The holiday season, sandwiched between the fifth Avengers, third Dune and fourth Jumanji, will be something audiences haven’t seen in theaters for some time: A mid-budget, real-life sports movie from one of the major studios. Paramount and Skydance’s Mr. Irrelevant ended up with a prime Christmas Day wide release — a coveted spot for both…
Ad-supported streaming subscriptions, which were barely a thing at the beginning of the decade, now make up almost half of subscription video on-demand plans in the United States. Analytics firm Antenna’s latest report on the state of the streaming market puts the number of ad-tier streaming subscriptions at 110 million (excluding Prime Video, whose default…
[This story contains MAJOR spoilers fromthe season three finale of Euphoria, “In God We Trust.”] Sam Levinson had a different ending for Rue, Zendaya‘s starring character in Euphoria, before the death of star Angus Cloud. Cloud, who played drug dealer Fezco in the first two seasons of HBO‘s buzzy series, died in 2023 at age…
Harrison Rolfes, a research analyst a Pitchbook, added Anthropic’s IPO “will be the most scrutinized public offering in tech history”, with investors poring over its business margins, sales and profitability for signs that valuations and costs of AI make financial sense.
