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A slew of classic black comedies including “Sister, Sister,” “Moesha” and “Girlfriends” are heading to Netflix. The streamer has picked up seven library titles as part of its push of its Strong Black Lead strand. In addition to “Sister, Sister,” “Moesha” and “Girlfriends,” it has bought the rights to “The Game,” “One on One” and …
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Music streaming giant Spotify deepened its loss in the second quarter, even as its total pool of monthly active users neared the 300 million mark. The Stockholm-based company said its net loss swelled to $418 million from a loss of $76 million a year earlier because of dried-up advertising and higher-than-expected payroll taxes linked to …
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AMC Theatres and Comcast’s Universal Pictures agreed to a major shift in their operations that will allow the studio’s movies to be made available to US audiences at home after just three weekends in cinemas, the companies announced on Tuesday. AMC, the world’s largest movie theater chain, will receive a portion of the revenue that …
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HBO Max is following in the footsteps of its streaming rivals in making bold viewership claims, while withholding actual data. The streamer has announced that, in a shock to no one, “Friends” is the “No. 1 performing show” on the platform to date. What that means exactly is unclear, as HBO Max doesn’t provide any …
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Oprah Winfrey has set up an interview series at Apple. “The Oprah Conversation” will debut on the streaming service on July 30. Filmed remotely, the show will feature Winfrey engaging in dialogues with thought leaders and newsmakers from all over the world. In the debut episode, “How to Be an Antiracist,” Winfrey and bestselling author …
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Taylor Swift’s latest album “Folklore” is breaking the Internet. Since dropping last Thursday at midnight, “Folklore” was streamed 80.6 million times on Spotify, breaking the Swedish company’s record for first-day album streams by a female artist, it said. “Folklore” is also the most-streamed pop album on Apple Music in 24 hours with 35.5 million streams, …
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Somebody, please save the children! Not from the great white sharks slumming it in the Hamptons this summer, or from videos of idiots dancing on TikTok. Rescue America’s youth from the dangerous young-adult film. Kids, Whitney Houston told us, are supposed to be our future, but with their godawful taste in entertainment, I’m praying that …
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Domingo Zapata is working on a potential streaming show about travel, food, art and discovering culture, we hear. He has also created a mural at the Capri in Southampton, which has been open with new pandemic safety precautions. Zapata’s art is in its new eatery, Naia, and Amy Poehler and Nouriel “Dr. Doom” Roubini have …
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Apple has given a series order to “Shining Girls,” a metaphysical thriller based on Lauren Beukes’ 2013 best-selling novel “The Shining Girls,” starring and executive produced by Elisabeth Moss, and executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way. MRC Television is the studio. Writer-creator Silka Luisa (“Strange Angel”) will pen the adaptation, executive produce and serve …
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Religion of Sports Media, co-founded by NFL legends Tom Brady and Michael Strahan and filmmaker Gotham Chopra, has raised $10 million to fund a new leg of growth. The Los Angeles-based media venture — whose sports documentaries have included “Kobe Bryant’s Muse,” which it produced for Showtime and “Greatness Code,” which it made for Apple …
A slew of classic black comedies including “Sister, Sister,” “Moesha” and “Girlfriends” are heading to Netflix. The streamer has picked up seven library titles as part of its push of its Strong Black Lead strand. In addition to “Sister, Sister,” “Moesha” and “Girlfriends,” it has bought the rights to “The Game,” “One on One” and …
