The Big Picture Vincent Boland: Paramount takeover saga tells the story of Hollywood: the sequelThe iconic studio was blindsided by Netflix, which has disrupted the movie business as much as Amazon disrupted the retail industry
Media Levy on pay TV would help drive independent media sectorWhatever funding model is decided upon, it needs to be sustainable for many years to come
Film John Maguire on Film: Axel Foley is back, and he’s still a howlPension plans and liver pills may be the focus of the jokes now, but Eddie Murphy’s Beverly Hills cop is still an eminently watchable character
Film & TV John Maguire: Latest Bad Boys reincarnation proves some franchises should be left to dieBad Boys: Ride or Die has little creativity or invention, while the chemistry between Will Smith and Martin Lawrence feels horribly forced
Film John Maguire: The west Cork murder mystery Bodkin sidesteps paddywhackery through humourThe Netflix series has its flaws, but it is funny, which is really all it needs to be
Streaming Crackdown on password sharing pays off for Netflix as it adds over nine million customersThe increase in customers was nearly double the average predicted by analysts
Film John Maguire on Film: Alex Garland’s Civil War shines, but Amy Winehouse biopic falls flatKirsten Dunst is terrific in Garland’s dystopian road movie, but Back To Black struggles to find the essence of the late superstar
Connected Magazine Going legit: goodbye to dodgy boxes With a crackdown on illegal streaming devices under way, Alex Meehan looks at the options for those who want to go legit
Fine Arts From masters to monarchs, the real deal and replicasChristie’s New York and Bonhams London offer a treasure trove of old masters, including one ‘after’ da Vinci, and replica props from the set of Netflix’s series
Sport Media analysis: Six Nations’ Netflix efforts reveal a sport afraid to leave its comfort zoneRugby needs radical thinking to get out of its financial problems and build a new audience
Streaming Netflix beats Wall Street expectations with big surge in customer sign-ups Shares of Netflix are up 38 per cent in the past year through the close on Tuesday
Media & Marketing Netflix Buys Rights to WWE’s ‘Raw,’ Its First Big Live Event‘Raw’ will air on Netflix in the US, Canada, Latin America and other international markets beginning in January 2025
Making it Work Dream comes true for Wicklow firm after Netflix successAudio production company aims to score music for feature-length films following work on trailers for shows
Book Review Book Review: A gloriously gossipy tell-all on the demise of television as we know it Dynamic, droll, and punchy tome traces the journey from high point of cable television to the slippery slope of the streamers
Sport Red Bull Racing’s Christian Horner on going from chaos to F1 dominanceThe six-time world-champion team principal recalls the journey he has taken to build Red Bull into a title-winning team
Media The Night Agent the most watched show on Netflix in 2023Global streaming service publishes user data for the first time on every title
Sport Haas principal Guenther Steiner in Dublin: ‘Standing still in Formula 1 means falling behind’ The breakout star of Netflix’s Drive to Survive cut a calmer figure last week as he evaluated his team’s performance and the future of Formula 1
Stock Take ‘Fang’ firms show their teeth with subscription models and price hikesShares in Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google are back up, due largely to significant changes to their business models
Streaming Ireland spared from Netflix price hikes as fees rise in UK, US and FranceStreaming service has no plans to increase prices for Irish subscribers, Netflix says as it reports rise in users
Film & Television John Maguire on film: Hilarious, touching and scarcely credible story of BlackBerry’s boom and bustBlackBerry, the story of the device that reigned before the iPhone, is very funny while being a sobering cautionary tale