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11-03-2025
- Entertainment
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‘Daredevil: Born Again' Becomes Disney+'s Biggest Premiere of 2025 With 7.5 Million Views
'Daredevil: Born Again' scored the biggest premiere audience Disney+ has seen this year. After launching with the first two episodes on Tuesday, March 4, the 'Daredevil: Born Again' premiere scored 7.5 million views globally in its first five days of streaming on Disney+, according to internal streaming figures from Disney. Disney defines a view as total stream time divided by runtime. The Marvel Television show now ranks as the most-watched premiere on Disney+ in 2025 so far. Notable shows that have also premiered on the streamer in 2025 include 'Goosebumps: The Vanishing,' 'A Real Bug's Life' Season 2, 'Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man' and 'Win or Lose,' among others. In September, the premiere episode of Marvel Television's 'Agatha All Along' scored 9.3 million views on Disney+ within a week on the streamer, though that measurement includes two more days than the viewing figures for the 'Daredevil: Born Again' premiere. Still, premiere viewership for 'Daredevil: Born Again' was surpassed by 'The Acolyte,' which reached 11.1 million views within its first five days of streaming on Disney+. However, 'Daredevil: Born Again' did outpace viewership for 'Inside Out' spinoff series 'Dream Productions,' which scored 5.6 million viewers on Disney+ in its first five days of streaming. Charlie Cox stars as Matt Murdock/Daredevil in 'Daredevil: Born Again' alongside Vincent D'Onofrio, Deborah Ann Woll, Jon Bernthal, Elden Henson and Ayelet Zurer, among others. After debuting its first two episodes on March 4, 'Daredevil: Born Again' will debut one episode weekly for the next two weeks on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET before releasing Episodes 5 and 6 together. Then, the show will move back to debuting one episode every week before airing its finale (Episode 9) on April 15. The post 'Daredevil: Born Again' Becomes Disney+'s Biggest Premiere of 2025 With 7.5 Million Views appeared first on TheWrap.
The Guardian
05-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Daredevil: Born Again review – could Marvel's new series go one better than The Penguin?
For those of you who like to keep count, Daredevil: Born Again is the 13th small-screen series under the aegis of the Marvel Television team (Agatha All Along last year was the 11th, and the 12th, the animated series Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, launched a few weeks ago). For those of you who like to go more by what it feels like, it is number 872. So what do we have here? Well, it's a revival/reboot/continuation of the Daredevil series that ran on Netflix for three seasons from 2015-2018. There were rumours that it began life as a comedy but was reshot to bring it more in line with fans' expectations for a series about one of the MCU's grittier characters. Let the online historians debate it all in a multiverse of furious threads while the rest of us get on with watching the actual show. We open with a bravura set piece involving most of the people you'd expect. Lawyer Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) AKA the vigilante superhero (Murdock was blinded in a childhood accident and developed heightened senses as a result) Daredevil is attending the retirement party of NYPD cop Cherry (Clark Johnson – revered for ever by those of us who remember his woefully underacknowledged performance as Det Meldrick Lewis in Homicide: Life on the Street) with his friends Foggy Nelson (Elden Henson) and Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll). And, it suddenly turns out, his non-arch nemesis Benjamin 'Dex' Poindexter, whose experimental spinal surgery at the end of the original series has rendered him literally fighting fit once more. After a brutal fight, a fall (or push) and a death, we cut to a year later to introduce the rest of the cast and start the devilry proper. Wilson Fisk (the returning Vincent D'Onofrio in an uncharacteristically unmannered performance as the crime lord, known as Kingpin, and most-arch nemesis of Daredevil) is back in town after a long absence. During this time, his wife, Vanessa (Ayelet Zurer), has run his empire with ever-greater efficiency and profit. She is not best pleased when her husband decides that now is the time to go legit and start accruing power instead of merely money. He runs for mayor of New York City and despite being a renowned wrong 'un, he knows how to command a camera and whip up a media storm. People warm to his straight-talking ways and the simple solutions he seems to offer to all the city's problems and ignore the various problematic aspects of his temperament and career and elect him. Imagine! I do sometimes wonder if Donald Trump isn't a crisis actor deployed by desperate screenwriters to make even the most basic villain now seem a precision-tooled response to Our Troubled Times. This creeping suspicion is not helped by the many scenes of an internet reporter played by Genneya Walton vox-popping people on the street and them espousing polarised opinions on whether Fisk's hardline anti-vigilantism message is good or bad for the city/America. Meanwhile, Murdock is having a crisis of conscience – are vigilantes good for the city/America? Or bad? – and trying to keep to the day job as a defence lawyer, with Cherry as his private investigator and much work for the common good to do. But the lines between heroic attorney work and vigilante violence begin to blur as Murdock must first find then save the sole witness to a bad cop beatdown of an informant. In the meantime, Kingpin is gathering kompromat on the commissioner of police to smooth his passage to power and, goodness me, isn't keeping right from wrong difficult, whatever part of a multiverse you're in? Murdock and Fisk – or Cox and D'Onofrio if you prefer – are great in key scenes together, the former fleet and dancing, the latter giving off a dark, heavy energy that has you backing away from the screen as you watch. This, the action sequences and the distribution of such superficially stirring lines as 'I was raised to believe in grace and retribution' will certainly be enough to keep viewers happy, as will – surely – the return of Jon Bernthal as Frank 'The Punisher' Castle. Whether the MCU team has done enough to take the comic adaptation crown from its current holder, DC's dark, clever, critically acclaimed ratings smash The Penguin, however, remains to be seen. And, of course, the wider question of how much IP exploitation a franchise can manage without collapsing under the weight of its own lore and Sacred Timeline becomes ever more pressing. Daredevil: Born Again is on Disney+ now
Yahoo
29-01-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Disney+ Signs Landmark Deal in France to Invest 25% of its Local Turnover in French, European Movies; Gets Nine-Month Window on Theatrical Films
Disney+ has signed a landmark agreement to invest 25% of its annual sales generated in France to finance French and European series and films. As a payoff for this commitment, the streamer will be allowed to access newly released films nine months after their theatrical release, a big improvement from the previous 17-month window. By comparison, Netflix, which ranks as France's leading streaming service in terms of subscribers, has a 15-month window; while Apple TV+, which just signed its first ever agreement in France to invest 20% of its turnover in local and European productions, is at 17 months. More from Variety Netflix's Oscar-Nominated Short Film 'Anuja' Gets Release Date and Trailer (EXCLUSIVE) Netflix Finally Adds Full-Season Download Feature for Apple iOS Apps Disney+'s 'Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man' Is a Refreshing, Fun Spin on Marvel's Web-Slinger: TV Review Under their three-year agreement, Disney+ will also made a big push into local movies as it's signed on to buy or pre-buy and finance a minimum of 70 films over this period, ensuring a diversity of genres and budgets. The long-gestated deal follows rollercoaster negotiations with the local industry which fell through at certain times, notably when Disney decided to forgo the theatrical release of 'Strange World' in 2022. The forceful move propelled French exhibitors in a state of panic, but also led for negotiations to be re-launched. A Disney spokesperson had called out the French rules for being 'cumbersome' and 'anti-consumer, ignoring how behaviour has evolved over the last several years and putting us at increased risk for piracy.' Disney, like other streaming services, has been on a crusade to see France amend its strict windowing rules for several years. These guidelines are even responsible for the absence of Netflix at the Cannes Film Festival, since the event requires every film in competition to be distributed in cinemas in France. But the country's main players, particularly the pay TV group Canal+, have been pushing back because they are the biggest financiers of local movies and want to stay ahead with their preferred access to newly released films, which is currently set at six months. This landmark deal with Disney is happening as the U.S. studio became France's top distributor in 2024, with blockbusters like 'Inside Out 2' and 'Moana 2.' 'This agreement marks an important step for French cinema-goers,' said Hélène Etzi, chairman of The Walt Disney Company France. 'Making films accessible to as many people as possible, first in cinemas, then much more rapidly on the Disney+ platform, is an essential first step in meeting the needs of French audiences,' said Etzi. 'This agreement testifies to Disney's unwavering commitment to the public,' she says, 'and its desire to continue working with French talent and producers in the film and audiovisual sectors.' The pact has been celebrated by film guilds in France, including the ARP, BLIC and BLOC that regroups producers, filmmakers and distributors. 'We are delighted that Disney+ has joined the ranks of media chronology signatory operators who have signed a financing and broadcasting agreement with the film industry, enabling it to strengthen its support for French and European creation, and offer its subscribers recent films,' said the orgs in a joint statement. Best of Variety What's Coming to Netflix in February 2025 New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week What's Coming to Disney+ in February 2025 Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
29-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man': How to Watch Marvel's All-New Animated Show
Marvel's most iconic web-slinging superhero is set for a whole new alternate take on his back story, with the release this week of new animated show, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. Helmed by Craig of the Creek showrunner Jeff Trammell, the new series asks how Spidey would have turned out if he'd been mentored by industrialist villain Norman Osborn, rather than Tony Stark. Hudson Thames reprises his What If...? role as the voice of Peter Parker, while the show also boasts the vocal talents of Hugh Dancy as Otto Octavius, Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk and Sing Sing star Colman Domingo as Osborn. Old school Spidey fans will likely appreciate the retro-tinged 3D cel-shading style, which pays homage to the artwork of early Spider-Man comic books by Steve Ditko and John Romita. Daredevil fans will be pleased to hear the character's radar sense is set to be called up on in the show, with Charlie Cox providing his voice. We've got the release date and time for the series below so you can plan your viewing accordingly. Read more: Disney Plus: 20 TV Shows You Should Definitely Watch Right Now This Marvel Phase 5 series will be available exclusively to stream on Disney Plus. The show has an unorthodox release schedule, with episodes of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man arriving in four separate chunks. The series premieres with a double helping of episodes on Jan. 29. That's followed by a drop of the next three episodes on Feb. 5, while episodes six and eight are set to be released on Feb. 12. The season concludes with the final two installments which are set to be available on demand, starting Feb. 19. Each of those episode drops listed above are set to happen at 3 a.m. ET/midnight PT in the US and Canada, 8 a.m. in the UK and at 7 p.m. AEDT in Australia. If you don't have Disney Plus and are interested in getting a subscription, you've got plenty of options. Disney Plus is available for purchase on its own, or you can look through Disney bundles to find the right fit for you. Disney Plus starts at $10 a month for standalone subscriptions. But you can also get the Disney Bundle to get the service with Hulu and/or ESPN Plus. You can choose to stream with or without ads, depending on the bundle you choose. You also have the option to try the new bundle package, with Max, Hulu and Disney Plus, which starts at $17 a month. Check out our Disney Plus review for more info. See at Disney Plus
Yahoo
29-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
What Time Does ‘Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man' Drop on Disney+?
Marvel is back with an all-new Spider-Man story with the animated series 'Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.' Originally conceived as a prequel to Tom Holland's debut as the web-slinger in 'Captain America: Civil War,' the series was rejiggered as an original story that imagines what might happen to Peter Parker if he was mentored by Norman Osborn instead of Tony Stark. It has been a heck of a long wait since the series was first announced (originally titled 'Spider-Man: Freshman Year') back in 2021, but the 'Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man' is finally here — almost. Here is exactly what time you can watch the new Spider-Man series streaming on Disney+. The first two episodes of the series debut on Wednesday, Jan. 29. Unlike the recent Marvel series 'Agatha All Along,' which debuted at 6 p.m., 'Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man' will have a more traditional release schedule. New episodes are available to stream at midnight PT/3:00 a.m. ET. While the release time is a bit more standard, the episode release schedule is a little more unusual. The series will have 10 episodes that roll out across four weeks, dropping two episodes on the premiere and finale weeks and three episodes per week in between. The voice actors for the series include Hudson Thames, who previously voiced Peter Parker in 'What If?,' as well as Colman Domingo, Eugene Byrd, Grace Song, Zeno Robinson, Hugh Dancy and Charlie Cox as Daredevil. The post What Time Does 'Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man' Drop on Disney+? appeared first on TheWrap.
