EXCLUSIVE: With Cannes in the rear-view mirror, film industry attention is now turning to the autumn festivals and what titles are shaping up as the ones we’ll be talking about throughout awards season. Having steadily cemented its status as the go-to fall launchpad for awards hopefuls, including three of the last…

American Factory, the documentary from Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions and Participant Media, will premiere on Netflix on August 21. The streaming service had acquired the pic from co-directors Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it won the U.S…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has landed Scarlet, a film that is being measured to be the next one directed by Sundance breakout Alice Waddington, the helmer of Paradise Hills. Waddington hatched the idea and will write the script with Kristen SaBerre. The project was acquired for Aggregate’s Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan…

Erik Feig has hired his former Summit Entertainment colleague James McGough as chief operating officer at Picturestart, the company said Wednesday. McGough has been at Netflix, where he oversaw the Content Strategy and Analysis team for the streamer’s Original Film division. The move comes a day after Disney+ hired of…

Netflix’s horror drama series The Order will be making its first appearance at San Diego Comic-Con, bringing season 2 teases. The Order cast Jake Manley, Sarah Grey, Adam DiMarco, Devery Jacobs, Thomas Elms, Louriza Tronco and Katharine Isabelle will join series creator/showrunner Dennis Heaton, writer/EP Shelley…

Lena Headey (Game of Thrones), Benedict Wong (Avengers: Endgame), Awkwafina (Crazy Rich Asians), Sigourney Weaver, Hannah John-Kamen (Ant-Man and The Wasp) and Dave Goelz (The Dark Crystal) have joined the voice cast for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, a prequel series to the Jim Henson Company's groundbreaking…

Netflix already said that When They See Us was one of the most popular series on the streaming platform. Now the numbers are out, showing more than 23 million accounts worldwide have watched the four-part drama about the so-called Central Park Five. On Tuesday, Ava DuVernay, who produced, directed and co-wrote the…

The Office is leaving Netflix in 2020 and heading to NBCUniversal’s forthcoming streaming service, beginning in January 2021. NBCU said it has secured exclusive domestic streaming rights to all nine seasons of the sitcom for a five-year term. The streaming service is expected to launch in mid-2020. Unlike new…

EXCLUSIVE: Disney+ has flexed its muscle with the hire of Netflix’s Director Of Original Film Matt Brodlie, we can reveal. For once it is Netflix which is having its staff lured away. Brodlie joins as Senior Vice President, International Content Development, it was confirmed today by Ricky Strauss, President, Content…

Perhaps there will be more Fuller House after the fifth and final season wraps? Producer John Stamos, who starred as Uncle Jesse on Full House and reprises the role in the show’s spin-off Fuller House, provided some hope to fans in an interview with ET, saying he’s looking at a possible series prequel. “I’m interested…

Netflix is ramping up its star power. The streamer said Monday that two-time Oscar winner George Clooney is attached to direct and star in a feature based on Lily Brooks-Dalton’s 2016 novel Good Morning, Midnight, which was adapted for screen by The Revenant scribe Mark L. Smith. Clooney and producing partner Grant…

Netflix has opened up vast new possibilities for Shondaland, a panel comprised of company executives and creative collaborators agreed Sunday, but the DNA that informed Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal remains intact. “The underlying principles of what made the Shondaland recipe in the ABC version are going to be alive and…