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Streaming giant Netflix anticipates content spending (of about $20 billion) will be up around 10% in 2026, accelerating from 8% increases over the last five years but below the 14% the company averaged over the past decade. Live, now a focus, will be about 5% of total. The higher outlay comes even a
Canceled Netflix drama The Boroughs got a consolation prize — it was the most recent ongoing scripted series release to make the Top 40 of Netflix’s semi-annual What We Watched viewership report released Thursday, which spans January – June 2026. The supernatural series, executive produced by Strang
The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan's latest epic, is breaking Rotten Tomatoes records, with its documentary highlighting the scale and authenticity.
In a competitive situation, FX has secured the rights to develop a series based on the New Yorker article “The Call of the Wild” by Paige Williams, Variety has learned exclusively from sources. Also published online in January 2026 under the title “The Backcountry Rescue Squad at America’s Busiest N
Instead of semiannual reports, the streamer will move to an annual release of viewing data next year.
After four years of biannual viewership reports, Netflix is pulling back a bit on the transparency front. The streamer revealed Thursday that, beginning in Q1 2027, it will only release one engagement report each year. In its earnings report, the company says this is part of its shift in focus to qu
Expelled Congressman and former politician George Santos is defending himself and his Special Forces co-stars from all the criticism following their casting announcement. Santos took to social media to address the hate he and co-stars Brandi Glanville and Candace Cameron Bure have been receiving aft
The Sheep Detectives, Toy Story 5, and Minions & Monsters are all among the very best movies for kids and families released in 2026 so far.
Netflix Co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters used the company’s second-quarter earnings interview to try to clear the air regarding prospects for M&A, strategic partnerships and FAST channels. Responding to a question about Lionsgate or NBCUniversal, both considered prime suspects in the current wav
Denzel Washington and Tony Scott's collaborations, which included Crimson Tide and Man on Fire, pushed each of them in new directions.
"Free is something that we're going to continue to consider, but we have no near-term plans to launch something," said Netflix Co-CEO Greg Peters.
Killing Eve, the critically acclaimed spy thriller starring Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer, just dropped the entire four seasons on Netflix.
Just a day after Fox Sports’ coverage of the FIFA World Cup 2026 semifinals broke records, they did it again. Wednesday’s nailbiter between Argentina and England averaged 15.063 million viewers on Fox, making it the most-watched FIFA Men’s World Cup semifinals match in English-language history. That
On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, in our Cover Story segment, Variety’s Brent Lang details the comprehensive report that he delivered with Rebecca Rubin on the summer box office rebound, and what Hollywood and exhibitors must do to keep it going. Lang, who is Variety‘s executive editor
The broadcasters will stream the address and break in if needed, with other networks still scrambling to determine their plans for the speech.
Not everyone gets a front-row seat to history. This weekend, Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” arrives in theaters nationwide. The sprawling adaptation of Homer’s epic is the first-ever movie shot entirely on Imax film cameras. And over the past month, everyone from Matt Damon and Anne Hathaway to N
In November 2025, writer-director Josh Penn Soskin began production on his debut feature, “The Rooster Prince,” based on his relationship with his late brother, David, a renowned psychiatrist who suffered from bipolar disorder. He cast Shia LaBeouf to play Eli, the character based on his brother, al
Roughly 300 Netflix programs across the streamer’s library have used generative AI across their production process so far this year, the company revealed in its second-quarter earnings report on Thursday. Netflix told shareholders in a letter that the technology’s usage expands across every level of
Netflix is discontinuing its biannual viewership data dump in favor of one annual report beginning in 2027. The latest version of Netflix’s “What We Watched” report, which covered subscribers’ viewership habits from January-June 2026, was released Thursday along with the streamer’s latest quarterly