Last week, the New York Times ran an interview with executive Jeffrey Katzenberg, whose most recent venture is Quibi, a watch-on-the-go platform for streaming movies (broken into chapters) and episodic television whose bite-sized installments typically run less than 10 minutes. Since its launch during the pandemic, the app has dropped off the 100 most-downloaded-apps list on the Apple Store, has seen a number of key personnel leave, has already endured a data breach scandal and is about to face a fast-approaching lawsuit over the technology that powers Quibi. In the interview, Katzenberg referred …

Quibi’s co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg revealed several details about the soon-to-launch streaming platform in a new interview with Deadline. Katzenberg, the former chairman of Walt Disney Studios, has established an impressive lineup of creators for the smartphone-only platform, including Steven Spielberg, who is currently writing a horror series that will utilize special technology only allowing viewers to watch it at night. The content available on Quibi is divided into several categories, including Movies in Chapters like Most Dangerous Game starring Liam Hemsworth and Christoph Waltz and Survive starring Sophie Turner, Unscripted and Docs, and Daily Essentials. …