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Brian Henson: Disney wanted Muppet Christmas Carol to be funnier

Posted 3 years ago

Brian Henson, son of the legendary Jim and director of perennial favorite The Muppet Christmas Carol, had a lot to live up to with his holiday spin on the Charles Dickens classic. And he did all he could to avoid...

Update: Quibi deal confirmed with Roku

Posted 5 years ago

Update: Roku has officially bought the exclusive global distribution rights to the Quibi library. The deal covers most of the Quibi library, but some daily news shows are not part of the package. A key draw for Roku is the talent,...

Quibi: Streaming service is officially dead

Posted 5 years ago

It's officially time to grab a bottle of your finest hooch and pour one out for Quibi, the short-form and short-lived subscription service from Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman. While Quibi still has a working website and active accounts across social...

Quibi: Final day of service for the app will be December 1

Posted 5 years ago

Coming on the heels that Quibi, the mobile streaming service launched amid great fanfare and nearly $2 billion in start-up capital by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, would be shuttering a mere six months after launching, we now know the final...

Jeffrey Katzenberg blames the COVID-19 pandemic for Quibi’s muted launch

Posted 6 years ago

Time to play the blame game. Quibi, the new micro-streaming service featuring short-form programming you can view on your phone, launched on April 6 after a pretty massive marketing campaign. The service was launched with original programming featuring high-profile names...

First-day data shows Quibi launched to little social media attention

Posted 6 years ago

Quibi, the new American short-form mobile video platform launched by Jeffrey Katzenberg, made its debut on Monday but according to first-day data, the service didn't make quite the splash on social media when compared to some of its direct competition. According...

The April 6 debut of Quibi to feature the premiere of 50 new shows

Posted 6 years ago

Jeffrey Katzenberg's Quibi streaming service is gearing up for one hell of an April 6 debut, when the platform launches with 50 new shows! On board to help kick the service off with a bang are stars the likes of Jennifer...

DreamWorks cuts back to two films a year, delays How To Train Your Dragon 3

Posted 11 years ago

There has been some recent and somewhat drastic changes going on over at DreamWorks Animation. They just recently planned to cut 500 jobs across all locations and divisions of the studio not to mention also scale back its releases from...

Jeffrey Katzenberg envisions a huge shift in how movies are released

Posted 12 years ago

The shift in how we consume film has grown and changed over the years so much that it happens very rapidly now and Hollywood can barely catch up. Going from film to digital, VHS to DVD to Blu-Ray, video stores...

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