CYNOPSISDIGITAL 01.26.15 Good morning. It’s Monday, January 26, 2015, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. NEW PROGRAMMING + DEALS Multi-channel network Fullscreen formed a new film division to bring digital talent to the movies. The MCN announced its Fullscreen Films slate at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday, which includes: Lazer […]
CYNOPSISDIGITAL 01.23.15 Good morning. It’s Friday, January 23, 2015, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. NEW PROGRAMMING + DEALS On the first day of the Sundance Film Festival yesterday, Vimeo announced the Vimeo On Demand Publisher Network. The platform allows partners to sell premium, ad-free content on their sites from Vimeo’s […]
CYNOPSISDIGITAL 01.22.15 Good morning. It’s Thursday, January 22, 2015, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. NEW PROGRAMMING + DEALS Former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar officially opened the doors to his latest video venture, Vessel. The platform will distribute content for first-run distribution at least 72 hours in advance at a $2.99 […]
CYNOPSISDIGITAL 01.21.15 Good morning. It’s Wednesday, January 21, 2015, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. Netflix hit 57.4 million global subscribers, adding 13 million and generating $1.3 billion in revenue, the streaming service announced in its Q4 earnings report yesterday. However, U.S. subscriber rate is down from a year ago, dipping to […]
CYNOPSISDIGITAL 01.20.15 Good morning. It’s Tuesday, January 20, 2015, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. NEW PROGRAMMING + DEALS Amazon is taking on the silver screen, planning to acquire original movies for theatrical release and early-window distribution on its Prime Instant Video service. Feature films will not be available online the […]
CYNOPSISDIGITAL 01.16.15 Good morning. It’s Friday, January 16, 2015, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. To mark Martin Luther King Day, Cynopsis will not publish on Monday, January 19. NEW PROGRAMMING + DEALS Vimeo struck a deal with Maker Studios to use Maker content on the Vimeo-on-Demand platform. Maker still primarily […]
CYNOPSISDIGITAL 01.15.15 Good morning. It’s Thursday, January 15, 2015, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. NEW PROGRAMMING + DEALS Defy Media is launching a free service from Break.com called Movies on Break. The ad-supported product will feature 200 Lionsgate films available to stream online through Roku, Xbox and other mobile devices. […]
CYNOPSISDIGITAL 01.14.15 Good morning. It’s Wednesday, January 14, 2015, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. NEW PROGRAMMING + DEALS Woody Allen will write and direct his first TV series for Amazon. The company signed off on a full season of the Untitled Woody Allen Project, a half-hour series to be made […]
CYNOPSISDIGITAL 01.13.15 Good morning. It’s Tuesday, January 13, 2015, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. NEW PROGRAMMING + DEALS Netflix will pick up Danish series Rita for a third season. The additional season of Denmark’s TV 2 series will debut in spring 2015, and land on Netflix along with the first […]
CYNOPSISDIGITAL 01.12.15 Good morning. It’s Monday, January 12, 2015, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. NEW PROGRAMMING + DEALS To ramp up video streaming quality, Facebook bought QuickFire Networks on Friday. QFN is a technology that reduces the necessary bandwidth to view video online without affecting its quality. FB recently announced […]
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