EXCLUSIVE: The Lego Batman Movie filmmaker Chris McKay is to direct Millarworld comic book adaptation Reborn for Netflix, Sandra Bullock and It producer Vertigo Entertainment. The sci-fi fantasy comic series by Mark Millar and Greg Capullo tells the story of an eighty year-old woman, Bonnie Black, who dies in a…

Netflix broke with its longstanding practice of withholding viewer data and revealed that some 80 million households viewed Bird Box in 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…

Warner Bros./Village Roadshow’s gender swap all-star heist comedy Ocean’s 8 arrived on tracking this morning with industry projections indicating that the pic could open to $45M when it opens on June 8. Some tracking firms have the all femme pic at $30M,  but it will come as no surprise if Ocean’s 8 debuts at the…

“In 3 1/2 weeks, the Met will be holding its annual ball — and we are going to rob it,” Debbie Ocean tells her co-conspirators. “$16.5 million in each of your bank accounts five weeks from now.” There’s just one problem: “This is the most sophisticated security in the world.” Oh yeah? Bring it on. Here’s the new…

Warner Bros and Village Roadshow have dropped the first trailer for Ocean’s 8, the female-driven caper spinoff of Ocean's Eleven. The proceedings begin similarly to that film which had George Clooney discussing his prison reform at a parole hearing. Here, we get Sandra Bullock pleading her case (see above). Bullock…