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Christmas Day 2025 Shatters Streaming Record With 55.1 Billion Viewing Minutes
“Stranger Things” and NFL games on Netflix and Prime Video helped lift the category to an overall record 47.5% share of TV viewership for December
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Netflix Goes All-Cash in Revised Warner Bros. Offer for $27.75 Per Share
The amended deal, which will also include shares from the spinoff of Discovery Global, is designed to provide “greater certainty of value” and accelerate the path to a shareholder vote by April
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Rocco Commisso, Mediacom Founder and ACF Fiorentina Owner, Dies at 76
“The Commisso family wishes to thank all those who stood by him during these delicate moments,” a statement from the Italian soccer club notes
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NBC Orders Crime Drama Pilots From Dick Wolf, Joey Falco
The network is bringing back pilot season with six projects in consideration across comedy and drama
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‘Fire Country’ Showrunner to Exit at the End of Season 4
Tia Napolitano will pivot to focus on the development of other projects
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‘Paranormal Activity’ Relaunch Sets May 2027 Release at Paramount Pictures
Rising horror writer/director Ian Tuason is set to direct the Blumhouse-Atomic Monster feature
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‘Spotlight’ Director Tom McCarthy to Adapt Climate Change Book ‘Losing Earth’ for Sony Pictures Classics
The film is set to begin production at the end of February and is dedicated to the late Steve Golin
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NBC Orders Private Eye Comedy Pilot From ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ Team
Dan Goor and Luke Del Tredici’s untitled project would be a workplace sitcom set in the world of L.A. private detectives
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Trump Bought Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery Bonds Following $83 Billion Merger Deal Announcement
A White House financial disclosure shows the president acquired up to $1 million worth of corporate bonds issued by each company in December
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Former Paramount Co-CEO Brian Robbins to Launch Short Form Production Company
The Awesomeness creator’s next venture will focus on making animated and live-action content for YouTube with plans to evolve the projects into theatrically released feature films
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Netflix-Owned Warner Bros. Will Stick to 45-Day Theatrical Windows, Ted Sarandos Says
“The general economics of the theatrical business were more positive than we had seen and we had modeled for ourselves,” the co-CEO admits
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Inside Media’s Risky Bet on Explosive Prediction Markets | Analysis
Through partnerships with Kalshi and Polymarket, newsrooms are harnessing real-time odds to inform coverage — even as prediction platforms face intensifying scrutiny and fuel dystopian fears
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Paramount CEO David Ellison Meets With UK Culture Secretary Amid Bids for Warner Bros. Discovery
The executive has also met with European regulators, while his $108.4 billion offer for WBD is under review by the U.S. Department of Justice
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Kathleen Kennedy’s Lucasfilm Legacy: A Galaxy in Disarray | Analysis
The executive’s tenure was defined by a swirl of high highs, low lows and a bevy of projects in development hell
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Goldman Set to Acquire Historic Radford Lot After Current Owner’s $1.1 Billion Default | Report
“This is a challenging time for all suppliers and independent studio owners and operators in the US,” Hackman Capital tells Bloomberg














