Netflix Execs React To Disney’s Streaming Momentum: “Super-Impressive� But No ‘Bridgertons’ In Forecast
Posted on Wednesday January 20, 2021

Netflix executives offered some of their most extensive comments to date on Disney’s intensifying streaming efforts during their fourth-quarter earnings interview. They spoke during the company’s video earnings interview, which is moderated by a single Wall Street analyst and posted to YouTube, after the company reported strong financial results for the fourth quarter. Despite mounting […]

Netflix Co-CEOs Reed Hastings & Ted Sarandos Optimistic About Theatrical Windows Collapse & Rival HBO Max Day & Date Model
Posted on Wednesday January 20, 2021

It’s a streaming world, and we’re just living in it. With a majority of the globe’s movie theaters closed due to Covid, and Hollywood studios scrambling to figure out new distribution models, Netflix has already been experiencing the roaring ’20s with close to 204 million subscribers taking in the service worldwide and the company’s market […]

NBCU’s Mark Lazarus Talks Olympics, Pandemic, Peacock & “One-Stop Shop� Programming Strategy
Posted on Wednesday January 20, 2021

Mark Lazarus was installed as Chairman of NBCUniversal Television & Streaming last spring as part of a major reorganization of the Comcast-owned company. Today, in a keynote interview as part of Natpe, he talked up what that reshuffle meant for the company’s programming strategy and fledgling streaming service Peacock and also opined on the Olympics […]

Anthony Rhulen Dies: FilmEngine Entertainment Founder/CEO, ‘The Butterfly Effect’ Producer Was 51
Posted on Wednesday January 20, 2021

Anthony Rhulen, the founder and CEO of FilmEngine Entertainment, died January 15 at age 51. He died in Pasadena after losing a battle with addiction, according to the Times Herald-Record, the newspaper in upstate New York where Rhulen grew up in Monticello, NY, and where his family still resides. Rhulen launched FilmEngine, an indie financing/producing […]

Singer Ledisi To Play Gospel Music Icon & Martin Luther King Jr. Companion Mahalia Jackson In ‘Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story’
Posted on Wednesday January 20, 2021

EXCLUSIVE: R&B recording artist Ledisi (Selma, American Soul) is set to play legendary gospel singer Mahalia Jackson in the biopic, Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story.  Columbus Short (ABC’s Scandal, Stomp the Yard) will take on the role of Martin Luther King Jr., a close friend of Jackson’s. Janet Hubert (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) […]