Netflix, the maker of the Attenborough climate documentary, plans to banish dirty diesel generators from film sets and use more virtual production techniques, after a review found that more than half of the company’s carbon emissions came from film production. Source: https://www.ft.com/content/0f8e596e-d5e7-4d1d-9472-d7c4345131dc … [Read more...]
10 Best Alfred Hitchcock Movies on Netflix
Numerous extraordinary specialists go undervalued during their lifetimes. However, crowds ran to Hitchcock’s motion pictures by the thousand for sixty years, delighting in the energy. Hitchcock passed on calmly in his rest at his home in Bel Air in April 1980, giving up quite possibly the most renowned inheritances in film history. To commend … [Read more...]
How to Sell Your Movie to Netflix, According to Someone Who’s Done It
Jeremy Beasley licensed his independently made movie, Small Is Beautiful: A Tiny House Documentary, to Netflix in 2016 — and he says you can, too. The Australian film director made a YouTube video on his channel Armchair Explainers that outlines the basics of how to do what he did, which you can watch above. We chatted with Beasley to see what … [Read more...]
Out of Africa: how Netflix’s ambitions could change the continent’s cinema
The streaming giant has come knocking, but a lack of infrastructure and government support continues to hinder the continent telling its own stories. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/film/ … [Read more...]
Netflix boss: Film fans want joint release dates for cinema and streaming
More films will be jointly released in cinemas and on streaming services in future because of a shift in viewing habits, a Netflix boss has predicted. Cinemas have traditionally enjoyed a period of screening exclusivity, known as the theatrical release window. But the pandemic has pushed films to streaming services, with Warner Bros moving … [Read more...]
Baftas 2021: Netflix leads the way with 34 nominations
Fifteen Netflix titles received nominations, with Mank leading the way with six, followed by The Dig (five), News Of The World (four), and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Trial of the Chicago 7 and His House (all three). It’s a significant uptick compared to last year, where the streaming giant scored 23 from six … [Read more...]
