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Backed against the wall, Netflix wants a Texas District Attorney stopped from hitting the streamer with child pornography charges over the coming-of-age drama Cuties. “Netflix brings this Complaint to enjoin Tyler County District Attorney Lucas Babin from abusing his office and infringing Netflix, Inc.'s…

Netflix has revealed its most popular non-English language films and TV series in the U.S., with the list containing an interesting mix of titles from Europe, Asia and South America, plus a few surprises. Spanish-language genre pic The Platform, set in a nightmarish vertical-style prison, tops the list of most-watched…

France's Oscar selection committee has chosen drama Two Of Us as its submission to the International Feature Film category at the 2021 Academy Awards. From director Filippo Meneghetti, the feature debut world premiered in the Discovery section of Toronto last year and was released in France in early 2020 via Sophie…

France's Oscar selection committee today set a shortlist of five films that are in contention to be the country’s official submission to the International Feature Film category at the 2021 Academy Awards. Among the titles is Cuties, the Sundance award-winning debut drama from Maïmouna Doucouré that was well-received…

Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos has voiced shock that a censorship debate has sprung up around the controversial Cuties film after a Texas grand jury indicted the streamer over the feature. In comments at the virtual Mipcom market on Monday, Sarandos said Cuties was misunderstood in America after the indictment claimed it…

A Lone Star State grand jury has indicted Netflix over the controversial Cuties film. According to the September 23 indictment out of Tyler County, Texas, the streamer led by Reed Hastings and Ted Sarandos "knowingly promote visual material which depicts the lewd exhibition of the genitals or pubic area of a clothed…

French cinema organization UniFrance, which is backed by the French government and represents hundreds of local producers, sales agents, directors and talent agents, has sent out a memo to industry expressing its support for filmmaker Maïmouna Doucouré and her film Cuties after the social media frenzy sparked by a…

UPDATED at 1:30PM PT: Sen Ted Cruz and Fox News host Laura Ingraham added their voices to the outcry over Cuties, a French indie film that either encourages or critiques the sexualization of pre-pubescent girls, depending on your vantage point. Cruz is asking the Department of Justice to investigate Netflix over its…

Less than an hour after we published our interview with Cuties director Maïmouna Doucouré, in which she defended her movie after a backlash against its U.S. poster, the Turkish government has said it will order Netflix to block local access to the movie. Reuters is reporting that the country's broadcasting watchdog…

The last two weeks has been a period of contrasting emotions for Cuties filmmaker Maïmouna Doucouré. The film, her debut feature that was an award winner at Sundance earlier this year, was released in French cinemas on August 19 to positive reviews and strong word-of-mouth from the public who were willing to don their…

Netflix has issued a swift mea culpa after a strong backlash today around the marketing of its forthcoming release Cuties. The largely well-received French-language pic won the World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award at Sundance this year. It follows Amy, an 11-year-old girl who joins a group of dancers named “The…