Spotify said Wednesday it wants to expand aggressively into audiobooks, broadening beyond music and podcasts into another form of audio, and it plans to introduce a store where you’d pay Spotify for individual titles. “We believe that audi…
What’s happening
The Roku Channel is adding a centralized hub for all kinds of Spanish-language programming to stream.
Why it matters
Spanish speakers will have a simpler time finding streaming content for them.
Roku on Monda…
Downton Abbey: A New Era, the latest feature-length film drawn from the popular period drama series, hit US theaters Friday. But fans who want to take it in from the comfort of home will need to wait a while before it’s available on a streaming serv…
Top Gun: Maverick is set to hit theaters May 24, and it’s already piling up glowing reviews. But the COVID-19 pandemic, with its profound disruptions to movie-release norms, has stirred up a lot of confusion about how long fans must wait before a ne…
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness had the biggest box office opening since, well, the last time Benedict Cumberbatch played Doctor Strange on the big screen. Multiverse of Madness hauled in $187 million in domestic ticket grosses last…
Last year, an unprecedented number of new theatrical movies streamed online the same day they hit cinemas. But this year, as COVID-19 restrictions have eased and audiences returned to cinemas, the practice has nearly vanished. Pretty much all movies…
What’s happening
YouTube is adding a feature to Shorts (its TikTok competitor) that lets creators turn someone else’s clip into a green-screen style background for their own.
Why it matters
YouTube is chasing the sensa…
TikTok said Wednesday it’s “exploring” its first ad-revenue sharing program, which would give pay 50% of the money generated from some advertising to top creators, public figures and other publishers whose posts run next to those ads. To qualif…
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is being released Friday in theaters exclusively.
Warner Bros.
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The film Ready Player One, based on a 2011 book, imagines humanity addicted to a society existing in a virtual-reality game.
Jaap Buitendijk
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I am drifting inside the International Space Station, an apparition floating from one compartment to the next. A constant mechanical thrum pulses like a heartbeat in my ears, but the station has the stillness of nighttime. I’m surrounded by details to …
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is available only in theaters, at first.
Paramount Pictures
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Bridgerton’s second season hit Netflix March 25.
Netflix
Bridgerton’s second season was Netflix’s No. 1 most streamed ti…