Posts Tagged ‘netflix’
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Netflix Will Lose Starz Next Year
As Netflix continues to add content to its streaming service - with everything from agreements with ABC, Mad Men, Miramax, and even their own original programming - they have lost their biggest content supplier. Negotiations with Starz have broken off and the network will not be extending the contract with Netflix which is set to expire on February 28th 2012. Starz played a huge part in Netflix's streaming becoming so popular - with contributions being original series and many recent and ...
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Miramax Signs Streaming Deal with Netflix
Netflix continues to beef up its streaming library even as they start to bring in their own original programming. Miramax has signed on with a multi-year agreement to have their content made available on Netflix's Instant Streaming service beginning in June. That will bring films such as Good Will Hunting, Shakespeare in Love, Pulp Fiction, Bad Santa, Kill Bill, and Scream which are among the 83 to have been produced by Miramax to date....
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Youtube Launching Movie Service
As Netflix dominates with its online streaming service others are looking to get in on the action. Amazon launched theirs recently, various studios have begun to utilize Facebook, and now Youtube has introduced their own. The video sharing site will carry films from Warner Brothers, Universal, and Sony in addition to other studios such as Lionsgate and Weinstein that have already providing content. “Today, we’re announcing another step in our goal to bring more of the video you love to ...
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Netflix Nabs Mad Men Streaming Rights
The streaming library for Netflix has been in the news a lot lately. Starz has chosen to delay their content 60 days and Showtime pulled out completely. Working to recover from those hits and provide additional value for the service an original series from from David Fincher starring Kevin Spacey is on the way and Miramax struck a deal to have their films made available. Netflix will be making another addition with the heralded AMC series Mad Men. Beginning on July 27th the first four se...
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Netflix To Begin Offering Original Programming with House of Cards
Netflix has reportedly landed the original drama series House of Cards by outbidding established networks such as HBO and AMC as reported by Deadline. The series is set to star Kevin Spacey and is executive produced by Spacey and David Fincher with the commitment being for 26 episodes at a cost of over $100 million. This represents a huge move by Netflix, which has broken through in a big way with their streaming service by offering primarily catalog titles, television content, and Starz ...
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Netflix Makes New Streaming Deal With ABC
Netflix has reached an agreement with Disney-ABC to provide content from ABC, ABC Family, and Disney Channel through the instant streaming service. New shows will appear 15 days after their original airings and many of the series will have their entire run available for streaming. Netflix already carried some content from the network but this will expand greatly what is offered and include recent episodes for the first time. Shows set to roll out for instant streaming include Desperate Hous...
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Movie Studios Looking to Screw Over Home Viewers Even Further
Several movie studios have reached agreements with outlets, primarily Redbox and Netflix, to delay the renting of movies for four weeks from their official release date on DVD and Blu-ray. That has been going on since the beginning of the year. Warner Bros was the first followed by Paramount, Universal, and Fox. There was some hope though when Paramount backed off and decided to drop that delay period and Sony has not taken up that idea at all given that studies have shown they do nothing to i...
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Redbox Looking to Add Streaming Service
An increasingly significant driver of subscriptions to Netflix comes due to the company's streaming of a large library of movie and television content. A study recently came out and said as much as 20% of the traffic on the internet at any given time is taken up by Netflix streaming. That is pretty astonishing to consider and quite surprising. Redbox, with their over 25K kiosks strategically placed all across the US, have been a huge success as well and continues to show growth. The two com...
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Universal and Fox Now Delayed With Netflix
Back in January Netflix struck the first, of what was expected to be many, deals with distributors to add a delay period before offering DVDs for rent. That first agreement was with Warner Brothers and more recently Redbox announced the same deal with WB. 28 days must pass from when the movies are released in stores to when they would be available through the Netflix service or Redbox vending machines. Now Netflix has announced agreements with Universal and Fox for a four week delay period ...
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The Delayed DVD Rental Period Has Arrived
Not long ago I wrote about a proposal that was being considered where DVDs would release "for sale only" for a period of time before they would become available for rental. The first step in this becoming the norm arrived today and is expected to represent just the start of things to come. Netflix has announced an agreement with Warner Brothers that will have them holding back their releases for 28 days before making them available to subscribers. In exchange WB will be providing increased ...
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