The world’s largest paid streaming service Netflix has collaborated with the Arab Fund of Arts & Culture (AFAC) on an emergency relief fund to help support Lebanon’s film and television industry following the deadly Beirut blast on Aug. 4 that displaced thousands. Source: https://www.arabnews.com/node/1748791/lifestyle … [Read more...]
Theater Head Says Not Many Netflix Movies Are Worth Showing
The founder and head of Vue International has said that no Netflix movies are worth showing in theatres. Vue International is one of the world’s leading cinema operators, and the rather surprising statement came during the recent CJ Cinema Summit … [Read more...]
Secret Cinema partners with Netflix for first US screening
UK immersive cinema company Secret Cinema will partner with Netflix for its first US screening, which will be a drive-in event, as part of efforts to save its business after coronavirus made it impossible to operate. Drive-in films have become much more popular while social-distancing measures are in place. The Secret Cinema showing of the Netflix … [Read more...]
How AI is being used to socially distance audiences at ‘Tenet’ and why Netflix is no threat, according to this movie theater chain boss
Sophisticated algorithms are being used by one of Europe’s biggest movie theater chains to help with social distancing. Vue International, which has around 230 cinemas in the U.K., Germany, Taiwan, Italy, Poland and other European countries, has been using artificial intelligence to optimize screening times and is making adjustments to control … [Read more...]
Netflix is re-creating iconic Stranger Things sets in LA, and you can drive your car through them
A cross between the theater and a theme park ride that’s safe during the pandemic. Netflix on Thursday announced the launch of a unique Stranger Things immersive theater production it’s calling a “drive-into experience,” in which it’s transforming a series of buildings in downtown Los Angeles into what is effectively a cross between a theme park … [Read more...]
Netflix’s Cursed Subverts The King Arthur Legend, But Does It Work?
A lot of us binged Netflix’s latest fantasy series Cursed now that it's available to stream. So much so that the series dethroned The Old Guard’s record-breaking spot and became No. 1 among the streaming service’s many offerings. Based on a YA book by Tom Wheeler and Frank Miller (yes, 300 and Sin City’s Frank Miller), who concurrently co-created … [Read more...]
