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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.

The original Motion Picture Soundtrack to Disney's "Encanto" has jumped from the number 7 spot to the top of the Billboard 200 chart this week, knocking Adele out of the top spot and making it the first soundtrack to top the charts since "Frozen 2" in 2019. The album also maintains the top position on Billboard's Soundtrack and Independent Album charts for the second consecutive week. The Billboard chart ranks the most popular albums based on multi-metric consumption between album units sold both physically and digitally, as well streams supported by subscription services or ad-support...

Saudi Arabia in 2021 continued its exponential growth as a theatrical box office market with a 95% increase compared with 2020. The top-grossing Hollywood title in 2021 was “Spider-Man: No Way Home” which pulled $11.2 million, coming in at No. 2 on the chart. It was followed by “Cruella,” which grossed $9.1 million, and Guy Ritchie’s “Wrath of Man,” which made $8.3 million in Saudi cinemas, at No. 4. Saudi Arabia now has 430 screens Several analysts see Saudi as becoming a billion-dollar movie market in the next few years...

Moving images come in many colors: ‘Baby Shark Dance’ Sets YouTube Record, The video, which was released in June 2016, has officially become the first video ever to hit a whopping 10 billion views on YouTube, making it the most-viewed video in the history of the site, according to creators The Pinkfong Co. It now has 2.3 billion more views than the second-most-watched video, Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's "Despacito."...

SAG Awards Nominations History: Squid Game becomes the first non-English series and first Korean series to earn a nomination for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama (its stunt ensemble has also received a nomination for action performance). Previously, only three projects with completely or majority Asian casts have been recognized, all on the film side: Slumdog Millionaire in 2009, Parasite in 2020 and Minari last year...

The 94th Academy Awards, scheduled to air on ABC March 27, will be the first since the 90th, in 2018, to have a host. Glenn Weiss will direct the Oscars telecast — his seventh consecutive time doing so — with Will Packer serving as producer. Jimmy Kimmel, ABC’s resident late night talker, hosted the Oscars in 2017 and 2018, with 26.62 million people tuning in for the latter telecast. Ratings for 2019’s hostless Oscars actually rose to 29.56 million, before falling in 2020 to 23.64 million and then plummeting last year to 10.40 million...