Netflix’s ‘Keep Breathing’ Forces Melissa Barrera to Confront the Wild, and Past Pain: TV Review

Netflix has renewed adult-skewed animated anthology series Love, Death and Robots for a fourth season. The streamer announced the renewal Friday on Instagram.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“Love, Death, and Robots” has been renewed for Season 4 at Netflix.The streaming giant made the announcement Friday via Instagram. The acclaimed episodic anthology series dropped its nine-episode third season on Netflix on May 20, 2022.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorWelcome to this week’s “Just for Variety.”Melissa Barrera admits she had some major issues to overcome while shooting her new Netflix series, “Keep Breathing.” The “In the Heights” star plays an attorney who is the only survivor after her small plane crashes into a lake in the frigid wilderness. “Diving into that water was probably one of the scariest things,” Barrera tells me on this week’s “Just for Variety” podcast. “I have this real fear of drowning.

“The Sandman” and “Purple Hearts” led the Netflix Top 10 for the week of Aug. 1–Aug. 7 in the English shows and movies categories, respectively.

Selome Hailu Neil Gaiman’s “The Sandman” was watched for 69.5 million hours in its first three days of availability on Netflix, landing in the No. 1 position on the streamer’s Top 10 rankings during the Aug. 1-7 viewing window.

The new season of “Cobra Kai” is getting ready to kick off.

The new series Keep Breathing has become a hit for Netflix and the creators of the show are explaining what happened in those final moments.

Bridgerton universe. Netflix has filed a lawsuit against Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear—the Grammy-winning duo who created The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical—for copyright and trademark infringement, days after the composers staged a sold-out live performance of the album at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., as posted by Deadline, claims that Barlow and Bear used “verbatim dialogue, character traits and expression, and other elements” for their own financial gain in their unauthorized musical adaptation of Netflix’s hit Regency-era romance series, created by Shonda Rhimes’s production company Shondaland and based on . “Defendants Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear and their companies (‘Barlow & Bear’) have taken valuable intellectual property from the Netflix original series Bridgerton to build an international brand for themselves,” reads the complaint.

Trouble in the ton! Netflix’s Bridgerton has fast become one of the streamer’s most popular hit series, which soon inspired plenty of fan theories, content creation and original music.

Netflix is suing the Grammy-winning artists behind an unofficial “Bridgerton” musical for infringement after the songwriting duo, Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear, staged a live concert without the production company’s permission.

Shonda Rhimes is speaking out to defend Netflix’s decision to file a lawsuit against the creators of The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical.

Carson Burton The team behind an unofficial “Bridgerton” musical is being sued for infringement by Netflix in a Washington, D.C. U.S. District Court.Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear, the songwriting team behind the project, initially developed the musical on social media.

Netflix initially supported the idea when it debuted as a free online tribute. The problem between them began on July 26, 2022, when Barlow and Bear staged what Netflix says is a “for-profit” performance of “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical Album Live in Concert” for a sold-out crowd at the Kennedy Center, with tickets ranging up to $149 each.According to the lawsuit, the live show featured over a dozen songs with verbatim dialogue from the series, along with “dramatic portrayals of ‘Bridgerton’ characters by Broadway actors, emoting through the performance of the songs that comprise the ‘musical.’” Netflix says Barlow and Bear “misrepresented to the audience that they were using Netflix’s BRIDGERTON trademark ‘with Permission,’ while Netflix vigorously objected.”“Defendants Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear and their companies (“Barlow & Bear”) have taken valuable intellectual property from the Netflix original series Bridgerton to build an international brand for themselves,” the lawsuit stated.

Jamie Campbell Bower took some time to reflect on the progress he's made since becoming sober nearly eight years ago, and he implored others battling with addiction to continue the good fight.The star took to Twitter earlier this week and recalled his former self «in active addiction» over a decade ago. Fast forward to now, the actor best known for portraying the villainous Vecna -- aka Henry Creel aka One — says he's grateful about where he stands now.«12 and a half years ago I was in active addiction. Hurting myself and those around me who I loved the most,» the actor revealed in a series of tweets.

The creators of the viral TikTok event, Bridgerton The Musicial, are being sued by Netflix.

Stranger Things, shared on Twitter that he was celebrating seven and a half years of sobriety.“12 and a half years ago I was in active addiction,” Campbell Bower wrote. “Hurting myself and those around me who I loved the most. It got so bad that eventually I ended up in a hospital for mental health.“I am now seven-and-a-half years clean and sober.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefMalaysian theater operator Golden Screen Cinemas has announced that “Thor: Love and Thunder” will not get a theatrical release in the country. This follows on from announcements two weeks ago that the film was indefinitely postponed.Dear valued customers, please be informed that Disney has updated that marvel Studios’ Thor Love and Thunder’ will not be releasing in Malaysia after all.

After receiving some of the best reviews of his career for his role in Apple’s Black Bird series, Taron Egerton looks to have found his next feature project. He is set to star in the Netflix and Amblin action thriller Carry On, with Jaume Collet-Serra on board to direct. TJ Fixman penned the first draft of the screenplay, with Michael Green doing the most recent polish. Dylan Clark will produce. The film marks the first production to come out of the overall deal Amblin signed with Netflix last June.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorWelcome to this week’s “Just for Variety.”Tommy Chong says reuniting with the “That ’70s Show” cast for the upcoming “That ’90s Show” reboot felt like no time had passed. Chong reprises his role as Leo in the Netflix series, which also sees the return of Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp as Red and Kitty Forman. “The minute Kitty knocked on the door and I opened the door and it was her, it could have been yesterday,” Chong tells me.Original “’70s” cast members Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis, Topher Grace, Wilmer Valderrama and Laura Prepon are also expected to make appearances.