Melbourne actress Zoe Phillips says the hardest scene to film in ABC drama Dustfall was a forensic examination of her character, Edie, after an assault. She prepared by watching documentaries and reading survivor impact statements. Phillips also said she won the role of Abra Bacon in Netflix series East Of Eden while sitting her Year 12 exams. She said working with co-stars Joseph Zada and Joe Anders helped ease her nerves on that shoot in New Zealand.
Hugging Face chief executive Clem Delangue says the Netflix documentary AI Gone Rogue is inaccurate. He appears in the film, which covers an attack on his company by AI agents that came from an OpenAI test model. Delangue said the film was too focused on making AI seem human and frightening. He said it left out the lack of security safeguards, how closed AI models blocked his team's defensive work, and how the company defended itself using an open model. He described the film as a fun sci-fi movie rather than good journalism.
Netflix has reported third-quarter profit above Wall Street's expectations, but its shares fell after it lowered its advertising sales guidance. The streaming company earned $US3.66 billion, or 87 cents per share, for the July to September period, up 44 per cent from a year earlier. Revenue rose 12 per cent to $US12.87 billion. Netflix also announced plans to cut about six per cent of its workforce and replace its chief content officer, Bela Bajaria, with Peter Rice. Shares fell 4.1 per cent after hours.
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Indian comedian Sumukhi Suresh has premiered her first stand-up special, Hoemonal, on Netflix on 14 October. The show covers hormonal changes, dating, body image, singlehood and expectations around motherhood. Suresh drew on her own experiences and said she began writing the show in 2021 with the aim of being completely honest on stage. After touring India and internationally, including a run at the Edinburgh Fringe, she said audiences responded with emotional reactions as well as laughter. She hopes viewers find the special comforting and relatable.
Darts player Luke Littler will take on 20 challengers in a streamed event on October 30, with a prize pot of £501,000 on offer. Each competitor will play one leg of 501 against Littler. The challengers were selected through an audition-style event held in recent months. Early matches are expected to feature less-skilled players, with competitors becoming stronger as the night goes on. The action starts at 7 PM UK time, when the event begins streaming on Netflix worldwide. A live crowd will attend, with tickets sold online.
Netflix has released the trailer for Narnia: The Magician's Nephew, directed by Greta Gerwig. The trailer is set to Stairway to Heaven and has a psychedelic style. Gerwig has said little publicly about the film, but has said she was inspired by 1960s-era David Bowie and that it will not be a musical. The film adapts C.S. Lewis's sixth Narnia novel, which he wrote in 1955 as a prequel after an acquaintance asked how a London lamppost ended up in Narnia's woodland. Gerwig made the film for Netflix after the success of Barbie.
A Netflix spin-off series, yet untitled, will follow the early life of Lady Violet Bridgerton and her romance with Edmund. Ruth Gemmell plays the older Violet in Bridgerton, while Connie Jenkins-Greig played a younger Violet in the Queen Charlotte spin-off. Edmund died from anaphylaxis after a bee sting while Violet was pregnant with their eighth child. Violet later develops feelings for Lord Marcus Anderson, but the romance ends when she declines to marry him. No date has been set for the new series.
Spanish queer epic La Bola Negra opens in Australian cinemas on Thursday, October 16. Directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, the Spanish-language film follows gay men across three timelines: 1932, 1937 and 2017. It stars Guitarricadelafuente, Miguel Bernardeau and Carlos González, with Penelope Cruz and Glenn Close in supporting roles. The directors won the Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival in May. The film will be streamed on Netflix in December.
