Last year, movie ticketing and discovery business Fandango, a division of NBCUniversal, bought the on-demand video streaming service Vudu from Walmart, after the retailer had failed to capitalize on the service it had first acquired in 2010 for $100 million. Today, Fandango is taking the next steps with Vudu by merging the service with its […]
‘It doesn’t leave you’: the toxic toll of LGBTQ conversion therapy
Netflix documentary Pray Away, exec-produced by Ryan Murphy, traces the history of conversion therapy with regretful leaders of the “ex-gay” movementJulie Rodgers was 16 years old when her mother introduced her to Ricky Chelette, the “singles minister”…
Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine sold to new media firm from former Disney execs
Hello Sunshine, Reese Witherspoon’s media company that has produced content for streaming services like Hulu, Apple and HBO, among others, has been sold to a yet-unnamed new media firm run by former Disney execs, Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs, the company announced this morning. The Wall Street Journal first reported on the sale. Deal terms […]
NBC paid $7.75bn for its Olympic rights … and we got televisual vomit
US viewers have been able to see everything at any given moment while understanding fundamentally nothing about what’s going onIf there’s one message the Olympics unfailingly conveys, it’s that elite competition is all about making the right choices. A…
The changing art of the subeditor: ‘You had to read the type upside down’
A deputy news production editor at the Guardian speaks to colleagues about how cutting and correcting copy has evolved over decadesThe internet may have revolutionised the media in the 21 years since I joined the Guardian, but my role as a subeditor ha…
Hollywood’s Sunset Studio to open new base in Hertfordshire
US production house is latest major studio to find a home in region as demand for TV and film surgesHollywood’s Sunset Studios, which produced La La Land, Zoolander and the first in the X-Men franchise, has become the latest US movie production house t…
TikTok star Anthony Barajas dies after California movie theater shooting
Social media star was known as itsanthonymichaelSuspect in double killing eligible for death penaltyA young TikTok star who was on life support after he and a friend were shot at a southern California movie theater has died, police and his family said….
A ‘safe space for racists’: antisemitism report criticises social media giants
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube and TikTok failing to act on most reported anti-Jewish posts, says studyThere has been a serious and systemic failure to tackle antisemitism across the five biggest social media platforms, resulting in a “safe spac…
Salmond blogger Craig Murray hands himself in to police to begin jail term
Ex-diplomat found in contempt of court over ‘jigsaw identification’ of women who accused former first minister of sexual assaultCraig Murray, the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, has handed himself into police in Edinburgh as he faces an eight-…
Political journals ring the changes in a battle of ideas – and a fight for readers
Former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger’s arrival at Prospect is part of a trend that is raising the stakes of debate in BritainThe battle between Britain’s political magazines has intensified this summer as editorial changes at leading names on the new…