In the first minute of Netflix's animated comedy Mating Season, a bear wakes up, urinates uncontrollably across his cave, stumbles outside, sees two horny raccoons banging away, then spirals into a deep well of shame about it. At this stage, it is barely worth pointing out that Mating Season is the spiritual successor to the outrageous, witty comedy Big Mouth, so completely does it inhabit that show's DNA. And at this point, you will already know if the show is for you or not.
Netflix released a trailer for the upcoming documentary Michael Jackson: The Verdict ahead of its premiere on June 3. Coming from showrunner David Herman and director Nick Green, the docuseries consists of three 50-minute episodes and promises to “dissect” Jackson's 2003 child molestation trial and acquittal through “key players who were inside the courtroom,” according to the official logline.
Netflix has launched a new studio called INKubator that will specialize in creating generative AI content. Based on the current job listings for the team, it appears this studio will be creating short-form animated content that centers gen-AI workflows and tools.
Netflix has been building a new internal studio called INKubator that aims to use AI to produce short-form animated content: The streamer is hiring for a wide variety of roles, including producers, software engineers, and CG artists to staff INKubator, according to a number of recently published job listings.
Yet beyond the shaky facts, the underlying assumption of the fable-that Blockbuster's fate rested solely, or even mostly, on a strategic decision made in a conference room in 2000, ten years before it went bankrupt in 2010-is absurd. A business's fate rarely depends on a single decision made at the top, but rather on how stakeholders are aligned around change.
“We did ask Paul McCartney at one point,” he told Variety. “To me, that would be a fantasy roast. Paul McCartney doesn't need anything, but a Paul McCartney roast would be good for the world. It would be so funny to me because he is so loved.”
Once Netflix ( NASDAQ: NFLX | NFLX Price Prediction) dropped out of the race for Warner Bros. Discovery, it was supposed to bounce back. Most investors in the company could not see why Netflix would go after what were primarily media assets. And the price tag was staggering. Indeed, its stock price was $77 before Netflix walked away. It jumped to $95 in a matter of days.
Usually quite a bit darker than your average crime thriller, these stories often feature familiar plot beats garnished with unflinching violence and complex supporting characters. Netflix's "The Chestnut Man" is one of the better recent examples of this phenomenon, a Danish thriller from 2021 that follows the investigation into a string of serial murders, all marked by the inclusion of a disturbing chestnut figurine alongside various mutilated dead bodies.
