Roku Stock Rises as It Bests Wall Street’s Q1 Earnings Forecast, Adds 1.6 Million Active Accounts to Reach 81.6 Million

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer The Cinemart, the production company behind Amazon’s “Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets” and Netflix’s “Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal,” has signed an overall deal with Banijay‘s Truly Original. Under the new pact, The Cinemart will expand its development and production operations in premium documentaries and other genres of unscripted programming through Truly Original, a subsidiary of Banijay backed by co-CEOs Steven Weinstock and Glenda Hersh.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Taylor Swift‘s “The Tortured Poets Department” registered 439,000 album-equivalent units to return as the No. 1 album in the U.S. in its second week out, according to data from Luminate first reported in Billboard.

A dispersal order has been put in place across Stockport town centre after a large gang of youths caused havoc at the bus station. Police made four arrests during the disturbance on Saturday night.

Jar Jar Binks. Invoke the name to any hardcore Star Wars fan and then step back to see the explosion. No one is neutral.

Post Malone and Morgan Wallen have announced that their collaborative single ‘I Had Some Help’ will be released next week (May 10).The two premiered the song during Wallen’s headline set at Stagecoach Festival last Sunday (April 28), when Malone joined him as a guest for the song’s live debut.Malone had also previewed the song with a 17-second clip beforehand, and now, in a joint Instagram post, the duo have confirmed that the single will get an official release in the coming days.A post shared by @postmaloneCheck out some fan-captured footage of the song’s debut performance at Stagecoach below:Malone also played his own set at Stagecoach, made up entirely of fan-requested covers of country classics. He was joined by Dwight Yoakam and Brad Paisley during the set, and played songs by Geroge Strait, Tim McGraw and Vince Gill.He has been teasing the move towards the country genre for a while, playing a cover of Hank Willliams’ ‘Honky Tonk Blues’ during a surprise show in Nashville earlier this month.Back in 2022, Malone told Howard Stern that he had been considering the shift in style.

Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament is back. While studios during Covid wildly embraced the theatrical day-and-date model when cinemas were closed, they soon realized there’s nothing more profitable than a theatrical release and the downstreams that come with it. If anything, theatrical is the advertisement for a movie’s longevity in subsequent home entertainment windows. Entering the conversation in 2023 were the streamers, such as Apple, who have also realized the necessity of theatrical to eventize their movies. The financial data pulled together here for Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament is culled by seasoned and trusted sources.

Amazon beat Wall Street forecasts for profit and revenue in the first quarter as advertising continued to grow at a healthy clip.

George Cheeks, Brian Robbins and Chris McCarthy, the Paramount Global executives chosen to occupy the Office of the CEO as a replacement for the departing Bob Bakish, sought to reassure Wall Street on Monday that they have a plan.

Can you believe Modern Family first premiered over 14 years ago?!

MasterChef star Gregg Wallace has shared the adorable gift he bought for his son's birthday.The 59 year old shares five year old Sid with his wife, Anne-Marie Sterpini, 37, who he wed in 2016.The TV judge has previously spoken about how Sid has been diagnosed as autistic, and revealed some of the challenges the family faces dealing with the non-verbal little boy. But now, as the Wallace family mark a huge milestone by welcoming a new member to care for - a guinea pig - Gregg took to Instagram to share that he had gifted his son the adorable Peruvian rodent for his birthday. He posted a picture of Anne-Marie crouched next to a spacious two-level indoor hutch with an attached run for their furry friend to exercise in.

Top movie theater circuit AMC Entertainment offered investors a preview of its first-quarter financial results late Friday, with key metrics coming in ahead of Wall Street expectations.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor YouTube keeps eating up more share of the advertising pie: The Google-owned video giant posted $8.1 billion in ad sales for the first quarter of 2024, its highest Q1 total to date. The figure for YouTube ad sales, up 21% year over year, was announced as part of parent company Alphabet’s Q1 earnings. Wall Street analysts expected YouTube’s ad revenue for Q1 to come in at $7.72 billion, according to StreetAccount.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Imax fans turned up in droves to see “Dune 2” on the really big screen, helping the company top analyst earnings estimates for the first quarter of 2024. Despite the sandworm bump, it was a tough compare with the year-ago period when Imax benefited from the blockbuster success of “Avatar: The Way of Water” in 2023 to deliver its highest-grossing Q1 to date.

Comcast reported first quarter results that outpaced Wall Street expectations, with Peacock reaching 34 million subscribers but posting higher programming costs.

Can you believe Modern Family first premiered over 14 years ago?!

Interpol have added four extra European shows to their ‘Antics’ 20th-anniversary tour, which will take place later this year.The album, released in 2004, was the band’s second studio album and peaked at Number 15 on the Billboard 200 and at Number 21 in the UK Albums Chart. The album’s singles included indie disco staples ‘Slow Hands’, ‘Evil’, alongside fan favourites ‘C’mere’ and ‘Narc’.The record cemented the band’s success after the seminal debut ‘Turn On The Bright Lights’ and went on to become a classic of the era.

Morgan Wallen broke his silence Friday, nearly two weeks after he was arrested in Nashville for allegedly throwing a chair off a rooftop bar. The country star took to X, formerly Twitter, to denounce his actions while reassuring fans his One Night at a Time tour will continue as planned. "I didn't feel right publicly checking in until I made amends with some folks," Wallen wrote on social media.

Morgan Wallen has apologized for his arrest in connection with a chair-throwing incident from the roof of a Nashville bar.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Netflix reported its first-quarter 2024 earnings Thursday, revealing it added a whopping 9.33 million paid subscribers. Analysts consensus estimates were for Netflix to add 3.93 million paid subs globally in Q1 (to reach 264.21 million), according to StreetAccount. Per Netflix, it has now climbed to 269.60 million subs as of March 31.

Rob Delaney (Catastrophe), David Rasche (Succession) and Esco Jouléy (State of the Union) have been cast in recurring roles in FX‘s limited series Dying for Sex, starring Michelle Williams and Jenny Slate. The series hails from writers Liz Meriwether and Kim Rosenstock, Leslye Headland and 20th Television, where Meriwether, Rosenstock and Headland are under overall deals.