JustWatch, an international streaming guide, has launched in Egypt. The company’s international streaming guide tracks more than 20 million users per month across 60 countries. The platform aggregates hundreds of streaming services like Netflix, Apple TV, Amazon Prime and makes it easy for users to find out where they can legally watch movies and TV [...]
Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), a global coalition of audiovisual industry players fighting against content piracy, has taken down the activities of the Morocco-based pirated content platform Electro TV Sat. Electro TV Sat was targeting a mainly French-speaking audience of 90,000 visitors per month. They were offering illegal access to 6,000 channels and 200,000 [...]
The highly anticipated telenovela, The Wife, which is based on the best-selling novel written by Dudu Busani-Dube, is expected to appear on Showmax on November 11. When Showmax announced it was making a telenovela inspired by the novel, readers were excited and started suggesting names for the cast that they mostly fantasised about when reading [...]
Netflix will release the third season of the Saudi drama series titled Takki on October 28, 2021. The series will be available in 190 countries around the world and available in over 32 languages. Mohammed Makki, Director of Takki, commented on the series saying: “My journey with Takki almost 10 years ago on Youtube, and [...]
Succession, the biting drama series about power struggles in a family media empire, is coming for a third season on Showmax. Actor Jeremy Strong, who plays media executive Kendall Roy, said he felt lucky to be part of something that is such a sort of cultural lightning rod and part of people’s lives and at [...]
Despite an unchallenged domination in terms of pay TV revenues, the Comcast group, which operates Sky and Now TV brands in the UK, Ireland, DACH markets and Italy, is moving its strategy away from satellite TV. The US based media group has launched standalone OTT pay TV products in each of its operating markets, slowly [...]
Netflix and UNESCO have partnered to launch short film competition African Folktales, Reimagined across Sub-Saharan Africa. Winners will be trained and mentored by industry professionals and given a $75 000 production budget to create short films that will premiere on the streaming service in Netflix in 2022 as an “Anthology of African folktales”. The competition [...]
Showmax and MTN have partnered to make it easier for Zambians to pay for the streaming service. The streaming service that bundles the best of African and international entertainment with live premium sport from SuperSport, is simplifying payments in Zambia by partnering with MTN Mobile Money (MoMo). As part of its local-first strategy, Showmax tailors [...]
Showmax announced via Twitter on October 11 their upcoming new content set to premiere on the streaming service, one of which is the local horror film, Triggered. Co-written and directed by Alastair ‘Axis Mundi Orr, the 2020 film won the 2021 Best Achievement in Make-Up and Hairstyling award at the South Africa Film and Television [...]
Netflix will launch a collection of 32 films either helmed by Palestinian filmmakers or about Palestinian stories, under the category ‘Palestinian Stories’ on October 14. The collection is a tribute to the creativity and passion of the Arab film industry as Netflix continues to invest in stories from the Arab world. Basil Khalil’s 2015 Oscar-nominated [...]