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2 weeks ago | 
vulture.com | Eric Vilas-Boas |Eric Vilas-Boas
The beloved show’s reprieve from streaming limbo will come with some changes once the new season hits Netflix later this year. The letter of the day is S — for streaming or salvation, depending on your perspective. Sesame Street, home of beloved Muppets like Elmo, Big Bird, and Abby Cadabby, is coming to Netflix for its next season after spending about five years on Max (née HBO Max, give or take a rebrand) and recently losing its contract with the service.
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3 weeks ago | 
vulture.com | Eric Vilas-Boas |Eric Vilas-Boas
“Dos filhos deste solo, és mãe gentil, pátria amada, Brasil!” –YouTube, probably. YouTube will add a new notch to its belt this fall: NFL livestreamer. The most popular streaming service of them all announced today that on Friday, September 5, it will exclusively air a regular-season game live from Brazil to its worldwide audience, for free and for the first time ever. The match is the week-one Chargers game and will be held in São Paulo’s Corinthians Arena.
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3 weeks ago | 
vulture.com | Eric Vilas-Boas |Eric Vilas-Boas
Do we need another streaming service? The Murdoch clan seem to think so. This fall, the Fox Corporation is launching its own version of Max in a new streamer it’s calling Fox One — a roll-up of programming from all the Foxes: the broadcast network, News, Business, Weather, Sports, FS1, FS2, BTN, Deportes, and its various local stations. Existing subscribers to this new service will also have the option to bundle the Fox Nation with it in the name of good old ’Murican synergy.
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1 month ago | 
vulture.com | Eric Vilas-Boas |Eric Vilas-Boas
This story will run in Buffering, Vulture’s newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today! Time for a “new Netflix TV experience.” As Netflix’s star has burned brighter and brighter over the last 12 years — apart from a few blinks here and there — its industry-leading homepage has stayed pretty much the same.
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1 month ago | 
vulture.com | Eric Vilas-Boas |Eric Vilas-Boas
This story ran in Buffering, Vulture’s newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today! This story ran in Buffering, Vulture’s newsletter about the streaming industry.
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1 month ago | 
vulture.com | Eric Vilas-Boas |Eric Vilas-Boas
Max is following Netflix and Disney’s lead in rolling out new “extra member” plans. If you have friends or relatives mooching off your Max account to watch The Last of Us, they’ll probably get an uncomfortable message before tuning into next week’s episode. Warner Bros.
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2 months ago | 
vulture.com | Eric Vilas-Boas |Eric Vilas-Boas
In the middle of one of their most crunched productions, Studio Ghibli’s masters showed a young French animator the ropes. Hayao Miyazaki does not announce himself — he appears. Or at least that’s how the director revealed himself to animation student David Encinas on the street during 1993’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival. “Some classmates were on the other side of the street, and suddenly, I see them pointing.
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Feb 20, 2025 | 
vulture.com | Eric Vilas-Boas |Eric Vilas-Boas
This story first ran in Buffering, Vulture’s newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today! This story first ran in Buffering, Vulture’s newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today! Around this time last year, boutique animation distributor GKIDS was riding an Oscars high.
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Feb 4, 2025 | 
vulture.com | Eric Vilas-Boas |Eric Vilas-Boas
A half-hour of previews and a commute ballooned the last movie I saw in a theater — the cozy two-hour-and-12-minute Nosferatu — well past a three-hour time commitment. The standard trailers, the Noovie trivia crap, and, more recently, product ads (Pepsi? Honda?? Chick-fil-A???) that now run before feature presentations all feel longer, louder, and more annoying than ever before.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
vulture.com | Eric Vilas-Boas |Eric Vilas-Boas
Welp, one fewer bundle to worry about. Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery have pulled the plug on Venu, the mega-service that was once set to host a raft of major leagues under one banner, including the NFL, NBA, MLB, college football, and the WNBA, among several others. That’s all gone this week, in the wake of Disney’s play to fold Fubo TV into Hulu + Live TV and take control of 70 percent of the company, earning the Mouse another major stake in the world of sports streaming.
