We're not quite in a physical media-free future yet, despite Netflix's bold move in premiering a major TV series that existed only (at first) online. Deadline points out that Amazon is currently taking pre-orders on Blu-ray and DVD sets of "House of Cards" season one.
Read More »Now that Netflix customers are well into recovering from their "House of Cards" binges, the service will release it's latest helping of original entertainment on April 19th when all 13 episodes of Eli Roth's "Hemlock Grove" will become available for online viewing. With "Cabin Fever" and "Hostel" fi...
Read More »Gore alert! It should come as no surprise, coming from gorehound Eli Roth ("Grindhouse," "Hostel") that the latest clip from Netflix's next original series "Hemlock Grove" is not for the faint of heart. The whole horror series is likely to be as eagerly gross as this scene. Produced by Roth, "Hemlo...
Read More »Though last year’s “Cloud Atlas” wasn’t the barn-burner that some tipped it to be, The Wachowskis aren’t looking back, and are instead getting back to work. Not only are they working on their directorial follow-up "Jupiter Ascending," their first to tackle on their own since 2008’s “Speed Racer,” bu...
Read More »Last October we learned that the Wachowski siblings were looking to make their first venture onto the small screen with "Sense8," an hour-long series they developed with showrunner J. Michael Straczynski with the intention of shopping it around to different networks. Further details remained secreti...
Read More »Video service Netflix continues to blaze trails in the original content game. In a brilliant move, the company has tapped the Wachowskis ("Cloud Atlas," "The Matrix") and "Babylon 5" creator Michael J. Straczynski to develop a new series, "Sense8." The few details we know about the project promise a...
Read More »HBO CEO Richard Plepler is considering the possibility of partnering with broadband internet providers to widen access to the company's HBO GO streaming service for non-subscribers. Plepler told Reuters, "Maybe HBO GO, with our broadband partners, could evolve."
Read More »Netflix has picked up exclusive streaming rights for the third season of the FOX TV mystery series "The Killing" after three months, which is a much shorter window than usual. And on Tuesday, the streaming service announced a new integration with Facebook that will make it even easier for people to ...
Read More »When "The Killing" was brought back for a third season by AMC after the network initially canceled the series last summer, there was speculation that Netflix, who's been in talks about potentially continuing the show themselves, would be involved in the deal in some way. There were no partners menti...
Read More »"There's a reason this kind of thing doesn't happen more often," "Arrested Development" creator Mitchell Hurwitz said of his resurrected comedy series today. "Shows don't reunite because television doesn't work that way. There's no profit model and people go off to do other work."
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