The OTT landscape in 2020 is rapidly changing as a result of the growth of OTT services, content and devices, as well as the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on consumer behaviour, according to the 2020 State of OTT report from cross-platform measurement specialist Comscore. Using data from Comscore OTT Intelligence, the report offers insights […]
Netflix, CD Projekt Red, and Studio Trigger have announced an all new original anime series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners set in the same universe as the highly anticipated game, Cyberpunk 2077. The series will premiere in 2022. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners tells a standalone, 10-episode story about a street kid trying to survive in a technology and body modification-obsessed […]
Netflix is one of the few fortunate companies, which has a service that is more meaningful to people who are forced to stay at home due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This was reflected on Twitter as well, where the influencer discussions related to ‘Netflix’ spiked more than 60 per cent
Netflix has unveiled Homemade, a collection of short films created by celebrated filmmakers around the world. Confined at home as a consequence of the Covid-19 outbreak, filmmakers created personal stories that capture our shared experience of life in quarantine. Produced by The Apartment Pictures, a Fremantle company, and Fabula, Homemade is a celebration of the […]
Canadian’s spending on the video entertainment market is expected to shrink by 6 per cent this year, but will bounce back strongly in 2021, and is forecast to expand by 11 per cent to surpass the success of 2019, according to a new video insights report from Futuresource Consulting. This return to form will be […]
Netflix it is the new home to Cobra Kai, the series continuation of the iconic The Karate Kid film franchise from Sony Pictures Television. The film’s stars, Ralph Macchio and William Zabka reprise their roles in the series along with Martin Kove as sensei John Kreese. Under the terms of the deal, the first two […]
On the 20th anniversary of celebrated feature film Chicken Run – the highest-grossing stop-motion animated film of all time – Aardman has revealed a sequel is set to go into full production in 2021 and the new adventure will be released globally by Netflix (excluding China). Peter Lord, Aardman Co-Founder and Creative Director, commented: “Fans […]
By April 2020, Netflix had almost 183 million subscribers with a breakdown showing it touched 69 million subs in the US and Canada, 58.7 million in EMEA, 34.3 million in Latin-America and 19.8 million in Asia-Pacific. If Netflix were to continue its Q1 trajectory, it could have as many as
Sky Deutschland has announced a major new content plan to that it says will “shakeup TV in Germany and take Sky into a new era”. Sky will deliver its plan through a combination of partnerships and development of its entertainment, movies and sports offering – and it starts with an extension of Sky’s deal with […]
Netflix has acquired Giving Voice – a documentary about the annual August Wilson Monologue Competition where the winning students get a chance to perform at the August Wilson Theater on Broadway. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2020 where it won the Festival Favourite award. Director, James D. […]