Film/TV

In the last four years, much has changed in the world of 360-degree filmmaking. These days virtual reality has a presence at most major film festivals. Scores of movies and TV show... More

Both Netflix and Amazon made a resounding splash last year at the Sundance Film Festival, with high-priced acquisitions that are still maintaining their profile a year later. Netfl... More

The increasingly crowded international streaming market is set to welcome a new player, with major backers. Turner International’s Digital Ventures & Innovation unit and Warner B... More

MoviePass' pseudo-unlimited subscription theater service is increasingly popular, but that doesn't mean it's profitable -- it currently has to subsidize tickets, which isn't exactl... More

The new agreement covers Google’s use of TiVo’s patented technologies worldwide and offers a licence for Google’s products and services across internet-based platforms and de... More

21st Century Fox Inc. is seriously pursuing the rights to “Thursday Night Football,” a controversial TV property that could lift viewership of its struggling broadcast network ... More

Sundance Institute and the Dolby Institute, along with the Ray and Dagmar Dolby Family Fund, announced that Blindspotting and I Think We’re Alone Now have both received a Dolby F... More

Video: If you thought it was creepy that technology lets networks know what you're watching, you'd better sit down. It turns out that Poppy Crum, chief scientist at Dolby Labs, has... More

Nagra showed three particular offerings at the trade show in Las Vegas this week: the OpenTV Signature Edition set-top box package, AI powered data intelligence for recommendations... More

The center of media activity at CES is the C Space in the Aria hotel. Here you will find the private meeting spaces booked by Turner, Spotify, Twitter, Oath, CBS, NBCU and Samsung ... More

Seeking to further embed social media with live sports, Fox Sports is working with Twitter and Snapchat for this summer’s 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. Twitter will showcase ... More

NBC will present more than 50 hours of virtual-reality coverage from the 2018 Winter Olympics next month in South Korea — available live to viewers in the U.S. It will mark th... More

BAMTech’s platform will support a much-discussed new digital service for US pay-TV leader ESPN. BAMTech will also build a new entertainment service for the House of Mouse. It is ... More

It was heralded as a “big attack on TV” that “could chip away at broadcasters’ revenue” when Facebook announced its plan to launch a TV-centric platform called Watch last... More

Scaeva Technologies has released its first software product, the ScaevaSAFE. With its mission to protect the art of the music, film and TV industries from piracy, the ScaevaSAFE is... More

VR Hype cycle plateaus - There is no getting away from virtual reality at CES, and really, why would you want to? But I'm starting to feel like we're reaching a plateau of enthusia... More

Last February, during an earnings call with investors, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined why his company was making significant investments in video: “I see video as a megatr... More

One can make the case that linear TV channels are in trouble. But are traditional TV content providers that fuel those channels? Proponents would say there is no problem here. C... More

The promotional campaign for Will Smith’s new movie “Bright” included all the trappings of a Hollywood blockbuster, from a panel at Comic-Con to a premiere where the actor’... More

About one-third of internet users stream cable TV without paying for it by using credentials of someone they don’t live with, according to Parks Associates. The TV industry’s l... More