Alec Berg has signed an overall deal with Netflix, Variety has learned. The highly-successful TV writer and producer has previously been under overall deals at 20th Television (formerly ABC Signature) and HBO, the latter of which for nearly a decade. He has already set up his first project under the deal, a comedy series co-written […]
Variety•Joseph Otterson22 Sept
Netflix has commissioned a new documentary from Optomen focusing on weddings in Britain’s traveller community. Provisionally titled “My Big Day,” the feature-length doc will follow young couples as they prepare for their nuptials, some of which have turned into jaw-dropping spectacles as the pressure of social media encourages the bridge and groom to turn their […]
Variety•K.J. Yossman22 Sept
Netflix will officially submit “Too Much To Ask” from the animated feature “Ray Gunn” for consideration in the original song category at the Oscars, Variety has learned exclusively. Directed by Brad Bird, “Ray Gunn” is set in Metropia, a gigantic city in an alternate future as seen from 1939, where private eye Raymond Gunn is […]
Variety•Jazztangcay22 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Australian actor and filmmaker Angus Sampson has signed with Buchwald and Sweeney Entertainment for representation. Sampson is best known for his multi-year run as Cisco in Netflix’s hit legal drama The Lincoln Lawyer from David E. Kelley. His film credits, which collectively have grossed more than $1.75 billion worldwide, include his role as the […]
Deadline•Denise Petski22 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Smriti Mundhra, creator of Netflix’s reality series Indian Matchmaking, has partnered with Hasan Minhaj on Bollywood Dance U, a documentary series set in the world of competitive collegiate Bollywood fusion dance teams, which is set to premiere on the comedian’s YouTube channel on September 23. Created and directed by Mundhra and produced by Emmy […]
Deadline•Matthewgrobar22 Sept
Netflix just announced an in-person immersive experience themed around 'KPop Demon Hunters.'
Videos of cats and dogs transfixed by Netflix kids’ show Sealook – or pawing at its characters – are everywhere. We tried to find out why … and asked a goldendoodle for its verdict Ozzy the four-month-old goldendoodle isn’t normally allowed on the sofa. But today he has been granted special privileges because I’ve come round specifically to watch TV with him. We’re not watching Paw Patrol, Scooby-Doo, or even Crufts. We’re watching Sealook, the Netflix kids’ cartoon about a colony of seals that dogs and cats online are supposedly obsessed with. But is this really a thing? And will Ozzy care? I hit play. A gang of wide-eyed pastel-coloured seals are in a slapstick scrape. There’s no dialogue: they mostly lie around on the ice, and try to annoy each other by doing silly things like making funny noises, throwing snowballs or keeping each other awake. Ozzy seems more interested in chewing his pizzle stick – which I discover, slightly too late, is the dried penis of a bull. Then again, perhaps this is just canine second-screening: Sealook on the telly, bull penis in the mouth. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Rich Pelley22 Sept
There’s no earthly way of knowing which direction these Wonka's Golden Ticket challenges are going. In E! News’ exclusive look at the upcoming Netflix competition series, based in part on the...
E! Online•Sabba Rahbar22 Sept
Netflix is bringing the world of “KPop Demon Hunters” off the screen and into its Netflix House locations in Dallas and Philadelphia. The streamer has unveiled a new “KPop Demon Hunters: The Immersive Experience,” a ticketed attraction inspired by its blockbuster animated film that will open Nov. 12 at Netflix House Dallas and Nov. 20 […]
Variety•Atingley422 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is opening Cookbook Media’s preschool franchise ChuChu TV. The streamer has struck a global content deal that comprises four ChuChu TV collections, including ChuChu TV Surprise Eggs, ChuChu TV Drawing with ChuChu, ChuChu TV Colors in FunZone, and ChuChu TV Nursery Rhymes in English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. ChuChu TV began life in […]
Deadline•Jesse Whittock22 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Chanel Cresswell, star of This is England and The Gentlemen, has boarded Netflix’s upcoming series The Lords’ Day. The BAFTA-winning star will play an as-yet-unrevealed role in the high-stakes political thriller starring Damson Idris in the lead role. Cresswell plays Freddy’s wife Tammy in fellow Netflix UK series The Gentlemen and has a wealth […]
Deadline•Max Goldbart22 Sept
The comedian went from being discovered by Chris Rock to making Saturday Night Live history. Now his new Netflix special, Buy the Dip, tackles timely topics with optimism There is a single minute in Buy the Dip, Nimesh Patel’s new Netflix comedy special, in which the comedian nimbly and hilariously goes from describing his wife in labour with their first child to complaining about a Rolex sporting doctor wearing “insurance payments on his wrist” to Luigi Mangione . “He killed one guy, allegedly,” Patel quips, arguing that the terrorism-related charge Mangione got stuck with (which a judge dismissed ) was offensive to real terrorists. The hilarious bit is impressive for how much Patel packs into a single minute and how much it all speaks to the comedian’s own experience, expertise and worldview. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Radheyan Simonpillai22 Sept
Anya Taylor-Joy's breakout role in The Witch gave horror a different kind of heroine. The Robert Eggers film leaves Netflix on Oct. 1.
Netflix has teamed with one of the most famous cultural institutions in the U.K., the British Library, to help “more people discover the books behind some of the world’s most popular films and series,” it says. The new national partnership, which will include local libraries across the U.K., comes as 2026 marks the National Year […]
Variety•Alex Ritman21 Sept
Daredevil: Born Again's next season will be its final one. The Disney Plus revival will have aired three seasons, just like its Netflix predecessor.
Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, who plays Sylvie Grateau, boss of Emily [Lily Collins] in the Netflix series, is guest art director for the fair's Oh La La! program.
ARTnews•Devorah Lauter21 Sept
Melissa McCarthy says playing JonBenét Ramsey's mother in a true crime drama forced her to make up her own mind about the murder ... and she doesn't believe anyone in the family did it. The actress plays Patsy Ramsey in Netflix's upcoming "The…
TMZ•TMZ Staff21 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon is adding to its nonfiction team. The streamer has hired Netflix exec Liz Franco, who has worked on docuseries such as Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model, Sean Combs: The Reckoning, Simone Biles Rising, and American Murder: Gabby Petito. Franco, who spent five years at Netflix, has joined as a Creative Executive, […]
Deadline•Peterdeadline21 Sept
Melissa McCarthy, one of the most gifted comic actors working today, will soon be starring in a tragedy. In “The Murder of JonBenét Ramsey” — premiering on Netflix on Dec. 10 — McCarthy plays Patsy Ramsey, the mother of 6-year-old JonBenét, who was killed in the Ramseys’ Boulder, Colorado, home on Christmas night in 1996. […]
Variety•William Earl21 Sept
Netflix just dropped the first trailer for 'The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth,' a sequel to Quentin Tarantino's 2019 film.