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You’re going to have to steel yourself for this monster of a content update. Between them, Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu, Disney Plus and Amazon Prime have an obscene number of quality titles debuting this weekend.

Be it films or television shows, new releases or old classics, there’s a ton to dig into here. So if you’re ready, let’s dive right in…

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July 31st

Get Even — Netflix Original

Latte and the Magic Waterstone — Netflix Family

Seriously Single — Netflix Film

The Speed Cubers — Netflix Documentary

Sugar Rush: Extra Sweet — Netflix Original

The Umbrella Academy: Season 2 — Netflix Original

Vis a vis: El Oasis (Locked Up) — Netflix Original

August 1st

A Knight’s Tale

Acts of Violence

The Addams Family (1991)

An Education

Being John Malkovich

Death at a Funeral

Dennis the Menace

Elizabeth Harvest

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Hardcore Henry

Iron Man: Armored Adventures: Season 1-2

Jurassic Park...

Netflix have put out their annual lists of the most popular content on their streaming platform, marking what’s been another bumper year of material for the company. Split into the most popular general releases and various other categories, the names on the Us lists are fairly predictable, including Stranger Things, The Witcher and The Irishman, but also contain some surprisingly popular hits such as the Adam Sandler vehicle Murder Mystery.

The ratings are believed to be based on a Netflix metric using the number of individual accounts that have watched at least two minutes of their content in its first 28 days of release. For the breakdown of most popular content across all categories, Sandler’s popularity on the streamer is borne out by Murder Mystery topping the list, followed by the third season of Stranger Things, Ryan Reynolds’ 6 Underground, The Incredibles 2 and The Irishman.

The full top ten list...

“Stranger Things 3,” “The Witcher” and “The Umbrella Academy” were among the most popular series offered on Netflix in 2019, the streaming giant has confirmed.

Netflix has issued a series of top 10 “most popular” lists for its content in various genres, breaking down the movies, series, nonfiction programs, documentaries, comedy specials, kids and family and international releases that were among the most viewed in the U.S. market.

Netflix released rankings, but did not disclose actual viewership stats, in keeping with its longstanding policy. According to a Netflix spokeswoman, the rankings were determined not by total number of viewers, but by counting the total number of households to stream an individual title for at least two minutes during the first 28 days of its release. For those titles that have not yet been available for 28 days, the company used projections based on the early data to estimate a 28-day viewership number, a process...

Netflix has revealed a series of top 10 lists highlighting the streaming platform’s most-viewed films and television series of 2019 in the United States. Overall, the most popular release across any format was the comedy “Murder Mystery,” starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston. The most popular television series was the third season of “Stranger Things,” and the most-viewed nonfiction release of the year was the self-care series “Tidying Up With Marie Kondo.”

In the case of these lists, most “popular” is defined by anything actually released in 2019, and what was most viewed within 28 days of its initial launch on Netflix. The streamer also defines a viewer here as anyone who watched at least two minutes of these programs.

Among the overall top 10 most popular titles housed on the streaming platform, only one film or series was not a Netflix original release: “The Incredibles 2.” Also of note amid the overall top 10, six...

Netflix got in the end-of-year spirit Monday by sharing its own set of Top 10 lists for 2019, including its most popular titles that launched in the U.S. over the last 365 days, which is lead by the Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler comedy “Murder Mystery” and the third season of “Stranger Things.”

According to Netflix, its “most popular” domestic releases for the year are, in order, “Murder Mystery,” “Stranger Things 3,” “6 Underground,” “The Incredibles 2”, “The Irishman,” “The Witcher,” “Triple Frontier,” “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile,” “The Umbrella Academy” and “The Highwaymen.”

No viewership data was included with the list — which shouldn’t come as a complete shock, seeing as Netflix is famously selective about releasing numbers — but an individual with knowledge of the streaming service’s methodology tells TheWrap that the titles were ranked by the number of U.S. accounts that chose to watch at least two minutes of a series,...

CAA has signed top reality producer Magical Elves, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. The company was previously with Wme.

As one of the giants in the unscripted space, Magical Elves originated such hits as Project Runway, Top Chef and Netflix's Nailed It!, the latter two of which received Emmy nominations for outstanding reality competition this year. Its portfolio also includes Sugar Rush, Top Chef Jr., All In With Cam Newton, Braxton Family Values, Tamar & Vince, Cold Justice, In Defense Of and National Geographic's upcoming Brain Games reboot.

The agency move comes a month after Magical Elves elevated executives Casey Kriley and Jo Sharon to co-CEOs. The company was ...

Magical Elves executives Casey Kriley and Jo Sharon have been promoted to co-CEOs of the production company.

“These past six months have only confirmed our instinct that Casey and Jo are the ideal duo to keep Magical Elves firing on all cylinders. Individually, Casey and Jo have each been invaluable contributors to the success of Magical Elves, and together, they are an unstoppable force perfectly equipped to lead their tight-knit team as they produce the next generation of hit shows,” Arthur Smith, the company’s chairman, said in a statement.

“Magical Elves has an incredible legacy that we are privileged to continue with our impossibly talented colleagues,” Kriley and Sharon said. “The magic of the organization has always been the people, and the team is in place and ready to grow our slate of aspirational programming with our signature brand of excellence.”

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Longtime Magical Elves executives Casey Kriley and Jo Sharon have been named co-CEOs of the production company behind Top Chef and Project Runway.

“These past six months have only confirmed our instinct that Casey and Jo are the ideal duo to keep Magical Elves firing on all cylinders,” said Arthur Smith, chairman of Tinopolis USA and A. Smith & Co. Productions. “Individually, Casey and Jo have each been invaluable contributors to the success of Magical Elves, and together, they are an unstoppable force perfectly equipped to lead their tight-knit team as they produce the next generation of hit shows.”

Said Kriley and Sharon: “Magical Elves has an incredible legacy that we are privileged to continue with our impossibly talented colleagues. The magic of the organization has always been the people, and the team is in place and ready to grow our slate of aspirational programming with our signature brand of excellence.

Orange Is The New Black has moved to the top of Netflix’s UK charts – two weeks after launching its seventh and final season.

Jenji Kohan’s prison drama has swapped places with Stranger Things, which has moved into second. This comes a week after Netflix said that 105M have watched at least one episode, making it the Svod’s most-watched original ever.

New titles in the top ten include Otherhood, the Patricia Arquette and Angela Bassett comedy, Chris Evans spy thriller The Red Sea Diving Resort, Tom Cruise’s American Made and cooking competition Sugar Rush, which launched its second season last week.

Elsewhere, Suits moved up to seventh from eighth last week, while Another Life went from third to fifth, Jane The Virgin went from fifth to sixth and Secret Obsession went from fourth to tenth.

Netflix’s top ten list launched three months ago with weekly updates...

This weekly feature is in addition to TVLine’s daily What to Watch listings.

With nearly 500 scripted shows now airing across broadcast, cable, streaming and whatever “Tubi TV” is, it’s easy to forget that a favorite comedy is returning, or that the new “prestige drama” you anticipated is about to debut. So consider this our reminder to set your DVR, order a Season Pass, pop a fresh Memorex into the Vcr… however it is you roll.

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Exclusive: Netflix has issued the second season trailer for “Sugar Rush,” the baking competition series where contestants battle each other and the clock.

The series will return to Netflix with six new episodes on Friday, July 26. The second season of “Sugar Rush” brings back host Hunter March with world-class pastry chefs Candace Nelson and Adriano Zumbo judging the competition bakers. Guest judges include Paris Berelc,Jackie Sorkin, Carla Hall, Nick and Vanessa Lachey, Jacques Torres and Irene Choi, as the time-constrained baking teams incorporate themes like Science, Trending, Family, and Love into their baking creations.

Sugar Rush is produced by Magical Elves with Executive Producer Doneen Arquines serving as showrunner, and Dan Cutforth, Jane Lipsitz, Casey Kriley, Candace Nelson and Tara Siener also serving as executive producers.

Watch the trailer above.

Netflix has everyone’s Fourth of July entertainment covered.

Hitting the streaming platform on July 4 is “Stranger Things” season three, which is finally returning two years after its predecessor. Martin Scorsese fans are also sure to be excited once they see four of the director’s films (“Taxi Driver” “Mean Streets” “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” and “Who’s That Knocking at My Door?”) ready to stream on the first day of the month.

Additionally, Fourth of July celebrants can look back on history with Netflix’s own revisionist features such as “Inglourious Basterds” before enjoying some family fun with more kid friendly options like “Megamind” and “Princess and the Frog.”

See the full list of titles below.

July 1

“Designated Survivor: 60 days”

“Katherine Ryan: Glitter Room”

“Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”

“Astro Boy”

“Caddyshack”

“Caddyshack 2”

“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (2005)

“Cheech & Chong’s Up in Smoke”

“Cloverfield...

Netflix is famously tight-lipped when it comes to revealing how many people are tuning in to its endless supply of movies and TV series, though the streaming giant does occasionally toot its own horn when one of its titles does especially well. Now the company is experimenting with a weekly list of its most-watched offerings in the UK, with nature docuseries “Our Planet” topping the first edition.

In a Twitter thread, the company announced that it will be releasing such lists on a weekly basis from here on out. To compile them, “we look at the most-watched individual season of a show, film or special (regardless of when it launched). ‘Watched’ means members finished at least 70% of one episode.”

“It’s a test as we want to make sure this information is useful for you,” Netflix added. “So we may tweak it in the weeks ahead. eg. we’re not including kids right now.

Calling all Sugar Rush fans…now is your chance to race home with a signed, limited edition replica of the “Sugar Rush” steering wheel featured in the film!

If you remember the steering wheel is at the very core of Walt Disney Animation Studio’s ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ as Ralph and best friend Vanellope von Schweetz attempt to save her game, Sugar Rush. Their quest takes them to the vast, uncharted world of the internet where they rely on the citizens of the internet – the Netizens – to help navigate their way to eBay to find a replacement steering wheel.

Timed to the in-home release of the film, this Irl replica of the steering wheel has been donated by Walt Disney Animation Studios so that 100% of the proceeds from this auction item can be donated to Make-a-Wish® to help grant life-changing wishes to children with critical illnesses. Disney and Make-a-Wish® have a long-standing history together.

Deception and Being Human alum Lenora Crichlow has been cast opposite Hugh Laurie, Zach Woods, Suzy Nakamura, Rebecca Front, Josh Gad and Nikki Amuka-Bird in Armando Iannucci’s HBO space comedy pilot Avenue 5.

Created, written and executive produced by Iannucci, the tentatively titled project is set in the future, mostly in space. Crichlow will play Billie McEvoy, the second engineer. Young, outspoken, smart and career-focused but exhausted by responsibility, she loves building and fixing things but is terrified of dying in space.

The UK-born Crichlow most recently had a series-regular role last season on ABC’s Deception, in which Jack Cutmore-Scott played a superstar magician who worked for the FBI. It was canceled in May after one season. She also was the lead in the “White Bear” episode of Netflix/Channel 4’s Black Mirror and co-starred on Netflix’s Will Arnett-starring Flaked after breaking out on Channel 4’s Sugar Rush.

Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz are exiting Magical Elves, the production company behind hits such as Top Chef, Project Runway and Nailed It, which they co-founded in 2001. The Emmy-winning producers will remain partners and are expected to launch a new company as as independent producers. Meanwhile, Magical Elves will remain a part of Tinopolis USA, the U.S. subsidiary of UK-based Tinopolis Group, which acquired the company in 2014.

It is a common practice for the founders of a successful production company that sells to leave when the five-year post-acquisition period, during which they are required to stay on, is up, and they go on to launch a new company with the goal of building it and eventually selling it.

Their departure comes as the owners of Tinopolis, which owns a slew of British production companies including Question Time producer Mentorn and Mums Make Porn producer Firecracker Films, are once again keen to sell.

Disney has announced the 4K Ultra HD/blu-ray release of their latest animated film, Ralph Breaks the Internet, and detailed all the bonus features fans can expect. Come inside for all the details!

I really enjoyed Ralph Breaks the Internet. More than being a by the numbers sequel, it has a lot of heart, humor, and a really important message on friendship. That's not to mention how gorgeous (and packed with hidden detail) the animation is. As such, I'm eager to get my hands on the home entertainment version, which will be dropping digitally on Feburary 12th, with the physical copy hitting on February 26th:

Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Ralph Breaks the Internet,” the animated adventure featuring video-game bad guy Ralph (voice of John C. Reilly) and fellow misfit Vanellope von Schweetz (voice of Sarah Silverman), raced to No. 1 opening weekend (the second biggest Thanksgiving opening of all time), winning...

Features the voices of: John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Gal Gadot, Taraji P. Henson, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch, Alan Tudyk, Alfred Molina, Ed O’Neill, Flula Borg, Ali Wong, Sean Giambrone | Written by Phil Johnston, Pamela Ribon | Directed by Phil Johnston, Rich Moore

Taking place six years after saving the arcade from Turbo’s vengeance, the Sugar Rush arcade cabinet has broken, forcing Ralph and Vanellope to travel to the Internet via the newly-installed Wi-Fi router in Litwak’s Arcade to retrieve the piece capable of saving the game.

Ralph Breaks the Internet is the sequel to Disney’s critically and financially acclaimed John C. Reilly and Sarah Silverman starring Wreck-It Ralph, released in 2012. Six years later Reilly, as loveable angst-fuelled arcade villain turned hero Ralph and Silverman, as the adorable glitch Vanellope, return in the sequel that thrusts both their friendship and fate into the depths of the perils,...

While the natural reaction to learning of (another) sequel could be to groan, when it comes to Wreck-It Ralph, well, we’re pretty excited, to be stepping back into the world of our favourite video game antagonist – and to celebrate the release of the film, we spoke to directors Rich Moore and Phil Johnston.

Moore (left) is the more experienced of the duo, as Ralph Breaks the Internet marks the directorial debut for Johnston. We all discuss the sheer brilliance of John C. Reilly, who again voices the title role, and what he brings to the character from a human perspective, as the film graciously tackles the notion of toxic masculinity, celebrating a protagonist not afraid to explore his more vulnerable side.

With one of the film’s best scene featuring all of our favourite Disney princesses, we asked about how much fun the duo had affectionately ridiculing the old-fashioned tropes of Disney storytelling.

I knew things weren’t going to go as hoped when the lack of a short film before Ralph Breaks the Internet brought a filmed introduction by three of its middle-aged, male creators instead. They pretend as though they’re personally beaming themselves into our theater to share their gratitude with fake buffering circles freezing frames every now and then as one tells us the hardest part of making this sequel was fitting everything they love about the internet in. It’s spoken with a transparent insecurity boomers have when speaking about trendy topics they know superficially. But you go with it because, why not? Well the answer arrives when another asks, “How do I turn this off?” Let’s just say these dad joke-spouting, contradictory “tech wizards” set the stage perfectly.

The reason I loved Wreck-It Ralph (and still do after numerous re-watches) is because it didn’t do what I thought it would.

Ralph Breaks the Internet, the sequel to the 2012 Oscar-nominated video game film, follows arcade game characters Ralph (John C. Reilly) and Vanellope (Sarah Silverman). After Vanellope’s game Sugar Rush breaks down, the pair venture into the internet with the guidance of Yesss, a trend-aholic algorithm, to retrieve a replacement part.

On their quest, the characters encounter two entirely different universes, including everything from Disney princesses to droids from Star Wars. Making cameos are the original voices of the Disney princesses, including Jodi Benson (Ariel), Paige O'Hara (Belle), Linda Larkin (Jasmine), Irene Bedard (Pocahontas), Anika Noni Rose (Tiana), Mandy Moore ...

Ralph Breaks the Internet, the sequel to the 2012 Oscar-nominated video game film, follows arcade game characters Ralph (John C. Reilly) and Vanellope (Sarah Silverman). After Vanellope’s game Sugar Rush breaks down, the pair venture into the internet with the guidance of Yesss, a trend-aholic algorithm, to retrieve a replacement part.

On their quest, the characters encounter two entirely different universes, including everything from Disney princesses to droids from Star Wars. Making cameos are the original voices of the Disney princesses, including Jodi Benson (Ariel), Paige O'Hara (Belle), Linda Larkin (Jasmine), Irene Bedard (Pocahontas), Anika Noni Rose (Tiana), Mandy Moore ...

Well, feature animation fans it’s time to empty out that big change jar and head down to the video arcade. You know, right next to the multiplex. What to do you mean it’s gone? Why the next thing you’ll tell me is that the Blockbuster Video is…uh, oh. That sums up the challenge for the folks at the Walt Disney Animation Studios. In 2010 they finally had a hit that almost rivaled their friendly (same company by then) neighbor at Pixar, a modern attitude take on the Rapunzel fairy tale called Tangled. And two years later Wdas had an even bigger hit with Wreck-it Ralph a zany look at what goes on after hours at a video arcade, a clever mix of Toy Story and Who Framed Roger Rabbit (lots of cameos from game superstars from several companies). Six years later Wdas decides to finally produce a...

It’s a vast dystopic wasteland and a bright neon cosmopolis, one that puts Tokyo and Philip K. Dick’s Hell Ay and Times Square on New Year’s Eve to shame. It’s a seedy place, where a troll lurks underneath every other bridge and within the majority of your mentions. It’s busy — too busy, in fact, a 24-7 bazaar that’s constantly bustling and overwhelming. Some folks give you helpful advice; others are straight-up stranger-danger personified. (Do not go over to the “dark” side.) Everyone wants to sell you something.

She’d never ask for anyone to actually call her by the title, but the sassy star of “Ralph Breaks the Internet” is, in fact, a Disney princess. When Vanellope von Schweetz (voiced by Sarah Silverman) was introduced in the 2012 Disney hit “Wreck-It Ralph,” she was presented as a sassy racer in the candy-coated Sugar Rush arcade game, a misanthropic glitch who doesn’t quite fit in with the rest of her peppy competitors. By the end of the popular animated feature, Vanellope was crowned a winner, a best friend, and an actual princess.

In the world of Disney, that princess moniker doesn’t come lightly, and anointing the sassy Vanellope means she joins classic characters such as Cinderella, Snow White, and Pocahontas. Fittingly, “Ralph Breaks the Internet” puts Vanellope at the center of its story, but it’s not the standard Disney Princess narrative. Instead, the film centers its...

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“Ralph Breaks the Internet” leaves Litwak’s video arcade behind, venturing into the uncharted, expansive and thrilling world of the internet—which may or may not survive Ralph’s wrecking. Video game bad guy Ralph (voice of John C. Reilly) and fellow misfit Vanellope von Schweetz (voice of Sarah Silverman) must risk it all by traveling to the world wide web in search of a replacement part to save Vanellope’s video game, Sugar Rush. In way over their heads, Ralph and Vanellope rely on the citizens of the internet—the netizens—to help navigate their way, including a webite entrepreneur named Yesss (voice of Taraji P. Henson...

Plot: Things are going pretty well for Wreck-It Ralph (John C. Reilly). No longer faced with an existential crisis, he’s back to loving his job, hanging out in his free time with his new found Bff, Vanellope (Sarah Silverman). However, when a scheme designed to make her game, “Sugar Rush” more exciting backfires, Ralph and Vanellope have to use the arcade’s…...

At the end of 2012’s “Wreck-It Ralph,” Ralph (John C. Reilly), a brutish videogame goliath, found friendship and acceptance in the form of Vanellope (Sarah Silverman), a spritely princess from a neighboring kart racer called “Sugar Rush.” He was a character in crisis and in finding that acceptance, he learned to be okay with who he was. The question of where this story could go (and where you could put Ralph to throw him into existential crisis once more) was answered with a single destination: The Internet.

Continue reading ‘Ralph Breaks The Internet’ Is A Frequently Brilliant & Emotional Pop Art Fantasia [Review] at The Playlist.

The end of the 2012 Disney hit “Wreck-It Ralph” reveals that sarcastic Sugar Rush racer Vanellope von Schweetz is the game’s long-lost princess-turned-president, marking it as one of Disney’s more offbeat princess origin stories. Vanellope isn’t Ariel or Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty, but she’s got some serious Disney Princess DNA, and “Ralph Breaks the Internet” turns its attentions to her (again voiced by Sarah Silverman) as she continues her path to candy-colored maturity. It’s a familiar journey from the Disney canon, but this one is bolstered by a loving relationship with her dedicated best pal Ralph (John C. Reilly), the introduction of an inventive new world, and good-natured digs at the kind of princess-centric stories that came before.

While the first “Ralph” film centered on Ralph’s own liberation from video game villain to legitimate hero, “Ralph Breaks the Internet” turns its attentions to Vanellope’s next big step.

After going from 8-bit zero to arcade hero during his original outing, Wreck-It Ralph levels up in a big way with “Ralph Breaks the Internet,” an ambitious, all-around-satisfying sequel to Walt Disney Animation’s wonderfully outside-the-box smash that ranks among the studio’s very best toons: It’s a poignant buddy movie that’s sincere in all the right places but knows better than to take itself too seriously. While the 2012 project was an inspired example of easily expandable world-building, this more-clever-than-expected follow-up skips the obvious next step — simply exploring the other games that share the same power strip — and sets out to conquer the relative vastness of cyberspace instead.

That’s a lofty goal for any sequel, further complicated by the fact that reformed bad guy Ralph (voiced by lovable lug John C. Reilly) has made friends with fellow misfit Vanellope von Schweetz (Sarah Silverman), which calls for an all-new dynamic.

Ralph Breaks the Internet proves that even 8-bit characters can grow and develop.

It’s strange to think that Wreck-It Ralph came out before Frozen, but it did; the former arrived in 2012, while the latter emerged a year later. Frozen was a juggernaut that placed Disney Animation Studios on the same level as its sister studio, Pixar, but Wreck-It Ralph was a solid offering that kept Disney Animation’s momentum going after the triumph of Tangled two years earlier. Ralph’s deft and witty blend of adult nostalgia for 1980s 8-bit arcade video games, combined with a wonderful visual palette and a story that could enrapture little ones, proved to be a unique and satisfying combination.

After six years we at last have a sequel to Wreck-It Ralph, and it’s gratifying to say that Ralph Breaks the Internet, while having the slight whiff of corporate obligation around it, is an entertaining,...

Disney has released a new clip from Ralph Breaks The Internet. The clip features a fun scene where Ralph (John C. Reilly) and Vanellope (Sarah Silverman) come across the Internet search bar, which is where they meet a new character by the name of KnowsMore, who is voiced by Alan Tudyk.

I also included a new promo spot for the film called “Happy Birthday, Internet” and as you might suspect from the title, it celebrates the day the Internet was born, October 29th, 1969, which also happens to also be the the first time that the Internet crashed. It’s a brief but amusing history lesson.

You can watch both of the videos below:

In “Ralph Breaks the Internet,” video-game bad guy Ralph (voice of John C. Reilly) and best friend Vanellope von Schweetz (voice of Sarah Silverman) leave the comforts of Litwak’s arcade in an attempt to save her game,...

Netflix faced questions about the shifting media landscape during its earnings release, held a week after WarnerMedia announced plans to launch a competing service in a move that follows in the digital footsteps of The Walt Disney Co.

One issue, in particular, loomed large for Wall Street: What will Netflix do to fill the hole in its content library, once Disney and WarnerMedia claw back their movies and television shows for their own on-demand services?

“Content like Friends is likely to disappear from Netflix in 2019 as WarnerMedia launches its own Svod service,” wrote Btig media analyst Rich Greenfield of Btig, in an analyst note released ahead of the company’s earnings interview. “As more content creators launch their own Svod services, how should investors think about the impact of losing high-profile syndicated content?”

The loss of Friends is, in streaming services as in life, would be a blow.

The Warner Bros.

Playworks Southern California hosted Play Day with the Stars at Griffin Avenue Elementary School. American actor Harold Perrineau – best-known for his roles in “Lost” and “Oz” – two time NBA All-Star Baron Davis, rapper Jake Miller, American actress Logan Browning – best-known for her role on the Netflix series “Dear White People,” Jake T. Austin, American actor best-known for his role on Disney Channel’s “Wizards of Waverly Place,” Val Chmerkovskiy, current “Dancing with the Stars” pro, Jan Luis Castellanos, American actor who will be starring in the new season of “Marvel’s Runaways”, Rebecca Black, singer best known for hit song “Friday”, Lenora Crichlow, English actress best known for her roles in Sugar Rush, BBC’s Being Human, and the film Fast Girls – and USC student athletes learned and played new inclusive games during recess to showcase how easy it is to make recess a safe, healthy place for every kid...

Netflix flooded its U.S. streaming service with an all-time high tonnage of original TV shows and movies in the third quarter of 2018 – a positive signal that the No. 1 subscription-video service will hit its customer-acquisition targets, according to a new report from Wall Street firm Cowen & Co.

The company bowed nearly 676 hours of originals for the quarter ended Sept. 30, which is equivalent to about 28 full days. That’s more than double the amount of Netflix originals launched in Q3 2017 (289 hours) and up 50% from 452 hours in Q2 2018, Cowen & Co. estimated. The relative quality of that glut of new content is debatable, but Netflix’s track record shows that greater amounts of exclusive programming leads to higher sub growth and lower churn.

In the most recent quarter, the company released new seasons of “Orange Is the New Black,” “Marvel’s Iron Fist” and “Bojack Horseman,” along with controversial drama “Insatiable” and Cary Fukunaga-directed psychological thriller “Maniac,...

Holly Phillips.

Five early-career writers in regional, rural or remote Australia who are keen to write for television are being offered places in a five-day script lab staged by Screenworks and Matchbox Pictures.

The lab will be held in Lismore from November 12 – 16, led by UK writer Holly Phillips and the script development team from Matchbox Pictures.

The aim is to develop Best Medicine, an original concept for a TV series written by Tim Williams, which revolves around an out-of-work actor who performs as a clown doctor in a teenage cancer ward. His life takes on unexpected new meaning as a result of his time spent with a ward full of complex patients.

Applicants must be able to demonstrate some experience in script writing and live in regional, rural or remote Australia. Travel to Lismore and accommodation expenses will be covered by Screenworks.

Screenworks CEO Ken Crouch said: “As the regional film office,...

Turns out that Disney’s “Ralph Breaks the Internet” (November 21) has as much in common with “Zootopia” as its predecessor, “Wreck-It Ralph,” in addressing inclusion, diversity, and change.

After Ralph (John C. Reilly) bonds with fellow misfit Vanellope (Sarah Silverman) at the end of “Wreck-It Ralph,” their friendship nearly breaks when plugging into the internet in the first Disney Animation sequel since the studio regained its prowess more than a decade ago.

“It’s friendship affected by change,” said director Rich Moore. “Change is constant, which you can count on. Nothing stays the same forever. But doesn’t mean that a friendship can’t resolve because of different points of view or different dreams. In fact, good friendships can become better because of change.”

Six years after altering his role from villain to hero, Ralph and Vanellope must save her arcade game, “Sugar Rush,” from being shut down when its obsolete steering wheel breaks.

Disney has released an entertaining brand new trailer for Ralph Breaks the Internet, the sequel to Wreck It Ralph and it feature a lot more new footage! The trailer also offers us new details on the story and the characters as we see Ralph (John C. Reilly) and Vanellope (Sarah Silverman) fall deep into the rabbit hole of the Internet. Hell, Ralph is even going to spend some time in the dark web! This sequel looks like it’s going to be a blast and I’m excited about seeing it!

In “Ralph Breaks the Internet,” video-game bad guy Ralph (voice of John C. Reilly) and best friend Vanellope von Schweetz (voice of Sarah Silverman) leave the comforts of Litwak’s arcade in an attempt to save her game, Sugar Rush. Their quest takes them to the vast, uncharted world of the internet where they rely on the citizens of...

This morning brings us a brand new trailer for Ralph Breaks the Internet revealing new characters and the dangers of the Slaughter Race. Come inside to check it out!

While most of the trailers for Ralph Breaks the Internet have focused on the characters' hilarious interactions with the World Wide Web, this morning's trailer does more to show off some more of the plot and new characters, while still being a lot of fun.

I'm so ready for this movie. I loved the first Wreck-It Ralph and I'm eager to see if they're able to recpature the same magic and be just as engaging. Thankfully, we don't have much longer to wait!

In “Ralph Breaks the Internet,” video-game bad guy Ralph (voice of John C. Reilly) and best friend Vanellope von Schweetz (voice of Sarah Silverman) leave the comforts of Litwak’s arcade in an attempt to save her game,...

The Christina Grimmie Foundation announced today the September 25th date for its second annual Gala fundraiser at the Taglyan Cultural Complex in Hollywood.

The evening will honor the Ventura County District Attorney’s Ellie Liston Crime Victims’ Assistance Program with its Inspiration Award. The Ventura County team has become an integral partner of the Christina Grimmie Foundation. A second award, the Trailblazer Award, will be given to Kurt Hugo Schneider and Michael Schneider for helping launch the Foundation and being such ardent supporters. The evening will be hosted by TV personality and AwesomenessTV producer Hunter March. Tickets may be purchased here.

“We are extremely excited about this year’s event, having Hunter March host again and our worthy honorees,” commented Albert Grimmie, CEO of the Christina Grimmie Foundation. “Our inaugural effort last year exceeded our goals and expectations allowing us to help many families. We hope to do the same this year.

Gal Gadot is ready to break the internet.

The “Wonder Woman” star has joined the voice cast of Disney’s animated “Ralph Breaks the Internet.”

The “Fast & Furious” actress revealed Friday on Instagram that she’s getting back behind the wheel and will be playing street racer Shank in the sequel to “Wreck-It Ralph.” It marks her debut role in a Disney animated movie.

“Shank is amazing at driving cars and has this bad-girl vibe to her,” she said in a statement. “But as the movie goes on, you realize how fun, wise, and warm she really is on the inside, which is what I like most about her.”

The video Gadot posted, along with the image of Shank, teases the plot of the movie, which involves the online racing game “Slaughter Race.”

“She is the coolest character in this world of ‘Slaughter Race,'” director Rich Moore said.

Earlier today Gal Gadot announced that she had a role in Disney's Ralph Breaks the Internet. She is taking on the role of a character named Shank and now you can see the first footage of her in action in the new promo spot below!

It's explained that Shank has a reputation as "a tough-as-nails street racer, and Vanellope finds herself up against her." It's also said that she is "the coolest character in this world of Slaughter Race... yet she’s got nothing but kindness in her heart." You will get a little taste of her in the world of Slaughter Race below.

When talking about the character she plays, Gadot said:

"Shank is amazing at driving cars and has this bad-girl vibe to her. But as the movie goes on you realize how fun, wise and warm she really is on the inside, which is what I like most about her.

The Immortal Warrior herself, Gal Gadot, is entering the hyper-competitive world of online racing for Ralph Breaks the Internet, in which she’ll play the tough-as-nails Shank.

The Wonder Woman 1984 star took to Twitter earlier today to announce her involvement in Disney’s animated sequel, along with a sneak peek at her character doing what she does best: speeding down the digital highways of Slaughter Race.

Described as something of a big sister to the wide-eyed Vanellope von Schweetz (Sarah Silverman), Gadot is another exciting addition to the ensemble cast of Ralph Breaks the Internet, which takes place a full six years after its predecessor and thrusts Wreck-It Ralph into the midst of the world wide web.

Here’s what the DC actress had to say over on Twitter:

I’m so excited to finally announce that I am playing a character named Shank in Disney’s #RalphBreaksTheInternet hitting theaters this November!

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Gal Gadot revealed today that she is voicing the character Shank, a tough and talented driver in an intense and gritty online racing game called Slaughter Race, in Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Ralph Breaks the Internet,” which hits theaters this Thanksgiving.

Ralph and Vanellope encounter Shank and her unusual cohorts when they venture to the internet in search of a replacement part for Vanellope’s game, Sugar Rush. Shank, a tough-as-nails street racer, takes her role and her tricked-out car very seriously and doesn’t like to lose. When Vanellope finds herself in a street race with Shank, her Sugar Rush driving skills are put to the test—and Shank is impressed. “She is the coolest character in this world of Slaughter Race,” said director Rich Moore. “Shank’s lived a lot, she’s seen a lot, yet she’s got nothing but kindness in her...

Disney has released a new image from Ralph Breaks The Internet and it features Vanellope hanging out with the Disney princesses and as you can see the princesses are all sporting new more comfortable outfits. In fact, it's Vanellope who brings the new clothes into the princesses lives and she looks very pleased with herself.

When talking about her character, Sarah Silverman told EW:

"I’m very proud of my character being a Disney princess with a human waist. I love that she is a princess but wears, like, a hoodie, and she inspires them all to wear comfortable clothes. It didn’t really cross my mind that I’m a Disney princess — like, that I’m canon— until we all met this year, and I got a little choked up. It’s corny, I know, but I was like, ‘Oh s—t, right. I’m this Jewish, comfortable-clothes-wearing Disney princess.

Netflix has confirmed that a slew of new original series will be debuting on the streaming service in July, including the sixth season of the Emmy contender “Orange is the New Black” and more installments of Jerry Seinfeld‘s “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.”

And there will also be new to Netflix seasons of some of your favorites from other networks, including season 4 of “Madam Secretary” and season 8 of both “Blue Bloods” and “Shameless.” Likewise, there will be plenty of movies making their first Netflix appearances including the first three films in the “Jurassic” franchise and the Oscar-winning “Her.”

Available July 1

Blue Bloods: Season 8

Bo Burnham: what.

Chocolat

Deceived

Finding Neverland

Get Smart

Happy Gilmore

Hawaii Five-o: Season 8

Interview with the Vampire

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park III

Madam Secretary: Season 4

Menace II Society

NCIS: Season 15

Pandorum

Penelope

Queens of Comedy: Season 2

Rica,...

Another month, another batch of good (and not so good) movies coming to Netflix. Ever timely, the streaming service is adding the first three “Jurassic Park” movies to coincide with the release of “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,” not to mention several movies that aren’t about dinosaurs run amok: “Her,” “Happy Gilmore,” “We Own the Night,” “Blue Valentine,” “Gone Baby Gone,” “Menace II Society,” “Chocolat,” “The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter,” “The Princess Diaries,” and more.

Avail yourself of the full list below:

July 1

Chocolat

Deceived

Finding Neverland

Get Smart

Happy Gilmore

Interview with the Vampire

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park III

Menace II Society

Pandorum

Penelope

Scooby-Doo

Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed

Spanglish

Stealth

Swordfish

The Boondock Saints

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

The Princess Diaries

The Voices

Traitor

Troy

Van Helsing

We Own the Night

We the Marines

What We Started

July...

Netflix has revealed all of the movie and TV show titles that will be released in the month of July 2018. They also released a promo video along with a list of titles leaving the streaming service in July.

There are some good titles being released including Happy Gilmore, Jurassic Park, Menace II Society, Interview with the Vampire, The Boondock Saints, Scream 4, Gone Baby Gone, Her and more.

Which of the new upcoming titles coming to Netflix are you looking forward to seeing?

Available July 1

Blue Bloods: Season 8

Bo Burnham: what.

Chocolat

Deceived

Finding Neverland

Get Smart

Happy Gilmore

Hawaii Five-o: Season 8

Interview with the Vampire

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park III

Madam Secretary: Season 4

Menace II Society

NCIS: Season 15

Pandorum

Penelope

Queens of Comedy: Season 2

Rica, Famosa, Latina: Seasons 1-4

Scooby-Doo

Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed

Spanglish

Stealth

Swordfish

The Boondock Saints...

Netflix is expanding its unscripted slate, with the streaming giant ordering three new unscripted shows.

The first of the new shows is titled “The Fix,” described as the first comedy show in the world with the stated ambition to solve the world’s biggest problems through comedy. In each episode, host Jimmy Carr along with permanent team captains Katherine Ryan and D.L. Hughley host guest comics and experts in taking one massive issue facing the world and attempting to solve it.

The series is produced by Embassy Row and will be executive produced by Michael Davies and Andrew Westwell. Netflix has ordered a 10-episode first season.

The next series is called “Westside.” It follows a group of ambitious and talented young musicians spanning multiple genres, coming together to create an original performance series at a Los Angeles nightclub. It follows the artists in their lives as they pursue their dreams...

Netflix announced three new unscripted series on Tuesday: “The Fix,” “Westside,” and “Sugar Rush.”

The 10-episode “The Fix” has Jimmy Carr (pictured above) and permanent team captains Katherine Ryan and D.L. Hughley hosting guest comedians and experts to tackle one massive issue facing the world and attempting to solve it. Produced by Embassy Row, the series is executive produced by Michael Davies and Andrew Westwell, and is described as “the first comedy show in the world with the stated ambition to solve the world’s biggest problems.”

“Westside” will follow a group of young musicians who collaborate to create an original performance series at a Los Angeles night club. Produced by Love Productions and Madwood Studios and directed by James Carroll, the eight episodes will weave gritty and cinematic docu-series scenes with music videos and original songs. Kevin Bartel, Richard McKerrow, Michael Flutie, Sun DeGraff, Lara Spotts serve as executive producers.