Facebook Angles Toward Netflix and YouTube with Billion Dollar Original Content Investment
The social media giant Facebook joins Apple in the quest for a piece of the entertainment streaming pie.

The social media giant Facebook joins Apple in the quest for a piece of the entertainment streaming pie.

Comedian Amy Schumer reportedly asked for more money from Netflix for her stand-up comedy special after learning that other comedy stars such as Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle made more than she did.

Shonda Rhimes, the powerhouse television producer whose “Shondaland” television shows including Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder have anchored ABC’s Thursday night lineup for years, has reportedly signed a multiyear deal with streaming giant Netflix.

Disney stock slipped by as much as four percent following the announcement that they will stream their movies independent of Netflix.

The second season of Netflix’s ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ television adaptation, released last week, depicts Presidents Ronald Reagan (Michael Showalter) and George H.W. Bush (Michael Ian Black) taking turns dedicating in front of each other.

Veteran late-night host David Letterman is set to make his TV return with a new Netflix series two years after signing off as host of CBS’ ‘The Late Show.’

Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Netflix have ignored the chance to testify in front of congress on the future of net neutrality, despite their protests of the Trump administration’s proposed reversal of existing Internet rules.

Netflix is doubling down on its $20 billion in borrowing and expects to borrow more, as the company spends $6 billion to buy the kind of original content that pushed its stock valuation to $79 billion.

Talk show host Chelsea Handler said she would like to see President Donald Trump and senior White House advisor Steve Bannon share a prison cell together one day while playing a game with former Obama White House staffers on the latest episode of her Netflix show this week.

While summer box office revenue continues its steady decline this year, the average price per movie ticket continues to rise.

Veteran film director Christopher Nolan has said he will never work with Netflix to produce a film because the streaming company is intent on putting movie theaters out of business.

If you were fortunate enough to be a wrestling fan in the 1980s, you saw the best of the best. The WWF was king and wrestlers like Hulk Hogan, Roddy Piper, Paul Orndorff, and Andre the Giant were as recognizable and as loved as your MLB sluggers or NFL quarterbacks.

The families of two California teenagers claim the Netflix television drama ’13 Reasons Why’ may have inspired them to commit suicide.

Whether portraying the noble geopolitics of “Madam Secretary” or the dirty deeds on “House of Cards,” the high-stakes fumbling on “Veep” or the scourge of terrorism that haunts “Homeland,” script writers have always faced the challenge of staying topical yet inventive without straying outside the bounds of plausibility.

Marcella Arguello, a standup comedian and a writer for Bill Nye Saves The World on Netflix, tweeted in the wake of the Congressional baseball shooting that the deaths of “a few old ass conservative white men” were a worthwhile risk if it led to gun control.

After Netflix CEO Reed Hastings dismissed net neutrality as an issue that was only important to “the Netflix of ten years ago” at a conference two weeks ago, the company’s Twitter account sent out a tweet claiming they would “never outgrow” the cause.

Online streaming service Netflix now counts more paid subscribers than the largest American cable television providers put together, a report has revealed.

Facebook is looking to take on Netflix, already lining up a new season of a canceled television series for their video streaming section of the site.

Amazon is mobilizing a July 12 collective “Day of Action” for tech corporations and social justice warriors to unite in rebelling against the FCC’s efforts to overturn Net Neutrality. The 12th falls on the 96th anniversary of Lenin’s call to deploy Russian communists to start civil wars around the world.

The hacking group behind the recent leaks of Netflix’s Orange is the New Black and ABC’s new Steve Harvey-hosted game show Funderdome says its “assault” on Hollywood is meant to extort massive amounts of money from studios.

Cable television is “failing” as a business, according to a cable industry lobbyist, as more and more people switch to streaming services and watching videos on their phones.

Netflix’s ‘House of Cards’ star Paul Sparks says the popular political drama helped create the “insane” political atmosphere in which President Donald Trump’s “ridiculous behavior” has become the norm.

The hackers behind the recent leak of the popular Netflix series ‘Orange Is The New Black’ have warned that ABC may be their next target.

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings addressed the Trump Administration’s stance against net neutrality on Wednesday, claiming that “It’s not narrowly important to us because we’re big enough to get the deals we want.”

Sarah Silverman mocks Christians and Republican voters in a promotional video for her new Netflix comedy special, ‘A Speck of Dust.’

Critics sniffed when Hollywood funnyman Adam Sandler got invited to Cannes, but his performance in the all-star “The Meyerowitz Stories” drew glowing reviews Sunday — and even buzz about a best actor prize.

Netflix film Okja was plagued by technical difficulties during its screening at the Cannes Film Festival, shortly after the festival announced a ban on all streaming films for next year’s entries. Deadline Hollywood reports that Netflix’s film Okja was plagued with technical

Popular sitcom Arrested Development will return for Season 5 on Netflix.

Disney is refusing, thus far, to buckle to hackers’ ransomware demands to return the new edition of Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.

Get Me Roger Stone, the newly released Netflix documentary that explores Stone’s colorful career in politics is worth your time to watch even if you hate Roger Stone. Especially if you hate Roger Stone, because you might learn how he gets under his hater’s skin so effectively.

Taking a stand against Netflix and other video streaming services, the Cannes Film Festival will ban any films that are solely digitally distributed from entering the festival starting next year.

In his new Netflix series, Bill Nye Saves The World, “Science Guy” Bill Nye presents a cartoon in which talking ice cream cones teach viewers about the many different “flavors of sexuality.”

Netflix has added trigger warnings to its latest teen drama series 13 Reasons Why following criticism from viewers that the show glorifies suicide and rape.

A group of hackers, known as The Dark Overlord (TDO), have leaked all ten episodes of the upcoming season of the Netflix hit series Orange Is the New Black after the streaming giant refused to meet the group’s ransom demands.

Popular 90s comedy series Roseanne will be the latest hit show set to return to TV, two decades after going off the air.

Actress Rachel Bloom has teamed up with “Science Guy” Bill Nye to debut an LGBT sex anthem on the new Netflix series ‘Bill Nye Saves the World.’

Netflix identified mankind’s need for sleep as its primary competitor this week, branding it as the company’s “greatest enemy.”

Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings has revealed that the service’s users have collectively streamed more than 500 million hours of Adam Sandler’s movies over the last year and a half.

Suicide prevention expert Dan Reidenberg says the popular Netflix series 13 Reasons Why, which dramatizes a high school student’s suicide, does “more harm than any good.”

After releasing a brief teaser earlier this year, Netflix has released the first full trailer for its upcoming TV series Dear White People, based on the 2014 feature film of the same name.
