90 minutes ago New Netflix film with 24% on Rotten Tomatoes 'so bad' viewers 'couldn't get past 20 mins'

It stars Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx

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20 hours ago The Graham Norton Show: Cameron Diaz's rock star husband and sideline business since quitting Hollywood a decade ago

Cameron Diaz is set to make her return to acting in the Netflix film 'Back In Action' alongside Jamie Foxx

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8 hours ago Netflix fans say new film 'like chat GPT mixed with 90s Jackie Chan' isn't for everyone

The Netflix film is splitting fan opinion

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30 hours ago Don’t Look Up director says ‘half a billion people’ have now seen film despite critics

Adam McKay says the Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio-starring satire resonates with a widespread feeling of being deceived by government and mediaAdam McKay, writer-director of climate-crisis satire Don’t Look Up, says that the film’s popularity with viewers shows the popular will to tackle climate change, despite the critical brickbats the film attracted and political inertia around the issue.McKay was speaking to the NME during the wildfire emergency that is currently affecting Los Angeles, which has included many high-profile victims from the Hollywood community. Saying that while Netflix, the film’s distributors, would not release definitive audience figures, he estimated that “somewhere between 400 million and half a billion” people saw it, and that “viewers all really connected with the idea of being gaslit”. Continue reading...

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34 hours ago Back in Action cast: who is in Cameron Diaz Netflix film and where have you seen the actors before?

Cameron Diaz returns to acting in Netflix’s Back in Action film 👀

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18 hours ago Nintendo fans say they're 'genuinely surprised' after Switch 2 first look

For the vast majority of gamers, it came as a complete surprise

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26 hours ago ‘Not second screen enough’: is Netflix deliberately dumbing down TV so people can watch while scrolling?

Streaming insiders have claimed they’re being made to rewrite scripts for viewers who use their phones while watching. Is this the end of prestige TV? Or pure fiction?Be honest: how much attention do you pay when you watch TV? If you’re familiar with the ritual of half-watching a series or film – Netflix on in the background while you check out what your arch enemy has just posted on Instagram, say – it may surprise you to hear that Netflix doesn’t just know you engage in this obscene behaviour. It actually wants you to carry on.The streamer was in the news recently thanks to an excellent piece by Will Tavlin in n+1, which reminded readers of the platform’s microgenre of “casual viewing”: TV shows and movies designed to be watched while doing something else. One paragraph in particular incited a great deal of frustration. Tavlin claimed that Netflix have told various screenwriters to have their protagonists “announce what they’re doing so that viewers who have this program on in the...

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