less sense to have one thread for Netflix and another for other services so in future, instead of posting Netflix news in the recommendations discussion thread I'll keep I tall under one roof in here. As such:
Netflix has announced they have just signed a multi-year deal with The C.S. Lewis Company to develop stories from “The Chronicles of Narnia” universe into series and films for its members worldwide. All series and films produced through the deal will be Netflix productions in collaboration with eOne. Mark Gordon, Douglas Gresham and Vincent Sieber […]
Netflix has signed a multi-year deal to create multiple series and movies for the service adapting the Chronicles of Narnia series. Presumably this kills the planned belated sequel that was in the works. Netflix owns the adaptation rights now to all seven books.
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