New York Times media columnist Jim Rutenberg eviscerated streaming giant Netflix for blocking an episode of the Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj from streaming in Saudi Arabia following complaints about its portrayal of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Netflix faced criticism on Wednesday for pulling an episode in Saudi Arabia of comedian Hasan Minhaj’s “Patriot Act” that criticized the kingdom’s powerful crown prince.
Netflix has removed an episode of comedian Hasan Minhaj’s Patriot Act in Saudi Arabia after its government complained about the variety show’s criticism of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, according to reports.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — In the final weekend of 2018, “Aquaman” still led the pack at the box office, but other films like “Mary Poppins Returns,” ″The Mule” and “Second Act” enjoyed post-holiday bumps too, even amid an onslaught of new Christmas offerings like “Vice,” ″Holmes and Watson,” ″On the Basis of Sex” and the Netflix phenomenon “Bird Box.”
Online scammers are reportedly using fake Netflix billing emails in an attempt to steal users’ personal and financial data.
Police in Massachusetts reportedly said they have obtained video of actor Kevin Spacey allegedly assaulting a man who has accused him of sexual assualt.
BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts prosecutor says Kevin Spacey is scheduled to be arraigned next month on a charge of indecent assault and battery on allegations he sexually assaulted the teenage son of a Boston television anchor in a Nantucket restaurant.
In a bizarre video released on YouTube Monday, disgraced Hollywood star Kevin Spacey — while playing his famed House of Cards character Frank Underwood — seemingly addressed reports that he’ll face a charge of felony sexual assault next month.
Social media giant Facebook gave multiple tech companies including Amazon, Yahoo, and Microsoft access to far more user data than Cambridge Analytica ever dreamed of accessing.
Embattled social giant Facebook granted its business partners Spotify and Netflix the ability to read users’ private messages, according to information obtained by the New York Times.
Hollywood super-producer Ryan Murphy announced Sunday that he will launch a big-money organization aimed at defeating “anti-LGBTQ” Republican lawmakers.
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation is accusing Netflix of glorifying sex trafficking in its new series Baby, calling the company “completely tone-deaf on the realities of sexual exploitation.”
A woman in Minnesota crashed her car at the end of October because she was watching Netflix on her iPad in the passenger seat.
Filmmaker Lukas Dhont is at odds with Netflix after the streaming giant said it would edit out an underage frontal nudity scene from his directorial debut Girl.
A column in USA Today this week argues that President Trump should break up Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Netflix in the same vein as President Teddy Roosevelt.
Comedian Michelle Wolf blasted the White House Correspondents’ Association as “cowards” Monday, following their decision to not invite a comedian to the next correspondents’ dinner.
Comedienne Chelsea Handler, who is gearing up for a new Netflix series aimed at attacking “white privilege, was seen filming in the parking lot at the Philadelphia Eagles’ Lincoln Financial Field.
Co-founder and spokesman Lucien Greaves said the organization is “taking legal action” over a statue design appropriated by The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
Former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama plan to adapt Michael Lewis’ book ‘The Fifth Risk’ into a Netflix series.
Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google parent company Alphabet, known collectively as the “FANG” stocks, lost a combined $200 billion in market capitalization on Monday
“Being a woman is a political act in itself,” Goméz, the star of Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black, said at the event in Reading, Pennsylvania at Save Our Inner-city Lives (SOIL). “You are born an activist without meaning to, because you are every day fighting for your rights.”
Netflix host and stand-up comedian Hasan Minhaj said that Asians opposed to affirmative action are the “worst kind” of Americans in the debut of his topical Netflix show.
Netflix employees have donated to Democrats over Republicans in a ratio of 141 to 1, according to a report.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A record-high percentage of LGBTQ characters are part of the new TV season’s prime-time network series, according to the media advocacy group GLAAD.
Netflix has reportedly taken on an additional $2 billion in debt in an effort to further expand its original programming and licensed content.
Far-left comedienne Chelsea Handler has complained that her supposed white privilege makes her feel “very gross” about herself, claiming that her whiteness and Jewish heritage played an instrumental role in her success.
While Hollywood constantly preaches diversity, some of the entertainment industry’s most powerful and influential executives have given almost exclusively to Democrat candidates and left-wing PACs.
Movie and television show streaming giant Netflix is set to open its first production studio in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in what Deadline described as a “snub” to Los Angeles. The production studio is expected to bring $1 billion to the New Mexico economy.
The share price of Netflix has fallen more than 15 percent from its all-time high, with some analysts predicting that it could fall further after a year that has seen it skyrocket by over 80 percent.
Left-wing comedian Chelsea Handler has started filming on her new Netflix documentary on “white privilege,” asking her fans for ideas on the kind of issues they want her to explore.
In Netflix’s trailer for its final season of House of Cards, Claire Underwood, played by Robin Wright, declares, “The reign of middle-aged white men is over.”
A new report from the Wall Street Journal suggests that streaming television subscriptions are slowly increasing in price over time.
With Kenya Barris now out at ABC and headed for Netflix, in a reported $100 million deal, the Black-ish sitcom creator is now saying that a virulently anti-President Donald Trump episode shelved by the network was the “last straw.”
“It’s the basis of democracy that you control your own body,” Steinem says in the Reversing Roe teaser, whose release has been timed with the Senate confirmation hearings of Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.
Wanda Sykes has announced an upcoming comedy special on Netflix after accussing the streaming service of gender and color bias over pay.
Veteran media and telecoms investor John Malone, known as the “Cable Cowboy,” has predicted in a recent speech that Google will be “broken up” by competition watchdogs as the tech firm is growing too large.
The star of the Marvel series Luke Cage apologized Saturday for posting a tweet appearing to condone a bishop groping singer Ariana Grande during Aretha Franklin’s funeral on Friday.
Rachel Whetstone, a leading communications executive at Facebook, is departing the social networking company for Netflix amid an exodus of high-ranking managers from the embattled silicon valley giant.
Actor-comedian David Cross recently joked about beating President Donald Trump “to a bloody pulp” and urinating and defecating on him, according to a Salt Lake Tribune report.
Hard left Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has set out plans to change the UK media, including taxing tech giants such as Google, Facebook, and Netflix to fund the BBC and demanding more “diversity.”
