Netflix's Beckett release date, trailer, plot and more

There are plenty of shows and films in the entertainment ether dedicated to Princess Diana but a musical about her life is about to go down in history.

Netflix has announced the release date of its controversial Diana: The Musical, and it is hitting screens in less than two months.The musical – which will arrive on New York's Broadway later this year – is being screened on the streaming giant a month before it hits the stage. It was filmed without an audience during lockdown after being forced to halt its March 2020 opening due to the coronavirus pandemic.

As we’ve seen with the recent lawsuit between Scarlett Johansson and Disney, there’s a lot of complicated math that goes into an actor’s contract with a studio for a project. In previous years, the biggest names in Hollywood would earn an upfront fee, but they would then have the chance to earn a lot more with “back-end” deals that include profit-sharing with the studio.

Jordan Moreau A Virginia judge allowed Johnny Depp to proceed with his $50 million defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard, after her plea to dismiss the suit after Depp lost his U.K. libel case was denied.Depp is suing Heard, his ex-wife, after she wrote a 2018 op-ed in the Washington Post about being a survivor of domestic abuse.

ViacomCBS’ Smithsonian Channel is prepping One Thousand Years of Slavery, a four-part docu-series from Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance’s Bassett Vance Productions.

Members of MetroDC PFLAG march in the 2019 Capital Pride Parade in Washington DC. Photo: MetroDC PFLAG.

On this episode of The Playlist Podcast, we’re joined by filmmaker Ferdinando Filomarino, the director of the new Netflix film, “Beckett.” For those unaware, “Beckett” stars John David Washington and Alicia Vikander and tells the story of an American couple on vacation in Greece. After a tragic accident, John David Washington’s character, aptly named Beckett, finds himself on the run from a mysterious group that is out to kill him for an unknown reason.

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according to the Washington Post.Gabbard and Greenwald are just two among the names Rumble says are signed to the new deal. On Thursday, Gabbard tweeted out a link to her latest Rumble video, heralding free speech and promising her channel will launch soon.

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Jordan Moreau Michael B. Jordan stars in the first trailer for the appropriately titled romantic drama “A Journal for Jordan,” directed by Denzel Washington.The film is based on the memoir “A Journal for Jordan: A Story of Love and Honor” by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dana Canedy.

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No matter who you believe, whether it’s the National Association of Theater Owners (NATO) saying theaters are being destroyed by streaming or perhaps studios trying to explain how streaming and theatrical release models will benefit everyone involved, the truth is that the theatrical experience is changing in a big way. And some, like John David Washington, are concerned about the survival of the big screen experience.

Bill Gates, 65, is speaking out about his feelings for his ex-wife Melinda, 56, and the headline-making cheating scandal he was a part of “20 years ago,” two days after their divorce was finalized by a Washington judge. The Microsoft co-founder made an appearance on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360° on Aug. 4 and admitted he has regrets about having an affair with a Microsoft employee even though it’s something that ended a long time ago.

Will Thorne Staff WriterThe opening night of the Locarno Film Festival was led by a pair of rousing call to arms for the theatrical experience.Early on it was rain, rather than COVID-19, which threatened to put a dampener on proceedings, as sodden conditions in the famous Piazza Grande forced the world premiere of “Beckett” indoors.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticJohn David Washington shot “Beckett” before last summer’s “Tenet” put the actor on a short list of potential action figures. But when it comes to this considerably more modest, Greece-set manhunt movie — which kicks off the Locarno Film Festival before releasing via Netflix on Aug.

For a film in which John David Washington lurches, staggers, stumbles, shambles, flounders, falters, wobbles, scrabbles and totters across an entire Greek province, getting shot, stabbed, cuffed (often in the very same already broken arm), punched, beaten, chased and stung by bees, is in two-car crashes but also gets hit by a car, escapes in the trunk of a car, gets in a taser fight in a car and eventually falls from a great height onto a car, “Beckett” sure is dull.

Kerry Washington is sticking with Netflix.