The Duchess of Sussex announced the series last summer. Tentatively titled “Pearl,” the Netflix show was going to follow a 12-year-old girl on a path of self-discovery inspired by famous female figures throughout history. Markle served as an executive producer on the series along with Elton John’s husband, David Furnish. “Pearl” was created through Markle and husband Prince Harry’s Archewell Productions, which inked a multiyear deal with Netflix in 2020 to create television series, docuseries, documentaries, features, and children’s programming....

An Oscar winner for both “Hannah and Her Sisters” and “The Cider House Rules,” the 88-year-old screen icon confessed that he attempted not to blink because he thought it would make his performances more mesmerizing onscreen. As Caine told Mirror, the veteran star of more than 130 films picked up a tip from the book “Teach Yourself Acting.” He said, “One thing that stuck in my mind was, ‘Don’t blink. You must never blink’....

Founded in 2006, The Match Factory is known for bringing specialty films to audiences, including the Cannes Palme d’Or winner “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives,” Oscar-nominated arthouse favorites such as “Waltz with Bashir” and “Toni Erdmann,” award-winning recent films like “Drive My Car,” and also the early films of Jim Jarmusch and the complete library of Aki Kaurismäki. Match Factory Productions was founded in 2013 by Michael Weber and Viola Fügen....

Writer-director Nancy Meyers shut down rumors that the beloved 2006 Christmas movie will be getting a follow-up after The Sun falsely reported from an unnamed source that production would be starting in early 2023 with the original cast. “So many DM’s about this,” Meyers captioned on Instagram. “Sorry but it’s not true.” Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz starred as two lovelorn women who meet online and swap homes, with Diaz traveling to the English countryside and falling in love with Winslet’s brother, played by Jude Law....

One day ahead of Netflix’s blog post, the analysts at MoffettNathanson published in an analysis that the streaming giant already has “about half” of the world’s potential subscribers — households that have broadband access and disposable income. That explains some of the company’s recent subscriber slowdown as well as the current effort to speed things back up. In fourth quarter 2021, Netflix added 8.3 million subscribers and missed its own forecast by about 200,000 subs....

Daniel fails to recognize the man sitting on the stool across from him, despite the fact that he and Bruno (“Babylon Berlin” alum Peter Kurth) have lived in the same Prenzlauer Berg apartment complex ever since the actor rode in on a wave of new money a few years back. That’s to be expected; gentrification requires a certain degree of short-sightedness in order to buy itself a sense of home, and just because Daniel has the resources to rent a swanky glass penthouse for his wife and their two sons doesn’t mean he can afford to look any of his neighbors in the eye....

The official “Nightmare Alley” synopsis from Searchlight Pictures reads: “When charismatic but down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) endears himself to clairvoyant Zeena (Toni Collette) and her has-been mentalist husband Pete (David Strathairn) at a traveling carnival, he crafts a golden ticket to success, using this newly acquired knowledge to grift the wealthy elite of 1940s New York society. With the virtuous Molly (Rooney Mara) loyally by his side, Stanton plots to con a dangerous tycoon (Richard Jenkins) with the aid of a mysterious psychiatrist (Cate Blanchett) who might be his most formidable opponent yet....