Wednesday
Inside the Netflix Data Trove: ‘Wednesday,’ ‘Suits’ and 10,000 Titles (Almost) No One Watched
Netflix released a huge amount of streaming data Tuesday — viewing totals for more than 18,000 movies and seasons of TV for the first half of 2023. Taken as a whole, it’s almost an overwhelming amount of information that speaks to Netflix’s ability to engage its huge subscriber base (just under 239 million for the […]
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25 Bingeworthy Young Adult Films and TV Shows Released in Recent Years
There’s no doubt that young adult movies and television shows have had a resurgence in the past decade, especially in the era of streaming. Many know the feeling of sitting down, excited to binge-watch a new show, but feel lost on what to watch once it ends. Especially if you’re looking for something in the […]
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‘Barbie,’ Netflix Among Top Marketing Winners at 2023 Clio Entertainment Awards
The 2023 Clio Entertainment Awards, recognizing creative excellence in entertainment marketing, were handed out Thursday night in Hollywood, with Barbie, Tár, Wednesday and Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story among the big winners. During the ceremony, Netflix was announced as network of the year, Activision/ Blizzard as game publisher of the year, Universal Pictures as studio of the year and AV […]
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The Official ‘Wednesday’ Ouija Board Is Arriving Soon — Here’s When and Where to Buy Online
October (aka Goth Month) may nearly be over, but the hit Netflix series' latest collab ensures the spooky season never dies.
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Burbank Declares ‘Tim Burton Day’ With the Hometown Filmmaker Set to Return for Local Film Fest (Exclusive)
Tim Burton is coming home to Burbank. The Burbank City Council has declared that Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, will be “Tim Burton Day” in recognition of the Batman, Edward Scissorhands and Beetlejuice filmmaker, who was born and raised in the city within Los Angeles County, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. That evening, the 64-year-old filmmaker […]
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How ‘Wednesday’ Brought a New Perspective to a TV Icon
Netflix’s spooky comedy Wednesday brings Charles Addams’ iconic and idiosyncratic characters back to television, this time as seen through the eyes of the Addams family’s precocious and morbid daughter. Jenna Ortega leads the series, executive produced by Tim Burton (who helmed four of the eight episodes), which earned 12 Emmy nominations for its debut season, […]
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From ‘Only Murders in the Building’ to ‘Ted Lasso,’ Emmy Voters Love Their Chosen Families
To understand just how long the TV Academy has struggled to define “comedy series,” look no further than the first decade or so of the category’s life: Between 1952, when Red Skelton’s titular variety show claimed Emmy’s first-ever comedy prize, and 1964, when The Dick Van Dyke Show scored its second win, the category had […]
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Christopher Landon to Direct ‘Scream 7’
Spyglass is answering the call once more, throwing a new Scream movie into development. The company has tapped Christopher Landon — a scary movie stalwart whose credits include the Happy Death Day series as well as body-switching horror-comedy Freaky — to direct the seventh installment of the long-running franchise, multiple sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. […]
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Netflix Tweaks Its Top 10 Rankings, Adds View Count
Netflix is making some changes to its weekly top 10 rankings. The streamer will now sort its top titles by what it’s calling “views” rather than by total viewing time, though that figure will still show up on the weekly lists. The view tally comes from dividing the total time spent watching a series or […]
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How ‘Wednesday’ Production Designers Built Nevermore Academy
Much of season one is set at Wednesday’s New England boarding school, Nevermore Academy. Exteriors were filmed at Romania’s Cantacuzino Castle, a Neo-Romanian structure that was completed in 1911, and augmented with visual effects. “The castle had this great central turret, which gave it that sort of Addams Family starting point that just gave the […]
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The Wardrobe of ‘Wednesday’: “An Homage to a Schoolboy Kind of Look”
In episode one, Morticia Addams tells Principal Weems that Wednesday is allergic to color. With this as a guide, Ortega wore a black-and-gray striped school uniform, allowing her to stand out from the other students. Her petite striped jacket was silk-screened, the gray stripes painted on a black background. “The hard kind of stripes that […]
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How ‘Wednesday’ Brought Tim Burton to TV
Wednesday showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar remember vividly the unusual circumstances of their first conversation with Tim Burton. The filmmaker, who they hoped they could convince to join their show, was piping in from a garden full of “life-size” dinosaur models at his U.K. home. “He was wandering around his dinosaur garden talking to […]
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