SAG-AFTRA’s national board has voted overwhelmingly to approve a new three-year contract with Netflix. The contract now goes to the guild’s membership for ratification.
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Persuasion adaptation on Netflix. You know the one. It stars Dakota Johnson as a wine-guzzling, pining, winking Anne Elliott and was much-derided on the internet from the moment .
But Jane Austen adaptations take liberties all the time. Why was this one so uniquely enraging to so many? I’ll tell you why. It’s not the color-blind casting, abridged plot, or anachronisms that upset people.
It’s that this film seemingly treats Austen fans with disdain while attempting to pander to them.TikTok has its own thriving Jane Austen subculture—the precise audience the creators of this film were likely attempting to appeal to. It explains the too-cute winks to the camera and lines of dialogue like, “If you’re a 5 in London you’re a 10 in Bath.” Unfortunately for Netflix, #AustenTok has emphatically criticized the film for talking down to its audience and aping Fleabag’s signature fourth-wall breaks. Some creators took a serious critical tone when talking about the film while others mostly ranted.
Both have led to Persuasion becoming so well-known as a flop on TikTok that simply tagging the title over a meme audio is enough to convey your meaning.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Persuasion didn’t fare much better on other platforms. Twitter lit up for days after the film premiered on Netflix, and Austen fans were enflamed anew when reported that one of the movie’s screenwriters, Ron Bass, is working on similar adaptations of Pride & Prejudice and Sense & Sensibility. “I promise you that everyone involved in this adores Jane Austen and adores her work,” Bass told the paper, speaking directly to critics (including myself) who voiced that Persuasion's creators must either be unfamiliar with Austen or just openly
.SAG-AFTRA’s national board has voted overwhelmingly to approve a new three-year contract with Netflix. The contract now goes to the guild’s membership for ratification.
Joey King and Zac Efron have officially kicked off filming for their upcoming Netflix rom-com!
Naman Ramachandran Netflix has released the trailer of the second season of “Delhi Crime.”Shefali Shah returns in the lead role of deputy commissioner of police Vartika Chaturvedi AKA ‘Madam Sir.’ In the new season, the Delhi police must deal with a series of grisly murders in the face of escalating public fear and the growing demands for answers.The cast also includes Rasika Dugal, Rajesh Tailang, Adil Hussain, Anurag Arora, Yashaswini Dayama, Sidharth Bhardwaj, Gopal Dutt, Denzil Smith, Tillotama Shome, Jatin Goswami, Vyom Yadav and Ankit Sharma. The writing team includes Mayank Tewari, Shubhra Swarup, Vidit Tripathi, Ensia Mirza, Sanyuktha Chawla Shaikh and Virat Basoya.Shah said: “I love every character I’ve played but Vartika Chaturvedi will always be super special. And I’m so proud of the role and ‘Delhi Crime’ as a show.
MVAAFF) kicked off Friday with great pomp and circumstance — and a few bars of “Hail to the Chief” — as Barack and Michelle Obama made a special appearance for the opening night screening of Netflix documentary “Descendant.”When Netflix acquired worldwide rights to the Sundance award-winning documentary in January, the Obamas’ production company Higher Ground signed on to present the feature alongside the streamer and Participant. The documentary, which earned the U.S.
Mark Wahlberg and Tom Holland‘s movie Uncharted was released in theaters back in February 2022 and it was supposed to hit Netflix a few weeks ago, but then never was added to the streamer.
Netflix has bagged Thomas M. Wright’s tense Cannes thriller The Stranger and will premiere it globally in October.
EJ Panaligan editorThe Writers Guild of America informed its members on Thursday that it has prevailed in a crucial arbitration with Netflix over their underpayment of writers’ residuals for the 2018 film “Bird Box,” notching another $42 million in unpaid residuals for 216 writers on 139 other Netflix films.Netflix’s initial argument regarding “Bird Box” was that the WGA should have accepted a substandard formula they had negotiated with DGA and SAG-AFTRA, but the arbitrator decided after a hearing that the license fee should be greater than the gross budget of the film. The arbitrator then ordered Netflix to pay the film’s writer $850,000 in residuals, along with the full interest of $350,000.WGA’s victory in the “Bird Box” case directly led to writers for other films on the streaming service’s receiving the additional $42 million in unpaid residuals.
For Hyperion Pictures, one of their three most successful movies is “The Brave Little Toaster,” For Pixar, “Toy Story 3” is ranked as the second most successful. While they’re both successful animated children’s movies, the most prominent similarity between the franchises is that they are both rooted in loyalty, friendship, perseverance, and courage.
Thinus Ferreira Guest ContributorNetflix’s top executive team in Africa plans to continue spending on scripted and unscripted content across genres until it unearths the big “Squid Game”-like show that captures global buzz.During Tuesday’s “See What’s Next Africa” showcase in Johannesburg, South Africa, the streamer unveiled several African original renewals, some co-production developments, more details around existing projects, and another multi-project output deal with the South Africa filmmaker Mandlakayise Walter Dube for films and series.Under the partnership, Dube — who directed Netflix’s first commissioned African film “Silverton Siege,” released earlier this year — will direct a variety of Netflix-owned projects. He joins Nigeria’s Junle Afolayan of Kunle Afolayan Productions and Mo Abudu of EbonyLife Studios who have similar output deals with the streamer already.
Netflix has struck a multi-project partnership with South African filmmaker Mandlakayise (Mandla) Walter Dube and unveiled its latest film with Nigerian director Kunle Afolayan, as the streamer trumpeted its investment in Africa today in Johannesburg.
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“Watch by all, seen by none,” teases the first trailer for Netflix’s “Blonde,” the Ana de Armas-starrer that takes an up-close look at Marilyn Monroe like we’ve never seen her before. Per the Netflix logline: “Based on the bestselling novel by Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde boldly reimagines the life of one of Hollywood’s most enduring icons, Marilyn Monroe.
It feels like we’ve been waiting years and years for “Blonde,” director Andrew Dominik’s long-gestating, long-awaited Marilyn Monroe biopic, based on the bestselling novel by Joyce Carol Oates. Starring Ana de Armas as the blonde bombshell and Hollywood icon, “Blonde” boldly reimagines the life of Marilyn Monroe, exploring the split between her public and private selves.
Netflix has greenlit a premium documentary on software pioneer John McAfee, who went on the run after his neighbor was murdered in Belize.
sequel and spin-off announcement (yes, two separate projects), which broke on Tuesday.Animated film “The Sea Beast” pulled in an additional 34.14 million hours viewed in its third week, appearing in the Top 10 in 92 countries. “Persuasion” also continued its streak on the list with 29.04 million hours viewed and held tight to the Top 10 in 91 countries.
While Warner Bros. is expanding their D.C.