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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has preemptively acquired a new feature thriller pitch from screenwriter Sean O'Keefe to be produced by Matt Reeves' 6th & Idaho. The project is billed as being in the spirit of Ron Howard’s 1996 action kidnap thriller hit Ransom but with a female bent. The new project reps a reteaming of Netflix…

Extraction has come out on top of the first ranking of original movies released by Netflix, with a company-reported 99 million viewers in its first four weeks on the streaming service. Netflix, which reports its second-quarter earnings Thursday, has 183 million global subscribers. Its sizable subscriber gains in…

Reality show Love Is Blind, longish-running series Ozark and film Spenser Confidential were all gangbusters for Netflix last quarter, showcasing success across a variety of verticals from film to TV, to unscripted fare – in other words just about everything it tries is working. In stats the streamer unveiled is said…

Nielsen offered more confirmation that streaming is a big beneficiary as much of the nation shelters-at-home during the coronavirus pandemic. The ratings agency said minutes spent on streaming content in the U.S. was up 50% for the week of March 16 from the year earlier. Streaming minutes – 156 billion – were up about…

“Picture this: Dirty cops, drug cartels and some big politicians — all working together.” It’s been more than 30 years since the case was closed on ABC’s Spenser: For Hire, and now we have a new iteration for the streaming era. Here’s the first trailer for Spenser Confidential, with Mark Wahlberg crashing into the…