#Streaming Wars

Articles (16)

• 🇺🇸 How ‘The Drama’ Could Redefine A24 — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Like a lot of people today who care passionately about movies, I love A24. I don’t love every movie they make or release. But I love, and certainly like, enough of them, and I recognize — and salute —...

  Related: #Independent Film, #Brand Strategy, #Digital Transformation
• 🇺🇸 Tom Pelphrey Joins Vanessa Kirby & Yahya Abdul-Mateen II In Apple Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Liminal’ — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off his critically lauded role in HBO’s Task, Tom Pelphrey has inked a deal to star opposite Vanessa Kirby and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in Liminal, Apple’s sci-fi action-thriller from di...

  Related: #Film Industry, #Casting
• 🇺🇸 ‘Hunters’ Creator David Weil, Glen Powell Team for Crime Thriller ‘Calamities’ at Prime Video — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  The Amazon-owned streamer has handed out a straight-to-series order for the project.

  Related: #Television Production, #Industry Partnerships
• 🇺🇸 Prime Video Orders Crime Thriller ‘Calamities’ To Series From David Weil & Glen Powell’s Barnstorm — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Prime Video has given a straight-to-series order to the Texas-set crime thriller Calamities, from showrunner, writer, and director David Weil (Hunters). He also executive produces alongside Natalie La...

  Related: #Television Production, #Crime Drama
• 🇺🇸 Cinema United Chief Michael O’Leary on Netflix’s ‘Narnia’ Gamble and Why Paramount’s Deal to Buy Warner Bros. Must Fail: ‘Theaters Will Close’ — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Cinema United CEO Michael O’Leary spends a lot of time on the road, checking in with movie theater owners as they engage in a long, often painful, comeback from COVID. It’s been six years since the pa...

  Related: #Media Consolidation, #Theater Industry
• 🇺🇸 ‘Beef’ Creator Lee Sung Jin Re-Ups Overall Deal With Netflix — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  EXCLUSIVE: More Beef may be on the way as Netflix is staying in the Lee Sung Jin business. The streamer has renewed its overall deal with the Emmy-winning Beef creator. The multi-year extension will o...

  Related: #Entertainment Business, #Creative Partnerships
• 🇺🇸 Paramount’s Warner Bros. Megadeal Could Upend Canada’s Battle For TV Viewers — 04/03/2026 [USA]

  Bell Media says popular HBO content will remain on its Crave service "for the foreseeable future," but isn’t saying for how long as David Ellison talks about merging HBO Max and Paramount+ post-merger...

  Related: #Media Consolidation, #Canadian Broadcasting, #Cross-border Media Dominance
• 🇺🇸 Paramount-WBD Side Note: Merger Ends Premium TV’s Original Heated Rivalry, Brings Together HBO & Showtime; “It Warms My Heart,” Robert Greenblatt Says — 03/03/2026 [USA]

  Since the announcement Friday that Paramount has entered a merger agreement to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, a lot has been written about the deal bringing together two major streaming platforms, HB...

  Related: #Media Consolidation, #Corporate Mergers, #Premium Television
• 🇺🇸 What to know about the landmark Warner Bros. Discovery sale — 28/02/2026 [USA]

  Learn more about Paramount's planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery — a historic Hollywood megadeal valued at $111 billion — as it continues to develop.

  Related: #Media Consolidation, #Corporate Mergers, #Regulatory Scrutiny
• 🇺🇸 Netflix Lost Warner. Maybe That’s a Good Thing. — 28/02/2026 [USA]

  It is entirely possible, analysts say, that Netflix will be better off by bailing from its $83 billion deal with Warner Bros. Discovery.

  Related: #Media Acquisition, #Content Strategy, #Competitive Landscape, #Media Consolidation
• 🇺🇸 Warner Bros. Discovery agrees to $110 billion Paramount merger — 27/02/2026 [USA]

  Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Skydance's merger agreement is now official. On Friday, the two companies announced plans to merge into a massive media company that will fold WBD's studio, linear...

  Related: #Media Consolidation, #Corporate Acquisitions
• 🇺🇸 WBD-Paramount Reactions: Wall Street Analysts Split, Activist Investor Celebrates & Netflix Stock Rises — 27/02/2026 [USA]

  Stunned though Hollywood and Wall Street were by the flurry of action late Thursday in the Warner Bros. Discovery merger saga, initial reactions to Netflix conceding the fight to Paramount started to ...

  Related: #Media Mergers, #Market Reactions
• 🇺🇸 It’s Over: Netflix Declines to Raise Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery — 26/02/2026 [USA]

  Netflix has declined to increase its offer for Warner Bros. Discovery after the David Zaslav-led media company’s board declared Paramount Skydance’s new bid a “superior proposal.” Per a statement from...

  Related: #Media Mergers, #Corporate Strategy
• 🇺🇸 Ted Sarandos Tells BBC Show That James Cameron’s Disapproval Of Netflix-Warner Deal Is “Quite Confusing” & Paramount Offer Will Shrink Film Biz — 23/02/2026 [USA]

  Ted Sarandos has pushed back again on comments by James Cameron that Netflix’s planned acquisition of Warner Brothers Discovery would be “disastrous for the theatrical motion picture business”, saying...

  Related: #Media Consolidation, #Theatrical Exhibition
• 🇺🇸 Netflix Officially Under DOJ Antitrust Scrutiny “To Create A Monopoly” With Warner Bros Merger; Feds Want Details From Producers & Filmmakers On Streamer’s Leverage — 22/02/2026 [USA]

  After months of jabs and feints, the white gloves may have truly come off in Netflix and Paramount’s multibillion-dollar battle for control of Warner Bros. Discovery. With just 24 hours left to go on ...

  Related: #Antitrust, #Media Mergers
• 🇺🇸 Netflix Chief Ted Sarandos’ Message To Paramount On Eve Of Warner Deadline: “Put A Better Deal On The Table” — 22/02/2026 [USA]

  Ted Sarandos has flown into London with a message for Paramount as both studios chase the prize of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). Speaking to Deadline on the red carpet of the BAFTA Film Awards, the Ne...

  Related: #Corporate Competition, #Media Industry Consolidation