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‘Friends’ Is Officially Leaving Netflix For HBO Max. ‘Fresh Prince’ and ‘Pretty Little Liars’ To Join

written by Ruben Jay

WarnerMedia also announced that other cult classics like The Fresh Prince of Bell Air and Pretty Little Liars will join Friends as HBO Max exclusives.

WarnerMedia officially announced that the beloved sitcom, Friends, is leaving Netflix for their newly christened, HBO Max. HBO Max is the WarnerMedia owned streaming platform that is designed to take on Netflix and Amazon Prime.

HBO Max will also house many of the CW original shows that have ended up on Netflix. Reese Witherspoon also has an original film in the works for the platform.

WarnerMedia also announced that other cult classics like The Fresh Prince of Bell Air and Pretty Little Liars will join Friends as HBO Max exclusives. According to the Hollywood Reporter, WarnerMedia is paying $420 Million for 5 years of exclusive streaming rights to Friends.

HBO Max will launch with a massive library of content. On day one, the service will have over 10,000 hours of content available for consumers. The price point of HBO Max has yet to be announced.

Commentary: By the looks of the trailer for HBO Max, this is going to include a ton of Warner classic films. I am excited for the new service. I am not a huge fan of the name as HBO already has HBO Now and HBO Go. HBO Max may add confusion to the market.

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9 July, 2019 0 comment
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MTV And Diddy Thinking About Bringing Back ‘Making The Band”

written by Ruben Jay

Diddy took to Instagram the other day to tease the possibility of bringing back the hit MTV show, Making The Band. The show that brought us Danity Kane, Day26, and others.

“Something interesting happened this morning that I need to share with you guys,” Diddy began. “Years ago I did something that will go down in television history. This show called Making the Band. Now, I’m trying to figure out my schedule for the next 24 months…but MTV called me out of nowhere and was like, ‘What do you think about partnering and bringing Making the Band back?'”

“I was like, man, something so great, sometimes you don’t need to mess with it. You need to just leave it alone,” he said, adding that he’s “kind of on the fence about it.”

“I feel like that’s my calling as a coach, to be able to take young talent and take them to the next level,” Diddy admitted. “You think I should bring Making The Band back??? Let me know #IWantMyMTB,” he tweeted.

This news might be an unofficial announcement that FOX’s The Four: Battle For Stardom is officially done.

 

9 July, 2019 0 comment
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BusinessFeaturedFilm

Regal Cinema Planning Unlimited Ticket Service

written by Ruben Jay

Regal Cinema is planning to launch their own version of MoviePass or AMC Stubs: A-List where customers will be able to pay a monthly subscription for unlimited movie tickets, Deadline is reporting.

The service would be a spin-off of the parent company’s UK subscription plan, Cineworld Unlimited. Cineworld Unlimited pioneered the unlimited tickets for a monthly fee model long before MoviePass attempted (and failed) in the US. Regal Unlimited could be out as soon as the end of July.

According to Deadline, Regal is working on a tiered service that would run either, $18, $21, or $24 a month. Each tier would be based on locations, and not as much on ticket limitations. Traditionally, the lower tier would allow a limited amount of tickets as the higher tier would allow unlimited. Regal’s plan would be to allow you to see movies in any Regal in the US for $24 a month, but just select regals for $18, with a service fee to see films at a theatre out of your plan. Subscribers would also get a 10% discount on food with all tiers.

Regal has been taking its time to launch a service like this. AMC Stubs A-List launched about a year ago. Now, AMC has over 800,000 subscribers. AMC launched A-List as a direct response to the failed MoviePass experiment. MoviePass launched a $10 a month plan to watch up to 1 movie everyday. The service, while popular, was a financial disaster. Such a disaster that MoviePass lost over 50% of subscribers with the changes in price and offerings.

3 July, 2019 0 comment
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Samsung CEO Calls Galaxy Fold An Embarrassment

written by Ruben Jay

The Galaxy Fold was supposed to revolutionize smart phones. Instead, it embarrassed Samsung and really put the idea of a foldable phone in jeopardy.

The CEO of Samsung, DJ Koh, recently had a meeting with journalists where he discussed the embarrassing roll out attempt on the Samsung Fold. TechCrunch is reporting that Koh called the rollout “embarrassing”.

According to the report, Koh said that he “pushed the device through” too quickly and wanted to the first company producing foldable phones. I think we can all agree that this was an embarrassing attempt to introduce a new product.

Samsung released a limited run of The Fold to reporters to review. Reviewers started to report that the phone was malfunctioning. At one point, multiple reporters started showing that their displays has either started to glitch or were completely broken.

Initially, Samsung responded by claiming the reporters were misusing the device before realizing that the problem was their fault. Samsung took back the review units and for 2 months have been quiet on the new date for release.

Even with the lack of an updated release date, Koh says that there will be a Galaxy Fold.

1 July, 2019 0 comment
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NBC Is Paying $500 Million For ‘The Office’

written by Ruben Jay

Yesterday, NBC and Netflix announced that the cult classic sitcom, The Office, will be leaving Netflix for NBC’s upcoming streaming platform. The move will take place in January of 2021.

It was revealed today that NBC is paying $100 Million a year for 5 years for the rights to The Office. Why is NBC paying so much for The Office? Simply because The Office will help bring eyeballs to their new streaming service.

If NBC launches their service at $10 a month, they just need 1 million subscribers to join their platform specifically for The Office to not only break even, but also make money. Theoretically, if those subscribers stayed for one year, NBC will see a 20% return on their investment for the year.

Earlier this year, Netflix paid $100 Million for Friends. The same principle applies. In the case for Friends, 12M users said they signed up for Netflix or keep their account for Friends. If that is the case, Netflix made a 44% ROI in one month for Friends (in the interest of full disclosure, I opened a Netflix account exclusively for Friends).

The new battlefield for for streaming is going to be who can get the rights to cult classic shows.

26 June, 2019 0 comment
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Les Moonves Loses $30 Million Of 2018 Compensation

written by Ruben Jay

Les Moonves is the former CEO of the CBS Network. He stepped down from the position in September of 2018 after a dozen women accused him of sexual misconduct. We recently learned that Moonves was forced to forfeit over $30 million of stock options from his 2018 compensation.

Moonves was compensated $47 Million, $34 million in stock awards, in 2018. Moonves returned the $34 Million.

Since his ousting, Moonves has started a new production company called Moon Rising.

26 June, 2019 0 comment
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Myles Kennedy On ‘Walk The Sky’

written by Ruben Jay

Mark Tremonti recently talked about Alter Bridge’s upcoming album, Walk The Sky. According to Tremonti, the band’s lead singer Myles Kennedy thinks that this album is the album is a perfect follow up to the bands third album, ABIII, which came out in 2010.

. “This one is the yang to the yin of that. AB III was kind of about a loss of faith and not believing, Myles was having a dark moment in that time and he wrote the majority of the lyrics. This is more of an enlightening, Zen kind of record – it’s not a preachy record by any means, it’s more of a free-spirited kind of thing,” he says.

19 June, 2019 0 comment
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‘Men In Black: International’ Sees Low $3 Million Preview

written by Ruben Jay

Men In Black: International is the 4th movie in the MIB series and saw a $3 Million Thursday Night Preview on opening weekend. The $3 Million Thursday night box office is one of the lowest of the Summer season so far, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

THR reports “MIB: International‘s preview earnings were on the lower end of the summer’s Thursday night ticket sales, below John Wick 3 ($6 million), Detective Pikachu ($5.7 million) and, most recently, Dark Phoenix ($5 million). But International will likely lead the weekend, tracking for a $30 million bow at the domestic box office from 4,224 screens.”

 

14 June, 2019 0 comment
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NBC’s Sitcom, “The Good Place”, Ending After Fourth Season

written by Ruben Jay

NBC’s hit sitcom, The Good Place is set to end after its fourth and current season, announced the show creator Michael Schur.

“After The Good Place was picked up for season two, the writing staff and I began to map out, as best we could, the trajectory of the show,” he said. “Given the ideas we wanted to explore, and the pace at which we wanted to present those ideas, I began to feel like four seasons – just over 50 episodes – was the right lifespan.”

While Schur has been tempted to expand on that, he has decided against doing so.

“At the end of the day, we don’t want to tread water just because the water is so warm and pleasant. As such, the upcoming fourth season will be our last,” he stated.

What are your thoughts on The Good Place ending?

8 June, 2019 0 comment
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