Peter Bart: Dream Job? Netflix’s Next Picture Picker Faces Daunting Challenges As Streamer Confronts Tectonic Shifts

Avatar: The Last Airbender, the anime-inspired live-action series, will be able to tell the story of the four nations: Water. Earth. Fire. Air after Netflix renewed it for a further two seasons.

Netflix CFO Spencer Neumann gave Scott Stuber a shoutout when discussing the state of the streaming giant’s film operation, saying the exec deserves “a lot of credit” for “what he built.”

It’s not an April Fool’s joke – Sex and the City is bowing on Netflix on April 1.

Dan Lin, the producer of “The Lego Movie” and “It,” was in negotiations to become head of DC Studios. It was a singular opportunity to reimagine the company behind Superman, Batman and other costumed heroes. But talks broke down.

“I despise auditions,” Marlon Brando barked as he launched into the audition for his role in The Godfather. It was his idea, I reminded him, so he himself had caused his actors angst, not the studio. (It was, of course, a great audition.)

Disney on Thursday unveiled the first still from Tron: Ares, the third film in the Tron sci-fi franchise, which went into production in Vancouver in January. Check out the pic below.

Naman Ramachandran Netflix has revealed its upcoming 2024 Indian slate and Monika Shergill, VP, content has outlined the streamer’s commissioning philosophy and strategy for the country. New titles on the slate include: Luv Ranjan comedy film “Wild Wild Punjab”; Neeraj Pandey heist film “Sikandar Ka Muqaddar”; scripted Anubhav Sinha thriller series “IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack”; Kapil Sharma’s unscripted comedy series “The Great Indian Kapil Show”; and cricket themed docu-series “The Greatest Rivalry – India vs Pakistan,” featuring top Indian and Pakistani cricketers.

Dan Lin has been appointed as Netflix’s new head of film. He’ll replace Scott Stuber, who previously announced he’d be stepping down from the streaming behemoth in March. Lin’s name had been in the mix — along with recently departed Disney executive Sean Bailey, former Universal chief Stacey Snider and others — since the top film job opened in January.

Deadline has learned that producer Dan Lin is taking over for Scott Stuber as Netflix’s Top Film Boss.

Netflix is about to make its Broadway producing debut, joining the team of Peter Morgan‘s upcoming play Patriots.

Peter Andre has been having fun pretending to be pregnant, using melons and cling film to copy his wife's baby bump.The challenge follows after the 51 year old pop star and his wife Emily MacDonagh revealed in October that they were going to be welcoming a new bundle of joy into their family. On Instagram, Peter posted the hilarious video where he tried the famous 'watermelon challenge' which many dads to be have tried to do on TikTok.The goal is to see what it's like to have a baby in their tummy. In the video, we see Emily wrapping cling film around Peter to stick a big watermelon to his belly and two smaller honeydew melons to his chest.

EXCLUSIVE: Effective immediately, Walt Disney‘s President of Motion Picture Studios Sean Bailey, who turned the company’s animation vault into a multibillion-dollar live-action movie business, is departing after 15 years on the lot. Searchlight co-president David Greenbaum is stepping in to replace him.

Prince Harry 's latest documentary has made its debut, but surprisingly, it's not on Netflix as expected. Despite being under a lucrative five-year deal with the streaming giant, worth a staggering £80 million, the Duke of Sussex's latest offering, Prince Harry's Mission: Life, Family and the Invictus Games, has landed on Hulu instead.

“Uninspired.” “Never catches fire.” “Non-memorable.”

EXCLUSIVE: ITV is on the hunt for a Mr Bates vs the Post Office successor and has landed on the devastating contaminated blood scandal, with Peter Moffat attached.

Darts star Peter Wright has a funny plan to stop teen sensation Luke Littler in the Premier League Darts. He joked that he might take away Luke's phone so he can't play games before their match. Wright, who is a two-time world champion, will face Littler in the quarter-final on night four.

K.J. Yossman Peter Straughan, who adapted Hilary Mantel’s prize-winning historical novel “Wolf Hall” for screen has set the story of William Shakespeare’s first folio as his next project.

Jaden Thompson Netflix has released the trailer for the upcoming romantic comedy “Irish Wish,” starring Lindsay Lohan. The movie marks Lohan’s second Netflix original following her 2022 holiday movie “Falling for Christmas.” “Irish Wish” is set to stream on March 15. Netflix’s description of the film reads: “When the love of her life gets engaged to her best friend, Maddie (Lohan) puts her feelings aside to be a bridesmaid at their wedding in Ireland.

Following Abbey Clancy claiming that she had bizarrely spotted three UFOs hovering above her car last week, singer Peter Andre has weighed in on the possibility of extra terrestrial life. In his weekly column, dad of four (soon to be five) Peter exclusively told OK!: "Abbey Clancy has spoken about being stalked by three alien UFOs and I totally believe her. I’ve always believed UFOs are real.The kids and I had an incredible sighting in Cyprus that we’ll never forget and my brothers Michael, Chris and Danny have seen many.

What was old was extremely new on Netflix in January and even into this month.