If you weren’t able to see Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein in theaters during its all-too-brief theatrical run, it’ll be on Netflix next week. The latest trailer, meanwhile, provides the best look yet at Jacob Elordi’s take on the creature.
Disney is one of the last major streamers to support the open-source, royalty-free (and Samsung-backed) competitor to Dolby Vision. Its inclusion now gives people with Samsung TVs access to the dynamic HDR content that other TV owners have been getting from Dolby Vision.
Audiochuck, the studio behind a range of true crime podcasts, has struck a deal with Fox that will put a free, ad-supported streaming channel for Crime Junkie on Fox One and Tubi, along with on-demand video episodes.
The deal is valued at $150 million, according to the WSJ, and will allow Fox to distribute Crime Junkie and other podcasts across third-party platforms as well.
[The Wall Street Journal]
The Netflix fantasy epic continues its downward spiral with a bloated and mostly boring new chapter.
The fifth and final season of Stranger Things kicks off next month, and in the meantime Netflix has a very dramatic new trailer to get you in an Upside Down mood.
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, just released its Q3 2025 earnings report (pdf), reporting revenue is up by 16 percent from the same period last year, at $102 billion for three months, compared to $88.2 billion in 2024 and $76.6 billion in 2023.
Sundar Pichai:
Our full stack approach to AI is delivering strong momentum and we’re shipping at speed, including the global rollout of AI Overviews and AI Mode in Search in record time... The Gemini App now has over 650 million monthly active users... And we have over 300 million paid subscriptions led by Google One and YouTube Premium.
Fubo and Hulu + Live will remain separate, meaning you can still watch Hulu + Live TV from the Hulu app, while Fubo’s content will stay on its own streaming service. Under the new structure, Hulu’s parent company, Disney, owns 70 percent of the combined businesses.
It has been two months since Skydance bought Paramount for $8 billion, and — shocker — the newly merged megacorporation has already begun the process of laying off thousands of its workers. It’s almost like these big media consolidation deals invariably end up harming workers.
[The Washington Post]
