The Felicity Jones and Shailene Woodley StudioCanal feature The Last Letter From Your Lover will hit Netflix on July 23 and in select territories. The Augustine Frizzell directed romance based on JoJo Moyers’ bestselling novel, will also open in UK cinemas on Aug. 6. Oscar nominee Jones and 2x Golden Globe nominee Woodley star in this
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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has licensed all global rights, sans China, to Sony Pictures Animation’s Vivo. The movie, directed by Oscar nominee Kirk DeMicco (The Croods) and co-directed by Brandon Jeffords (Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2) with new songs written and performed by Tony award winning Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, was recently scheduled for a theatrical
The winter fete is finally here on Shadow and Bone Season 1 Episode 5, and it is Alina’s big debut night. She summons light in a fancy ceremony with guests that include royalty from foreign soil. As a result, Alina has never been more exposed. She is in danger that she can imagine only in her
The King of Hell finally has a return date. Netflix on Monday revealed that the second half of Lucifer Season 5 will bow on the streamer Friday, May 28. The first half of the season arrived on August 21, 2020, so this has been a long wait for the back half. As expected, COVID-19 is
Popcorn and all other concessions will not be sold at the IFC Center, at least for now. But films, actual films, will be projected on all five of its screens for the first time in nearly a year. “The room will be black — you won’t be on your phone!” Kajillionaire director Miranda July marveled
Sony and Higher Ground Productions will have its Kevin Hart drama Fatherhood released on Netflix on Friday June 18, just before Father’s Day. Note this is a licensing deal, not a full on acquisition of the movie by Netflix. It’s a similar deal that Sony has cut with Hulu on Happiest Season and AppleTV+ on Greyhound. Essentially, Netflix has
Ginny & Georgia’s twisty first season was bursting at the seams with pop-culture references, and it left us with a lot of questions. With multiple cliffhangers, a potential Ginny & Georgia Season 2 will need to work its way through all of the questions, providing answers that are meaningful and advance the story. These are
It’s not a great sign when watching a new show just makes you think about other, better shows. That’s the case with Netflix’s Ginny & Georgia — premiering Wednesday, Feb. 24 on the streamer; I’ve seen five of the ten episodes — a mildly cute, kind of boring new dramedy that wears its pop-culture inspirations proudly
Bridgerton has been an enormous success for Netflix since its Christmas Day 2020 launch. Fans were immediately enthralled by the scandal, the high-drama, and of course, the mystery surrounding Lady Whistledown. We’re going to delve deep into spoiler territory below, so if you haven’t completed your binge of the series, then it’s probably a good
Zack Snyder’s second feature this year after his recut of Justice League is the zombie Netflix title Army of the Dead, and it will drop on May 21. Back in September, the streamer announced that it already greenlit a prequel and spin off anime series, The Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas; they are that excited about this upcoming
Looks like Bridgerton Season 2 is further into development than first thought. Netflix’s biggest show has just cast Simone Ashley as the female lead for its second chapter, in which she will co-star with Jonathan Bailey. Ashley is set to play Kate Sharma, an independent woman who is new to the high-class world the series
I’d love to say that I was wowed by Netflix’s series adaption of Kristin Hannah’s novel, Firefly Lane (dropping Wednesday, Feb. 3). Truth be told, I dive into every show that I’m tasked with reviewing hoping the same thing — to be dazzled, stunned, impressed. I was none of those things. There was nothing there that
The bursting at the seams cast of YOU Season 3 just got bigger. Per Deadline, Scott Michael Foster has nabbed a recurring role as a TV reporter named Ryan. Described as a “well-liked single dad who’s overcome a history of addiction, Ryan has secrets, including a controlling, calculating demeanor that he reserves for those closest
Sony has sold worldwide rights to the Phil Lord and Christopher Miller animated feature The Mitchells vs. the Machines to Netflix. The pic was previously known as Connected. The pic jumped around the release calendar during the pandemic, with an opening date of Oct. 23 then ultimately March 12 before Netflix acquired. I understand that Netflix pursued the
It’s a streaming world, and we’re just living in it. With a majority of the globe’s movie theaters closed due to Covid, and Hollywood studios scrambling to figure out new distribution models, Netflix has already been experiencing the roaring ’20s with close to 204 million subscribers taking in the service worldwide and the company’s market
A seven-hour drama series about chess players? It might sound more like a punishment at first than a pleasure. But The Queen’s Gambit — now streaming on Netflix; I’ve seen all seven episodes — does the unthinkable: It manages to make the game of chess fascinating… and sexy, even. (I know!) It’s an underdog story
Jim Parsons. (Frazer Harrison/Getty) Jim Parsons has gracefully waded into the long-simmering debate over whether straight, cisgender actors should play LGBT+ people in film and television. Parsons, 47, reflected in an interview with the Los Angeles Times newspaper on his role in The Boys in the Band, the Netflix flick with an all-queer cast that centred
RuPaul. (WOW) The long-awaited drop of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 13 hit a major snag Saturday (2 January) after disgruntled reviewers reported Netflix would end the stream midway. British and Irish viewers were roiled when, at around the 20-minute mark, the episode would suddenly end and instead show previews for other franchises on the streaming
A word for stocks in 2020: epic — as in monumental, as a bona fide crash in the spring alternated thereafter with convulsions of angst and optimism reflecting a world turned upside down by the first global pandemic in a century. Major indexes from the Dow Jones to the Nasdaq, S&P 500 and Russell 3000
Can cinemas play day-and-date releases from Warner Bros after continually refusing to show Netflix films? The big circuits have to be feeling really stupid now: If they had only made a deal with Netflix last year on Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman at a 45-day window instead of emphatically rejecting one, perhaps this looming apocalypse brought on
Netflix took viewers back to Virgin River just days ago. Virgin River Season 2 was filled with twists and turns, but there were more than a handful of cliffhangers by the time Virgin River Season 2 Episode 10 concluded. As a result, fans are wondering whether the series will return for another dose of small-town
There is rumblings tonight that Legendary’s fourthquel Godzilla vs. Kong, scheduled to be released by Warner Bros on the big screen, is in talks to head to HBO Max. Surprise, surprise. THR reports tonight, and we’ve confirmed with sources, that Netflix made a $200M+ offer for the Adam Wingard directed movie, but WarnerMedia blocked it, and
EXCLUSIVE: A year ago at this time, a stink was raised by the studios and NATO over Netflix and its audacity to actually crunch the theatrical window with The Irishman. And a deal was on the table with AMC, but in the end the streamer wanted a more limited time in theaters ( far less than
Donald Trump (L) and Joe Exotic (R). (Tom Pennington/Getty//Netflix) Joe Exotic is so confident that Donald Trump will pardon him for his many crimes that he’s already booked a limousine to drive him home from prison. The ‘gun-toting gay redneck’ star of Netflix’s Tiger King is currently serving 22 years in federal prison for a litany
We’re not going to say these are the best horror flicks to watch, ever. But we are gonna say there are a bunch of random streaming spooks with which to busy ourselves this pandemic-riddled All Hallow’s Eve. We’ve checked many out for you here — but are you like me, thinking there isn’t really a
Sabrina Spellman’s chilling reign will come to a close Thursday, December 31, 2020. Netflix announced the premiere date for the fourth and final part of the beloved drama on Monday morning after weeks of speculation. “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina re-imagines the origin and adventures of Sabrina the Teenage Witch as a dark coming-of-age story that
Netflix has released a trailer for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, a new film starring Viola Davis as pioneering queer blues singer Ma Rainey. Rainey, widely known as the mother of the blues, forged a lucrative early career in the 1920s while peppering her songs with references to her sexuality, more than 40 years before the Stonewall
Mank, David Fincher’s movie about Oscar-winning Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and his tumultuous development of the Orson Welles’ classic, will hit Netflix on December 4 following a November release in theaters. Take a look at the official teaser above. The movie is one of many Netflix 2020-21 awards season contenders; their latest Aaron Sorkin-directed political
The gorgeous ladies of wrestling are no match for COVID-19. GLOW has been canceled after three seasons at Netflix despite snagging a renewal for a fourth and final season. The news is surprising, especially when you consider that it was a popular show, and that it already had a renewal in place for one last
Really, was anyone out there crying out for a Nurse Ratched origin story? The trailers for Netflix’s Ratched — premiering this Friday, Sept. 18; I’ve seen the first four episodes — bill the One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest villain as “one of the world’s most iconic characters,” but as played by Oscar winner Louise