Trench coats, the perfect pair of jeans, a leather motorcycle jacket, a strand of pearls. In fashion, the most versatile items become the most iconic. The same goes for screenwriting. The magic trick of 2006’s “The Devil Wears Prada” was that it contained razor-sharp insights about the worlds of media and celebrity, packaged as a…
It was an “I know you’re bittersweet, but what am I?” evening. The annual Netflix Is a Joke festival kicked off Monday night at L.A.’s Greek Theatre with a “Pee-wee’s Playhouse 40th Anniversary” show , featuring comics and musicians paying tribute to a Saturday morning kids’ show — or was it — that they grew…
Perfect Crown has become the latest Korean title to break through on streaming. The romantic comedy has driven more than 43M hours viewed globally to-date across Disney+ and Hulu, per the Walt Disney Company. The series has achieved audience growth weekly, including a 43% increase in views in seven days for Episode 8 compared to…
With Stranger Things coming to an end with the highly anticipated fifth season, which recently reached the halfway mark of filming, the Duffer Brothers have moved forward full steam ahead with their next big project — The Boroughs. The show’s main players have been cast. The series, created by Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews (The…
Gracie Abrams has announced her third album “Daughter From Hell,” releasing on July 17 via Interscope Records. The singer-songwriter revealed the title of the project on social media on Monday morning. “Whoa whoa whoa,” she wrote in a caption. “Freaking out. I am so ready for it to be years.” In the lead-up to the…
There was both magic and realism involved for the Chilean creatives Francisca Alegría and Fernanda Urrejola, who brought Isabel Allende’s beloved novel “The House of the Spirits” to the screen as a limited series for Amazon Prime Video. Alegría and Urrejola and “House of the Spirits” executive producer Eva Longoria detailed the backstory of the…