Notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who had been on the run since his escape from prison last summer, was recaptured by Mexican authorities after he attempted to contact filmmakers about producing a Narcos-style biopic about his life.
Adam Sandler’s politically incorrect western parody The Ridiculous 6 has been soundly rejected by mainstream film critics, but that hasn’t stopped the slapstick comedy from breaking records by becoming the most-watched movie premiere in Netflix’s history.
An online petition has collected hundreds of thousands of digital signatures seeking a pardon for a pair of convicted killers-turned-social media sensations based on a Netflix documentary series that cast doubt on the legal process.
Streaming giant Netflix used Tuesday night’s CNN Republican debate to announce the fourth season of its political drama “House of Cards” with a campaign ad for the show’s fictional character Frank Underwood.
Streaming video and audio now accounting for 70 percent of internet usage within North American homes during the peak evening period, according to a new report from Sandvine.
Adam Sandler’s controversial Netflix film The Ridiculous 6 got its first trailer this week.
A New Mexico man who beat his friend to death while drunk told police that he had been “binge-watching” The Walking Dead and believed his friend had begun turning into a zombie.
Insiders are reporting that Disney-owned ESPN cable sports network is preparing to cut up to 350 jobs, causing it to shed about 4.3 percent of its workforce.
Netflix executives hinted Wednesday that the streaming giant could take on a new challenge in the next couple of years: getting into news programming.
Netflix has altered a film description for the 1995 Disney hit Pocahontas after the company was accused of perpetuating negative stereotypes about women and Native Americans.
“Life is a funny thing, you now,” says rock and roll icon Keith Richards in the trailer for his upcoming documentary. “Nobody wants to get old, but they don’t want to die young either.”
The BBC’s Head of Television, Danny Cohen, has complained that the corporation “just couldn’t compete” with the global financial might of Netflix, losing out on a pitch for what he says was “a classic BBC subject”. Cohen, speaking ahead of the Edinburgh
The Hawaii state government has eliminated access to video streaming services featuring entertainment for its employees.
Classic children’s television show Sesame Street has landed a new home at HBO.
The largest swindle big business ever played on the American people — forcing us to pay huge cable bills for dozens of channels we never watch — is slowly coming apart. Even with an ever-increasing population, the pay TV industry
FX President John Landgraf sent shivers down the spines of television executives last week when he declared that the so-called “golden age” of the medium could soon be reaching its end.
The trailer for Netflix’s first original film Beasts of No Nation was released this week.
Netflix is on a roll. The video streaming giant has grown 6x in the last 6 years, expanding from roughly 10.3 million subscribers in 2009 to an astounding 65.6 million in the second quarter of 2015.
Thanks to investments in original programming, with popular shows such as Orange is the New Black and House of Cards, Netflix added 2.5 million new subscribers in the second quarter of 2015.
Orange is the New Black star Ruby Rose is making waves both on the small screen and off it.
Streaming content king Netflix has become known for making bold moves into the original content game. With critically-acclaimed series like House of Cards and Orange is the New Black, Oscar-nominated documentaries like The Square, and an upcoming four-picture deal with funnyman Adam Sandler, the company has barnstormed its way to over 62 million subscribers worldwide.
In an announcement Tuesday, Sony claims that starting next month, through its Playstation Vue streaming service, the company will offer a la carte subscriptions to whatever individual channels customers choose to pay for. For now, this service is only available
Now streaming on Netflix, the documentary Hot Girls Wanted takes an in-depth look at how the amateur porn industry takes advantage of a never-ending line of young girls, by promising to make their dreams come true.
Netflix (NFLX) stock briefly hit an all-time high of $628.50 per share on Tuesday after an analyst at equity research firm Pivotal Research Group increased the stock’s end-of-year target price to $850, a boost of 38% over the stock’s Monday closing price of $650.
Days after a dozen Native American actors walked off the set of Adam Sandler’s upcoming Netflix-only comedy western, The Ridiculous Six, video has emerged of the actors expressing concerns the script is disrespectful and offensive to the film’s producers.
Laverne Cox, the transgender star of the Netflix drama Orange Is the New Black, was named on People’s 2015 list of the World’s Most Beautiful People.
Netflix, Inc. beat its aggressive prediction that it would add 4 million new streaming subscribers in the quarter ending March by adding 4.88 million subscribers. After shares leaped 47% over the past three months, the fabulous numbers sent the stock up about 11 percent to $531 in after-hours trading on Wednesday.
Another nail in the coffin of bundled cable was driven home on Wednesday, as Netflix said its video-streaming service topped 62 million subscribers worldwide.
With the help of former Today Show co-anchor Katie Couric, actress Michelle Pfeiffer is looking to nab her first starring TV role, in a series that will take a comedic look at a fictional morning news show.
A northern California man was jailed on burglary charges this week after police traced the victim’s active Netflix account to the thief’s home.
From Kyle Smith at the New York Post: Tina Fey’s new comedy “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” was rejected by NBC, which commissioned it. That turned out to be excellent news, because the show wound up on Netflix. Netflix doesn’t have a
Leonardo DiCaprio is partnering up with Netflix to create a new series of environmental and conservation-themed documentaries, which will air exclusively on the streaming service, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Netflix usually takes up about 30% of all Internet bandwidth in the U.S. Yes, a single Internet company is responsible for nearly a 1/3rd of all the Internet’s resources. So, the total resources available to all Internet users is heavily dependent on Netflix, alone.
Netflix released the third season of House of Cards early on Wednesday, more than two weeks ahead of its planned premiere.
Netflix announced Monday that its service is now available in Cuba for those with an Internet connection and access to international payment methods. In a statement, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said the company is “delighted” to bring its collection of
Declaring that the Internet must not be taken over by big business interests, a top U.S. regulator on Wednesday proposed dramatically expanding the government’s power to oversee Internet service providers and establishing new rules that would prohibit companies from blocking or slowing data.
If anyone thought Adam Sandler would pad his 4 picture Netflix deal with television-level films, the details behind Sandler’s first production will put that to rest. News of the “Ridiculous 6” will also put a chill down the spine of
Just moments after Kevin Spacey accepted a Golden Globe award Sunday night for his role in House of Cards, Netflix released the official trailer for season three.
Netflix announced the release of the documentary The Search for Michael Rockefeller, which depicts of the fate of the youngest child of former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, who was reportedly devoured by cannibals.
A BBC boss has admitted that the corporation is struggling to compete with rivals, including online streaming services such as Netflix which are ‘able to blow them out of the water’. He has conceded that the BBC will have to
