All Streaming articles – Page 23
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FeaturesIndependent VoD players in focus: Kino On Demand
Users of Kino on Demand (KoD) receive a €5 ($6) voucher for the first and every fifth film viewed, which they can redeem at one of more than 800 participating cinemas.
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FeaturesIndependent VoD players in focus: filmingo
Switzerland’s trigon-film foundation has also been operating its own streaming platform since 2013.
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FeaturesIndependent VoD players in focus: Elisa Viihde
Finnish cinema fans have hundreds of Finnish films at their fingertips thanks to Elisa Viihde, the entertainment division of leading Finnish telecom and digital services company Elisa.
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FeaturesIndependent VoD players in focus: FilmoTV
Launched by Wild Bunch in 2008, FilmoTV is one is France’s oldest digital distribution platforms and works across both SVoD and TVoD.
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FeaturesIndependent VoD players in focus: Chili
Chili was created by a group of former Fastweb executives, including the president and CEO Giorgio Tacchia, who left the internet service provider in 2012 to launch the film start-up.
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FeaturesIndependent VoD players in focus: Filmin
“We could be described as a mixture of HBO, Criterion and Mubi.”
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FeaturesIndependent VoD players in focus: BFI Player
Launched in 2013 by the British Film Institute, the UK’s lead organisation for film and a cultural charity, BFI Player is keen to position itself as offering a service that is complementary to, and not in competition with, commercial players.
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FeaturesIndependent VoD players in focus: ViaPlay
Viaplay — the SVoD service operated by NENT Group — launched in Sweden in 2007 and is expanding from its footprint in the Nordics and Baltics
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FeaturesIndependent VoD players in focus: Curzon Home Cinema
Curzon Home Cinema’s revenue has tripled over the period of the pandemic, compared to pre-Covid levels.
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FeaturesIndependent VoD players in focus: Filmatique
Lorenzo Fiuzzi, Ursula Grisham and Melinda Prisco launched Filmatique in 2017 after they noticed quality international festival selections seldom made it to the US.
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FeaturesIndependent VoD players in focus: Shudder
Shudder has grown to become a premium subscription service for horror, thriller and supernatural programming.
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FeaturesIndependent VoD players in focus: Mubi
Mubi has firmly established itself as the godfather of arthouse streaming platforms, a position that has only strengthened over the last 18 months.
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NewsUniversal, Peacock pay more than $400m for ‘Exorcist’ trilogy
First film will open theatrically October 13, 2023.
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NewsHBO, HBO Max hit 67.5m global subscribers
Godzilla v Kong, Mortal Kombat key contributors to WarnerMedia content revenues.
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NewsNetflix cites pandemic “choppiness” in mixed Q2; expanding into video games
Membership growth slows in increasingly competitive streaming landscape.
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NewsUS cinema owners group attacks ‘Black Widow’ day-and-date release
“Simultaneous release is a pandemic-era artifact that should be left to history with the pandemic itself.”
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NewsTokyo film festival partners with Amazon on new talent award
The award will be open to filmmakers living in Japan who have not yet made a commercial feature.
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NewsAsian streamer Viu seals content deals with China’s Huace
Viu grew its user base in Asia with Korean dramas, but is starting to push into Chinese-language content.
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NewsObamas’ Higher Ground sets new film/TV project for Netflix
Six writers will provide love stories about Black teens for the crossover project.
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NewsNetflix and Shonda Rhimes plan features under expanded deal
The Bridgerton producer is also looking at gaming and virtual reality content.