In a massive collision of fast food and streaming entertainment, McDonald’s and Netflix have officially partnered for the “Stranger Things: Tales From ’85” Happy Meal. Launching across the United States in May 2026, this campaign leverages deep 1980s nostalgia and the latest in digital gaming to bring the town of Hawkins, Indiana, to your local …
Netflix has dated Ellen DeGeneres’ next standup special, which she insists will be the last of her career. Ellen DeGeneres: For Your Approval, as she’s titled the new hour, will roll out on the global platform Sept. 24. It follows her last special, ironically titled Relatable, which was her first in 15 years when it …
The 2024 Venice Film Festival is a good time for a discussion of hot entertainment industry topics between sector players and experts with THR Roma. So, the Venice festival’s artistic director Alberto Barbera, Eagle Pictures owner Tarak Ben Ammar and Lucky Red founder Andrea Occhipinti sat down with me to discuss the rise of artificial …
A big screen adaptation of Scott Westerfeld’s dystopian sci-fi novel Uglies, Emily In Paris becoming Emily in Rome, Jeremy Saulnier’s latest genre piece, the latest installment of Ryan Murphy’s grisly crime anthology series, Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen and Natasha Lyonne playing sisters in a critically acclaimed family drama and rom-com series toplined by the charming …
From teenage model to upper-crust caterer to domestic doyenne to media-spanning billionaire to scapegoated convict to octogenarian thirst trap enthusiast and Snoop Dogg chum, Martha Stewart has had a life that defies belief, or at least congruity. It’s an unlikely journey that has been carried out largely in the public eye, which gives R.J. Cutler …
Netflix has taken Dead Boy Detectives off the case. The series, set in the same fictional universe as The Sandman, won’t return for a second season. The news comes about four months after the show’s eight-episode season premiered on Netflix. More to come.
For Jeremy Saulnier, all’s well that ends well. After releasing Hold the Dark in late 2018, Saulnier wasted no time putting together his follow-up Netflix film, Rebel Ridge, in late 2019. But then the pandemic had its way with his April 2020 production schedule, delaying the film’s principal photography until the following spring. However, the …
Netflix has released the first teaser trailer and premiere date for Timo Tjahjanto’s hotly anticipated action film The Shadow Strays. The Indonesian film tells the story of Codename 13, a young assassin who finds herself suspended after a mission gone wrong. The logline reads, “During her downtime, [13] bonds with Monji, a boy who recently …
Netflix has picked up Pablo Larraín’s Maria, which stars Angelina Jolie as famed opera singer Maria Callas. The move comes ahead of the film’s world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Aug. 29. Following its debut on the Lido, it will stream on Netflix at an undisclosed date. On Wednesday, Larraín said in a statement: …
Netflix‘s big new NBA docuseries is official. The streaming giant says that the series, called Starting 5, will debut Oct. 9 and follow NBA superstars LeBron James, Jayson Tatum, Anthony Edwards, Jimmy Butler and Domantas Sabonis during the 2023-2024 season, giving viewers “an unfiltered view of life at the pinnacle of professional basketball.” Former president …