Netflix reported 1.54 million global paid net subscriber additions, slightly lower than the 1.75 million adds that analysts expected, per Refinitiv data obtained by CNBC. The company’s $2.97 earnings per share were also lower than analysts’ expectations of $3.16. That said, the company’s revenue slightly exceeded analysts’ expectations: Netflix reported $7.34 billion in revenue, while analysts expected only $7.32 billion in revenue, per Refinitiv. The company’s stock was down 1.23 percent in after-hours trading at press time....

Beginning in 2022, Netflix will be the exclusive home of Sony’s theatrical releases during the Pay One window (aka after movies leave theaters and have been released on DVD). That will include future “Venom” and “Spider-Man” installments as well as “Morbius” and “Bullet Train.” Sony and Netflix also inked a first-look deal for movies made exclusively for streaming, boosting the slate of Netflix originals. Sony said those films will represent increased output on top of its theatrical slate, which was about 25 films in 2019....

HBO Max (includes HBO) HBO and HBO Max added a combined 3 million subscribers last quarter totaling 76.8 million (48.6 million of whom came from the U.S.). Pretty good growth in the final quarter under AT&T’s oversight, but it came at a cost. The phone company’s operating expenses topped $14 billion last quarter for a variety of reasons, including “higher HBO Max bundling costs,” according to AT&T’s financial disclosures. Fortunately, WarnerMedia subscription revenues also rose, though only 4....

That’s the idea behind deepdub, an Israel-based startup that aims to make a name for itself in the dubbing industry. The company, which made headlines after former WarnerMedia executive Kevin Reilly joined its advisory board earlier this month, claims that it can dub films, television shows, and video games via a technology that retains the sound of the original actors in any given project. Dubbing might be an expensive and time-consuming process, but it’s become increasingly vital for film and television distributors looking to take their products to international markets: Netflix announced in its Q4 2020 earnings that the vast majority of its recent subscriber gains were from outside the United States, while China’s influence on the global box office has grown exponentially in recent years....

“That can’t happen. To do what I do in cinema has been like a guardian angel for me, and I need it,” Cage said when EW brought up retirement. “I’m healthier when I’m working, I need a positive place to express my life experience, and filmmaking has given me that. So I’m never going to retire. Where are we now, 117 movies?” Cage continued, “What’s funny is, my argument with people who go, ‘You work too much,’ was ‘I like working, and it’s healthy, I’m happy when I’m working, and by the way, guys like Cagney and Bogart, they were doing hundreds of movies....

What they achieved on “No Time to Die” was an “enhanced reality,” with greater richness and scope in a grand, classical style, according to Sandgren, who joins “You Only Live Twice’s” three-time Oscar-winning legend, Freddie Young (“Lawrence of Arabia,” “Doctor Zhivago,” and “Ryan’s Daughter”), as the only other DP who comes to Bond with such Academy distinction. “It was very important for Cary that we take care of that part of Bond that embraces adventure, escapism, and romantic action,” he said....

Teenaged Juliet (Sweeney) is always playing second fiddle to her more outgoing, sexuality-oozing, and less virginal twin sister Vivian (Madison Iseman), older than Juliet by just a few seconds. They’re both students at an elite music academy, where they study piano, but where Vivian is the darling prodigy, Juliet is the underachiever never taken seriously by her teachers. With graduation looming, Vivian has already been accepted into Juilliard, while Juliet has opted to take a gap year, though not exactly by choice....