Subscribers to Apple TV+ are about to get a big surprise as Apple today raised the price of its Apple TV+ streaming service for the second time in its four-year history, hiking it from $7 to $10 per month. Its annual subscription rate also goes from $69 to $99. Phil Nickinson / Digital Trends The … Read more
Apple Inc. will redesign its TV app in a step toward consolidating the company’s various video offerings later this year, according to people with knowledge of the matter, part of its efforts to become a bigger player in the streaming world. The company is preparing a new version of the app for release around December … Read more
Hello Pursuits readers, it’s Jim Gaddy. By this time next week, I’ll have been inside an actual movie theater for the first time since April 2022, when I laughed-cried-laughed through a screening of Everything Everywhere All at Once. For practically my whole life, “going to the movies” was an event ripe with anticipation. But at … Read more
“Barbenheimer” aside, it was the summer from hell for Hollywood executives, and none more so than Bob Iger. In July he and fellow moguls Gulfstreamed to the jagged green mountains of Sun Valley, Idaho, for their annual retreat, where between power lunches and tandem bike rides they debated media deals and the impact of artificial … Read more
The NBA will have a plethora of potential media partners as it prepares for its next rights deal. The league ideally would like no more than three packages as it decides among TV carriers and streaming services, say people familiar with the matter. NBA.com or the NBA app may serve as the digital front door … Read more
Jimmy Butler #22 of the Miami Heat dribbles against Jamal Murray #27 of the Denver Nuggets during the fourth quarter in Game Five of the 2023 NBA Finals at Ball Arena on June 12, 2023 in Denver, Colorado. Justin Edmonds | Getty Images Sport | Getty Images The National Basketball Association’s upcoming decision on which … Read more
Striking Hollywood screenwriters reached a tentative new labor agreement with studios including Walt Disney Co. and Netflix Inc., settling one of two walkouts that have shut down film and TV production. The Writers Guild of America, which represents more than 11,500 Hollywood scribes, said Sunday it reached the deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture … Read more
When I wrote about the challenging deal climate last week, I omitted two deals that could happen. Hollywood talent giant Creative Artists Agency is inching towards a sale. The company would like to sell for upwards of $7 billion, but it’s still not clear if it will get that sum. It was worth $5 billion … Read more
Hey everyone, welcome back to Soundbite. This week we’re talking about the Montgomery Brawl, of course. As always, reach me through email, and if you haven’t yet subscribed to this newsletter, please do so here . Over the weekend, if you somehow missed it, a fight of epic proportions broke out on a dock in … Read more
Apple, Fox, Netflix Emerge as Potential Bidders for Future NBA Rights Bloomberg Source link