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Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is getting a 4K restoration for its 50th anniversary.

Fifty years after The Rocky Horror Picture Show premiered in 1975, the Walt Disney Studios Restoration team has overseen a 10-month project that included a “meticulous digital scan and preservation process that ensures every frame of the cult classic is presented with unprecedented clarity and vibrancy.”

The 4K restoration will also feature a “newly mixed Dolby Atmos audio track” and a restored version of the film’s original mono audio for fans wanting the most authentic experience.

A promotional still from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show will hit theaters again later this year and will get a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray release.
Image: The Walt Disney Company
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
It’s prom night on Fear Street.

Co-writer / director Matt Palmer’s Fear Street: Prom Queen is the first of Netflix’s new trilogy of horror features inspired by R.L. Stine’s books, and the movie’s first trailer makes it look like it’ll be a teen-friendly (albeit R-rated) riff on classic slashers when it debuts on May 23rd.

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David Pierce
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Peacock adds 5 million subscribers, while losses shrink.

As part of Comcast’s Q1 2025 earnings report released on Thursday, the company revealed that Peacock subscribers increased from 36 million to 41 million over the past few months. The service is also gradually getting closer to becoming profitable, as its losses narrowed to $215 million compared to $639 million at the same time last year.

Disclosure: Comcast is an investor in Vox Media, The Verge’s parent company.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos says there’s a “path” to becoming a trillion dollar company.

During Semafor’s World Economy Summit, Sarandos said the company still has “enormous room to grow:”

In the previous five years, we’ve doubled our revenue, we grew profits 10 times, and we grew our market cap three times. So there is a path to it, obviously, but it all is incredibly dependent on executing well.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
How to fake an Apple Store.

Netflix’s new thriller iHostage is based on a real-life hostage situation that took place in Apple’s flagship Amsterdam store in 2002. The Dutch filmmakers weren’t able to film in the actual store, so they built a replica on a soundstage, as spotted by MacRumors.

Not only was the store’s layout and unique architecture recreated, the set also featured a towering screen wrapped around it to accurately simulate the bustling neighborhood visible through the store’s windows.

Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
We have a name.

While we all impatiently wait for more news about the final season of Stranger Things, Netflix has shared a little about the show’s animated spinoff. It’s called Tales From ’85 and, well, that’s about all we know right now. The Duffer brothers say that the vibe will be “in the vein of the Saturday morning cartoons that we grew up loving,” which provides some idea of what to expect whenever it does stream.