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The Roku Channel coming to Samsung Smart TVs

Posted: 20 Mar 2018 05:01 AM PDT

Samsung customers should have an entertaining summer ahead of them! The Roku Channel, our popular ad-supported app that brings you Hollywood hit movies and TV for free, is expected to be available on select Samsung smart TVs this summer.

Launched late last year, The Roku Channel is already a top 20 channel on the Roku platform and has been a tremendous success giving our customers the free entertainment they desire. It offers an ever-changing selection of quality films, TV shows and more (see what's streaming this month!). Also focused on delivering a great advertising experience, The Roku Channel features approximately half the advertising per programming hour as compared to traditional linear TV.

Roku has always been a leader in offering free entertainment options for our customers, and we're excited to extend The Roku Channel to select Samsung TV customers. Stay tuned for more updates.

Happy Streaming!

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16 new movie releases (March)

Posted: 19 Mar 2018 01:20 PM PDT

Get your fill of new movie releases! Stream drama (I, Tonya and The Post), fun (Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and The Greatest Showman) and family-friendly (Paddington 2) movies this month. But if you’re like me and are still catching up on all those Oscar winners, find out where those movies are streaming here.

What’s the best movie you’ve watched lately?

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I, Tonya (Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes – 90%) – Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the activity is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes. | FandangoNOW, Google Play, Prime Video, Vudu

Pitch Perfect 3 (32% on Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer) – Following their win at the world championship, the now separated Bellas reunite for one last singing competition at an overseas USO tour, but face a group who uses both instruments and voices. | FandangoNOW, Google Play, Prime Video, Vudu

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes – 76%) – Four teenagers are sucked into a magical video game, and the only way they can escape is to work together to finish the game. | FandangoNOW, Google Play, Prime Video, Vudu

Downsizing (51% on Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer) – A social satire in which a man realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself to five inches tall, allowing him to live in wealth and splendor. | FandangoNOW, Google Play, Prime Video, Vudu

Jane (Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes – 99%) – The life and work of the renowned primatology scientist, Jane Goodall, especially on her research about chimpanzees. | FandangoNOW, Google Play, Hulu, Prime Video, Spectrum TV, Vudu

MARCH 20

The Greatest Showman (55% on Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer) – Celebrates the birth of show business, and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation.

Father Figures (20% on Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer) – Upon learning that their mother has been lying to them for years about their allegedly deceased father, two fraternal twin brothers hit the road in order to find him.

Insidious: The Last Key (32% on Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer) – Parapsychologist Dr. Elise Rainier faces her most fearsome and personal haunting yet – in her own family home.

MARCH 27

Paddington 2 (Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes – 100%) – Paddington, now happily settled with the Brown family and a popular member of the local community, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy’s 100th birthday, only for the gift to be stolen.

Phantom Thread (Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes – 92%) – Set in 1950’s London, Reynolds Woodcock is a renowned dressmaker whose fastidious life is disrupted by a young, strong-willed woman, Alma, who becomes his muse and lover.

All the Money in the World (Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes – 78%) – The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.

Proud Mary (26% on Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer) – Mary is a hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston, whose life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes bad.

APRIL 3

The Post (Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes – 88%) – A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country’s first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between the press and the government.

The Commuter (57% on Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer) – A businessman is caught up in a criminal conspiracy during his daily commute home.

APRIL 10

Hostiles (73% on Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer) – In 1892, a legendary Army captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory.