Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Ravi Ahuja discussed the studio’s breakout movie of the summer, “KPop Demon Hunters,” on Thursday at Bank of America’s Media, Communications & Entertainment Conference in New York. Speaking with analyst Jessica Reif Ehrlich about Sony’s distribution deal with Netflix, Ahuja said the deal with the streamer “made sense.” Sony produced “KPop Demon Hunters” and sold the …
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Netflix’s Unknown Number: The High School Catfish shot to number one on the Top 10 lists this week after going viral on TikTok for the shocking twist. If you don’t know, the documentary follows a young teen couple in Michigan, Lauryn Licari and Owen McKenny, who start receiving graphic, cyber-bullying texts from an unknown number. The texts get more frequent …
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Sony Pictures CEO Ravi Ahuja was just asked about the company’s decision to let “KPop Demon Hunters,” one of the year’s biggest, buzziest movies, head directly to Netflix, where it has since become the most watched title ever – television or movie – in the company’s history. “Obviously, in hindsight, it’s such a big hit,” Ahuja said at Thursday’s Bank …
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Owen McKenny was one of the subject’s interviewed for Netflix’s hit documentary series, Unknown Number: The High School Catfish. If you haven’t watched yet, the doc follows a young teen couple in Michigan, Lauryn Licari and her boyfriend Owen. In October 2020, and then again in September 2021, they start receiving graphic, cyber-bullying texts from an unknown number. The texts …
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Filmmakers began exploiting nuclear war panic in the 1950s and 1960s. Science-fiction classics like the original 1954 “Godzilla,” 1951’s “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” and “Them!” gave us something to legitimately worry about while dazzling us with giant monsters and alien invasions. There were also deathly serious (and dreadfully depressing) dramas like “On the Beach” and “Fail-Safe,” though no …
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When Netflix and other streaming giants found themselves in need of more cash, they cracked down on viewers who shared passwords. People grumbled, but the gambit worked. Now, the same principle is being applied to another service we use every day: Online shipping. Amazon is discontinuing a popular service that allowed Amazon Prime members to share fast, free shipping privileges …
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Sony Pictures CEO Ravi Ahuja says that the sale of KPop Demon Hunters to Netflix was the right decision for the studio, even as he acknowledged that in hindsight, it is possible that the animated musical could have become a theatrical franchise for Sony. Speaking at a Bank of America conference Thursday, Ahuja was asked by analyst Jessica Reif Ehrlich …
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Sony Pictures Entertainment President and CEO Ravi Ajuha is, of course, being asked if the studio regrets selling Sony-produced Kpop Demon Hunters to Netflix given the massive success of the animated film theatrically for the giant streamer. It’s complicated, he said today, but maybe not. “The goal of the deal was to make hits. One great thing about being …
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EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate Television’s The Hunting Wives has become a true phenomenon — but so far primarily in the U.S. The show’s surprising success on Netflix has something to do with that as Lionsgate is in advanced negotiations with the streamer for a Season 2 renewal as a global original, sources tell Deadline. When the raunchy Texas drama starring Malin Åkerman and Brittany Snow …
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Lock your doors because Netflix’s latest serial killer is on the loose. Charlie Hunnam stars as Ed Gein, a murderer known as “The Butcher of Plainfield” and “The Plainfield Ghoul,” in the third season of Netflix’s anthology series “Monster.” The show premieres on Oct. 3. More from Variety “The Ed Gein Story” logline reads: “Serial killer. Grave robber. Psycho. In …
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