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Millions of people watch YouTubers take down retirees
At the risk of sounding straight out of an Onion headline, this weekend’s most attention-grabbing fight between 27-year-old YouTuber and harasser Jake Paul and 58-year-old former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson It was a match.
This high-profile match was a game-changer for Netflix. Netflix has dabbled in live streaming events over the past year, but never on this scale. And it seems to have been a huge success.
Mike Tyson (left) slaps Jake Paul during the weigh-in before a heavyweight bout on Thursday, November 14, 2024 in Irving, Texas. (AP: Julio Cortez)
Netflix reports that the fight, which aired on Saturday afternoon Australian time, was watched by 60 million households and peaked at 65 million concurrent streams worldwide.
However, although more than twice the entire population of Australia watched the match, not everyone was happy with it. More than 85,000 viewers filed complaints with media monitoring website Down Detector about buffering and delays during the event.
#netflixdown and Unwatchable both trended on X (formerly Twitter) at some point during the event, with many fight fans flooding the platform to protest.
For those who couldn’t watch the stream or are still waiting on Netflix to buffer, the 27-year-old won via a unanimous decision from the judges.
Next week, watch Joe Exotic, the kid who makes millions of unwrapped toys, battle it out on YouTube (probably).
Yellow Jackets sued for plagiarism ahead of Season 3
Yellowjackets fans may be gearing up for the show’s upcoming third season, but the creators just got hit with a lawsuit for plagiarizing the entire show.
The series, which premiered on Showtime in 2021, follows a New Jersey women’s soccer team’s struggle to survive after a plane crashes in a remote forest in 1996. The series also sheds light on survivors in the present, as their experiences continue to haunt them. Until you become an adult.
Showtime, Lionsgate Entertainment, and show creators Ashley Lyle and Burt Nickerson have all confirmed that the Yellowjackets will be “substantially similar” to the 2015 survival thriller film “Eden,” and that “a large amount of He was named in a lawsuit alleging that he was “borrowing.”
The application describes Eden as a “survival drama/thriller about the American men’s soccer team that crashes on a deserted island after a World Cup game.”
Yellowjackets pits a group of cat-like teenage girls against a literal wilderness. (Courtesy of Paramount+)
“A comparison of similarities in plot, setting, atmosphere, pacing, story, characters, sequence of events, themes, scenes and dialogue between a movie and a show proves that the two are identical in most respects.” ” the complaint states.
“These substantial and strikingly similar elements leave little doubt that most substantial elements of Yellowjacket were copied from Eden.”
The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages and an injunction barring Showtime from further promoting or airing the series.
Lyle and Nickerson have previously stated that Yellow Jackets was partially inspired by the real-life 1972 Andean air disaster in which members of the Uruguayan rugby team resorted to cannibalism to survive.
Several films have been directly inspired by the 1972 crash, including 1993’s Alive and 2023’s Society of the Snow.
The creators at the center of the Yellowjacket claims have not yet commented on the lawsuit.
Conan O’Brien chosen to host the 2025 Oscars
John Mulaney doesn’t wax lyrical about Field of Dreams, but we accept it. Comedian Conan O’Brien will be at the helm of the 97th Academy Awards in 2025.
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It’s the former late-night show host (and former Simpsons writer: Monorail Forever)’s first appearance on the show after hosting for several years in a row with Jimmy Kimmel.
“His great humor, love of film, and live broadcast expertise make him the perfect person to lead the global film festival,” Academy CEO Bill Kramer and President Janet Yang said in a joint statement. It’s a person,” he said.
The 2025 Oscars ceremony will be held on Sunday 2nd March (Monday 3rd March for us Australians), but the race has already begun with today’s Governor’s Awards, marking the start of awards season. As the campaign gets underway, it is seen as a de facto campaign cancellation for Oscar nominees.
The event, hosted by the Academy’s Board of Directors, featured the late Quincy Jones, James Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, director Richard Curtis, and casting director Juliet Taylor. It is something to praise.
Troye Sivan is back in Australia, deserves praise
Good news for fans of tiny little red underwear.
Australians have been salivating for months over singer Troye Sivan’s provocative ‘ahem’ performance on his US Sweat tour with Charli XCX, but now the prodigal son has returned to his homeland (Perth).
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Sivan is back in the country to tour his latest album, Something to Give Each Other, which recently received a Grammy nomination for the Bag Raiders-sampling song “Got Me Started.” It also received four ARIA nominations, including Album of the Year.
He took home four ARIAs at last year’s ceremony, including Song of the Year for “Rush.”
Charli XCX already seems to be missing her friend in Sweat, performing an impersonation of Sivan during her SNL hosting gig over the weekend.
Sivan quickly made Charlie as Rush Troy his Instagram DP. Of course I did.
Oh, to have a friendship like Troy and Charlie (Courtesy of Instagram)
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