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How Amazon, Netflix and Disney+ Stack Up in Japan
The Japanese streaming video space remains competitive, with Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, Disney+ and local competitors reaching more than 100 billion viewing minutes in 2023 in the “premium VOD” space that generated $4.5 billion in subscription revenue. Those are some of the findings of a new study by MediaPartners Asia’s data analytics arm ampd, which […]
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Dave Chappelle Wins Best Comedy Album Grammy for Speech at Alma Mater Defending Artistic Expression
Dave Chappelle has won his fifth Grammy for best comedy album and second in a row for What’s in a Name, a 40-minute Netflix special taken from a speech at his former high school, the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, where he defended his controversial 2021 special The Closer, which won the comedy album […]
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‘Sex and the City’ Author Says Netflix Deal Won’t “Financially Affect” Her: “The Way Men Do Business Is a Ponzi Scheme”
Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell revealed this week she will not receive royalties from Netflix amid the show’s freshly announced move to the streamer. “The way men do business is a ponzi scheme,” Bushnell told The Sunday Times. Bushnell published her first “Sex and the City” column in The New York Observer in […]
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There’s Now an Official ‘Love Is Blind’ Wine to Fill Your Golden Goblet — Here’s Where to Shop Online
Ahead of the Emmy-nominated reality dating series' season six premiere on Valentine's Day, Netflix has teamed with Cupcake Vineyards on a limited-edition chardonnay.
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Will Ferrell Doc ‘Will & Harper’ Lands at Netflix After Sundance Bow
Will & Harper, the doc about friends Will Ferrell and Harper Steele, has landed at Netflix in a massive eight-figure deal. The doc is about friends reconnecting after a major life event, and those friends just happen to be Ferrell and former Saturday Night Live head writer Steele. Following Steele coming out as a trans woman, the […]
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‘Obliterated’ Canceled at Netflix After One Season
Netflix has canceled its action comedy series Obliterated after a single season. The series, from Cobra Kai creators Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg and Josh Heald, was originally developed for TBS, where it earned a straight to series order in 2019. As TBS cut back on its scripted output, however, Obliterated became a free agent and […]
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‘Game of Thrones’ Creators Making Netflix Series Starring Matthew Macfadyen, Michael Shannon
Emmy-winning Succession star Matthew Macfadyen has picked his next big TV project. Macfadyen has been cast alongside Michael Shannon (Man of Steel) in a new Netflix drama series from Game of Thrones producers David Benioff, Dan Weiss and Bernie Caulfield. The series is titled Death by Lightning, a dramatic retelling the rise of U.S. President […]
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Inside ‘The Chosen’ Phenomenon: “We Bristle Every Time Someone Calls This a Faith Show”
If you head out to movie theaters this weekend, you’re likely to see The Chosen on the marquee. The TV show, a historical drama based on the life of Jesus, is rolling out its fourth season theatrically, two episodes at a time, over the next month, before dropping in its entirely on apps and streaming […]
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‘Squid Game’ Season 2 First Look Revealed by Netflix
Netflix is giving a first look at Squid Game season two with new photos and a bit of footage. There are several intriguing and colorful photos from the new season, mainly centered on protagonist Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), but also featuring the Recruiter (Gong Yoo) and a new character played by Park Gyu-young. There’s also […]
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Vince McMahon Is “Gone” and More Takeaways From Netflix’s Press Day
Ahead of next week’s semiannual Television Critics Association press tour, Netflix staged its own press event Wednesday — dubbed Next on Netflix — at its Tudum Theater in Hollywood. Content chief Bela Bajaria and her top lieutenants, vp nonfiction Brandon Riegg and vp Latin America Paco Ramos, previewed a slate of new and returning TV […]
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Netflix Reveals Jerry Seinfeld’s ‘Unfrosted’ Footage, Mark Wahlberg-Halle Berry Spy Movie First Look
Netflix unwrapped the first footage for Jerry Seinfeld’s comedy movie Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story, in addition to release dates and first-look images for a number of titles in its 2024 film slate, at a media event Wednesday night. During the Next on Netflix presentation held at the streaming service’s headquarters in Los Angeles, attendees were […]
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Netflix’s New Releases Coming in February 2024
A big-budget live-action adaptation of a cult Nickelodeon animated fantasy series, the return of a sports docuseries that transformed the global appeal of Formula 1, a new animated feature written by the incomparable Charlie Kaufman, and another season of a reality dating show that inspires equal parts love and hate on social media are among […]
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