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Max’s Priciest Plan Will Have 1,000-Plus Movies and Episodes in 4K Ua HD

With HBO Max turning into Max, Warner Bros. Discovery is introducing a higher-priced plan — $19.99 per month — with an expanded bouquet of 4K Ultra HD content aimed at pushing customers to the pricier package. On Monday, the company announced that the 4K tier will feature more than 1,000…

Amazon Gaming Week Has Begun: Here Are the Best Deals to Shop

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Amazon’s highly anticipated Gaming Week officially kicked off Monday morning, and the retailer is buzzing with limited-time deals that can help any avid gamer upgrade their setup at a…

Netflix, Amazon Among Top Investors Expanding Spain’s Entertainment Biz

In April 2018, Netflix announced that Spanish heist thriller “Money Heist” (“La Casa de Papel”) had become the U.S. streaming service’s most-watched non-English series ever. With a Spanish series crowned as the first foreign-language blockbuster at the company that has transformed entertainment worldwide, Spain’s expansion — long nurtured by hits…

Nintendo Unveils a ‘Legend of Zelda’ Switch Console – But There’s a Catch

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. “The Legend of Zelda” is out this week and Nintendo is marking the occasion with a special Nintendo Switch OLED release. The Nintendo Switch “Legend of Zelda: Tears of…

Square Eyes Boards Immersive Video Game Pic ‘Knit’s Island’ Competing at Swiss Doc Fest Visions du Reél (EXCLUSIVE)

“Knit’s Island,” the sophomore feature by French trio Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse and Quentin L’helgoualc’h, competing in the Burning Lights sidebar at Swiss international doc fest Visions du Reél, has been picked up by Vienna-based film sales company Square Eyes. It is entirely shot in the online post-apocalyptic world of…

‘Angry Birds’ Games Studio Rovio Agrees to $776 Million Sega Takeover

Rovio, the Finnish games studio behind “Angry Birds” said on Monday that it had accepted a takeover offer from Sega Sammy, part of the Japanese consoles and games giant Sega. The deal values Rovio at EUR706 million ($776 million). “The board of directors of Rovio, represented by a quorum comprising…

YouTube Star MrBeast Slams Anti-Trans Commentary About His Friend Chris Tyson: ‘All This Transphobia Is Starting to Piss Me Off’

MrBeast, who runs the most-subscribed individual channel on YouTube, has hit back against a suggestion that his friend and collaborator, Chris Tyson, is a becoming “nightmare” for the popular video creator because of Tyson’s hormone replacement therapy. MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, on Thursday responded on Twitter to…

Millennials Spend More Time Playing Video Games Than Gen Z and Teens, New Study Finds

Millennials are the largest untapped market that video game companies should be focusing on, per a new study from Fandom, which finds that the generation spends more time gaming than both Gen Z and teens. According to fan-community platform and entertainment company Fandom’s annual Inside Gaming report, which was released…

Which Video Games Should Streamers Adapt? New Study Proposes Netflix ‘Fortnite’ Series, ‘God of War’ at Apple Over Amazon and More (EXCLUSIVE)

Universal’s “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” Paramount’s “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves,” HBO’s “The Last of Us” and Netflix’s “Arcane” are just the start of a new wave of movies and TV series based on popular video games and table-top gaming IP. From “God of War” and “Warhammer 40,000”…

After ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors,’ BFI Network Sends Beacon for More Narrative VR Projects: ‘There’s a Real Appetite’

As director Alex Ruhl’s “Rock, Paper, Scissors” continues an international festival tour, the project’s funder has sent out a message to other immersive titles considering public support: BFI Network is open for business. “We are open for all applications, and accepting narrative fiction VR projects,” says BFI Network talent exec…

‘Super Mario Bros.’ Composer Brian Tyler on Nostalgic Nods to Iconic Nintendo Themes by Koji Kondo

Composer Brian Tyler jumped at the chance to write the music for “The Super Mario Bros. Movie.” He rattles off the games, Super Mario Brothers, Super Mario Kart and Donkey Kong… there are many more, and he’s played them all. “I knew this music,” Tyler shares. “It was a part…

Warner Bros. at 100: Characters of Steel Propel DC Into Future

The modern superhero movie would not exist without the version of Superman limned by Christopher Reeve in Warner Bros.’ 1978 smash “Superman.” First created in 1938 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster for Action Comics, the Man of Steel became a pop-culture mainstay with the syn- dicated “Adventures of Superman”…

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