Heartstopper star Joe Locke has shared that he’d like to be “hate-tweeted by Donald Trump.” Locke has become a totem for LGBTQ representation through his role in the hit young adult Netflix drama about two young men who meet and fall in love, and he told The Guardian newspaper he was surprised the show had
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Coming off an armful of big Emmy wins earlier this month, Baby Reindeer and Netflix took a big hit today as a federal judge ruled the big bucks defamation case against the dark comedy and the streamer will go forward. First filed by self-declared real life Martha in June, the $170 million action is still
Netflix has confirmed it is partnering with Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson to produce a documentary series on Sean “Diddy” Combs that will address the recent charges facing the music mogul, includeing sex trafficking and racketeering, along with multiple allegations of sexual assault and violent abusive behavior. As Deadline previously reported, Jackson said in May that
The topic of how the major streamers pay talent has been one of the dominant conversations in Hollywood over the past few months. Netflix is holding an event for top agents and managers where it will likely be discussed as the streamer is understood to be reevaluating how it structures its deals going forward. We
UPDATED: “It’s personal” for Mickey Haller. Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) is bound and determined to get to the bottom of who killed his former client Gloria Days (Fiona Rene). “This one is personal, because it’s a client that he actually really cared about and thought she had gotten out of that life and out of danger,”
The reviews are in for Ryan Murphy‘s latest true crime outing, and one critic is certainly not pleased. After Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menéndez Story debuted Thursday on Netflix, Erik Menéndez called out the series’ “naive and inaccurate” depiction of his and brother Lyle’s 1989 murder of their parents José and Mary Louise “Kitty”
Netflix plans to add signature flourishes to its live broadcasts of two Christmas Day NFL games, but remains circumspect about paying billions for major sports rights. That was the view from Co-CEO Greg Peters, who covered sports, advertising and a couple of other topics in a 25-minute appearance Friday at the FT Business of Entertainment
UPDATED, September 19: The second and final season of Arcane has a premiere date. The conclusion will kick off in three acts. The first batch of episodes drop November 9. Act Two is set for November 16, and the final act of the series will be released on November 23. Additional There’s also a new
Netflix’s latest data dump has given more insight into its decision-making process when it comes to renewals and cancellations. While the streamer has always said those decisions come down to performance vs. cost, its third What We Watched report is beginning to crystallize what some of the thresholds are for various genres, as well as
Ted Sarandos has defended Richard Gadd, creator of Netflix hit Baby Reindeer, which has become the subject of a defamation lawsuit by a woman identified by online sleuths as his alleged stalker. The Netflix CEO told The Times of London newspaper that he was “proud of the show and the way Richard handled the story.”
Netflix‘s latest comedy film Incoming was at the top of its class in its first full week on the streamer, racking up 16.9M views. That’s up 71% from its debut weekend to make it the most-watched title of the week. Halle Berry and Mark Wahlberg’s The Union stuck around on the English-language film list for
Netflix has set Thursday, October 17 for the Season 3 premiere of The Lincoln Lawyer. The streamer also released a slew of new photos today for the upcoming season. See above and below. The new season sees the return of series stars Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Becki Newton, Jazz Raycole, Angus Sampson and Yaya DaCosta, all reprising
Netflix said it has wrapped up its upfront ad negotiations, posting a 150% increase in sales commitments over 2023, in line with company expectations. The presence of ads on the world’s leading streaming service is a new phenomenon, of course, putting an asterix on statistical comparisons, but the news is the latest sign that a
Tving led subscriber growth in the first half of 2024, although Netflix remains the streaming industry leader, according to an analyst’s report. Overall, the Korean SVOD market added 705,000 net new subscribers in H1 to total 20.8 million by end-June, according to AMPD, the digital measurement platform owned and operated by Media Partners Asia (MPA).
Gi-hun is back in the game as Netflix unveils the first teaser for the long-awaited sophomore season of Squid Game. Lee Jung-jae reprises his role as the champion and sole survivor from Season 1 in the new 30-second clip, which features a series of faceless players in their green tracksuits, the last of which is
Streamer revenue soared again in the UK last year, with Prime Video generating more than £1B ($1.28B) for the first time, according to Ofcom‘s Media Nation’s Report, but commercial nets saw turnover tumble to a four-year low. Combined revenue for the deep-pocketed U.S. giants shot up by 20% – akin to the prior year –
Baby Reindeer creator and star Richard Gadd isn’t named as a defendant in Fiona Harvey’s $170 million defamation suit against Netflix over the hit black comedy, but he sure as Hell is backing the streamer in getting the action tossed out. “I am a comedian, writer, and actor. I created, wrote, and starred in the
EXCLUSIVE: Popular comedian and podcaster Tim Dillon has been set to return to Netflix this fall with a new, unscripted, talk show-style special that will focus on America’s current events. Set over the backdrop of the upcoming election, Dillon’s new hour will focus on the most important, but often overlooked, element of our political system:
Viaplay Results: Focus On Core Ops Working Slowly Viaplay’s focus on doing what it does best willed out in its latest quarterly results, with total turnover down slightly but turnover in core operations increasing by a similar margin. Since the exit of former CEO Anders Jensen amidst financial turmoil last year, the Scandi outfit has been focused
Netflix‘s Queer Eye has the opportunity to continue its winning streak at the Primetime Emmy Awards as it has scored a nomination in the Outstanding Structured Reality Program category. This year, the makeover reality series competes with PBS’s Antiques Roadshow, Food Network’s Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Netflix’s Love is Blind, and ABC’s Shark Tank, a
Global entertainment and media advertising is projected to top $1 trillion in 2026 and, by 2028, will double where it was in 2020. Growth will be fueled by an explosion in Internet advertising, which looks set to generate 77% of total ad spend in five years, and about 30% of streaming revenue, according to giant
NFL chief Roger Goodell indicated today a Paramount-Skydance merger may not impact football on CBS, although he didn’t commit, and that matches on Netflix may expand beyond the streamer’s recent pact for Christmas Day games. In an interview with CNBC from Sun Valley, the Commissioner also opined on the Sunday Ticket verdict, and said the
After more than 23 years, John Cena is preparing to step into the ring for the last time. During a surprise appearance at Saturday’s Money in the Bank in Toronto, Canada, the 16-time world champion wrestler announced he’s retiring from the WWE following WrestleMania 2025. Although Cena has been known to display a towel that
A Family Affair, a romcom starring Nicole Kidman, Joey King and Zac Efron, was the most-watched movie of the week on Netflix, beating debuts such as Jessica Alba’s Trigger Warning and Glen Powell’s Hit Man. The film, which was directed by Richard Lagravenese, scored 26.8M views since its launch on June 28. This put it above
Netflix and Amazon “ordered the majority of their titles from outside the U.S.” last quarter and are shooting ahead of rivals in the global commissioning race, according to research from Ampere Analysis. Ampere predicted these platforms’ international spend will continue to rise after finding that they greenlit more than half (53%) of the world’s overall
EXCLUSIVE: Rapman utilized a superpower of his own — one that didn’t require him to don figure-hugging spandex tights and a cape — to survive the setbacks he encountered making the earthshaking new Netflix drama Supacell that began streaming Thursday. “My superpower is discipline,” he declares. Having an indomitable will comes in handy, too. Rapman required his superpower
Netflix has boarded buzzy Asian drama series See Her Again on day one of the Shanghai TV Festival. The global has acquired international rights, an unusual move given it has rarely pre-bought shows out of China shows in the past. You can watch a trailer for the series, which comes from Chinese streamer Tencent Video
Netflix‘s EMEA chief has described his Los Gatos overlords as “very hands off” when it comes to content strategy outside the U.S. Speaking to journalists at a Netflix site tour in Spain, Larry Tanz said the days when Money Heist creator Álex Pina had to “literally fly to LA to pitch a show so that
Jason Oppenheim, co-owner of the Oppenheim Group real estate agency and star of Selling Sunset, is open to having Christine Quinn return to the Netflix reality series. In a new interview, Oppenheim said he was not opposed to having Quinn come back to the show but clarified that the decision was not up to him.
No surprise here — Bridgerton was the talk of the ton during its Season 3 debut week last month. The series easily made it to the top of Nielsen‘s streaming charts for the week of May 13 to 19, despite the first four episodes of Season 3 launching about halfway through this interval. Nevertheless, Bridgerton
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