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The Alan Wake and Control universe may expand to film and TV

The Alan Wake and Control universe may expand to film and TV

The Oldest House could be coming to a big screen near you. TV and film adaptations of Control and Alan Wake may be on the way after Remedy Entertainment struck a deal with Annapurna Pictures. Annapurna is stumping up half of the development budget for Control 2 and in return it snapped up the rights to adapt the two franchises.Remedy fully owns the intellectual property of both after it bought the rights to Control from 505 Games earlier this year. The two franchises exist in an MCU-style shared universe, and they're both highly cinematic. Expanding them into audiovisual mediums makes…
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Fubo wins injunction to delay Disney-Fox-Warner’s live sports streamer Venu

Fubo wins injunction to delay Disney-Fox-Warner’s live sports streamer Venu

The sports streaming service Fubo has temporarily fended off a huge financial threat from Disney-Fox-Warner’s potential competitor Venu Sports and its collection of sports broadcasting licenses thanks to a recent court ruling. A federal judge in the Southern District of New York granted Fubo’s request for an injunction in its antitrust case against the joint sports streaming venture and its parent companies.US District Judge Margaret Garnett wrote in an opinion issued earlier today such a concentrated collection of media power would eliminate consumers’ choices. The launch of Venu would also “hike prices on both consumers and other distributors” and create…
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season one is streaming for free on Samsung devices

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season one is streaming for free on Samsung devices

The second season of is just around the corner. If you haven't watched the first batch of episodes or want to refresh your memory and have let your Prime subscription lapse, there's a way you can do that for free. From today until August 28, you can on TVs and other devices where the Samsung TV Plus app is available.It's the first time that the show has legally been available to stream for free (unless you had access to gratis). Samsung is offering the show to its users in the US, UK, Canada, Brazil and Germany on Samsung TVs and…
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Warner Bros. sends Cartoon Network’s website to the digital graveyard

Warner Bros. sends Cartoon Network’s website to the digital graveyard

Warner Bros. Discovery has pulled Cartoon Network’s entire website from the web, which means that you can no longer access free episodes and other interactive content. Instead, visitors to CartoonNetwork.com are redirected to , Variety reported.The Cartoon Network website offered full, free episodes and clips of some of its most popular shows including Adventure Time, The Amazing World of Gumball, Teen Titans GO! and Steven Universe. Now if you need a quick fix of those shows, you’ll have to get on Max, pay for them on another digital streaming service or dig up a copy from your stash of old…
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TikTok will make it easier to identify movies and TV shows that users are clipping

TikTok will make it easier to identify movies and TV shows that users are clipping

One of the more annoying aspects of (and Instagram and X) culture is when a user shares a contextless but captivating clip from a movie or a TV show. Oftentimes, they won't state or upfront, prompting viewers to ask in the comments in an engagement-boosting trick. TikTok is stepping in to with a new feature called TikTok Spotlight.When the platform's tech detects an applicable clip, it will add an anchor link to a landing page with more details about the show or movie. The page will include a synopsis, cast info and official accounts, as well as other TikToks linked…
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Amazon is giving The Boys the prequel treatment

Amazon is giving The Boys the prequel treatment

The Boys may be one season away from ending but it’s not done caking your screens with blood and torn muscle tissue. Cast member Jensen Ackles who plays Soldier Boy on The Boys revealed at the San Diego Comic-Con that Amazon will produce a prequel of the superhero show called Vought Rising.The new prequel will take place in the 1950s during the early days of the evil Vought empire, the mega conglomerate that runs the entire superhero industry in The Boys’ universe. The new series will show the early exploits of characters like Soldier Boy and the almost-immortal Nazi supe…
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Paramount’s strategy of purposeful digital rot doesn’t even make sense

Paramount’s strategy of purposeful digital rot doesn’t even make sense

Sometimes as we navigate our way through the daily doom scroll that is our current news cycle, it’s nice to go back and remember how things used to be. Those times sucked too but a distraction is still a distraction. One of my favorite ways to look at the past was by going through old clips of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report on Comedy Central’s website.Paramount went on a content teardown this week and pulled old clips and episodes of its signature satire shows from the Comedy Central website, as well as content from cable…
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