Netflix is expected to deliver robust subscriber growth for the quarter that ended December 31. The streaming giant's earnings report this afternoon will kick off several weeks of high-profile financial releases, with executive commentary.
Wall Street analysts have been upping their expectations for Netflix's subscriber tally, which will mark the final time the company will divulge the metric. The consensus is for about 8 million new subscribers, but some forecasts range up to 13 million, given that the quarter brought NFL football, the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson "fight" and the second-season premiere of Squid Game.
The report by Netflix, coming on the first full day of President Donald Trump’s second term, will kick off a five-week period of fresh media and tech financial results. The numbers and executive remarks, a burst after the annual holiday lull, will offer the first signals about the trajectory of 2025.
Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox Corp. are expected to weigh in on their failed joint streaming venture, Venu Sports; Comcast will brief Wall Street on progress with the NBCUniversal cable network spinoff it announced last November; and Paramount Global will offer updates on the company’s pending merger with Skydance Media. Big Tech leaders will also make their voices heard after flocking to Washington for Trump’s inauguration. >>>Spinning The Street |
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'Brutalist' Brouhaha - Following news that the 3x Golden Globe-winning movie The Brutalist used AI in post to smooth the Hungarian accents of its stars Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones as well as that of its cast, the pic’s director Brady Corbet has issued a response. >>>Actors' Performances "Completely Their Own"
No End In Sight - With yet another week of more lawsuits in the ever increasing obloquy fray between It Ends With Us stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, the court of public opinion has proved as much of a field of operations as the state and federal dockets. >>>"Heinous Pivot" Predicted
'Black Sunday' -Twenty years ago, the FDNY suffered one of the darkest days in its history with multiple deaths across different incidents. It was known as Black Sunday. This tragedy is being commemorated with a new feature documentary from former MLB star Eric Hosmer, Australian filmmaker Shane Abbess (The Beast in Me) and director Luke Wheatley (Grounded). >>>3 Dead
MLK B.O. Is Not OK - Not counting the 2021 pandemic year when all theaters were closed, this was the second lowest MLK 4-day weekend box office haul of the last 10 years. >>>96.3M Total |
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After playing Harry Bosch for a decade on Bosch and Bosch: Legacy, Titus Welliver is taking on a new leading character for a TV crime drama. Welliver and Juani Feliz (Harlem) have been tapped as the two leads of CBS' potential spinoff from The Equalizer.
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Following an award-winning seven-year run on Comedy Central's The Daily Show, correspondent and contributor Dulcé Sloan has exited the late-night political news satire.
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Comedian Katt Williams is boarding Adam Rifkin’s trippy road-trip comedy Toad opposite James Paxton (Twisters) and Oliver Wyman (Feeling Randy).
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The CBS drama series Elsbeth has added Tracey Ullman (The Tracey Ullman Show) and Jordana Brewster (Fast & Furious) to its growing list of guest stars for Season 2.
In Brief - David Krumholtz & Emily Beecham join Supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow... Noel Fielding will return to Great British Bake Off |
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More News 🎤 Trevor Noah will host the 67th Annual Grammy Awards, marking his fifth consecutive year as MC of the awards show on CBS. Once again, he also will serve as a producer.
🖥️ Streaming as a viewing category leveled up again in December, according to Nielsen‘s monthly Gauge report. Collectively, streaming outlets accounted for 43.3% of total watch time on TV sets, up from 35.9% in December 2023.
⚖️ In a UK legal battle being closely watched on both sides of the pond, Prince Harry is "very close" to reaching a settlement with Rupert Murdoch‘s News Group Newspapers, according to NGN’s lawyer. 🎞️ The Berlin Film Festival announced the 19 films that will screen in its official competition, a buzzy collection of titles including Richard Linklater’s latest feature, Blue Moon, starring Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, and Andrew Scott. Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco's Dreams stars Jessica Chastain, Isaac Hernández, and Rupert Friend.
✍️ After his inauguration, Donald Trump signed a series of pardons and executive orders, including one delaying implementation of a law restricting TikTok, another pardoning about 1,500 January 6th defendants and others declaring a national emergency at the southern border and withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord.
📺 In the seven days since it debuted on January 8, the first episode of Shifting Gears starring Tim Allen has amassed nearly 17M multi-platform viewers across ABC, Hulu, Hulu on Disney+ and digital platforms, Disney says. That’s a 173% lift over the episode’s already fairly impressive same-day audience of 6.2M. |
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Obituaries
🕯️ Claire van Kampen, a composer of music for plays and television dramas, as well as a director, writer and frequent collaborator of her Oscar-winning husband Mark Rylance, died Saturday morning at age 71. 🕯️ Veteran ABC News correspondent Elizabeth Nissen died January 7, three days after her 71st birthday, at her home in Ann Arbor, Mich. 🕯️ Lynne Taylor-Corbett, the Tony Award-nominated choreographer of Broadway‘s Swing and Titanic who also left an indelible mark on Hollywood by guiding Kevin Bacon through his famed solo dance in the 1984 hit film Footloose, died of breast cancer January 12 at a hospital in Rockville Centre, N.Y., on Long Island. She was 78. 🕯️ Francisco San Martin, a soap opera actor known for originating the role of Dario Hernandez in Days of Our Lives , died Jan. 16 at his home. He was 39. 🕯️ 2025 Deaths Photo Gallery: Hollywood & Media Obituaries |
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On the Radar
Thu - Oscar nominations; Sundance begins
Fri - LA Wildfire Relief telethon
Sun - NFL Conference Championships |
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"I Can Just Sing It" - Carrie Underwood was set to sing "America the Beautiful" directly after Donald Trump's swearing in but, as she stepped to the fore, there were several minutes where Underwood stood waiting for the music to begin. Finally, the former American Idol winner told someone, "I can just sing it," and belted out a beautiful a cappella rendition of the song with most of those assembled joining in. |
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