Netflix enters China with iQIYI deal

Netflix has made its first major step into the Chinese market this week, with a new deal with iQIYI.

The streaming giant expanded its reach worldwide last year, taking its service to almost 200 countries. One, though, has remained tantalisingly … Read More

Hidden Figures writer heads to Netflix for El Camino Christmas

Hidden Figures writer Ted Melfi is heading to Netflix for his next project, El Camino Christmas.

Melfi first began work on the movie a decade ago, after buying a script with co-writer Chris Wehner. Now, after getting an Oscar nomination … Read More

Parents and teenagers bond over binge-watching

Parents are increasingly streaming shows to connect with their children, new research from Netflix reveals.

Inspired by 13 Reasons Why, which deals with the subject of teen suicide, the streaming giant is encouraging parents to talk about the issues raised … Read More

Netflix and Amazon lead Sundance London 2017 line-up

Sundance London returns this summer, and Netflix and Amazon are leading the line-up for 2017.

The streaming giants dominated the Utah festival this year, snapping up every indie gem they could find to join their growing libraries of exclusive titles. … Read More

YouTube adds 12 milllion videos to Restricted Mode

YouTube has added 12 million videos to its Restricted Mode, following criticisms that the feature was censoring out hundreds and thousands of LGBTQ+ uploads.

Restricted Mode, if you’ve never used it, is an optional feature deisgned to filter out mature … Read More

MUBI to release Bruno Dumont’s Slack Bay in cinemas this June

MUBI will premiere Bruno Dumont’s Slack Bay this summer in the UK.

Starring Juliette Binoche and Fabrice Luchini, the film (which has the original title of Ma Loute) is a fiery black comedy, set on the French coast in the … Read More

Catch up on Twin Peaks in under three minutes

With now less than a month until Twin Peaks returns to our screens, there are two types of people in the world: those who have seen David Lynch’s TV masterpiece and those who haven’t. Both, however, have something in common: … Read More

Netflix heads Down Under for The Legend of Monkey

Netflix is heading Down Under to tell The Legend of Monkey.

Inspired by the classic Chinese fable, Journey to the West, the live-action epic is a co-production between the streaming giant, Australia’s ABC and New Zealand’s TVNZ.

Production is … Read More

What’s leaving Sky and NOW TV in April / May 2017?

With no Game of Thrones until the summer, your spring TV schedule may be seeming a little empty. But now’s the time to fill those nights with The Walking Dead, Legion, High Maintenance and other TV box sets before they … Read More

This week’s new releases on BFI Player+ (22nd April 2017)

Heard of BFI Player? Well, there’s also BFI Player+, a subscription service that offers an all-you-can-eat selection of hand-picked classics.

Every Friday, Mark Kermode highlights one of the collection’s titles with a video introduction. This week, it’s Kurosawa’s Ran.

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