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1 week ago | 
mediaplaynews.com | Stephanie Prange
The documentary America You Kill Me, about a nationally known Detroit gay activist, will be released for digital rental (VOD) and sale (EST) July 29 from Gravitas Ventures. The film explores the life of Jeffrey Montgomery, a now passed militant queer activist who believed in resistance and liberation.
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1 week ago | 
mediaplaynews.com | Stephanie Prange
Zone·ify has launched Ingage Ad Units, a proprietary interactive platform that the company reports allows brands to engage, entertain, and convert viewers in the AVOD space. Ingage delivers a fully integrated system of gamified brand experiences, shoppable video, and performance-based calls to action — all embedded directly within the connected TV experience, according to the company.
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1 week ago | 
mediaplaynews.com | Stephanie Prange
A celebration of life will follow from 2:30 to 6 p.m. at Harriet’s Rooftop, 8490 West Sunset Blvd., in West Hollywood. In lieu of flowers, friends are asked to donate to The Trevor Project, an organization dedicated to crisis intervention and suicide prevention for LGBTQ+ youth. Duran was a board member. Born Jan. 10, 1967, Duran studied marketing at California State University, Bakersfield.
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1 week ago | 
mediaplaynews.com | Stephanie Prange
Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts* will be available for premium digital rental and sale July 1 and will be released on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD July 29. The actioner has earned $379.3 million at the global box office. The film assembles an unconventional team of antiheroes with Yelena Belova, Bucky Barnes, Red Guardian, Ghost, Taskmaster and John Walker. The Thunderbolts are The New Avengers, a misfit team of burned assets who rally their powers and unites against all odds.
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1 week ago | 
mediaplaynews.com | Stephanie Prange
Disney-owned Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts* will be available for premium digital rental and sale July 1, and will be released on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD disc July 29. The film assembles an unconventional team of antiheroes with Yelena Belova, Bucky Barnes, Red Guardian, Ghost, Taskmaster and John Walker. The Thunderbolts are The New Avengers, a misfit team of burned assets who rally their powers and unites against all odds.
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1 week ago | 
mediaplaynews.com | Stephanie Prange
A24’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, Opus and Death of a Unicorn will debut on HBO and Max in the United States in July. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl will be available to stream July 4 on Max and will debut July 7 on HBO at 8 p.m. ET. In filmmaker Rungano Nyoni’s surreal and vibrant reckoning with the lies we tell ourselves, on an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle.
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2 weeks ago | 
mediaplaynews.com | Stephanie Prange
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will release the 1983 fantasy Krull in a 4K Ultra HD Steelbook Sept. 16. In the fantasy-adventure, set in a world peopled by creatures of myth and magic, a prince embarks on a quest to find the magical Glaive and then rescue his young bride. Colwyn (Ken Marshall) is the leader of a mythical sword-and-sorcery group in pursuit of “the Beast” that has kidnapped his fiancée Lyssa (Lysette Anthony).
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2 weeks ago | 
mediaplaynews.com | Stephanie Prange
Electric Entertainment, the Los Angeles-based production and distribution company, has promoted of Michael Johnson to director, streaming and content operations, for ElectricNow, its OTT app and FAST channel. In his new role, Johnson will now handle all aspects pertaining to the app and channel, including those for ElectricNow en Español.
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2 weeks ago | 
mediaplaynews.com | Stephanie Prange
Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ A Minecraft Movie will make its global streaming debut on Max on June 20. The film will debut on HBO linear on June 21 at 8 p.m. ET. A version of A Minecraft Movie with American Sign Language (ASL) will also stream exclusively on Max the same day, performed by Deaf ASL Interpreter Sophia Morales (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice with ASL).
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2 weeks ago | 
mediaplaynews.com | Stephanie Prange
Fremantle has partnered with Nacelle to represent their FAST channel — Comedy Dynamics. The global partnership will see Freemantle provide key support to scale the Comedy Dynamics Channel. Comedy Dynamics currently offers more than 1,000 hours of library content and is the number one indie distributor of stand-up comedy, according to Fremantle. The Nacelle library includes hit comedians such as Ali Wong, Jim Gaffigan, Tiffany Haddish, Tom Segura, and Jeff Dunham.
