HBO today launched its interactive murder mystery TV mini-series “Mosaic” and an iPhone app allowing viewers to choose their own path and influence the outcome of certain events.
Canadian hip-hop artist Drake is looking to produce and perhaps star in TV shows and movies and has at least one powerful backer in his corner: Apple, which is said to be spending $1 billion on original video production in the next twelve months.
“Carpool Karaoke,” Apple's show featuring celebrities such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba and others cracking jokes while driving around Los Angeles, was supposed to make its worldwide debut on Apple Music back in April.
Apple is planning to deploy a $1+ billion budget for original video programming over the next year.
As part of its push for original video programming, Apple has reportedly hired BBC TV executive Jay Hunt, who was most recently chief creative officer at Channel 4.
Eddy Cue, Apple's chief of Internet Software and Services and one of its most important negotiators with Hollywood producers and studios, has made some interesting comments regarding Apple's TV efforts during his trip to India.
Apple is reportedly looking to establish production headquarters in West Los Angeles to house its original content production effort, as reported Wednesday by The Real Deal (via 9to5Mac).
Apple has reportedly inked a deal with director Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television and Comcast's NBC Universal to create new episodes of “Amazing Stories,” Spielberg's 1980s fantasy, horror and sci-fi television anthology series.
A recently announced TV show from HBO and Academy Award winner Steven Soderbergh will let viewers influence the outcome of certain events via an iPhone app.
Rovio Entertainment, the Finnish mobile games maker behind the lucrative Angry Birds franchise, announced today its long-awaited initial public offering (IPO) after submitting its listing application to Nasdaq Helsinki a few days ago.
As Apple and Comcast continue to debate offering home rentals of the latest flicks just weeks after their release, Bloomberg today cited 20th Century Fox studios chief Stacey Snider as claiming that this will become a reality within 6-12 months.
Could Apple be in the running to land distribution rights to James Bond, the film franchise based on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming?