ACORN TV
Programming from several countries, including Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Ireland, New Zealand, and UK. AMC Networks chief Josh Sapan told The Hollywood Reporter that Acorn TV has "among the lowest churn" among major services owing to its focus as well as viewers' "dedication and affinity" for its content.

Nielsen’s latest report, which was based on viewership data from September 27 to October 3, marks the sixth time that a title had surpassed 3 billion minutes viewed in a week, per Deadline. “Squid Game” made its debut on Nielsen’s weekly reports last week, when it trounced the competition with 1.9 billion minutes viewed. The Korean-language drama series, which centers on deeply indebted individuals who participate in a twisted game show for the chance to win millions, had nearly triple the viewership of Netflix’s “Midnight Mass,” the second highest-ranked title of the week, which was viewed for 1.17 billion minutes. Nielsen’s data is only based on United States audiences using TV sets and covers Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Disney+, and Apple TV+...

The American Film Institute (AFI) named "Rocky" the second best sports movie of all time, second only to another classic boxing drama, Martin Scorsese's "Raging Bull." For its Top 10 list, the AFI defined "sports" as "a genre of films with protagonists who play athletics or other games of competition.” "Rocky" fits that definition, but screenwriter and star Sylvester Stallone still wouldn't call it a sports movie. "To this day, I just cannot describe what 'Rocky' is. And maybe that's the beauty of it, that it just touches on a level that even I don't understand."...

"Overlord" director Julius Avery is set to direct a live-action adaptation of the sci-fi horror manga "Gantz." "Gantz" is notorious among manga and anime fans for being one of the most brutal, violent series in existence. "Gantz" tells the story of Kei Kurono and Masaru Kato, Japanese high school students who die in a train accident and become part of a "game" where they are forced to hunt down and kill aliens. If they die on their game missions, they cease to exist...

According to CNBC, Bagdasarian Productions, the current owner of the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" franchise, has been actively looking for a buyer, and has been working with a financial advisor to get the whole thing sorted out. They've landed on $300 million as the figure, which hasn't scared everyone off. "Alvin and the Chipmunks" is a shockingly enduring franchise that was created in the late '50s and, save for a several-year break in the '70s, has been around in some shape or form ever since...

Taika Waititi is set to co-write and direct an adaptation of The Incal, the sci-fi graphic novel from writer Alejandro Jodorowsky with art by Jean Giraud, better known as Moebius, according to a report from The Hollywood Reporter. Jodorowsky’s name has been a popular one in Hollywood recently due to the release of the latest incarnation of Dune earlier this year. Jodorowsky was famously working on a surreal and bizarre adaptation of the novel (alongside Moebius and H.R. Giger), but unfortunately was never able to get any major studios to take the risk on his idea. The journey of that process has since been the subject of its own documentary, Jodorowsky’s Dune...

A selection of some of the most insightful — and entertaining — memoirs from some of Hollywood's most important directors and screenwriters: 1) “Chasing the Light: How I Fought My Way into Hollywood - From the 1960s to Platoon” by Oliver Stone. 2) “Making Movies” by Sidney Lumet. 3) “Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker” by Barry Sonnenfeld. 4) “Something Like an Autobiography” by Akira Kurosawa. 5)  “I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections” by Nora Ephron.(Courtesy Jean Bentley, Latifah Muhamad)