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Taken in a vacuum, the news didn\u2019t come as a complete shock. There\u2019d been a sense of foreboding since the French media giant completed its $2 billion takeover of South African pay-tv company MultiChoice<\/a> last year, with the company mum on its post-merger plans and suspicion rampant that cost-cutting measures were in the cards.<\/p>\n Showmax, a loss-making streamer that was a direct competitor of Canal+\u2019s own SVOD service in Africa, was a logical target. Since relaunching the platform in 2024 with NBCUniversal<\/a>, MultiChoice and its Comcast<\/a> partner poured a combined $309 million in equity funding into Showmax to primarily fuel content creation.<\/p>\n In the end,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As South African film and TV industry workers continued to grapple with the fallout from Canal+\u2019s abrupt decision to shutter homegrown streaming service Showmax this week, one question seemed to be on the lips of every attendee at the Jbx market in Johannesburg. What next? Taken in a vacuum, the news didn\u2019t come as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2317213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2317212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/How-the-African-Screen-Industries-Are-Turning-to-Tech-\u2014.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2317212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2317214,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317212\/revisions\/2317214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2317213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2317212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2317212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2317212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}