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  • Netflix to lose SVOD revenues in Latin America: Digital TV Research

    Netflix to lose SVOD revenues in Latin America: Digital TV Research

    MUMBAI: Latin American SVOD revenues will reach $8.54 billion by 2027; up from $5.01 billion in 2021. Netflix will account for 41 percent of the 2027 total, down from 72 percent in 2021. Netflix’s revenues will peak at $3.73 billion in 2023.

    Digital TV Research principal analyst Simon Murray said, “Netflix will introduce AVod-SVod tiers [one for Brazil and another pan-regional one for the Spanish-speaking countries] in 2024, with SVOD revenues and Arpus falling slowly as some subscribers convert to cheaper packages.”

    Disney+ is likely to introduce similar tiers in 2024. The platform is expected to follow its US example by converting its current subscription tier to AVOD-SVOD and charging more for SVOD-only. This will push up average revenue per user (ARPU).

    Latin America will have 139 million gross SVOD subscriptions by 2027; up from 75 million end-2021. Seven US-based platforms (Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Star+, Paramount+, Apple TV+ and HBO) will account for 90 percent of the region’s paying SVOD subscriptions by end of 2027.

  • Apple TV+ announces a new doc series Gutsy from Hillary & Chelsea Clinton

    Apple TV+ announces a new doc series Gutsy from Hillary & Chelsea Clinton

    Mumbai:  OTT platform Apple TV+ has announced Gutsy. This is an eight-part documentary event following former US First Lady, former US Senator and former US secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter Chelsea Clinton as they celebrate the gutsy women who inspire them. It will premiere on 9 September.

    Based on the Clintons’ New York Times bestselling book, ‘The Book of Gutsy Women’. The docuseries features Hillary and Chelsea as they embark on a journey to speak with women artists, activists, community leaders and everyday heroes who show us what it truly means to be gutsy. The Apple TV+ series shows Hillary and Chelsea as you’ve never seen them before, revealing their special mother-daughter bond and the unique, multi-generational way they approach the important and timely issues highlighted in each episode.

    Joining the Clintons are some of their personal heroes,  who have made an impact in their community and on the world. They include Kim Kardashian, Megan Thee Stallion, Dr. Jane Goodall, Gloria Steinem, Wanda Sykes, Amy Schumer, Goldie Hawn and Kate Hudson.

  • Apple TV+ greenlights ‘Sugar’ with Colin Farrell

    Apple TV+ greenlights ‘Sugar’ with Colin Farrell

    MUMBAI: Following a highly competitive situation, Apple TV+ has announced a series Sugar to feature Colin Farrell. It is a new genre-bending series hailing from creator and executive producer Mark Protosevich ‘Thor’, with the actor of ‘The Batman’ to be the executive producer and star in the lead role.

    Hailing from Apple Studios, the new series is set to be directed by Academy Award nominee Fernando Meirelles ‘City of God’ who will also serve as executive producer, and executive produced by Academy and Emmy Award nominee Simon Kinberg ‘X-Men’, Audrey Chon ‘Invasion’ and Scott Greenberg ‘The Guilty’. Chip Vucelich will also be executive producer.

    Sugar marks the second collaboration for Kinberg’s Genre Films and Apple TV+, and will stream alongside the series ‘Invasion’, which recently received a second season renewal. The series is a science-fiction drama series co-created, written and executive produced by Kinberg and David Weil.

  • AMC Networks launches streaming service AMC+ in India

    AMC Networks launches streaming service AMC+ in India

    Mumbai: Global media and entertainment company AMC Networks on Tuesday announced the launch of its streaming service AMC+ in India. The service will be available on Apple TV channels and via Apple TV app at Rs 199 per month.

    AMC Networks is known for its hit series “Breaking Bad,” “Better Call Saul,” “The Walking Dead,” “Mad Men” and more. The programming on the service will be subtitled in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu, said the statement.

    AMC+ will feature original exclusive series such as “Firebite” featuring Yael Stone and Rob Collins, animation comedy “Ultra City Smiths” featuring Kristen Bell, Dax Shepard, John C Reilly, and Debra Winger. There are also series in the pipeline including “That Dirty Black Bag” starring Dominic Cooper and “61st Street” starring Emmy winner Courtney B Vance. AMC+ will also premiere the eight-time Australian Academy award-winning film “Nitram” from director Justin Kurzel on 30 March.  

    Later this year, AMC+ will introduce new content from ‘The Walking Dead Universe’ and premium original dramas from top US producers including a new franchise based on Anne Rice’s best-selling novels.  

    AMC+ also offers access to AMC Network’s targeted streaming service Acorn TV at no additional cost. Acorn TV offers ad-free shows from Britain including exclusive original productions such as Queens of Mystery, Under the Vines and The Madame Blanc Mysteries, fan favourites such as Line of Duty and Doc Martin, and acclaimed series 19-2 and East West 101, among others.

    “AMC+ offers viewers a premium line-up of celebrated and award- winning series including our signature dramas, wildly original comedies, and compelling true crime series, along with a curated collection of new and independent films,” said AMC+ general manager Courtney Thomasma. “With our pipeline of highly anticipated new series from the U.S. and the beloved international mysteries and dramas from Acorn TV, the AMC+ bundle brings epic, thrilling stories and iconic characters together with one subscription. We are excited to offer our slate of original programming directly to audiences in India for the first time through Apple TV channels.”

  • Netflix outpaces traditional players in Oscar race with 35 nominations

    Netflix outpaces traditional players in Oscar race with 35 nominations

    KOLKATA: After a year of theatre shutdown, it comes as no surprise that streaming services are dominating the awards season. Netflix, which swept the Golden Globes earlier this month, is ruling the nominations at the 93rd Academy Awards, or Oscars, too. The streaming colossus has scored 35 nominations for its movies; arch rival Amazon Studios has bagged 12 nominations. Among others, Disney+ and Apple TV+ earned their first Awards nods.

    Netflix picked up 24 nominations last year. For 2021, it has scored 10 nominations for David Fincher’s Mank. The black-and-white drama about 1930s Hollywood has been nominated in several categories including best picture, director, actor and supporting actress.

    Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7, which picked up six nominations, is also another best picture contender from Netflix. Other nominees from the platform include The White Tiger, Over the Moon and Crip Camp.

    Amazon Studios’ One Night in Miami and Sound of Metal bagged nominations in several categories, with the latter’s lead actor, Riz Ahmed, becoming the first Muslim to be nominated for the best actor Oscar. It also scored nominations for Sacha Baron Cohen-starrer Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.

    “This past year we were incredibly lucky to work with an extremely diverse and talented group of filmmakers, actors and crews, and we couldn’t be prouder of their achievements. Each of the four nominated films are brilliantly executed, weaving together poignant stories and artistry that have resonated with audiences everywhere," Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke said as quoted by The Hollywood Reporter.

    The Walt Disney Co’s streaming service Hulu made the nominees list for The United States Vs. Billie Holiday. Moreover, its shining star in d2c race Disney+ picked up its first Oscar nominations. It got best animated feature nods for Onward and Soul. Another Disney+ release, Mulan, received nominations for costumes and visual effects.

    Another new entrant in the streaming race, Apple TV+ also swept up its first Oscar nominations including animated feature nod for Wolfwalkers, and best sound nod for war film Greyhound.

    2020 was an exceptional year for traditional studios and multiplexes. Amid worldwide lockdown, many studios delayed their big ticket theatrical releases; others took the direct to OTT route. To adjust with the unprecedented situation, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had to allow films without theatrical release for Oscar nominations.

    See the list of nominees below.

    Best Picture
    The Father
    Judas and the Black Messiah
    Mank
    Minari
    Nomadland
    Promising Young Woman
    Sound of Metal
    The Trial of the Chicago 7

    Best Directing
    Thomas Vinterberg, Another Round
    David Fincher, Mank
    Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
    Chloe Zhao, Nomadland
    Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman

    Best Actress in a Leading Role
    Viola Davis, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
    Andra Day, United States vs. Billie Holiday
    Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of a Woman
    Frances McDormand, Nomadland
    Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman

    Best Actor in a Leading Role
    Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
    Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
    Anthony Hopkins, The Father
    Gary Oldman, Mank
    Steven Yeun, Minari

    Best Actress in a Supporting Role
    Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
    Glenn Close, Hillbilly Elegy
    Olivia Colman, The Father
    Amanda Seyfried, Mank
    Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari

    Best Actor in a Supporting Role
    Sacha Baron Cohen, The Trial of the Chicago 7
    Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah
    Leslie Odom, Jr., One Night in Miami
    Paul Raci, Sound of Metal
    LaKeith Stanfield, Judas and the Black Messiah

    Best Original Screenplay
    Judas and the Black Messiah
    Minari
    Promising Young Woman
    Sound of Metal
    The Trial of the Chicago 7

    Best Adapted Screenplay
    Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
    The Father
    Nomadland
    One Night in Miami
    The White Tiger

    Best Cinematography
    Judas and the Black Messiah
    Mank
    News of the World
    Nomadland
    The Trial of the Chicago 7

    Best Film Editing
    The Father
    Nomadland
    Promising Young Woman
    Sound of Metal
    The Trial of the Chicago 7

    Best Animated Feature Film
    Onward
    Over the Moon
    A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
    Soul
    Wolfwalkers

    Best Animated Short Film
    Burrow
    Genius Loci
    If Anything Happens I Love You
    Opera
    Yes-People

    Best Live-Action Short Film
    Feeling Through
    The Letter Room
    The Present
    Two Distant Strangers
    White Eye

    Best International Feature Film
    Another Round
    Better Days
    Collective
    The Man Who Sold His Skin
    Quo Vadis, Aida?

    Best Documentary Feature
    Collective
    Crip Camp
    The Mole Agent
    My Octopus Teacher
    Time

    Best Documentary Short Subject
    Colette
    A Concerto Is a Conversation
    Do Not Split
    Hunger Ward
    A Love Song for Latasha

    Best Original Score
    Da 5 Bloods
    Mank
    Minari
    News of the World
    Soul

    Best Original Song
    "Fight For You," Judas and the Black Messiah
    "Hear My Voice," The Trial of the Chicago 7
    "Husavik," Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
    "Io Si (Seen)," The Life Ahead
    "Speak Now," One Night in Miami

    Best Sound
    Greyhound
    Mank
    News of the World
    Soul
    Sound of Metal

    Best Costume Design
    Emma
    Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
    Mank
    Mulan
    Pinocchio

    Best Makeup and Hairstyling
    Emma
    Hillbilly Elegy
    Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
    Mank
    Pinocchio

    Best Production Design
    The Father
    Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
    Mank
    News of the World
    Tenet

    Best Visual Effects
    Love and Monsters
    The Midnight Sky
    Mulan
    The One and Only Ivan
    Tenet

  • Eros Now Select now on Apple TV channels in 11 new countries

    Eros Now Select now on Apple TV channels in 11 new countries

    KOLKATA: Eros Now, a leading South Asian streaming entertainment service owned by Eros STX Global Corporation, has made its content available through Eros Now Select for Apple TV channels on the Apple TV app on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, iPod touch, Mac, and other platforms in 11 new countries.

    After its successful launch in the US, Canada and India, Eros Now Select is now available to customers in significant overseas markets, such as Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, Cambodia, Indonesia, Israel, Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Tajikistan.

    The global demand for Bollywood movies and Indian originals makes Eros Now Select an ideal online destination for South Asian diaspora worldwide to access the best video streaming experience. As Indian entertainment content continues to attract a massive audience base worldwide, the expansion through Apple TV channels deepens Eros Now Select’s consumer footprint in these growing OTT markets.

    Subscribers to Eros Now Select through Apple TV channels can watch online or enjoy offline downloads of their favourite shows on the Apple TV app. Through family sharing, up to six family members can share subscriptions to Apple TV channels using their own Apple ID and password on their own devices.

    Eros Now CEO Ali Hussein said, “The rise in OTT consumption worldwide opens up immense opportunities for Eros Now Select – widely known for its extensive Bollywood and Indian originals – to expand reach and ramp up distribution in 11 new territories on the Apple TV app.”

    The Apple TV app brings together all the ways to watch shows and movies into one app and is available on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple TV, Mac, select Samsung, LG, and Sony smart TVs, Roku and Amazon Fire TV devices, and PlayStation and Xbox consoles. The Apple TV app also features Apple TV+, Apple’s video subscription service offering original shows, movies and documentaries from the world’s most creative storytellers, as well as other Apple TV channels, personalised and curated recommendations, and movies to buy or rent.

  • Martin Scorsese joins Apple TV’s Hollywood roster with multi-year deal

    Martin Scorsese joins Apple TV’s Hollywood roster with multi-year deal

    MUMBAI: Award-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese will produce film and TV projects for Apple Inc’s streaming service under a multi-year deal, the company said recently. This move comes after digital video platforms battle for Hollywood’s top talent.

    Scorsese, the maker of Netflix’s The Irishman and director of other classics like Goodfellas, Taxi Driver will produce the projects through his company Sikelia Productions.

    He joins Oprah Winfrey, Alfonso Cuaron, Ridley Scott, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and others who have reached agreements to make programming for Apple TV+, the iPhone maker’s dollar 5-a-month subscription streaming service.

    Apple had previously announced it would produce Scorsese’s upcoming drama Killers of the Flower Moon starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. The movie will appear on Apple TV+ after it is distributed in theatres by Paramount Pictures, a unit of ViacomCBS Inc.

    Apart from this, the company has recently done deals with production companies and talent, including Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson's Appian Way and Idris Elba's Green Door Pictures.

    Apple TV+ also earned its first Emmy nominations last month, with nominations for The Morning Show, Central Park, Defending Jacob, The Elephant Queen, and The Beastie Boys Story.  

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  • Disney+ and Apple TV+ see success during first six months

    Disney+ and Apple TV+ see success during first six months

    MUMBAI: New OTT services Apple TV+ and Disney+ have captured significant market share in the streaming video space, rounding out the top five behind the "Big 3" Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Hulu, according to a recent consumer survey research by Parks Associates.

    The research firm's Market Snapshot: Disney+ and Apple TV+ highlights the impact of the entry of Disney+ and Apple TV+ in the OTT market, including insights into the factors driving their growth.

    Disney+ has skyrocketed to 25 per cent adoption among US broadband households after just six months in the market. Apple TV+, which launched around the same time, has reached nearly 10 per cent adoption. Disney+ and Apple TV+ are fourth and fifth, respectively, among SVOD services adopted by consumers.

    Data presented in this market snapshot were drawn primarily from an online survey of more than 10,000 consumers fielded between 8 March and 3 April to heads of broadband households, after the Covid2019 crisis had begun in the United States.

    Additional data from the market snapshot:

    Nearly three in ten broadband households report their use of online video services has increased because of the Covid2019 outbreak.

    81 per cent of Disney+ subscribers subscribe to Netflix, as do 72 per cent of Apple TV+ subscribers.

    Nearly one-half of Disney+ subscribers cancelled another OTT service over the last 12 months, as did roughly two-thirds of Apple TV+ subscribers.

    "Disney took a broad-based content approach to its Disney+ service, including its Pixar, Stars Wars, Marvel, Nat Geo, and 20th Century Fox properties to make it broadly appealing, far beyond its traditional audience of families with young children," said Parks Associates research director Steve Nason. "Very few Disney+ subscribers subscribe only to this service, so households are not picking up Disney in place of another service but adding to their home's other OTT services. We will see, as household budgets tighten up, if Disney+ has done enough to become an 'essential service' for its subscribers."

    Disney+ also benefited from promotions such as the introduction of the Disney+/Hulu/ESPN+ bundle and its partnership with Verizon where unlimited mobile subscribers and new internet subscribers get a free year of the service.

    "Apple TV+ promoted a small stable of original programming and is now looking to supplement that with more third-party content," Nason said. "Apple TV+'s growth is due largely to a free year of service for those who recently purchased an Apple device, which brings the firm's brand loyalists into the service. Apple TV+ does have a higher percentage of exclusive non-Netflix subscribers, plus a higher number of households that recently cancelled another OTT service, so it appears Apple does have a core group of dedicated subscribers. Apple's challenge is to expand beyond that group."

    Parks Associates is an internationally recognized market research and consulting company specializing in emerging consumer technology products and services. The company's expertise includes digital media and platforms, entertainment and gaming, home networks, Internet and television services, etc. 

  • Apple tv+ makes seven shows free

    Apple tv+ makes seven shows free

    MUMBAI: People around the world who have been going through a lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic can watch seven original TV series on Apple TV+ without a subscription.  

    Instead of giving access to the full collections of Apple TV, it has made available select shows free.

    People can watch the series through the Apple TV+ app, which has been made available on devices like iPads, iPhones, compatible smart TV sets, and select Roku and Amazon Fire TV streaming devices, etc.

    The titles available now are: spin-off series Snoopy in Space,    Wildlife documentary The Elephant Queen, historical comedy-drama Dickinson, US immigrant anthology series Little America, M. Night Shymalan’s thriller series Servant, alternative-history space drama For All Mankind, live-action preschool series Helpsters, the Ghostwriter reboot about a group of mystery-solving kids, and the new Peanuts animated.

    This month, Apple TV+ will debut five titles. Some of the prominent titles include the much-awaited Defending Jacob mini-series starring Chris Evans and the Beastie Boys Story documentary.

  • Movie Studio Inc acquires BINGE Networks

    Movie Studio Inc acquires BINGE Networks

    MUMBAI: The Movie Studio Inc., a vertically integrated motion picture production company, has executed a memorandum of understanding to acquire BINGE Networks, LLC. Both parties are conducting due diligence and in the near future seek to complete their transaction and enter into a Letter of Intent (LOI).

    BINGE Networks is an award-winning streaming media platform, recipient of the Most Innovative Media Content Monetizing & Streaming Platform CV-Magazine-USA 2019 and New York 2019 Award Programing. The BINGE App is built into over 100 smart TV networks, providing the ability to globally and instantly syndicate and monetise content through key strategic partnerships throughout the streaming media industry. The company offers five core revenue streams: streaming packages, subscription video on demand (SVOD), advertiser video on demand (AVOD), transactional video on demand (TVOD) and platform syndication.

    BINGE Networks’ operations and assets are synergistic to The Movie Studio’s growth-by-acquisition business model, in which the company aims to secure a leading market position based on ad streaming measurements and big data analytic trends vying for uptick viewership.

    With the fast-growing OTT industry projecting revenues of US $78.2 billion by 2023, BINGE Networks has the potential to help The Movie Studio achieve its goal, leveraging the company’s ability to provide streamers a competitive edge by offering a single hub that enables multiple ways for content creators to earn revenues and establish relationships with many different networks.

    BINGE Networks distributes entertainment content for AVOD digital delivery on over 100 OTT platforms. Major revenue distribution partners are Roku TV, Tiki Live, Video Elephant, Glewd TV, Daily Motion, Endavo, Apple TV, Google Play Store, Amazon Fire and Android App Store, among others.

    The company’s streaming media platforms are Roku, Apple and Amazon apps, which are combined with strategic partners to bring BINGE TV content to over 100 smart TV networks. Its content library contains approximately 15,000 videos and 300 indie films and powers 46 apps on Roku and 77 on Amazon Fire. New ones are added almost daily on Amazon Fire and 125 live channels that comprise the video library.

    Using a defined marketing strategy, The Movie Studio intends to vertically integrate the assets and infrastructure of BINGE Networks with the Company’s current OTT and app for dissemination of The Movie Studio content and cross-pollination of the advertisers and strategic partners.

    The Movie Studio is establishing its own OTT VOD platform to integrate its own, as well as aggregated, feature film projects, television programming
    and other media intellectual properties.

    Ongoing streaming wars are allowing small competitors like The Movie Studio to capitalize on creatively designed digital business models. The company actively implements a “growth-by-acquisition” strategy that calls for significant purchases, resolution upgrades and remonetizing initiatives.