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February 14 - February 20

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Android customers can watch Apple TV+ on their mobile devices — phones, tablets, and foldables, whatever those are (just kidding, this is what those are). Apple has made its Apple TV app available to Android and Google TV users for the first time ever; customers can subscribe to Apple TV+ and MLS Season Pass via their Google Play account. There’s a seven-day free trial available for Apple TV+. Apple built the Apple TV app for Android “from the ground up to deliver Android users a familiar and intuitive interface,” according to the announcement. The app will include features like “Continue Watching” and “Watchlist.” Users can stream over WiFi or a cellular connection and can download series and films to watch offline....

Halle Berry, Penélope Cruz, Elle Fanning, Whoopi Goldberg, Scarlett Johansson, John Lithgow, Amy Poehler, June Squibb and Bowen Yang today became the latest presenters announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Keeping with tradition, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said today that last year’s winners Cillian Murphy, Emma Stone, Robert Downey Jr. and Da’Vine Joy Randolph will present the respective 2025 Oscars for Best Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress at the 97th annual Academy Awards on March 2...

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is celebrating filmmaker Bong Joon Ho with a new exhibition dedicated to his creative development. IndieWire can announce that starting March 23, the Academy Museum will exhibit Bong as part of the “Director’s Inspiration” gallery. Agnés Varda was the previous auteur honored with the museum series. The Director’s Inspiration gallery “focuses on the filmography and cinematic influences of a director who has established a narrative and visual style that is unmistakably their own, traceable through bodies of work that become touchstones for other filmmakers,” according to the Academy Museum site. The exhibition will run from March 23, 2025 to January 10, 2027, and will be accompanied by a screening series that launches the weekend of March 22 with “Parasite” (2019) and “Okja” (2017). Bong will be in attendance....

Despite a 40-22 blowout, Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans attracted an average of 126 million total viewers across Fox and Tubi, an all-time record. Fox says the game peaked in the second quarter, when Kansas City still had a zero on the board, with 135.7 million viewers, and that 13.6 million people watched via Tubi alone, also a record for the platform. An additional 900,000 tuned in via the NFL’s digital propertie...

After delaying its awards ceremony for several weeks following the wildfires in Los Angeles, AARP the Magazine announced the winners of its annual Movies for Grownups Awards on Saturday, with A Complete Unknown going home as the big winner. The show, hosted by Alan Cumming at the Beverly Wilshire, celebrates TV and film for older audiences, and this year also presented a career achievement award to Glenn Close. Though Conclave came into the ceremony with the most nominations, the film left empty handed. A Complete Unknown took best picture as Demi Moore and Adrien Brody won the top acting prizes, and Shogun was recognized as best TV series....

Letterboxd, the fast-rising platform for movie buffs, has joined forces with Paris-based film group mk2, a gen Z-friendly, family-owned film group that runs a leading arthouse theater chain in France and reps internationally movies by acclaimed auteurs such as Justine Triet and Joachim Trier. Under the partnership, mk2 will become the exclusive advertising sales partner for Letterboxd in France, which is home to Europe’s largest nation of moviegoers. Letterboxd, a favorite social media destination which has grown from 1.8 million to 18 million users in four years, counts high profile fans such as Ayo Edebiri, Paul Mescal, Olivia Rodrigo, Charli XCX and Chappell Roan—with Martin Scorsese as its most followed member. In 2022, Letterboxd announced that users logged 1 billion films since launch, over 700 million of those entered in 2024 alone...