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Years of painfully fighting the inevitable looks to finally be coming to an end as Disney gives up the fight and seems to be releasing The New Mutants on Disney+ on 04 September

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Trailer released for His Dark Materials: Season 02

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https://www.darkhorizons.com/the-boys-scores-early-third-season-renewal/

Greenlight given for The Boys: Season 03

[Atticus]

https://www.darkhorizons.com/the-boy...eason-renewal/
Greenlight given for The Boys: Season 03

Ace. Looking forward to season 2 in a couple of months.

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https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...arter-earnings
Despite positive second quarter earnings Netflix has seen its share value drop as expectations set in that new subscriber rates will slump later in the year

Surely this is nonsense? Who's going to cancel Netflix? Are they thinking because of lack of new content?

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I can only guess that lockdown has driven up subscriber numbers and they expect a lot to let their subs lapse as workplaces reopen

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https://www.darkhorizons.com/netflix-announces-the-witcher-prequel-series/

Netflix have announced The Witcher: Blood Origin which will be a six episode one off prequel series to the main show set 1,200 years before Geralt.

[Asura]

Surely this is nonsense? Who's going to cancel Netflix? Are they thinking because of lack of new content?

It's that coupled with how Netflix are billions in debt.

The moment their growth stops, if they're not making profit, the wolves will come for them. It's not going to be pretty.

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https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/07/28/amc-strikes-historic-deal-with-universal-shortening-number-of-days-films-need-to-run-in-theaters-before-going-digital.html

AMC and Universal have settled their feud having struck a new deal that will see Universals movies on the cinema for a minimum of 17 days rather than the usual 90 days which means the studio can launch on VOD faster but risks losing screens to rivals when big films launch.

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https://www.darkhorizons.com/series-trailer-jurassic-world-camp-cretaceous/

Netflix will launch the animated series Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous on 18 September 2020. The show is set during the events of Jurassic World following six kids on a camp on the other side of Isla Nublar who are forced to work together to survive once the dinosaurs break loose.

https://www.darkhorizons.com/ces-2021-scraps-vegas-show-goes-online/

CES 2021 will abandon Vegas and be an online only show which could prove difficult because...

https://www.darkhorizons.com/analysis-comic-con-at-home-was-a-bust/

Comic-Con 2020 just completed its attempt at doing the same and the result? A failure. Social Engagement was down an eye watering 94% with average YouTube views at a poor 15,000.

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https://www.thecinemaspot.com/2020/08/01/exclusive-the-orville-canceled-after-third-season-at-hulu/

There's still back and forth on this but it's beginning to look like Hulu might be axing The Orville after its upcoming third season

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https://www.darkhorizons.com/will-widow-follow-mulan-disney-says-no/

Disney+ targeted achieving between 60m and 90m users within 5 years of its launch. Just under one year since it launched it has already passed the 60m in an accomplishment that must set a few brows sweating at Netflix.

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It'll be interesting how many people don't re-new after the first year. The honeymoon period passed pretty quickly for us.

[Dogg Thang]

Yep. Netflix will absolutely be worried about these figures and they should be. But it also puts a huge amount of pressure on Disney now to maintain their figures. That requires more content and now they are in the situation where they have to keep feeding that machine. The more they have to maintain, the more it costs them in content.

[randombs]

I’d be interested to see the average number of streaming services people are subscribing to.

I’ve had Neflix since it was LoveFilm, joined Hulu 3-4 years ago, Amazon Prime for around the same, and most recently Disney+. Disney is the one we watch the least because it’s a weird hybrid service that doesn’t work on PS4 in Japan. Watching through the browser on PC is a buffering nightmare, and it only allows downloads on mobile devices. Even then, it seems said devices can not display downloaded stuff on the TV, only streamed stuff. Nonsense.