Amazon has inked a deal with Twentieth Century Fox that will enable the online giant to stream Fox feature films and television shows for customers in the Amazon Prime program, the AP reports. The deal will bring Amazon’s total instant…
Two Twitter users saved a team on "The Amazing Race" from being eliminated on the CBS show, after one of the team’s contestants unknowingly left her passport at a gas station, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. While…
The deal "[W]hich analysts estimate is worth $30 million per picture to DreamWorks over an unspecified period of years, is billed by the companies as the first time a major Hollywood supplier has chosen Web streaming over pay television," reports…
DirecTV Chief Executive Michael White said demand for at-home rentals of movies recently released in theaters has been "small" and the reason is obvious: The $29.99 price tag, he said, is "awfully high," reports Bloomberg. DirecTV started offering some Hollywood…
"Facebook has unveiled sweeping changes to its website – including partnerships with major music and film companies – in a bid to transform the world’s biggest social network into a key entertainment hub," The Guardian reports. The article continues, "Mark…
A rock star (or pop star, depending on your point of view) with a long string of No. 1 hits under his belt as half of one of the biggest musical acts of the 1970s is bringing his Web-based show…
If you’re a movie lover, and that’s the reason you subscribe to Netflix, there’s even more bad news from the company that seems to love torpedoing itself in recent weeks. Netflix Chief Financial Officer David Wells says that most future content…
The newest documentary from Ken Burns won’t debut first on PBS but instead will be available to iPad and iPhone users starting Sept. 23, a week before its PBS premiere, reports GigaOM.com. The documentary, “Prohibition,” will then air and be…
Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, tells Bloomberg that he believes News Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch is "going to have to step down" from his role at the media company, which has been jarred by a phone-hacking…