Sony and Apollo in Talks to Acquire Paramount After letting exclusive talks with the movie studio Skydance lapse, Paramount’s directors met over the weekend and decided to negotiate with all the suitors. 05/5/2024 - 9:22 am | View Link
Blockbuster Turned Down Chance To Buy Netflix In 2000 Blockbuster had a chance to buy Netflix back in 2000 for 50 million dollars - but turned it down - thinking it was too expensive. 05/4/2024 - 10:20 am | View Link
Jeff Bezos and Reed Hastings on Why Leaders Should Cultivate Intellectual Humility To avoid such mistakes in the future, Hastings asked Netflix executives for honest feedback on big decisions. He charged his team with rating the idea from minus-10 (terrible) to plus-10 (great). 04/25/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Here are 5 secrets of Netflix's success, according to Reed Hastings Copy Link Netflix is known for paying top dollar to secure the best employees — and demanding a huge amount from its workers. Reed Hastings, the streaming giant's cofounder and executive chair ... 04/5/2024 - 11:48 pm | View Link
Ahmed Best wants closure for his clumsy Gungan character, Jar Jar Binks, who initially appeared in the first installment of George Lucas prequel trilogy, Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace. In a new interview published on May the Fourth Be with You, Best voiced his opinion over Star Wars Day weekend in regard to the fate of one of that galaxy far, far aways most highly scrutinized characters.
I Saw the TV Glow has just begun its slow theatrical rollout, with a much wider release coming May 17. There's been a lot of hype about the hazy, anhedonic, post-vaporwave, anti-capitalist aesthetic of filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun after their first feature film, We're All Going to the World's Fair. Their next film is yet another original quasi-horror tone poem that elaborates Schoenbrun's distinctive vision amid the cinematic landscape (so ber-hip but anti-awesome).
May the Fourth Be with You, aka Star Wars Day, turns into a weekend-long celebration for fans of that galaxy far, far away. While Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunts The Fall Guy does land the top spot at the box office to kick off the summer movie season, the big surprise is the 25th anniversary screenings of Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace (1999).