Entertainment Stories for 2025

Football and Other Premium TV Being Pirated At 'Industrial Scale' 63
Man Who Stole 1,000 DVDs From Employer Strikes Plea Deal Over Movie Leaks 58
There's More Film and Television For You To Watch Than Ever Before - Good Luck Finding It 95
Musi Says Evidence Shows Apple Conspired With Music Industry On App Store Ban 16
Marvel and DC Announce First Comic Crossover in 22 Years with Deadpool-Batman Pairing 23
Everybody's Mad About Uno 73
Google Tries Funding Short Films Showing 'Less Nightmarish' Visions of AI 74
America Has Biggest Three-Day Weekend Box Office Ever 46
'Star Wars'-Inspired Tabletop Games Bring Rebellion and Glory (without Disney) 40
Amazon Cancels the 'Wheel of Time' Prime Video Series After 3 Seasons 101
SAG-AFTRA Calls Out Fortnite Over Darth Vader AI Voice 102
Charter To Buy Cox For $21.9 Billion Amid Escalating War With Wireless 29
Netflix Says Its Ad Tier Now Has 94 Million Monthly Active Users 37
HBO Maxes Out on Rebranding 57
Life of a Marathon Streamer: Online for Three Years, Facing Isolation and Burnout 56
Netflix Debuts Gen AI-Powered Search Tool, Tests Vertical Videos For Mobile 33
Samsung Acquires Masimo's Audio Business For $350 Million 22
Trump Threatens 100% Tariff On Foreign-Made Films 218
Software Update Makes HDR Content 'Unwatchable' On Roku TVs 28
'Star Wars Day' Celebrations Hit Fortnite, Disney+, X.com - and Retailers Everywhere 28
Federal Judge Orders Lawyer to Remove Dragon Watermark from Court Filings 67
Spotify Moves To Bypass Apple Payments After Landmark Ruling 33
To 'Reclaim Future-Making', Amazon Workers Published a Collection of Science Fiction Stories 18
Yoda Bloopers Released - and George Lucas Reveals Why Yoda Talks Backwards 42
YouTube is Huge - and a Few Creators Are Getting Rich 32
Netflix Introduces a New Kind of Subtitles For the Non-Hearing Impaired 103
Apple TV+ Is 'Worst Marketer In the Universe,' Says Producer 21
Comcast President Bemoans Broadband Customer Losses: 'We Are Not Winning' 61
Warner Bros. Discovery Starts Max Password-Sharing Crackdown 22
Man Buys Racetrack, Ends Up Launching the Netflix of Grassroots Motorsports 28
Movies Made With AI Can Win Oscars, Academy Says 24
New 'Star Wars' Movie Announced Set 5 Years After 'Rise of Skywalker' 124
A Musician's Brain Matter Is Still Making Music Three Years After His Death 29
Netflix Revenue Rises To $10.5 Billion Following Price Hike 15
Amazon To Launch First Vega OS-powered TV Streaming Device This Year 20
LG TVs' Integrated Ads Get More Personal With Tech That Analyzes Viewer Emotions 122
AI-generated Music Accounts For 18% of All Tracks Uploaded To Deezer 85
Gemini App Rolling Out Veo 2 Video Generation For Advanced Users 2
Alamo Drafthouse Rejects Meta's Second-Screen Technology 41
Original 1977 'Star Wars' Cut Will Be Shown at a Theater for First Time in Decades 79
James Cameron: AI Could Help Cut VFX Costs in Half, Saving Blockbuster Cinema 68
China To Restrict US Film Releases 145
Meta's New Tech Wants You Using Phones in Theaters 102
Microsoft Windows 95 Reboot Chime and Minecraft Soundtrack Inducted Into National Recording Registry 31
Middle-Aged Man Trading Cards Go Viral in Rural Japan Town 39
Microsoft's Copilot Roasts Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and Satya Nadella 35
'Minecraft Movie' Scores Biggest Videogame Movie Opening Ever, Faces Early Leaks Online 30
'Tron' Sequel Trailer Released by Disney 148
Ian Fleming Published the James Bond Novel 'Moonraker' 70 Years Ago Today 61
Cheap TVs' Incessant Advertising Reaches Troubling New Lows 69
Netflix CEO Says Movie Theaters Are Dead 192
Smart TVs Are Employing Screen Monitoring Tech To Harvest User Data 44
Inside YouTube's Weird World Of Fake Movie Trailers 26
Streaming Services Are Facing Identity Crisis, Research Shows 70
Nearly Half of Canadians Have Cut Cable Entirely 31
Music Pioneer Napster Sells For $207 Million 24
LG's NFT Marketplace For TVs is Shutting Down 25
Plex Raises Premium Subscription Prices for First Time in Decade 69
Sony Unveils RGB LED Backlight Tech That Outperforms Traditional Mini LED 7
US Music Streaming Tops 100 Million Subscribers; Vinyl Outsells CDs For Third Year 40
Why Are the Most Expensive Netflix Movies Also the Worst? 94
NAB Calls For End of ATSC 1.0 47
Which Movies Do People Love to Hate? A Statistical Analysis 81
Netflix Used AI To Upscale 'A Different World' and It's a Melted Nightmare 57
Team Behind Las Vegas Sphere Plans 5,000-Capacity 'Mini-Spheres' 24
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Pokes Fun At Mark Zuckerberg With Latin Phrase T-Shirt 40
Sony Says It Has Already Taken Down More Than 75,000 AI Deepfake Songs 33
Oscar-Winning Movie Criticized for Using AI To Correct Dialects 83
Remembering 'Space Ghost' Voice Actor George Lowe 16
TCL Overtakes LG To Become Second-largest Premium TV Brand 48
How Many Episodes Should You Watch Before Quitting a TV Show? A Statistical Analysis 172
Blender-Rendered Movie 'Flow' Wins Oscar for Best Animated Feature, Beating Pixar 72
Malicious PyPI Package Exploited Deezer's API, Orchestrates a Distributed Piracy Operation 24
Commercials Are Still Too Loud, Say 'Thousands' of Recent FCC Complaints 39
Technicolor Begins To Shut Down Operations 22
Who's Watching What on TV? Who's To Say? 45
Indian Cinema Chain Sued By Film-goer Over Lengthy Pre-film Ads 65
Should Climate Change Be Acknowledged In Movies? 229
Animated 'Avatar: the Last Airbender' Gets Sequel, Plus Two More of Netflix's Live-Action Seasons 22
James Bond's Next Assignment: Amazon Pays $1 Billion for Full Creative Control 153
Netflix To Invest $1 Billion In Mexico Over Next 4 Years 39
Netflix Accidentally Made Its Content Show Up In the Apple TV App 12
Apple TV Finally Comes To Android Phones, Tablets 13
The Mystery Behind the Best UFO Picture Ever Seen 102
'Ne Zha 2' Becomes First Non-Hollywood Film To Hit $1 Billion 58
YouTube Surprise: CEO Says TV Overtakes Mobile as 'Primary Device' for Viewing 62
Connecticut Bill Requires Movie Theaters To Reveal How Long Those 'Coming Soon' Trailers Really Are 92
Internet Archive Celebrates New Public Domain Works with Remixes in Short Film Contest 8
French Train Passenger Fined $155 For Using Phone on Speaker 123
Warner Bros. Releases Dozens of Old Films for Free on YouTube, Bypassing Paid Streaming 62
Disney+ Lost 700,000 Subscribers From October-December 2024 80
UK Considers Making Netflix Users Pay License Fee to Fund BBC 129
Netflix's Cloud Plans Include Co-Op and Party Games 9
Private Equity Firm HongShan Acquires Rock Icon Marshall For $1.15 Billion 49
Plex Adds Public Reviews, Profiles in Social Push 25
Netflix Raises Prices Again 77
IMDb Founder Steps Down As CEO After 35 Years 24
A Videogame Meets Shakespeare in 'Grand Theft Hamlet' Film 9
David Lynch, Director of Twin Peaks and Dune, Dies At 78 48
CEO of AI Music Company Says People Don't Like Making Music 82
Enron.com Announces Pre-Orders for Egg-Shaped Home Nuclear Reactor 84
Media Companies Scrap Venu Sports Before It Ever Launches 13
MoviePass Ex-Chief Pleads Guilty To Fraud Over 'Unlimited' Cinema Scheme 32
Disney To Merge Hulu + Live TV With Fubo 38
Americans Are Spending Less On Streaming As Fatigue and Options Grow 92
Samsung and Google's New Spatial Audio Format Will Take On Dolby Atmos 41
Moviegoers Dealt Originality a Setback in 2024 62
Music Publishers Reach Deal With AI Giant Anthropic Over Copyrighted Song Lyrics 8
Samsung, Asus, MSI Unveil First 27-inch 4K OLED 240Hz Gaming Monitors 25