Recently at the Sundance Film Festival, Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer drew attention to an up-and-coming advocate for equal pay for women in the film industry, no other than Just That Kid from Akron, L.A. Laker, LeBron James. Much like C.J. Walker, the black self-made millionaire that Octavia Spencer plays in the upcoming series, Spencer’s talent […]
Hulu is coming for Netflix subscribers, and it’s not even being subtle about it. After upstaging Netflix’s Fyre Festival documentary by surprise-dropping its own Fyre Fraud just days before — in a spectacularly obvious move — Hulu has now announced plans to drop the price of its (most popular) basic subscription plan from $7.99 to just $5.99. The move comes just a week after Netflix […]
When Billy McFarlands ‘FYRE FESTIVAL’ was set to hit the Bahamas to become the mother of all music festivals like Coachella, Lollapalooza, and the birth mother to all music festivals, Woodstock to shame. Unlike Coachella that is in the middle of the dessert designed for the real music connoisseur, Fyre Festival was suppose to give […]
Unsolved Mysteries will return to the small screen. Deadline reports Netflix will reboot the true crime docuseries more than 30 years after it debuted on NBC. Stranger Things executive producer Shawn Levy is leading the revival through his company 21 Laps Entertainment, which has an overall deal with the streaming giant. The show’s original creators Terry Dunn Meurer and John Cosgrove are also attached . The former will […]
Y’all really should have left stupid back in 2018. Instead here we are, getting into car accidents because of Bird Box. Smh. According to the Layton Police Department of Layton, Utah, a car accident took place on Friday morning because one of the drivers was participating in the ridiculous Bird Box challenge. That’s right, a 17-year-old girl was driving […]
Netflix shared the trailer for their upcoming Fyre Festival documentary on Thursday. The film, which covers the failed high-end festival and the world’s collective schadenfreude over the stranded rich kids, features interviews with workers on the ground and people in the orbit of festival organizer Billy McFarland. Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened was directed by Jim & Andy director Chris […]
With the trailer for Jordan Peele‘s Get Out follow-up Us dropping bright and early on Christmas Day, I figured the rest of the day would be spent with folks theorizing about what Peele’s next horror flick would be about in between opening gifts, watching A Christmas Story, and the NBA. What I wasn’t expecting was a collective Twitter Watch Party for Bird Box, the ensemble A Quiet Place-esque film that Netflix […]
Marvel fans are brushing off their copies of the DSM-5 after Netflix got a little colorful with their description of Avengers: Infinity War. The streaming giant described the cosmic mass murderer as an “intergalactic sociopath,” inspiring debate and laughs in equal measure. The problem with calling Thanos a sociopath is that sociopaths are commonly considered to be people who […]
Netflix has canceled their Marvel show Luke Cage, Deadline reports. “Unfortunately, Marvel’s Luke Cage will not return for a third season,” Marvel and Netflix said, per Deadline. “Everyone at Marvel Television and Netflix is grateful to the dedicated showrunner, writers, cast and crew who brought Harlem’s Hero to life for the past two seasons, and to all the fans who have supported […]
Netflix could soon ditch its ad-free model. As pointed out by Cord Cutter News, the popular streaming service has begun testing video adverts in between series episodes. A limited number of users have confirmed seeing these commercials, which reportedly promote other shows on the platform. “So I’m just sitting winding down after work watching some Rick and Morty and […]
It’s official. Kenya Barris, the creator of ABC’s “Black-ish” and writer of “Girls Trip,” is ending his longtime affiliation with ABC Studios and is reportedly set to close a nine-figure overall deal with Netflix, according to The Hollywood Reporter. As previously reported, Barris had become disgruntled at the broadcast affiliated studio, and industry sources predicted he’ll likely […]
Octavia Spencer and LeBron James are coming for those edges as executive producers “Madam C.J. Walker,” a limited series about America’s first black, female billionaire for Netflix. Spencer will star in the eight-episode series, which is based on the book “On Our Own Ground” by A’Lelia Bundles, Walker’s great-great-granddaughter, who will also serve as a consultant. The show will […]