Venture Beast

MAY 26, 2020

based Cinelytic wants to help Hollywood studios use AI to improve their decision-making and forecasting as they launch their streaming services. Read More.

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Gizmodo

JULY 13, 2020

Lucasfilm just announced a brand new animated Star Wars series is coming to the streaming service next year centered on the ragtag group of enhanced clones seen at the start of the final season of The Clone Wars. It’s called Star Wars: The Bad Batch. The Bad Batch is coming to Disney+. Read more.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Discovery, home to HGTV, Food Network, and Discovery Channel’s annual Shark Week, is entering the streaming space with Discovery Plus. The streaming service will launch on January 4th, 2021. Each subscriber’s account will allow up to five different profiles, and four concurrent streams. Discovery Plus will start at $4.99

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Gizmodo

MARCH 16, 2021

The Star Wars Holiday Special is one of the most infamous aspects of Star Wars ’ peculiar brand of infamy: a sidestep so achingly terrible that, despite the fact no one wants to actually talk about it, fans can’t stop talking about it. And now, at least part of what was once stricken from history is coming to streaming.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Wonder Woman 1984 director Patty Jenkins will take on the next main Star Wars movie, Rogue Squadron. This marks the first time a woman has directed a Star Wars movie, and the announcement comes just days before Wonder Woman 1984 is released on HBO Max. The film is slated to be released in December 2023.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Among the approximately 17 billion Star Wars streaming shows announced at Disney’s recent Investor Day panel , one of the most interesting was a Mandalorian spinoff series called Rangers of the New Republic. Which begs the question: what exactly is a Ranger of the New Republic ? Read more.

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Vox

MARCH 4, 2021

Three charts that explain the streaming wars. Paramount+, the latest entrant in the streaming wars , launches today, promising a mix of classic TV shows and movies, sort-of-early access to some Hollywood blockbusters, and some reboots of stuff you didn’t know you wanted rebooted: Welcome back, Frasier Crane.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2021

Samsung recently launched a web version of its free and ad-supported Smart TV Plus streaming service for live and linear programming as well as added casting support for Chromecast devices.

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GeekWire

APRIL 8, 2023

New York-based Twitch streamer Roseofbattle interviews Fred Hutch cancer researcher Dr. Denise Buenrostro during a charity stream in December. The Stream for Fred Hutch charity program launched in late 2018 and pairs online content creators from all over the U.S. “It was very positively received.” Wenatchee, Wash.-based

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TechSpot

JUNE 21, 2021

VGC reports that GamesBeat journalist Jeff Grubb previously revealed how EA’s Motive studio, the devs behind Star Wars Squadrons, was working on “an established IP” revival, adding that “I think you’ll be happy.” During a stream last week, he dropped a huge hint as to what the game might be:

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The Verge

JULY 13, 2020

Disney Plus is getting a new animated Star Wars series called Star Wars: The Bad Batch , which is set to debut on the streaming service in 2021. The new show is a spinoff of the recently concluded The Clone Wars animated series, which finished its run on Disney Plus earlier this year.

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TechSpot

MAY 21, 2021

The streaming wars are raging on, despite an oversaturated market where even the explosive growth of up and coming services like Disney+ is slowly coming to an end. Others like Netflix, who now has over 200 million subscribers, are exploring different ways to expand their services beyond video on demand.

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Gizmodo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Star Wars producers Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni are hard at work prepping their next streaming show, Ahsoka , and have added a relatively unknown actress to the cast in a mystery part. Deadline reports that Ukranian actress Ivanna Sakhno, who previously appeared in Pacific Rim Uprising and the High Fidelit y TV show,… Read more.

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The Verge

JUNE 22, 2020

That particular acquisition kicked off the war for live-streaming talent, which resulted in YouTube, Facebook Gaming, and Twitch signing many other big names in the streaming space (and more than a few paydays for the beneficiaries). Mixer’s last day will be July 22nd, 2020. April’s StreamElements and Arsenal.gg

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Gizmodo

MARCH 29, 2021

The next chapter of Lucasfilm’s plans for Disney+ is about to begin—taking us back to a broken friendship that changed the Star Wars galaxy forever. Now, as Obi-Wan Kenobi prepares to enter production, we officially know who’s joining prequel stars Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen in the streaming series. Read more.

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Vox

AUGUST 23, 2023

While the streaming wars have made it seem as though there’s more content online than anyone could ever watch or want, it’s easy to overlook the fact that Netflix’s DVD business still had huge appeal to people who lived in rural areas or who liked movies that were unlikely to show up on a streaming service.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The year 2020 was when most of us went from going out with loved ones to exchanging recommendations on what type of TV show or movie to stream next. One way to suit everyone’s taste — kids, adults, and sports fans — is to try the Disney Bundle , a streaming pack that consists of Disney Plus, ESPN Plus, and Hulu. Happiest Season (Hulu).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Disney is making Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings available to stream at no additional cost for subscribers as part of its newly announced Disney Plus Day , celebrating the second anniversary of Disney Plus on November 12th. The streaming debut of beloved and award-winning shorts like Frozen Fever, Paperman, Get A Horse!,

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Gizmodo

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Apparently redoubling its efforts to win the streaming wars, cable provider Comcast has announced a new wireless streaming device called the XiOne. Read more.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Disney just made a deluge of announcements at its 2020 Investor Day, including updates on new Marvel, Star Wars, and Disney Animation studios projects, as well as updates on Disney Plus and Disney’s other streaming services. Star Wars Disney Plus series. Star Wars: Lando is a new ‘event series’ coming to Disney Plus.

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Gizmodo

JULY 4, 2021

Amazon original film The Tomorrow War is now streaming on Prime Video. The time travel science fiction film stars Chris Pratt, Yvonne Strahovski, Betty Gilpin, J.K. Simmons, Sam Richardson and Edwin Hodges. The film is directed by Chris Mckay , written by Zack Dean with executive producers Chris Pratt, Rob Cowan, Brian… Read more.

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Gizmodo

APRIL 8, 2022

The next Star Wars streaming show to go into production centers Ahsoka Tano, and the show just added a director from a whole other multiverse. The Hollywood Reporter says that Peter Ramsey, one of the three Oscar-winning directors of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse , is joining the Ahsoka show as a director on at… Read more.

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The Verge

MARCH 13, 2021

Free streaming platform Tubi has plans to branch out into original programming, Bloomberg reports , citing sources familiar with the company’s plans. acquired Tubi for $440 million last March, in an attempt to get in on the streaming wars. acquired Tubi for $440 million last March, in an attempt to get in on the streaming wars.

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The Verge

JULY 3, 2021

At an Anime Expo Lite panel, LucasFilm revealed the very first look at Star Wars: Visions , an upcoming anthology of short anime films set in a galaxy far, far away. We really wanted to give these creators a wide creative birth to explore the Star Wars galaxy,” LucasFilm executive producer James Waugh said during the panel. “We

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The Verge

MARCH 31, 2021

Titles like Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind , the original Banjo-Kazooie , and Fallout: New Vegas are all now available to stream to Android devices. Microsoft is also still planning to extend xCloud game streaming to iOS this spring. Game streaming will be available in the Xbox app for Windows 10 PCs, too. Gears of War 2.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 21, 2022

In comments published alongside the results, SAP said this was mainly driven by “reduced contribution from software licenses revenue”, as well as “significant bad debt expenses related to the war in Ukraine.”. billion, making it the vendor’s largest revenue stream. In its Q2 statement, SAP said it still expects to see those losses.

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Gizmodo

JULY 6, 2021

With the success of HBO Max’s Zack Snyder’s Justice League and Netflix’s Army of the Dead , Zack Snyder is sticking to genre movies and streaming for his newly announced next project: Netflix sci-fi epic Rebel Moon , which the director hopes will become a franchise not unlike Star Wars , the series that initially helped … Read more.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

-based pop culture products company played a popular part in the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City on Thursday with a balloon of the character Grogu from the streaming Star Wars series “The Madalorian.” ” Grogu — popularly known as Baby Yoda — was modeled after a real Funko Pop!

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Gizmodo

MAY 3, 2021

The most important day in the Star Wars franchise—other than Life Day, of course —is May 4, a.k.a. This year, Disney’s streaming service seems to be where the party’s happening. May the Fourth, when Lucasfilm and its various affiliates celebrate a galaxy far, far away (and the billions of dollars it makes them). Read more.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The games consist of first-party classics like Uncharted 4, God of War, The Last of Us: Remastered, Bloodborne, plus third-party titles like Batman Arkham Knight, Fallout 4, Mortal Kombat X , and more. God of War. The PlayStation Plus Collection should make for a decent way of padding out your game library in the launch period of PS5.

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Forrester IT

MARCH 19, 2020

Competitors in the video streaming service space come from any place in the ecosystem. Netflix was a mere DVD-by-mail distributor in the US until 2010 and Amazon’s core business model is about retail and cloud, while Apple is primarily leveraging its huge installed base of devices to pivot to subscription services.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In another effort to win subscribers in the streaming wars, NBCUniversal announced on Thursday that it will make movies from Universal Pictures, Focus Features, Illumination, and DreamWorks Animation available on Peacock as early as 45 days after their release in theaters. Read more.

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The Verge

MARCH 7, 2022

Amazon Prime Video is reportedly in talks with Sony to develop a live-action series based on the God of War games, according to a report from Deadline. God of War ’s elaborate Greek-inspired history — where you play as the demigod Kratos — starts back in 2005 with the release of the first game for PlayStation 2.

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Gizmodo

JULY 21, 2020

Army and Navy might not be able to squash the pacifist resistance that’s been rising up in its Twitch streams, mostly visitors dropping into the chats to reference war crimes (or “w4r crimes” or “war c rimes”). Looks like the U.S. Over the past few weeks, we’ve heard about how the U.S. Army’s esports team has been… Read more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2022

introduced the term “talent war” to the world. Talent matters — but is ‘war’ the right metaphor? Yet, despite these projections, in today’s globalized and digitized environment, where talent can be sourced from almost anywhere, shouldn’t IT leaders be able to de-escalate the “War for Talent”? Who are the enemies in this “war”?

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The High Republic is one of the biggest gambles the publishing branch of the Star Wars galaxy has taken since Lucasfilm was sold to Disney and its entire canon was rebooted. As Star Wars begins to explore the pathways of streaming and lies waiting at the box office for a few years, it’s unequivocally a setting the… Read more.

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Gizmodo

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

You know OF Apple TV+—Apple’s ad-free subscription entry into the on-demand video streaming wars—but what do you really know about Apple TV+?If If your answer to that question is, “ Ted Lasso , and that’s pretty much it,” no one could rightly fault you. Read more.

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