Netflix

• Netflix Removes Controversial Suicide Scene From ’13 Reasons Why,’ Citing Medical Experts
• YouTube Megastar KondZilla, With 50 Million Subscribers, Drops Trailer For New Netflix Series

  Netflix has once again tapped the digital creator well for a scripted series -- this one set in Brazil. The previously-announced coming-of-age drama Sintonia was created and directed by YouTube megastar KondZilla, who has the sixth most-subscribed channel in the world, with 50 million fans.

  
• Netflix To Decrease Depictions Of Tobacco Use In Original Projects After Anti-Smoking Report

  The fictional town of Hawkins, where Netflix’s sci-fi hit Stranger Things is set, holds plenty of dangers for teens. Things like empty swimming pools, excessively beteethed monsters, shady government agencies...and, according to anti-smoking group Truth Initiative, cigarettes.

  
• Netflix Released A Director’s Commentary For ‘Always Be My Maybe,’ But You Can’t Listen To It On Netflix

  Netflix has been probing the possibilities of podcasts for going on two years now, from You Can’t Make This Up, which tracks the origin stories of some of its most successful productions, to Strong Black Legends, about black Hollywood icons.

  
• The Obamas’ First Netflix Feature, ‘American Factory,’ Is Headed To Theaters
• Netflix Is Testing A Pop-Out Player On Desktops So You Can Multitask While You Watch
• Writer-Director And Trans Activist Janet Mock Inks Multimillion-Dollar Netflix Deal
• Netflix’s ‘Love, Death & Robots’ Gets Second Season Helmed By Jennifer Yuh Nelson
• Netflix Is Piloting An Instagram-Like, In-App Feed To Promote Its Series, Films
• Netflix Unveils Trailer For First Awesomeness TV Series, Teen Shoplifting Drama ‘Trinkets’
• Netflix Says It Will “Rethink Our Entire Investment In Georgia” If Anti-Abortion Law Is Enacted
• Rudy Mancuso To Direct ‘Black Mirror’ Promo Series With Lele Pons, Jeff Wittek, Others