entertainment

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but is more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousands of years specifically for the purpose of keeping an audience's attention.

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Motion Picture Association: Streaming Soars Amid Box Office Free Fall

Motion Picture Association: Streaming Soars Amid Box Office Free Fall
Motion Picture Association: Streaming Soars Amid Box Office Free Fall
March 18, 2021  |  Subscriptions

A new report from the Motion Picture Association (MPA) showed that, although the pandemic decimated 2020 box office numbers, subscriptions for streaming services topped 1...

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Hold Please: Online Gambling Firm 888 CEO Weighs IPO
Hold Please: Online Gambling Firm 888 CEO Weighs IPO
March 18, 2021  |  IPO

888 Holdings, an online gambling outlet, is looking at ways to tap U.S. investors, including the possibility of going public, Bloomberg reported. Get the Full...

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Bitcoin Daily: Lindsay Lohan To Sell NFTs On Tron; Oakland Athletics Nears Sale Of Luxury $64,000 Suite For One Bitcoin
Bitcoin Daily: Lindsay Lohan To Sell NFTs On Tron; Oakland Athletics Nears Sale Of Luxury...
March 18, 2021  |  Bitcoin

Actress Lindsay Lohan is teaming with Tron to begin releasing non-fungible tokens (NFTs), a CoinDesk reported. The star is planning to release her digital collectibles...

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Warner Music Leads Investors In $52 Million Raise For UGC Game Company Overwolf
Warner Music Leads Investors In $52 Million Raise For UGC Game Company Overwolf
March 17, 2021  |  Investments

Overwolf, created to make apps related to video games, has completed a Series C round for $52.5 million, a Medium blog post from CEO and...

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Streaming Services Compete In A Crowded Subscription Race
Streaming Services Compete In A Crowded Subscription Race
March 15, 2021  |  Subscriptions

Remember the old joke about how cable offered the opportunity to have over 200 hundred channels of nothing to watch? As of today, that joke...

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Why The Entertainment Industry Called ‘Cut’ On Manual Payroll
Why The Entertainment Industry Called ‘Cut’ On Manual Payroll
March 15, 2021  |  B2B Payments

With film sets and other entertainment projects forced to yell “cut” amid pandemic lockdowns, many players across the industry were given a moment to pause...

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No Mooching: Netflix Tests Block On Password Sharing
No Mooching: Netflix Tests Block On Password Sharing
March 12, 2021  |  Security & Fraud

A new Netflix prompt, just in test mode for now, is attempting to crack down on shared passwords, saying that if you “don’t live with...

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Amazon Aims To Enable Purchases From TV Screens Via ‘tCommerce’
Amazon Aims To Enable Purchases From TV Screens Via ‘tCommerce’
March 11, 2021  |  Retail

The era of “tCommerce” is upon us, if Amazon is to be believed. Amazon Studios Chief Operating Officer Albert Cheng said that after a long...

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Movie Theater Chain AMC Shifts From Survival Mode To Managing Surge Of New Films
Movie Theater Chain AMC Shifts From Survival Mode To Managing Surge Of New Films
March 11, 2021  |  Retail

The head of the country’s largest movie theater chain, AMC Entertainment, said he is optimistic about the rapid rebound of the film industry and is...

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