Ted Sarandos made the claim that Netflix is encouraging directors to make their best work ever at the streaming service. You might think you’re a Netflix junkie just because you’ll binge Love Is Blind for an entire Sunday, but nobody is a bigger fan of the steamer than CEO Ted Sarandos. And who can blame … Read more
There’s a long-held belief about Hollywood history that, from basically the moment “Heaven’s Gate” nearly bankrupted United Artists in 1980 to the moment “Sex, Lies, and Videotape” kicked off the indie boom of the ‘90s, studio executives had an almost pathological aversion to any movie with artistic ambition. There’s at least some truth to this, … Read more
Bring on the ’80s sleaze! Zac Efron is reportedly in talks to star in a series adaptation of Night Business from director Ti West. With the release of MaXXXine less than two months away, Ti West is setting up his next project, which sounds like another helping of pure ’80s sleaze. According to scooper Daniel … Read more
Jerry Seinfeld thinks Hollywood is filled with people who are confused and disillusioned, saying the movie business is “over.” It was famed screenwriter William Goldman who once said of the movie industry, “Nobody knows anything.” And that could very well be true, with Jerry Seinfeld now agreeing that Hollywood is as clueless as many people … Read more
Jerry Seinfeld thinks Hollywood is filled with people who are confused and disillusioned, saying the movie business is “over.” It was famed screenwriter William Goldman who once said of the movie industry, “Nobody knows anything.” And that could very well be true, with Jerry Seinfeld now agreeing that Hollywood is as clueless as many people … Read more
About five minutes into the new remake of Road House, its hero comes close to killing himself by deliberately parking his car on some train tracks as a locomotive comes barreling through an intersection. At the last minute he changes his mind. The hero survives by the thinnest of margins; so thin, in fact, that the back of his beater gets … Read more
Netflix’s Pain Hustlers movie originated as an article about the dark side of the opioid business in The New York Times Magazine. (You can still read it if you’re a Times subscriber.) It later became a book — and now the article and the book have been given the movie treatment by the ‘Flix and some big name stars, … Read more
Netflix announces that they will be shutting down their DVD by mail business later this year after 25 years. Say goodbye to those little red envelopes. Netflix announced today that they will be shutting down their original DVD-by-mail business later this year. It’s an end of an era, folks. “After an incredible 25 year run, … Read more
It’s the end of an era. Before Netflix popularized streaming movies over the internet, it rose to prominence with a unique business model: Sending customers DVDs through the mail. Subscribe to the old-school Netflix maintained a queue of movies they wanted to see and then Netflix mailed out the discs when they became available. When … Read more
If there is anyone qualified to bring the King of Rock and Roll Elvis Presley’s colorful story to life on screen, then Baz Luhrmann has got to be high up on the list, and we have had our first peek at just what the director with a flair for the spectacular has done with Elvis, … Read more