RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s police on Thursday were investigating a video on social media that shows a gasoline bomb attack targeting the makers of a Christmas program on Netflix that some critics have described as blasphemous.
Actor Kevin Spacey channeled his famed “House of Cards” character Frank Underwood for the second Christmas in a row, urging viewers in a minute-long video to join him in being more kind to one another in 2020.
A petition against the Netflix Christmas special featuring a gay Jesus and pot-smoking Virgin Mary has now surpassed 2.3 million signatures, as Christians vent their outrage against the film.
An online petition protesting a Netflix Christmas special that portrays Jesus Christ as a gay man has reached two million signatures, putting pressure on the streamer to pull the show.
Two computer programmers in Las Vegas have pleaded guilty to multiple criminal copyright and money laundering charges related to the popular illegal streaming and download sites iStreamItAll and Jetflicks, which offered pirated versions of Hollywood TV shows and movies.
The Catholic bishop of Tyler, Texas, has denounced Netflix as blasphemous over its release of a Christmas Special titled The First Temptation of Christ portraying Jesus as gay.
Christians don’t lop off people’s heads, which is why it is always open season on us, which is to our credit.
Netflix could lose as many as four million subscribers next year as the streaming wars heat up, giving consumers a wider array of cheaper alternatives for their subscription dollars, according to an analyst’s report.
NEW YORK (AP) — Some Golden Globe nominations seemed like locks: Joaquin Phoenix, Tom Hanks, Adam Driver and Eddie Murphy. But others were happy shocks, like Awkwafina nabbing a best actress nomination for musical or comedy.
Actor Anthony Hopkins said he avoids talking publicly about current events because he believes “actors are pretty stupid.”
Six of the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe have been accused of dodging $100 billion in taxes by a British tax watchdog.
Director Martin Scorsese, who just turned 77, appears to have something else on his mind now… the perspective that comes with mortality.
Netflix has announced on social media it will make edits to a documentary it aired on a Nazi death camp to correct inaccuracies.
Pop superstar left-wing activist Taylor Swift has been accused of whipping up her fan base in a calculated way that is endangering the employees of her old recording label, which is currently embroiled in a bitter feud with the singer.
LOS ANGELES — Taylor Swift said Thursday that she may not perform at the American Music Awards and may have to put other projects including a forthcoming Netflix documentary on hold because the men who own her old recordings won’t allow her to play her songs.
Oscar-winning actress and stand-up comedienne Mo’Nique has filed a lawsuit against Netflix, alleging that the streamer engaged in racial and gender discrimination when it attempted to underpay her for a stand-up special while offering other comedians more money.
The Walt Disney Company has apologized to subscribers of the new Disney+ streaming service following reports that many users were experiencing outages on the service’s first day.
NEW YORK — Disney will sprinkle its pixie dust on the streaming arena Tuesday, as its Disney Plus service debuts with an arsenal of marquee franchises including Marvel and Star Wars, original series with a built-in fan base and a cheap price to boot.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki condemned Netflix for inaccuracies in a documentary it debuted about World War II, Poland’s national press agency reported on Monday.
Britbox, which claims to bring the “best of British” television on-demand, has banned programmes like Till Death Do Us Part and It Ain’t Half Hot, Mum because they may be offensive to today’s audiences.
ABC is reportedly developing a new dramatic series inspired by the lives of young women who worked in the White House during the Barack Obama administration.
Christian comedian John Crist has canceled his tour and a planned Netflix special is on hold after he acknowledged mistreating women.
Appearing Tuesday at the New York Times’ Dealbook conference, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings attempted to explain away the streaming giant’s decision to censor one of its programs in Saudi Arabia, contending “we’re not trying to do truth to power.”
An internal report from the Coral Springs Police Department in Florida indicates officers were over 30 minutes late to a June 9, 2019, shooting because a 911 call center supervisor was watching Netflix.
It was one of the most heart-rending animal tragedy episodes ever shown on TV: hundreds of walruses shown plunging over a cliff to their deaths out of “desperation” caused by climate change….
Hollywood’s biggest studios have succeeded in shutting down Openload, a popular pirating site that received more online traffic than Hulu, HBO Go, and NBCNews.com. A second pirating site, Streamango, was also shut down.
Netflix has incurred the wrath of some of Hollywood’s most prominent filmmakers — including Judd Apatow and Brad Bird — after the streamer reportedly began testing a new feature that will allow subscribers to play content at variable speeds.
Stand-up comedian and actor Dave Chappelle took a stand for free speech on Sunday, defending the First Amendment as he accepted the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, honoring achievements in the field of comedy.
A recent study claims that Google makes its websites faster than rival services by using code to dominate networks, taking an “unfair” share of internet traffic.
The Netflix cartoon, “She-Ra and the Princesses of Power,” is adding a gender non-binary character to its upcoming fourth season.
Netflix is deepening its already substantial debt load in the face of mounting competition, saying Monday that it plans to issue $2 billion more in bonds, which have been classified as junk.
Netflix saw disappointing domestic subscriber growth for the third quarter, signaling rougher waters ahead as the streaming giant braces itself for competition from the Walt Disney Company and Apple. This is the second straight quarter in which Netflix has missed its subscriber growth projections.
Barack and Michelle Obama have been named for the first time among Hollywood’s most powerful people in the annual 100 list published by The Hollywood Reporter.
“El Camino” picks up Jesse’s story from the iconic moment of his escape, and then spends the next 122 minutes removing all the fun that came with wondering what might have happened to him.
Actress-activist Jane Fonda said she is taking a break from her Netflix comedy series Grace and Frankie and is moving to Washington, D.C. in order to be at the center of the so-called climate change battle.
Singer-actress Selena Gomez has expressed a wish to become “a voice” for illegal aliens in her new Netflix series Living Undocumented.
In a sign that the streaming wars are reaching a boil, the Walt Disney Co. is reportedly banning all advertising from Netflix across Disney’s entertainment TV properties, which include channels like ABC and the Disney Channel.
Actor and far-left activist Robert De Niro can be heard exploding on his former personal assistant, Graham Chase Robinson, threatening her and warning she was “fucking history,” leaked voicemail messages reveal.
Veteran actor-comedian Eddie Murphy is the latest comic to take a stand against cancel culture, suggesting that he doesn’t want to apologize for what he says when he returns to stand-up comedy in a tour scheduled for next year.
Pop star Selena Gomez spoke out against U.S. Immigration policy in a Time op-ed published Monday, in which the Netflix producer admits that her family began illegally immigrating to the U.S. from Mexico in the 1970s.
