Netflix

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

  The first project to result from former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama’s multiyear content deal with Netflix will release on the streamer and in select theaters this fall. American Factory, a documentary Netflix acquired at the Sundance Film Festival this year, will open on Netflix and in some North American theaters Aug. 21, IndieWire reports. Directed by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert (codirectors of the Emmy-winning A Lion in the House), it won Sundance’s Directing Award for U.S. Documentary, and attracted early Oscars attention.

  
• 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
• The CW Ends Netflix Distro Deal, But Streamer Won’t Necessarily Lose Hits Like ‘Riverdale’
• Netflix Acquires Kids’ Educational Programming Brand StoryBots