Showbiz Sandbox 451: With Streaming On the Rise, Apple Kills iTunes
June 3, 2019
Before the iPod, when Napster was turning casual music fans into criminals, Apple saved the music industry by launching iTunes. What the music industry feared would enable people to organize the music they’d already stolen, actually allowed people to start buying digital music legally. Within a few years Apple became one of the largest music retailers in the world.
Now that the software seems to have outlived its purpose Apple will launch new apps to handle music, video, books and podcasts and the once iconic all-purpose library known as iTunes will disappear. It turns out this may also be a way to force consumers into signing up for Apple Music, the company’s music streaming service.
Meanwhile, the state of film and television production has been turned upside down in Georgia thanks to the passage of a new law restricting abortion. Studios, networks, producers, directors and actors must decide whether to continue shooting in Georgia and accept its tax subsidies, or boycott the state entirely.
Of course we also cover the week’s top entertainment headlines including a record setting season on Broadway, the “Game of Thrones” creators dump their manager and the Oscars announced this year’s Governors Awards.
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Producer Jamal Jones Launches Terrestrial Radio Station in Nashville
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/country/8514073/producer-polow-da-don-launch-young-country-radio-station
ComScore’s Worldwide Box Office
https://www.comscore.com/Insights/Rankings#tab_worldwide_box_office
‘Summer of Changsha’ (‘Liu Yu Tian’): Film Review | Cannes 2019
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/summer-changsha-1213936
Tony Robbins Sexual Harassment Fallout
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janebradley/tony-robbins-self-help-secrets
WarnerMedia: If Abortion Law Holds We Will Reconsider Georgia
https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/warnermedia-abortion-law-georgia-1203229138/
AMC and Sony Join Lineup of Hollywood Studios Ready To Abandon Georgia
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/warnermedia-says-it-will-reconsider-production-georgia-abortion-law-holds-1214386
After Hollywood Speaks Up on Abortion Ban, Georgia Weighs Potential Production Boycott
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/hollywood-georgia-abortion-production-boycott-1203230291/
Broadway 2018-19 Season Breaks Box Office Record With Historic $1.829B
https://deadline.com/2019/05/broadway-breaks-season-record-historical-1-8-billion-box-office-1202623049/
Broadway’s Box Office Keeps Booming. Now Attendance is Surging, Too.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/theater/broadway-box-office.html
Despite Uptick, Female Film Critics Remain Outnumbered By Men
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/female-film-critics-study-2019-gender-parity-1203228844/
Indian T-Series Becomes First YouTube Channel To Gain 100M Subscribers
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/t-series-youtube-pewdiepie-100-million-subscribers-most-popular-channel-a8934391.html
‘Game of Thrones’ Creators Fire Managers on Eve of New TV Deal
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/game-thrones-creators-fire-managers-eve-new-tv-deal-1214297
Oscars: Governors Awards To Geena Davis, David Lynch, Wes Studi, Lina Wertmuller
https://deadline.com/2019/06/oscars-governors-awards-geena-davis-david-lynch-wes-studi-lina-wertmuller-1202625741/
Warner Chappell Music Acquires Gene Autry Music Group
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/warner-chappell-music-acquires-gene-autry-music-group/
Apple Is Finally Killing iTunes
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/apple-is-finally-killing-itunes-842750/
It’s Official: Cinetopia Bought by AMC
https://www.columbian.com/news/2019/may/23/its-official-cinetopia-bought-by-amc/
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