YouTube Video Podcasts TV Viewership Tops 400M Hours Monthly

YouTube video podcasts

Viewers consume over 400 million hours’ worth of YouTube video podcasts on smart TVs each month, according to the platform. Photo Credit: BoliviaInteligente After dethroning Spotify in the podcasting arena, YouTube has revealed new details […]

New GAME OF THRONES Mobile Game Coming in 2025, Trailer Reveals Jon Snow and Other Familiar Faces

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“Like it or not, Winter is coming…” That’s a popular Game of Thrones saying. Another one is, “What’s dead may never die.” And that’s a bit how the wildly beloved franchise feels. Game of Thrones‘ […]

‘Ibelin’ Director Benjamin Ree Inspired By Faulkner, Dostoyevsky, Woolf

Mats Steen in 'Ibelin'

For his Oscar-contending documentary , filmmaker Benjamin Ree drew inspiration from literary sources as much or more than cinematic ones. “One of my main interests is dramaturgy… and structure,” he says over a breakfast of […]

Realize Music Reaches Agreement with UMG & WMG—VR Singing

Realize Music VR

Photo Credit: Realize Music Realize Music Inc. has reached a strategic agreement with Universal Music Group (UMG) and Warner Music Group (WMG) to feature their music in Realize Music: Sing—a VR all for self-care singing. […]

Swedish Oscar Contender ‘The Last Journey’ Celebrates Ordinary Hero

Directors Fredrik Wikingsson (left) and Filip Hammar in 'The Last Journey'

A great documentary can make you fall in love with a real person you had never encountered before viewing a film. Such is the case, for me, with Lars Hammar, the protagonist of the Oscar-contending […]

Blue Ivy Carter Sparks Controversy By Wearing What Some Call A ‘Wildly Inappropriate’ Dress

From left: Rapper Jay-Z, singer Beyoncé and daughter Blue Ivy Carter attend the Los Angeles premiere of Disney's "Mufasa: The Lion King" at the Dolby Theatre on Monday, Dec. 9, in Los Angeles, California.

Blue Ivy Carter showed up to a Disney-related event dressed like a Disney princess — and it created controversy. On Monday, the daughter of singer Beyoncé and rapper Jay-Z appeared with her parents at the […]

Tom Shadyac Made $50 Million Directing Blockbusters Like “Ace Ventura”… Then Gave It All Away And Moved Into A Trailer Park

Tom Shadyac

Hollywood has to be one of the most difficult industries on the planet to break into. Sure, there are more “technically” complicated industries out there like the law, or medicine, or finance, but at least […]

How They Made Him Into LEGO Form

'Piece by Piece'

EXCLUSIVE: The single-most ambitious documentary of the year may be the Oscar-contending Piece by Piece, Morgan Neville’s film about music producer, singer, performer, and fashion designer Pharrell Williams. The Oscar-winning filmmaker shot a full-on nonfiction […]

Have followers and something to sell? TikTok may want to make a deal

Aaliyah Arnold and Daniel Rene during a livestream

It is just past 10 p.m. and Aaliyah Arnold, the 20-year-old founder of BossUp Cosmetics, is selling to the TikTok universe. As she livestreams from a Culver City filming location, about 750 people around the […]