Canal+ is set to launch a cinema-focused channel, Canal+ Box Office, in September. Revealing the plan at a press conference dedicated to its film strategy, Canal+ Box-Office will be the pay-TV operator’s tenth movie service. Ahead of the César’s award ceremony on February 24th, to be shown live on Canal+, the operator has reasserted that […]

ITVX has confirmed that Jonathan Ross will be handpicking and recommending his favourite movies on the new ITV platform each month. A new show called Jonathan Ross: Must-Watch Films will launch exclusively on ITVX on February 14th. The inaugural episode will focus on some of the best films to enjoy on a date night including […]

Amazon plans to spend more than $1 billion a year to produce movies that will be released in cinemas, according to people familiar with the company’s plans. The online retailer intends to make between 12 and 15 movies annually that will get a theatrical release. Amazon will release a smaller number of films in cinemas […]

Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) will launch a new free-to-air DTT channel in Italy by the end of October. The channel will air movies and TV series from the Warner Bros library and will be distributed throughout Italy on channel position 37. According to daily Il Sole 24 Ore, WBD has taken out a five-year lease […]

Peacock has announced Universal Pictures’ Beast will begin streaming exclusively on the service starting October 7th. The thriller movie follows recently widowed Dr. Nate Daniels (Idris Elba) and his two teenage daughters (Iyana Halley and Leah Sava Jeffries) as they travel to a South African game reserve managed by Martin Battles (Sharlto Copley), an old […]

A study carried out by the US’s National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) suggests that, at launch, when little is known about a movie, high quality illegal copies demonstrate a positive effect on revenues. In the post-launch period, however, higher quality illegal copies exhibit a negative effect on revenues. In the NBER paper, Latent Estimation […]