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Twitter is reportedly planning to bolster its live streaming in order to compete with its social media rival, Facebook. The platform, which had live streamed most Thursday Night Football games this past NFL season, has signed yet another sports streaming deal with the National Lacrosse League. According to Engadget, the brand new deal will offer user one game per week as well as playoff games and the Champion Cup series.
Additionally, according to The Information, Twitter is rumored to announce next week that it’s planning to open up its live streaming API to media firms. The new initiative will allow the platform to go live on the website whenever they want to stream content, without going through Periscope. Live streaming deals that had previously required extensive planning and partnership will now be able to move forward with ease.
In other news…
Amy Ryan has been cast in Amazon’s forthcoming drug-addiction drama, Beautiful Boy. Ryan will co-star alongside her former The Office cohort Steve Carell in the Prime Video original film produced by Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment. [Deadline]
Netflix has landed a brand new period drama titled The Stand Off from The Fast and the Furious director Justin Lin and screenwriter Mark Heyman. The forthcoming film takes place in December, 1969 and will center on a conflict between the Black Panther Party and the SWAT team. [Deadline]
Netflix chief product officer Neil Hunt said in a briefing today that the SVOD platform will potentially explore mobile-specific cuts of its original series. “It’s not inconceivable that you could take a master [copy] and make a different cut for mobile,” Hunt said. [The Verge]
Netflix has released a behind-the-scenes featurette detailing the making of its brand new original series, 13 Reasons Why. Based on Jay Asher’s best-selling books, the teen drama premieres March 31 and follows Clay Jensen (Dylan Minnette) as he pieces together a mysterious suicide tape left by his classmate and crush, Hannah:
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