Last Thursday, on a balmy night in Santa Monica, Netflix took over the pier to prove that it too has a phalanx of reality stars that can compete with anything that Disney or NBCUniversal’s Bravo can throw into the water. The lip fillers, bodycon dresses and quilted T-shirts were out in force as around 100…
UPDATED with Peacock pricing. Peacocks may be flightless birds, but the NBCUniversal streaming outlet of that name is soaring to the top of the price rankings of ad-supported services, hiking the monthly cost of its Premium tier to $10.99 from $7.99. Time was, the ultra-competitive subscription streaming market gained traction over pay-TV by providing a…
Netflix is due to report second-quarter results after the close of trading Thursday, with Wall Street eagerly anticipating a strong kickoff to media earnings season from the giant streamer. “Currently, we see no scaled global streaming competitor,” said Oppenheimer analyst Jason Helfstein in a recent note to clients, with an “outperform” rating and a higher…
For Megan Stalter‘s first leading TV role, she hopped the pond to London for a modern twist on classic British romantic-comedies. Speaking to Deadline about Lena Dunham and husband Luis Felber’s Too Much, Season 1 of which is now available to stream on Netflix, the actress said she felt “none of that pressure” to portray…
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of Old Guard 2, which debuted on Netflix on July 2. “One day, you’ll understand, every minute is a step toward death,” Uma Thurman‘s vengeful Discord says in Netflix’s long-awaited and much-delayed The Old Guard 2. Now, immortals and ex-immortals have their own way of looking at the march…
EXCLUSIVE: Christian Zübert, the writer and director of hit Netflix film Exterritorial couldn’t believe it when his German action thriller scaled the streamer’s film charts. “I said to my wife, I hope we don’t have a moment like La La Land in 2017 because I was thinking: ‘It’s quite unbelievable,’” he says. “I was really…