Graham King’s long-gestating feature based on the 2009 British miniseries Unforgiven is moving forward at Netflix. Oscar-winner Sandra Bullock has signed on to produce and star in the film adaptation, which will be directed by Nora Fingscheidt, whose directorial debut, Systemsprenger, was selected to represent Germany…
Add Sandra Bullock to the growing list of voices calling for equal pay for the US Women’s National Soccer team.
Appearing at the 2019 ESPYS in Los Angeles to present the “Best Team” award, Bullock spoke out in favor of the women, who are paid less than the men’s national team despite back-to-back World Cup wins.
“All…
Sandra Bullock’s college experience is the inspiration for a dramedy series set in the world of music and dance, which is in the works at Amazon. Bullock is executive producing the project with fellow Oscar winners Akiva Goldsman and John Legend executive produce the project.
Created and written by K.C. Perry (Constanc…
Netflix broke with its longstanding practice of withholding viewer data and revealed that some 80 million households viewed Bird Boxin its first four weeks of release.
CEO Reed Hastings made that information public in the investor letter that accompanied the company’s fourth quarter earnings report, as he sought to…
Nielsen has offered more data to back up Netflix’s assertion that its original movie Bird Box is the streaming giant’s biggest movie hit, reporting that nearly 26 million U.S. subscribers watched it in its first week.
Last week, Netflix offered a rare morsel of data about its programming, affirming that 45 million…
Netflix said Friday that some 45 million users already had watched its original movie Bird Box during its first week. Today, it’s urging them not to emulate it. Please.
Director Susanne Bier’s film stars Sandra Bullock a woman who joins two children (Julien Edwards, Vivien Lyra Blair) in making her way through a…
Netflix, which is notoriously strict in refusing to reveal data about its platform, lifted the veil on Sandra Bullock thriller Bird Box by revealing in a tweet that 45,037,125 accounts streamed the film during its first seven days.
That tally was the highest for any Netflix original film in its first week, according…
While Sandra Bullock would eventually fall in love with Bird Box—a Netflix horror-thriller based on a novel by Josh Malerman and directed by Susanne Bier—the Oscar winner had quite a different reaction to the material in her first interaction with it some years ago.
"I thought it was intriguing, but there was…
In a seismic move that Deadline earlier this week revealed was coming, Netflix will boost the awards chances of several contending films by setting exclusive limited theatrical releases prior to the streaming service releases of the Alfonso Cuaron-directed Roma, the Joel & Ethan Coen-directed The Ballad of Buster Scrug…
The American Film Institute today unveiled its full lineup of galas that will screen at this year’s AFI Fest, and judging from the list it looks like Netflix is conquering yet another fall film festival with no less than three of the five screenings announced this morning.
The Netflix list includes the world premiere…
It all started in 1960 with the memorable Rat Pack Vegas heist picture Ocean’s 11, and then continued with a trio of reboots starting in 2001. Ocean’s 11, 12 and finally 13 were (mostly) male-driven con job movies masterminded by director Steven Soderbergh and producer Jerry Weintraub. When Clooney, Pitt, Damon & Co…
