Showing 16 - 26 of 26 articles tagged "Jeffrey Katzenberg"

• Posted Thursday 6/11/20 at 4:52AM EDT

  Did Silicon Valley micromanaging hurt Quibi?

  A recent Business Insider report found that Quibi executives "are very, very involved in productions and tend to give a...

• Posted Wednesday 6/03/20 at 5:53PM EDT

  Quibi disputes report of Reese Witherspoon's $6 million salary to narrate Fierce Queens, denies layoffs are iminent

  The shortform streaming service is disputing a Page Six report that staffers, amid potential layoffs, are furious over Witherspoon's $6...

• Posted Thursday 5/14/20 at 10:15AM EDT

  Don't blame Quibi's woes on coronavirus -- or its dumb name

  "Quibi is a pure product of VC logic," Alex Shephard says of Quibi's problems, pointing out that "the blinkered logic...

• Posted Tuesday 5/12/20 at 1:48AM EDT

  Quibi CEO Meg Whitman expresses optimism hours after founder Jeffrey Katzenberg blamed the streaming service's woes on coronavirus

  Hours after The New York Times published a downbeat interview with Katzenberg on Quibi's disappointing launch, Whitman offered some upbeat...

• Posted Monday 5/11/20 at 3:43PM EDT

  Jeffrey Katzenberg attributes "everything" about Quibi's woes to coronavirus

  A month after Quibi launched with a 90-day free trial, the shortform streaming service says its app has been downloaded...

• Posted Thursday 5/07/20 at 5:49PM EDT

  Jeffrey Katzenberg calls into Quibi-mocking podcast after his lawyers sent it a cease-and-desist letter

  The podcast Quibiverse changed its name to Streamiverse "and pivoted to spite" after Quibi threatened to sue in March.

• Posted Wednesday 4/22/20 at 4:53PM EDT

  Quibi now has 2.7 million users with plans to launch a TV feature in May

  Quibi founder Jeffrey Katzenberg, whose shortform streaming service launched April 6, called the number of users "encouraging," telling Reuters: "Under...

• Posted Tuesday 4/07/20 at 3:45AM EDT

  Quibi is neither a glorious embarrassment nor a surprising triumph -- it's expensively competent

  "The dozens of star-studded series it debuts with are, in general, solid and professional, and tend toward uplifting but brief...

• Posted Monday 10/07/19 at 6:27PM EDT

  ESPN to launch a daily sports show on Quibi

  "We’re excited to partner with ESPN, the premiere brand in sports reporting, to deliver a daily curated sports highlight show...

• Posted Wednesday 7/03/19 at 10:01AM EDT

  Jeffrey Katzenberg: I offered the Breaking Bad team $75 million to make three more episodes

  The form former chairman of Walt Disney Studios, co-founder of Dreamworks and, currently, the founder of Quibi recalls making the...

• Posted Monday 6/10/19 at 8:28AM EDT

  Steven Spielberg is developing a Quibi horror series that can only be watched at night

  Spielberg is personally writing Spielberg’s After Dark, which will only be available to watch at night.