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Apple TV+, With Shows From Spielberg, Oprah and J.J. Abrams, is Coming This Fall (cnet.com)
Alongside its new news and payment services, Apple today also unveiled Apple TV+, a place for its new slate of original shows. The new service, billed as a place for the "highest-quality storytelling," will be available in over 100 countries and released starting this fall through the Apple TV app. From a report: It will be ad-free, on-demand and available both streaming online and downloadable. Pricing will be announced this fall. Apple TV Plus is the company's way of jumping into the streaming video game, where Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu and others have already established themselves and brought in millions of cord-cutter customers fleeing cable subscriptions. The new service also works as a way for Apple to grow its thriving services business, helping it continue to grow despite lagging iPhone sales.
The company in 2017 hired Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg from Sony Pictures Television to oversee "all aspects of video programming." The two were responsible for shows such as Breaking Bad, The Crown and Rescue Me. And in the past year, Apple has continually announced original content it's producing -- including a multiyear partnership deal with Oprah and deals with Reese Witherspoon, J.J. Abrams and dozens of others. The company has reportedly gone well past its original $1 billion budget to bring in this list of movie and television A-listers, who are slated to create about 30 shows and a handful of movies.
The company in 2017 hired Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg from Sony Pictures Television to oversee "all aspects of video programming." The two were responsible for shows such as Breaking Bad, The Crown and Rescue Me. And in the past year, Apple has continually announced original content it's producing -- including a multiyear partnership deal with Oprah and deals with Reese Witherspoon, J.J. Abrams and dozens of others. The company has reportedly gone well past its original $1 billion budget to bring in this list of movie and television A-listers, who are slated to create about 30 shows and a handful of movies.
TV and movies are boring. Uninteresting. Formulaic. Predictable. (...) Protip: a movie should have a beginning, a middle, and a satisfying ending. Even if the ending is unrealistic, it should leave people happy and satisfied.
The irony here is so thick I could cut it with a knife. What you describe sounds like the dullest "and they all lived happily ever after" Disney movie for kids. Some of the best movies I know totally throw the formula out the window like Memento, throw total curve balls where you think you know what's going on but doesn't like The Sixth Sense or have semi-dark endings like Man On Fire where it's obvious not everyone is walking out of there.
If I want a popcorn flick where the superhero saves the day I can go watch that, but it's never exciting whether Wonder Woman or Aquaman or Spiderman or Iron Man or the Hulk or whatever pulls through - leads don't die if it's rated PG-13 or less. I'd rather watch GoT where nobody's safe and everyone from the evilest shit to the kindest, most innocent character can end up dead any moment. The only thing I'm sure of is that there will always be a Stark in Winterfell.
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