Duffy criticises ‘irresponsible’ Netflix over decision to host abduction film

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterThe Locarno Film Festival StepIn 2020 will take place virtually in the Variety Streaming Room August 5-7 with three 50-minute sessions covering the future of theatrical experience, the state of independent film production and the future of film festivals and markets.Speakers include Rodrigo Teixeira, Producer (‘Call Me By Your Name’, ‘Port Authority’); Kasi Lemmons, Director/Writer (‘Harriet’); Elissa Federoff, President Distribution, NEON; Daniel Battsek,

Longtime Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos has been named co-CEO alongside founder Reed Hastings, the streaming giant announced Thursday. "Ted has been my partner for decades," Hastings said in a statement announcing the appointment.

' host shakeup is bittersweet for Carrie Ann Inaba. On next Tuesday's episode of, Inaba opens up about the recent announcement that Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews won't be returning to host the ABC dancing competition — and shares her opinion of new host Tyra Banks. «I feel like it was just such sudden news,» Inaba shares.

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“The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” has returned to the studio, minus the audience, after filming from Fallon’s home during the COVID-19 shutdown.

Stephen King is an incredibly prolific author, but he is also very effective at getting movie deals. King’s latest book, a collection of four novellas titled “If It Bleeds,” already produced three movie deals since it got published in May.

that decision came after Morgan had continuously stated his vision for the drama had always been a six-season run.“As we started to discuss the storylines for Series 5, it soon became clear that in order to do justice to the richness and complexity of the story we should go back to the original plan and do six seasons,” Morgan said in a statement Thursday.Per Netflix, “we’ll have one more season with Queen Olivia Colman, before she passes the crown to Imelda Staunton.”More to come…(Tap photo and

Since Netflix launched its daily “top 10” ranking earlier this year, it’s been mostly composed of new titles or titles that were just added to the platform. But a peculiar title joined the top 10 ranking on June 24 and has stayed there ever since — the 2015 erotic art house film “Love” directed by Gaspar Noé.

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According to Charlie Kaufman, the massive shift in the filmmaking business doesn’t have much to do with Netflix. It has a lot more to do with the studios.

Duffy has penned an open letter calling out Netflix CEO Reed Hastings for the "irresponsible" decision to stream the film 365 Days, after sharing her own harrowing experience of being drugged, kidnapped and raped, which led to her "hiding" for years.

Singer Duffy is calling for Netflix to remove a controversial international film from its platform, saying that it "glamorizes the brutal reality of sex trafficking, kidnapping rape.” In an open letter to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, the 36-year-old Welsh singer – who has been outspoken about her own personal experiences of allegedly being drugged, raped and held captive – urged the head of the streaming giant to consider pulling the Polish film “365 Days” from the platform and called Netflix’s

Duffy has branded Netflix “irresponsible” for “glamourising the brutal reality of sex trafficking, kidnapping and rape” in the film 365 Days.The Polish film, which arrived on the streaming platform in June, tells the tale of a woman who has been kidnapped and imprisoned by a man who gives her a year to fall in love with him.It has become the most watched film on the platform, but Duffy has urged fans to reconsider how they view it after opening up on her own ordeal.In February, the singer opened

Tom Grater International Film ReporterDuffy, the Wesh singer/songwriter who earlier this year went public with a harrowing story about being kidnapped and raped, has publicly called out Netflix for showing Polish feature film 365 Days, which she says “glamorizes the brutal reality of sex trafficking, kidnapping and rape”.The movie, which has been widely panned but is currently sitting at no.5 in the streamer’s UK top 10 today, is billed as an erotic drama and tells the story of a young Polish

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Netflix has appointed Bozoma “Boz” Saint John to be its new Chief Marketing Officer. She leaves Endeavor, where she has served as CMO since 2018.