Netflix tests speed-binge feature, draws Hollywood outrage

What if you could watch every episode ofBreaking BadandStranger Things50 percent faster? Thats a feature that Netflix is quietly testing, and its quickly drawn a big backlash from Hollywood creatives. The first-blush response from industry creatives, however, was not good. Turns out filmmakers dont like the idea of viewers watching their painstakingly crafted work on Chimpmunks mode. Save me the time. I will win but it will take a ton of time....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 287 words · Laura Campbell

Netflix will become a one-stopCowboy Bebopshop by adding original anime series

The voice actors of the anime are also returning to voice the Japanese dub of the live-action series. Netflix is positioning itself as the go-to destination for fans ofCowboy Bebop. This was followed byCowboy Bebop: The Movie, premiering in Japan in 2001 and the States in 2002. Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Faye Valentine, and Ed in ‘Cowboy Bebop’.Snap Stills/REX/Shutterstock Andre Nemec serves as showrunner. “Cowboy Bebopis an important work for me,” Yamadera said....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 108 words · Marilyn Spencer

Netflix will roast '3-time Super Bowl-losing' Tom Brady to kick off a new series of roasts

And the roast begins right now with a hilariously brutal press release from Netflix. Robbie Praw, Netflix’s Vice President of Stand-up and Comedy Formats, digs deeper with his statement. Brady is actually executive producing theGROATseries, including his own roast. Tom Brady will be the focus of a Netflix roast to kick off a series of celebrity roasts he’s producing.Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images Netflix promises to reveal additional information and who the specific roasters will be at a later date....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 165 words · Ronald Contreras

Netflix wolfsYou, renews drama for season 4

The story of Joe and Love will continue, no matter what the show’s upcoming third installment holds. Joe Goldberg can’t be stopped. Just days before the premiere ofYouseason 3, Netflix has renewed the stalker drama for a fourth season. Penn Badgley about to do something creepy on ‘You’.Tyler Golden/Netflix Now married with a son, the couple sees if they really can change. Of course, it won’t be as easy as it sounds....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 113 words · Erik Logan

Netflix won the year's most Oscars — and also severely underperformed

This pundit, for one, did not. Bolstered by the pandemic, 2021 was supposed to be the awards year of streamer domination. The year Netflix finally ran the table. (L to R) Glynn Turman, Chadwick Boseman, Michael Potts, and Colman Domingo in ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’.David Lee/Netflix The year the traditional players faded away, unable to keep up while we all watched movies at home. Butduring Sunday’slong, meandering,harrowingly anticlimactic Academy Awards, the story turned out to be quite the opposite....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 130 words · Felicia Martinez

Netflix's Cecil Hotel docuseries director explains why respecting Elisa Lam's story was of utmost importance

Elisa Lamtraveled to Los Angeles in early 2013 in search of adventure. What steps did you take to ensure it would be? That’s the first way, I think, we were respectful to Elisa Lam. Credit: Netflix To me, that is very disrespectful to the victim by not honoring the truth. The first season of your anthology series also tells the story of the Cecil Hotel. How did you find the right balance between telling both tales?...

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 323 words · Richard Gomez

Netflix's Cowboy Bebop review: A colorful, campy attempt at live-action anime doesn't justify itself

Could live-action anime adaptations follow a similar arc into the cultural spotlight?Netflixcertainly hopes so. Unfortunately theBebopcrew’s most colorful member, the androgynous hacker Ed a.k.a Radical Edward a.k.a. This invites what might be called the Disney+ Problem. John Cho as Spike Spiegel, Mustafa Shakir as Jet Black, and Daniella Pineda as Faye Valentine in ‘Cowboy Bebop’.Geoffrey Short/Netflix Easy come, easy go.C+ Related content:

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 62 words · Jack English

Netflix's Jeffrey Epstein documentary director reacts to Ghislaine Maxwell arrest

Lisa Bryant tells EW she spoke to one Epstein survivor who “just began sobbing” at the news. Netflixs Jeffrey Epstein documentary series director Lisa Bryant is speaking out on the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell. The Epstein associatewas arrestedon sex abuse charges in New Hampshire on Thursday. Credit: Sylvain Gaboury/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Bryant has had a busy morning fielding reactions from people involved withJeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich. Speaking more personally, Bryant said she thinks the arrest “is the right move....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 234 words · Mark Wright

Netflix's latestInventing Annatrailer teases the makings of a modern scam

Ozark actress Julia Garner stars as real-life con artist Anna Delvey in the new limited series from Shonda Rhimes. “Who is Anna Delvey?” The newest trailer, released on Friday, has some answers. Julia Garner stars as real-life scammer Anna Delvey in ‘Inventing Anna.'.NICOLE RIVELLI/NETFLIX “She is everything that is wrong with America right now,” claims another character. But if you ask the woman herself (played byOzark’sJulia Garner)? “Anna Delvey is a masterpiece, b—–s!...

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 85 words · Natasha Perez

Netflix'sOperation Varsity Bluestrailer recreates real F.B.I. wiretaps from college admissions scam

The new documentary from the makers of Fyre go inside the 2019 bombshell scandal. Netflix’s first trailer for theOperational Varsity Bluesdocumentary goes inside the F.B.I. investigation that exposed the biggest college admissions scam in American history. Netflix “They had every advantage and yet they still cheated,” a voiceover says. Operation Varsity Bluestakes its name from the codename for the F.B.I. Singer assisted in the F.B.I. investigation, and many of the parents have since pleaded guilty to various charges....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 86 words · Mariah Murphy

Netflix'sSandmanseries casts more major characters — see who's playing Death, Matthew, and more

See which actors, veterans and newcomers alike, are tackling which iconic characters in the upcoming TV adaptation. Dreams are becoming real. Among the many castings are several of the protagonists' mythical siblings. Dream gets some sibling advice from Death in her first appearance in ‘The Sandman’ #8 by Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg, and Malcolm Jones III.DC Entertainment And then we saw Kirby Howell-Baptiste’saudition and we knew we had our Death."...

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 143 words · Derrick King

Netflix'sShe-Rasneak peek: Watch She-Ra fall in love with Geena Davis' Huntara

She-Ras got a crush. That warrior woman is Huntara, andshes voiced by none other than Academy Award winner Geena Davis. Instead, they find a bustling cantina filled with questionable characters, including Huntara. Huntara, Adora, Glimmer and Bow in She-Ra season 3.Netflix Watch the video above for more. She-Ra and Huntara in She-Ra season 3.Netflix

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 54 words · Deanna Bright

Netflix'sThe Bubbleis a bust, The Dropoutfinale flails, butThe Outlawssteals laughs

What’s worth your time in TV and movies this weekend? EW’s critics review the latest and upcoming releases, including Richard Linklater’s Apollo 10 1/2. right at Holmes' face in a phony burst of catharsis. Stanley, voiced by Milo Coy, heads to the moon in ‘Apollo 10 1/2’.Netflix Maybe that happened; I doubt it. ‘The Outlaws’.James Pardon/Amazon Prime The cast of ‘The Bubble’.Laura Radford/Netflix Michaela Watkins, Amanda Seyfried, and Naveen Andrews in ‘The Dropout’....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 74 words · Robert Weiss