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Vulcan Productions shuts down, 23 years and more than 80 films after Paul Allen launched the venture

GeekWire

The Vulcan Productions website features promotion for the documentary film “Summer of Soul,” which just won top awards at the Sundance Film Festival. Just a few weeks after taking top honors at the Sundance Film Festival for one of its latest films, the curtain closed for good on Vulcan Productions.

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Netflix’s subscriber growth slows, but company isn’t worried about running out of content

The Verge

Netflix’s business soared during the pandemic , but as it heads into 2021 and faces a potential shortage of films and movies, the company will have to prove it can continue performing. Netflix reported its third quarter earnings today, and although Netflix is acknowledging slower growth, the company is still adding subscribers.

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Peacock hit 33 million signups before The Office even arrived

The Verge

NBC Universal’s Peacock streaming service hit 33 million signups in the fourth quarter, parent company Comcast reported Thursday, an addition of 11 million signups from the third quarter. percent decline year over year, and net income of $3.3 Revenue for its filmed entertainment division decreased by about 8 percent to $1.4

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Grounded airline planes turned into pop-up restaurants sell out in 30 minutes

The Verge

I admit I normally quite like airplane food, but that’s probably because it’s something to focus my attention on beyond an endless series of films I was never interested enough in to see in the cinema. Plans for scenic flights were abandoned over environmental concerns.

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AMC wants to reopen cinemas in July but it?s not clear audiences are ready

The Verge

billion net loss in the first quarter of the year. AMC has high hopes for July when it plans to reopen cinemas, thanks to the release of highly anticipated films like Chistopher Nolan’s Tenet , and Disney’s live-action Mulan remake. ACM relies entirely on public gatherings to make its money , posting a $2.2

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Netflix thinks games matter more than buying movie studios

The Verge

Citing recent mergers between WarnerMedia and Discovery and the last decade of acquisitions and mergers between major media properties — for example, with Disney and Fox or Viacom and CBS — the company said it doesn’t “believe this consolidation has affected our growth much, if at all.” (If The company said that it added 1.5

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Netflix now has two CEOs, and neither is founder Reed Hastings

Vox

Reed Hastings has been in charge of Netflix since he co-founded the company, which originally shipped DVDs by mail, in 1997. Now Netflix has more than 230 million customers around the world, dominates the streaming video industry it basically invented, and Hastings is no longer going to run his company day to day. billion net worth.

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