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The US TV show "The Bear" is turning Italian beef sandwiches into a runaway success. Sales of these classic Chicago sandwiches have increased in the United States since the show's first season aired in June. TV series have already been seen to influence the fashion world. "Squid Game," a major worldwide hit, offered a glimpse of the powers of fiction, spurring spinoff products, makeup trends on social networks, and renewed interest in jogging suits and other clothes worn by the show's characters. Now, it seems that TV shows are also influencing food trends. It may not have reached the scale of...
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Put down your beach read and put on your headphones! If you're lounging seaside or poolside this summer and in search of entertainment, why not relax in the sun with one of the latest hot podcast series? Batman Unburied The universe of DC Comics' Batman is also embracing the concept of the multiverse. In this alternate reality, Bruce Wayne, voiced by Winston Duke, hasn't become Batman per se and his parents, Martha and Thomas Wayne, are still alive. But Gotham is being shaken up by a series of murders, perpetrated by a killer named The Harvester, whose victims end up in the hands of Bruce Way...
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After Prime Video, it's Netflix's turn to create its own cinematic universe. And it is the hit movie, "The Gray Man," starring Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans and Ana de Armas, that will be the starting point for this new onscreen world. A sequel and a spin-off have already been announced. Available since July 22 on Netflix, "The Gray Man" has reached the top 10 most viewed movies on the streaming platform in 92 countries. The action movie has notched up more than 88.5 million hours of viewing just three days after its release. A success that allows the directors, Joe and Anthony Russo -- who also d...
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The K-pop craze has spread beyond music to take over movies, TV shows and fashion. Now podcasts are getting in on the act too. At a time when fictional series in audio format are multiplying, a new podcast-based series intends to surf the K-drama trend, all while adding a touch of telenovela to the mix. And it's a combination that's been attracting Hollywood stars. Romantic comedies are no longer just the realm of movies and streaming platforms. With the success of audio formats, both on social networks and on platforms like Netflix, the entertainment world is also embracing audio. Indeed, mor...
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"Surface," Apple TV+'s latest glossy thriller starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw as an amnesia sufferer, tackles "zeitgeist" issues of conservatorships and female autonomy, its creator and cast told AFP. Mbatha-Raw, best known for "Belle," "Loki" and "The Morning Show," plays Sophie, a woman with severe memory loss from a purported suicide attempt, trying to piece her life back together. She is placed under the conservatorship of her husband -- soon suspecting he may be hiding details about her former life, and questioning if he truly has her best interests at heart. Conservatorships -- a form of legal ...
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Netflix reported losing subscribers for the second quarter in a row Tuesday as the streaming giant battles fierce competition and viewer belt tightening, but the company assured investors of better days ahead. The loss of 970,000 paying customers in the most recent quarter was not as big as expected, and left Netflix with just shy of 221 million subscribers. "Tough in some ways, losing a million and calling it success, but really we are set up very well for the next year," the company's co-chief and founder Reed Hastings said in an earnings presentation. The company said in its earnings report...
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No, this isn't another Netflix production. In Edinburgh, a new stage musical with the same name as the true-crime series "Making a Murderer" -- one of the streaming giant's flagship documentaries -- will be making its debut in August. The show offers another way to highlight the tragedy behind this miscarriage of justice in the US. Netflix does not own the title "Making a Murderer." And that, writer Phil Mealey understands. The award-winning screenwriter has admitted that he was inspired by the Netflix documentary to develop the stage show, titled "Making a Murderer: The Musical." The producti...
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Is Netflix hoping to turn our homes into veritable movie theaters? The streaming platform is putting more and more emphasis on the quality of its content. After rolling out improved image quality, the American giant is now tackling sound by offering spatial audio for shows like "Stranger Things." "Netflix spatial audio helps to translate the cinematic experience of immersive audio to any stereo, so the work creators do to bring you into the story happens no matter what device you use to watch Netflix," said the streaming giant in a news release. https://dailyup.etxstudio.com/articles/rn/fr/ne...
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Fans of "Stranger Things," Marvel movies and "Harry Potter" have no shortage of imagination, it seems. On TikTok, some of these pop-culture addicts are finding ways to take center stage in their favorite shows and movies, by means of video clips. And the trend is riding high on the Chinese social network. The hashtags #Storieswithyn or #ynpovstories and #povmarvelstories respectively total some 6.3 million, 12.3 million and 7.1 million views on TikTok. In these hashtags, "YN" means "Your Name" and "pov" stands for "point of view." As such, these hashtags allow users to share their own fictiona...
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This year's Emmy contenders will be unveiled Tuesday, with "Squid Game" tipped to become the first non-English-language drama series ever nominated at television's equivalent of the Oscars. Netflix's dystopian South Korean smash hit is expected to compete with returning heavy hitters such as HBO's "Succession," as TV productions delayed by early-pandemic lockdowns returned to our screens. Nominees will be announced in a live-streamed ceremony starting at 1530 GMT, after which final-round voting begins for the 74th Emmy Awards, set for September 12. Here are five things to look out for as the n...
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