Tag: The Queen’s Gambit
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Netflix’s First Movie Rental Was This 1980s Classic
Netflix has had a very interesting and controversial impact on the film industry. Some cinephiles have praised the streaming service for helping to popularize and distribute auteur projects from legendary filmmakers who had struggled to get funding elsewhere. However, there are many who have criticized Netflix for its impact on physical media sales and the…
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‘Lady in the Lake’: Everything We Know About the Natalie Portman-Led Series
Laura Lippman’s best-selling crime novel Lady in the Lake is being brought to life for the screen with a talented cast and creative team behind it. The limited series from Apple TV+ will be a complex noir-tinged crime drama set in 1960s Baltimore and will star Academy Award winner Natalie Portman (Black Swan) and Emmy…
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With No Eye Toward Emmys, DGA TV Award Winners Prove Surprising and Undeniable
With 17 of the last 20 DGA Award winners going on to secure the Oscar for Best Director, the Director’s Guild of America plays a pivotal role in who wins an Academy Award. Momentum is key for film’s grueling winter awards circuit, and now we’ll wait and see if Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert have…
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Emmy Predictions: Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series — Can Hulu Hold Off a ‘The White Lotus’ Win?
Last Year’s Winner: “The Queen’s Gambit”Still Eligible: No.Hot Streak: For the most part, only the anthology side of the category could have a streak. “American Crime Story” has already won the category twice, so should “Impeachment” win, it would make “American Crime Story” the first anthology since “Prime Suspect” to win the category three times.…
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Neil Gaiman Didn’t Want American Gods To Repeat Game Of Thrones’ Mistakes
With the wonderful adaptations of “The Queen’s Gambit,” “Station Eleven,” “Pachinko,” and so on, it’s become clearer than ever that television is the best medium for adapting novels, not film. This was shown perhaps most clearly through the first season of “American Gods,” which dedicated eight hour-long episodes to the first hundred or so pages…
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‘Vinyl’ Director Sara Sugarman Set to Take Over From Jonas Akerlund on Beatles Manager Movie ‘Midas Man’
Director Sara Sugarman is set to replace Jonas Åkerlund on “Midas Man,” the biopic of The Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein, Variety understands.“Midas Man” tells the story of Brian Epstein, the man who is considered responsible for launching The Beatles into the stratosphere. He also managed other hit musical acts from the 1960s including Gerry and…
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The Queen’s Gambit Season 2 Won’t Be Happening: ‘We Would Ruin What We’ve Already Told’
Creator of “The Queen’s Gambit” Scott Frank just delivered a very hard truth: some limited series are better off not getting renewed. The joy of a single-season show is the promise of a complete story. Knowing the ending from the onset means that when the season concludes, so will the character arcs, leaving the audience…
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Netflix Ties Emmy Record For Most Wins In A Single Year
In case there was any doubt (and was there?), this year’s Emmys confirmed that streamers aren’t just a major player in creating quality original content — they’re the dominant one. Netflix led the pack last night, and their 44 trophies tied with CBS’ 1974 showing for the most Emmy wins in a single year.Netflix wasn’t…
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‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Wins the Best Limited Series Emmy — the First Streaming Series to Top the Category
At the time of last year’s Emmys ceremony, a seven-episode literary adaptation about the tumultuous life of a fictional chess prodigy might not have been an obvious awards mainstay. Yet, after a year when “The Queen’s Gambit” never really waned in its quest for TV’s highest prize, the Netflix show finished its calendar-spanning run by…