Netflix’s Ted Sarandos on Local-Language Originals Strategy

Adele may have gotten way into fitness and healthy living over the past couple years, but she just proved this week that she still knows how to party with the best of them!

Instagram Story to share an update with his 268,000 followers amid his cancer battle.On a blank background, Tom penned earlier today: “Everyone is so concerned with my absense from Insta for a a few dais which is lovely thank you for your concern. (sic)“I was just detoxifying from it for a bit.” (sic)The singer had recently called on his fans to say a prayer for him as he battled a brain tumour.He was diagnosed with an inoperable grade 4 glioblastoma back in October 2020.However, an MRI scan late last year revealed his tumour is currently stable.But earlier this month, Tom urged his fans on Instagram to "call on the angels" to support him.He made the petition to his "amazing followers" as he shared a photo of himself and his devoted wife Kelsey Hardwick."I would love for you all to get involved tonight and light a candle and say a prayer for me," he wrote.He also stressed that it was a new moon and that the date, 02.02.22, was a "supreme number"."It’s a powerful day to manifest with the universe, so let’s all heal together," Tom continued.The prayer he requested everyone to recite out loud, written by @seaspiritandstones, asked for “power, strength and healing” for Tom to return to health.It read: “I let go of what no longer serves me for the highest good and in divine order."Thank you universe for all that I have, all that I am and all that I will ever be!"May Tom Parker be strong of mind and body and completely cured and healed."May his body return to the best health and completely free from dis-ease.(sic)”The prayer continued: “I call on angels, guides and ancestors to help support Tom in his healing journey and please awaken Tom’s heart and mind to give him the power, strength and healing that he needs on this

Dominic and Catherine later made a public statement about their marriage.Lily is currently starring in Pam and Tommy which is available to watch in the UK on Disney+.The drama covers Pamela Anderson’s relationship with Motley Crüe drummer, Tommy Lee. Lily spoke to Porter Magazine in January about how it was “liberating” playing the Playboy Model but also that she has “never worked so hard.” She said: "I read the books Pamela has written, I read her poetry, I can parrot along to all her interviews. "I love that about acting; you fit into a character, and you realise you're not as different as you might have thought.”She went on: "I've never done anything where I look very different from myself before. “And I'd really like to continue in this vein, because I felt there was something very freeing and liberating in it. "I really enjoyed the physicality and the sensuality, even down to the long fingernails."

It’s Jennifer Aniston‘s 53rd birthday and her ex-husband Justin Theroux is celebrating the special day!

Reese Witherspoon is celebrating her “The Morning Show” co-star’s 53rd birthday.

The cast and creator of “This Is Us” appeared Friday at a virtual panel for the winter edition of the Television Critics Association press tour to discuss the final season of the hit drama.

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Right in their backyard! Super Bowl LVI‘s matchup between the Los Angeles Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals will be played at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, meaning that celebrities are even more vocal about who they’re supporting this year.

EXCLUSIVE: In a hot package for EFM buyers this weekend, Jean-Claude Van Damme will star in What’s My Name? Directed by Jeremy Zag, the film will be produced by Cross Creek’s Tyler Thompson, alongside Zag and Van Damme. Cross Creek is fully financing a film that will reunite the fighting icon in matches against some of his past screen rivals.

Jim Angle, one of Fox News Channel’s original reporting line-up in 1996 and its chief national correspondent when he retired in 2014, died Wednesday at his home in Arlington, Virginia. He was 75.

Vikings alum Ray Stevenson has joined the cast of Star Wars: Ahsoka, Disney+’s upcoming spinoff of The Mandalorian starring Rosario Dawson, sources have confirmed to Deadline.

Ricki Lake has paid tribute on the fifth anniversary of her late ex-husband Christian Evans' passing.The talk show host, 53, shared two images of them as a couple with a touching note to the jewelry designer, who died by suicide at the age of 45 in 2017.'He was and continues to be my greatest teach. I am a far better version of myself having been loved so deeply by him,' Ricki wrote on the somber day. Touching note:Ricki Lake has paid tribute on the fifth anniversary of her late ex-husband Christian Evans' passing.

It was business as usual for Kim Kardashian as she took to Instagram to share a new gym photo on Friday where she looked slender in a blue onesie.But moments after the upload, some fans appeared in the comments to call out a subtle editing fail.'Wait this is edited,' one follower wrote, referencing a slight bend in the metal workout equipment behind her. Photo blunder: It was business as usual for Kim Kardashian as she took to Instagram to share a new gym photo on Friday, but moments after the upload some fans appeared in the comments to call out a subtle editing failAnother chimed in to say, 'The side of the table is bended.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorThere aren’t enough hours in the day for Ted Sarandos to watch every program on Netflix before it premieres on the streaming behemoth. And he’s okay with that.On the latest episode of Variety’s podcast “Strictly Business,” Netflix’s co-CEO and chief content officer discusses how the company manages the incredibly high volume of original content produced in multiple languages for its astounding 193 million subscribers from more than 190 countries.“It’s not unusual for shows to come on Netflix without me having seen any of it,” Sarandos says.

Odds are, unless you’re an avid film fan that pays attention to international cinema and early film festivals such as Sundance (basically, people who regularly read this website), you didn’t really know much about “Cuties” before the controversial release of the film last month. The French film about a young girl and her dance troupe ignited a social media firestorm before it was released thanks to Netflix’s poor marketing decisions and a rise in right-wing-based conspiracy theories about pedophiles in Hollywood.

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos has brushed off a Texas grand jury indictment of Cuties (Mignonnes), French director Maïmouna Doucouré's indie film that has generated controversy on the streaming platform for its depiction of prepubescent girls. "Frankly, I'm surprised there hasn't been more discussion about the First Amendment implications of this film.

Veteran Netflix dealmaker Bryan Noon is leaving the streamer after a shift in his team's structure. Noon, a vp of original series, has been with Netflix for eight years, most recently overseeing a business affairs team of more than 35 who were key in inking the streamer's big overall deals with talent like Shonda Rhimes and Ryan Murphy.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterTed Sarandos is not much for change, personally.It’s a funny thing to say about the recently minted co-CEO of Netflix, one of the entertainment world’s biggest disruptors, but as he points out, he’s had only “two cars and one job over the past 20 years.”“I am one of those folks who ends up doing things a long time, so I’m not one of these people who flips things easy,” he says with a laugh.His previous car, which lasted 11 years, was an Acura MDX; he drove around a Ford Explorer for a decade before that.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterBOOM! Studios comic “Lumberjanes,” created by Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters and Grace Ellis, is in the works at HBO Max as an animated series.Comic book news site CBR.com first reported news of the television adaptation on Monday, after noting that Stevenson’s speaker bio for a Children’s Media Association panel noted that she had sold the project to the nascent WarnerMedia-owned streaming service.According to BOOM! Studios, “Lumberjanes” is about five friends — Jo, April, Mal, Molly and Ripley — at Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet’s Camp for Hardcore Lady Types, who are “determined to have an awesome summer together…and they’re not gonna let a magical quest or an array of supernatural

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticA Lone Star state grand jury has indicted Netflix over the controversial Cuties film.According to the September 23 indictment out of Tyler County, Texas, the Reed Hastings and Ted Sarandos-run streamer “knowingly promote visual material which depicts the lewd exhibition of the genitals or pubic area of a clothed or partially clothed child who was younger than 18 years of age at the time the visual material was created, which appeals to the prurient interest in sex, and has no serious, literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.”Facing some serious charges, Netflix weren’t backing down today as the 1-page indictment became public via a local Congressman’s Twitter feed.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterA television adaptation of the William Joyce children’s book “Ollie’s Odyssey” is headed to Netflix.“Lost Ollie” is “the story of a lost toy, searching across the countryside for the boy who lost him, and the story of the boy who lost more than a best friend,” per the streamer. Creator Shannon Tindle of “Kubo and the Two Strings” and “Coraline” is adapting the Joyce book into four 45-minute episodes, which will be directed by “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” director Peter Ramsey.Ramsey has previously adapted another Joyce book, “The Guardians of Childhood,” into the 2012 animated feature film “Rise of the Guardians.”Tindle and Ramsey will both executive produce the series.