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Netflix has announced its newest sports series, Starting 5, which will premiere on October 9, 2024. The 10-part series provides an intense, behind-the-scenes look at the 2023-24 NBA season through the eyes of five of the league’s biggest players – Jimmy Butler (Miami Heat), Anthony Edwards (Minnesota Timberwolves), LeBron James (Los Angeles Lakers), Domantas Sabonis (Sacramento Kings), and Jayson Tatum (Boston Celtics).

The series captures their battles on and off the court as they chase greatness, push through injuries, and balance the demands of family and legacy. James pushes himself harder than ever to stay healthy – and dominant – in his 21st season, while Edwards electrifies with his rapid rise.

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Butler’s relentless drive propels the Heat, Sabonis anchors the Kings with his versatile play, and Tatum leads the Celtics in their quest for a record 18th championship. Starting 5 delivers an unfiltered view of life at the pinnacle of professional basketball.

Exclusive: Mike Tollin, executive producer of Emmy-winning The Last Dance, today announced the launch of Mtp, a re-branding and restructuring of his Mike Tollin Productions, with a focus on expanded content.

The announcement follows the premiere last month of his six-episode docuseries Justice, USA on Max.

Under the re-brand, sports will remain a major component of Mtp’s content expansion, and has allowed Tollin to bring on new talent and reorganize the company structure. Jonathan Vogler has been elevated to President of Unscripted Productions and Ricky Cruz has been brought on as VP/Development. On the scripted side, Harry Wood is now VP Development and Sarah Alammuri has joined as Director/Development. Steve Tollin remains Director of Finance.

“I love the new team,” said Tollin. “They’re passionate and scrappy. Sports will continue to be our main lane, but we’ll follow the side streets as often as possible to tell stories with pro-social content.

NBC’s coverage of the Xxiv Olympic Winter Games and Fox’s FIFA World Cup telecasts were the big winners Monday night at this year’s 44th annual Sports Emmy Awards, winning three Emmys each. ESPN, meanwhile, was the night’s biggest winner among outlets, pulling 13 Emmys.

The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awarded this year’s Sports Emmys at a ceremony at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall. Bryant Gumbel will receive the lifetime achievement award for his role in sports journalism.

The Sports Emmys took place even as the writers strike has led to the postponement of NATAS’ premiere Daytime Emmys telecast next month. “While we gather together, other parts of our television community stand divided tonight,” Adam Sharp, president & CEO of NATAS said during the ceremony. “You’ll note most of the typically scripted elements of our ceremony have been pared back in acknowledgment of,...

NFL Network’s “NFL 360” and NBC’s coverage of the Xxiv Olympic Winter Games led the nomination pack, at ten each, for this year’s 44th annual Sports Emmy Awards. The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the ceremony, which takes place at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall on Monday, May 22.

Previously announced: Bryant Gumbel will receive the lifetime achievement award for his role in sports journalism.

“Today we honor these esteemed nominees and celebrate those who bring the thrill of competitive sports into our lives on a daily basis,” said Adam Sharp, president & CEO, NATAS. “We are excited by the extraordinary quality of this year’s submissions and equally excited by the opportunity to honor this year’s Lifetime Achievement honoree, Bryant Gumbel, celebrating his more than five decades of sports broadcasting excellence.”

Nominations were announced in 47 categories, including studio host,...

Netflix and the National Football League are teaming up for the first time through new docuseries “Quarterbacks,” which will provide exclusive, unprecedented access to icons like Patrick Mahomes, Kirk Cousins and Marcus Mariota both on and off the field.

The docuseries, which has been greenlit for one season, will premiere in summer 2023 and include some of biggest moments of the 2022 season, such as Mahomes setting an NFL record for total offense on his way to winning the league and Super Bowl Mvp awards, Cousins engineering the greatest comeback in NFL history and leading the Minnesota Vikings to an NFC North Division title and Mariota taking over as the starting quarterback in his first season with the Atlanta Falcons.

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At the age of nine, Steph Curry realized he wasn't as big as his fellow basketball players. Being undersized and outgunned never killed his love for the game, but if he wanted to make an impact, he was going to have to embrace the challenge of adapting to that reality and figuring out ways to compete. Multiple NBA championships later, it's safe to say he succeeded. Like all classic underdog stories, director Peter Nicks' "Stephen Curry: Underrated" is about determination. But it's also about second chances, and how believing in and supporting someone in their lowest moments can have life-changing consequences.

The film crosscuts between parallel tracks, one chronicling Curry's journey to attempt to win a fourth championship with the Golden State Warriors during the 2021-2022 NBA season and the other tracking his rise at North Carolina's sleepy Davidson College. Interviews with his coaches and teammates provide insight into what...

For the second week in a row, Luckiest Girl Alive topped the Netflix Top 10 Film Chart globally. The mystery thriller film starring Mila Kunis was the most-watched movie with 57,010,000 hours viewed for the week starting October 10 and ending on October 16.

Hours viewed for the second week were up from its premiere week when it reached 43,080,000 hours, the week of October 3 through October 9.

Luckiest Girl Alive was directed by Mike Barker and it is based on the 2015 Jessica Knoll novel of the same name. The film was produced by Bruna Papandrea and Jeanne Snow for Made Up Stories, Erik Feig and Lucy Kitada for Picturestart and Mila Kunis for Orchard Farm Productions.

For independent producer Papandrea, having Luckiest Girl Alive at the top of the charts in 2022 is quite the feat as she had previously scored major wins with the series Pieces of Her and Anatomy of a Scandal.

Luckiest Girl Alive centers on Ani FaNelli,...

Netflix may not be in the live sports business but it certainly wants viewers to know that it’s got some content around the edges.

The streamer has debuted a new teaser that highlights its sporting prowess with shows such as Formula 1: Drive to Survive and its forthcoming documentary on Celtics star Bill Russell: Legend.

“We got GOATs,” it notes of the trailer. “More of the greatest sports stories are coming to Netflix.”

It has launched the trailer online and will also air it during the season-opening NBA game tonight. The LA Lakers take on the Golden State Warriors, while Philadelphia 76ers take on the Boston Celtics.

Elsewhere, Netflix has a documentary series following the PGA Tour golf and a second season of Last Chance U: Basketball, which launches on December 13, as well as an upcoming docuseries following tennis stars across Grand Slam tournaments from the producers of Formula 1: Drive to Survive.

Netflix’s highly touted and well publicized (perhaps too well) Marilyn Monroe biopic “Blonde” dropped off its top 10 movie chart after only eight days, only three of those at number one. This stunning result reaffirms the suspicion that, as much as subscribers gravitate to originals, top directors and awards attention don’t provide a leg up when it comes to viewer interest.

There can be exceptions and it’s likely that “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” will be one of them. Rian Johnson’s film will have the benefit of its predecessor, a theatrical hit, as well as its cast and strong reviews..

Netflix originals can thrive, but it’s usually for the short term. The current chart has three originals among the top five and these films received a fraction of the “Blonde” attention. It suggests that while viewers may crave social buzz about movies, that’s not...

Early spooky season began in September, but for those late to the party by starting their celebrations in October, Netflix has a great slate of scary and festive films and TV shows on tap. “Scooby Doo” and “Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed” will be readily available the first day of the month. Friday, October 7 is a big day for releases, as it will welcome the third season of “Derry Girls,” “Luckies Girl Alive” adapted from Jessica Knolle’s best-selling novel and a new YA spin on ghost stories, “The Midnight Club.”

More book adaptations to keep your eye on for October’s Netflix arrivals include “The School for Good and Evil,” out Oct. 19 and based on the best-selling series by Soman Chainani. A heartrending and heartwarming dose of real life as well as true love can be found in the “From Scratch” series, based on the memoir of the same name by Tembi Locke,...

For a film that might initially come across as a glorified advertisement, with executive producers Dwayne Wade and LeBron James, in addition to the backing of NBA entertainment, Netflix’s “The Redeem Team” — about the 2008 U.S. Olympic Basketball Team — doesn’t have any business being as good as it actually is. An uplifting tale of the Team’s redemption in the wake of a humiliating 2004 loss in Athens, Jon Weinbach’s documentary is about everything you’d expect.

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Musso & Frank is no longer open for lunch … unless you’re Frank Marshall.

The veteran producer turned 76 on Sept. 13, and celebrated the same way he has for the past 35 years, by taking a midday table at the century-old Hollywood haunt.

“I have all my friends that are in the movie business and all my friends that aren’t in the movie business, and this year we had about 40 to 45 people,” Marshall told THR at the premiere of his latest, the Netflix documentary The Redeem Team. “I’ve been going to Musso & Frank with my dad all the way back to the ’60s. It’s a really special place for me.”

Also notable? His favorite entree: “The sand dabs with some boiled potatoes and a martini — and that great bread.”

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LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, “The Last Dance” producer Jon Weinbach, and NBA Entertainment team up for and their quest to recapture the gold medal glory that our country had once taken for granted. That long and arduous process became the stuff of a classic American sports movie, as the NBA’s biggest stars — brought together by a reserved but militaristic coach — put aside their individual egos to play for each other and the people back home.

“The Redeem Team” is that movie to a tee. It’s every bit as candied and superficial as you might expect from such a self-mythologizing stroll down memory lane, but its subjects bring some occasional edge to it (I cackled at James recalling the moment when he realized “we about to beat the shit out of Spain”), and the documentary’s slickness befits the story of a team that had been created to promote...

Sept. 21, Wednesday

Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli are honored at the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation’s Pioneers of the Year Dinner. Sam Smith performs.

The Beverly Hilton, Beverly Hills

The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts honors Shelli and Irving Azoff.

The Wallis, Beverly Hills

Oprah Winfrey, Reginald Hudlin and Derik Murray premiere the Sidney Poitier doc “Sidney.”

Academy Museum, Los Angeles

Sept. 22, Thursday

Designer Billy Reid celebrates the opening of his Los Angeles pop-up with Southern-inspired cocktails.

Platform LA, Culver City

Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, Tom Campbell, RuPaul Charles, Ronan Farrow, Carson Kressley, Alec Mapa, Ross Mathews and Michelle Visage co-host World of Wonder’s House of Love’s ExtraOrdinary Families benefit.

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Sony Music Publishing’s Jon “Big Jon” Platt is among the honorees at the Black Music Action Coalition’s Music in Action Awards Gala.

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Netflix has revealed the lineup for Tudum, the streamer’s second annual free virtual global fan event set for September 24.

Per the streamer, the event will feature “news, never-before-seen footage, trailers, and first looks, as well as interviews with Netflix’s biggest stars and creators.”

The Crown Season 5, Bridgerton Season 3, Queen Charlotte and the anticipated sci-fi drama Three-Body Problem are just a few of the TV shows set to be previewed.

The 2022 Tudum will span four continents with five events, beginning in Korea. The schedule per Netflix follows below:

At 11:00 am Kst (7:00 pm Pt September 23), Tudum kicks off with an exciting show out of Korea.

At 11:00 am Ist, fans will be treated to a fun look at what’s ahead from India.

At 10:00 am Pt, Tudum kicks off as a two-part show with Part 1 out of the United States and Europe, and...

Beyond Fest Announces Full 2022 Film Lineup, Headlined by ‘Halloween Ends’ World Premiere

Genre film festival Beyond Fest has announced its full slate of films.

The tenth-anniversary showcase is scheduled for Sept. 27 through Oct. 11. The lineup’s 63 features will include ten world premieres, three United States premieres and 25 west coast premieres.

David Gordon Green’s “Halloween Ends” will have its world premiere at the festival to close out its opening night, following two free screenings of Finn Parker’s “Smile.” Additional screenings include special showings of David Bruckner’s “Hellraiser,” with the director and talent from the film slated to join in person. “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” from director Eric Appel is set to have its U.S. debut at the fest.

Beyond Fest will screen in IMAX theaters across the Tcl Chinese Theatre, Hollywood Legion Theatre, Aero Theatre, Los Feliz 3 Theatre and IMAX headquarters. All programming at the...

Netflix has set the date for its second annual free virtual fan convention Tudum, plotting out five “global” events in 24 hours for Sept. 24.

The 2022 Tudum will offer the streamer’s fans an “exciting day of exclusive news, never-before-seen footage, trailers, and first looks, as well as interviews with Netflix’s biggest stars and creators,” per Netflix. “The free virtual event is a celebration of Netflix fandom and is dedicated to sharing the scoop on over 120 fan-favorite shows, films, specials and games from across the globe.”

Per Netflix:

At 11:00 am Kst (7:00 pm Pt September 23), Tudum kicks off with an exciting show out of Korea.At 11:00 am Ist, fans will be treated to a fun look at what’s ahead from India.At 10 am Pt, Tudum kicks off as a two-part show with Part 1 out of the United States and Europe, and Part 2 at 11:30 am Pt out of Latin America,...

"We had to figure out how to become a team." Netflix has revealed an official trailer for an inspiring sports documentary film titled The Redeem Team, telling the remarkable story of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Men's Basketball team. From the filmmakers behind the acclaimed doc series The Last Dance comes this new look at how the "The Redeem Team" set a new standard for American basketball. With an all-star team by Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony + LeBron James, the 2008 US men's Olympic basketball team had everything to lose. And everything to prove. The rest is history!! We already know the result, but this is the story of how they got that Gold. The doc includes Wade, LeBron, Carmelo, Carlos Boozer, Chris Bosh, Dwight Howard, Jason Kidd, Chris Paul, Mike "Coach K" Krzyzewski, and archival interviews with the late Kobe. This seems similar to the Miracle hockey story but for...

We have a major update from Netflix to share today, as the streaming service has announced their Fall 2022 Movie Preview, unveiling release dates through the end of the year! The fall movie fun begins this Thursday, September 1st, and the line-up includes Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, Blonde, Descendant, Enola Holmes 2, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, The Good Nurse, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Luckiest Girl Alive, Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, My Father’s Dragon, The Redeem Team, Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical, The Pale Blue Eye, The School for Good and Evil, Slumberland, The Swimmers, Wendell & Wild, and White Noise.

The full list can be seen below. Let’s break it down by month:

September

September 1: Fenced In

Genre: Comedy

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Netflix has announced its full fall movie slate, including release dates for a number of films that will be opening in select theaters before they’re on the streaming service.

That includes Oscar-winning “Birdman” and “The Revenant” director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s new film “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths.” Described as an “epic, visually stunning and immersive experience” the film stars Daniel Giménez Cacho as a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles, who, after being named the recipient of a prestigious international award, is compelled to return to his native country, unaware that this simple trip will push him to an existential limit.

Highly anticipated titles like “Blonde,” starring Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe, and Noah Baumbach’s “White Noise” are coming to the streaming service as they make their way around the festival circuit. Just as long-awaited are sequels “Enola Holmes 2...