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Roar Uthaug’s followup to his 2022 streaming hit finds folkloric giants again roaming the Norwegian countryside, panicking and squashing the human populace.
It has been a busy week for the streaming industry. On Friday, it seemed as if Netflix was on the cusp of becoming an unassailable streaming superpower with the news that it would buy Warner Bros. for $82.
In an ironic twist for the media giant known for documentaries about scammers, fraudsters, and crooks, Netflix’s own in-house scammer director, Carl Rinsch, was found guilty of defrauding the world’s most dominant streamer.
The first season of Beauty in Black spent seven weeks in the top 10 for Netflix, and in its second week was in the top position across 28 countries. The season two, Part 1 also made it to the pole position in 14 countries in its second week of debut, the streamer added.
Netflix is ringing in the holidays with another slate of Christmas-themed movies, but while this year's crop of films is a bit less starry than last year's, viewership is in pretty lockstep as subscribers flock to small-to-mid-budget rom-coms that channel the spirit of the season.
Kimmie's journey is coming to an end on Beauty in Black as Netflix has renewed the Tyler Perry series for a third and final season.
The scenes were captured on a camera that Sean “Diddy” Combs himself had invited into his hotel room In the footage, he snarls down the phone at his lawyers like a cornered and wounded animal who knows the hunt is closing in. He’s using all the influence he can muster to throw the dogs off his scent.
Earlier this month, Netflix stunned Hollywood when it announced plans to acquire Warner Bros, including its film and television studios, HBO Max and HBO, for nearly $83 billion. “Our mission has always been to entertain the world,