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10.06.2023 - 03:43 / variety.com
Cynthia Littleton Business Editor Netflix chief content officer Bela Bajaria used the platform of her keynote address Friday at the UCLA Entertainment Symposium to dispel a few myths that persist around the streamer that has transformed television viewing during the past decade. During an hourlong, wide-ranging Q&A with veteran entertainment attorney Ken Ziffren, Bajaria made the forceful case that “algorithms don’t decide what we make” when it comes to how Netflix uses data to inform programming and strategic decisions. “There’s not an algorithm that would probably say, you know what’s a great idea? A period show about a woman playing chess,” Bajaria said, pointing to 2021’s “The Queen’s Gambit,” which raked in 11 Emmys for the streamer including the trophy for best limited series. Nor would data analytics ever deliver a report instructing them to “do something thematically about connection and lonliness, and maybe throw in road rage for the inciting incident,” Bajaria added, pointing to this year’s Ali Wong-Steven Yeun starrer “Beef.”
Bajaria, a seasoned veteran of CBS and NBCUniversal before joining Netflix in 2016, came down strongly in favor of the all-episodes-at-once binge model for episodic television, compared to the weekly cadence of traditional TV. (As Ziffren touched on Netflix tropes, Bajaria leaned in to the opportunity to deliver what she called “tiny myth busters.”) “There is no data to support that weekly is better, and it’s not a great consumer experience,” Bajaria told Ziffren, partner and co-founder of Ziffren Brittenham. Ziffren pressed Bajaria for details of how Netflix oversees its massive annual content budget, and how it handles development and allocation for international markets. Bajaria
Jennifer Lawrence is taking over the streets of NYC for a new commercial!
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Zack Sharf Digital News Director In the upcoming comedy “No Hard Feelings,” Jennifer Lawrence plays a down-on-her-luck Uber driver who accepts a job trying to seduce a 19-year-old whose helicopter parents don’t want him heading off to college as a virgin. The task of playing the Oscar winner’s male lead in a raunchy R-rated comedy fell to Andrew Barth Feldman, best known until now for his stint on Broadway in “Dear Evan Hanson.” Feldman was already a student at Harvard University when the offer to join Lawrence in “No Hard Feelings” was made. “I mean, when Andrew left his audition, the door closed and we all looked at each other and we were like, ‘That’s our — that’s Percy,”” Lawrence recently told Entertainment Tonight. “Then they were like there’s one complication, he’s supposed to go to Harvard, and we were like, ‘Is that a joke?’ He was fully the character, so I called him and said, ‘Andrew, I have really bad news you’re not gonna be able to finish your semester at Harvard.’ He’s gonna have to defer, or whatever college school words are.”
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, is making a bold return to an ultra-fitted style of the menswear classic. On June 19, the No Hard Feelings actor stepped out in New York City in a shrunken, single-button black blazer, which she wore over a shimmery sheer jumpsuit in the lightest possible shade of pastel pink by Giorgio Armani Privé. The sparkly one-piece's extreme wide leg silhouette provided a chic contrast to the form-fitting jacket, which provides a little modest coverage over the see-through bodice. Lawrence completed the look with a pair of black sandals, pearl drop earrings, and classic shades.
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quite a bit with her red carpet looks lately, serving refined elegance in London, nude minimalism in Madrid, and ballroom glamour in Cannes. And for the Berlin premiere of No Hard Feelings, the vibe is Boss Ass. JLaw walked the red carpet in Germany in a black Givenchy blazer dress with an intimidating amount of shoulder and scrunched up sleeves, so you know she means business. Layered under the blazer was a sheer, black turtleneck top, which takes the overall edginess down just a tad.
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during her No Hard Feelings tour this week—eschewing anything Y2K-inspired in favor of sleek, polished minimalism.Wearing Dior for the UK premiere of No Hard Feelings.Having touched down in London wearing The Row (and Tiffany & Co’s Elsa Peretti Sevillana pendant), the Oscar winner slipped into a silk dress by Maria Grazia Chiuri and Anita Ko jewellery for an appearance in Leicester Square. Lifted from Dior’s autumn/winter 2023 runway, the dress featured a sheer bodice, but was (mercifully) a far cry from .
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