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You Season 5 logged 308M+ hours despite low Audience Rotten Tomatoes score

Collider reports that, according to Flixpatrol, Netflix's You Season 5 logged over 308 million streaming hours despite earning an Audience Rotten Tomatoes score of 48%. The final season shifted focus to de‑romanticizing Joe Goldberg and giving victims more perspective, but critics and viewers found the execution uneven.

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Netflix thriller The Rip tops global streaming charts three days after release

Movieweb reports that Netflix's new action thriller The Rip has become a global streaming sensation, reaching the number one spot on the platform just three days (at the time of writing) after it was released and topping the streamer’s weekly chart. The film was directed by Joe

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Live-Action How to Train Your Dragon Arrives on Netflix US February 10, 2026

Collider reports the live-action How to Train Your Dragon will be available to stream on Netflix US starting February 10, 2026. Written and directed by Dean DeBlois, the film premiered at CinemaCon on April 2, 2025, and opened in the US on June 13, 2025; it later landed on Peacock

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She‑Ra and the Princesses of Power to leave Netflix on February 21

Collider reports the 2018 animated series She‑Ra and the Princesses of Power will leave Netflix on February 21. Produced by DreamWorks Animation Television for Netflix, the show is a modern reboot of the 1985 Filmation title She‑Ra: Princess of Power. The reimagining follows Adora (Aimee Carrero), a soldier

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Matt Damon says cancel culture can 'follow you to the grave'

Movieweb reports that Matt Damon, appearing on The Joe Rogan Experience, argued that people who face cancel culture can suffer public rejection that will "follow you to the grave" while discussing his decade-long career and his latest project, the Netflix action thriller The Rip. On the podcast, Damon

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Matt Damon criticises Netflix viewing habits while promoting The Rip

Matt Damon, whose $100m cop thriller The Rip is currently the most-watched film on Netflix, used an interview on The Joe Rogan Experience to criticise how the streaming service affects how audiences watch and how films are made. Damon contrasted theatrical screenings with home viewing, saying an IMAX screening is

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Duffer Brothers say Villeneuve’s Prisoners inspired Stranger Things

Collider reports that the Duffer Brothers have credited Denis Villeneuve’s film Prisoners as the creative spark for Stranger Things, pointing to the missing-child premise that opens their Netflix series. In 2016, while promoting Stranger Things, Matt and Ross Duffer told Rolling Stone they had just watched Prisoners; Matt said,

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Damon and Affleck say Netflix urged early action beats and plot repetition

According to Movieweb, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck told The Joe Rogan Experience that, while making Netflix's The Rip, the streamer asked for a big action set piece in the first five minutes and even suggested it "wouldn't be terrible if you reiterated the plot

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Netflix skating romance Finding Her Edge debuts among this week’s TV picks

Netflix’s ice-skating romance Finding Her Edge debuts this week as part of a New York Times roundup of shows airing and streaming Jan. 19–25. Adapted from Jennifer Iacopelli’s young‑adult novels, Finding Her Edge follows competitive skater Adriana Russo, played by Madelyn Keys, who must pretend to

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The Hunting Wives: wild Netflix thriller renewed for Season 2

Movieweb reports that The Hunting Wives, a Netflix thriller that premiered on July 21, 2025, has been renewed for Season 2 and is being described as a wild, underrated series. Adapted from May Cobb's 2021 novel, the eight-episode first season follows newcomer Sophie O'Neil (Brittany Snow)

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Independence Day (1996) heads to Netflix beginning February 1

Collider reports that Independence Day, Roland Emmerich's 1996 sci‑fi blockbuster, will be available on Netflix beginning February 1. Released July 3, 1996, the film follows a counter-attack staged by humans after an alien invasion and was presented from different points of view. Produced on a reported budget

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Altered Carbon: Resleeved shows Takeshi and his sister reuniting earlier in canon

Movieweb reports that the anime prequel Altered Carbon: Resleeved reunites Takeshi Kovacs with his sister Reileen earlier in Netflix’s adaptation than previously depicted. The piece notes that Netflix cancelled Altered Carbon in February 2020 after two live-action seasons, and that Resleeved, which dropped in March 2020, is an almost-feature-length

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Yesterday to leave Netflix at month’s end after Ana de Armas trailer dispute

Movieweb reports that Danny Boyle’s 2019 film Yesterday will depart Netflix at the end of the month, a title long linked to controversy over Ana de Armas appearing in promotional material but not in the finished film. The film, which imagines a world where only one person remembers the

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2 Broke Girls hits Netflix global top ten after streaming launch

Collider reports that 2 Broke Girls, the 2011 CBS comedy starring Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs, recently became available on Netflix in various countries and has already broken into the platform's global top ten. Data from FlixPatrol shows the workplace sitcom is among the top shows in Canada,

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Eddie Murphy’s Dr. Dolittle leaves Netflix January 31; sequel still available

Polygon reports that Eddie Murphy’s 1998 comedy Dr. Dolittle will leave Netflix on January 31, and its 2001 sequel Dr. Dolittle 2 is also available to stream. Based on Hugh Lofting’s 1920s stories, the film follows a workaholic physician who begins hearing animals after hitting a dog—Lucky—

Tech

T‑Mobile introduces Better Value family plan at $140/month for three lines

T‑Mobile has launched a new Better Value family plan that starts at $140 a month for three lines, the carrier says, positioning the offering against rival plans from Verizon and AT&T. The company says the plan will save customers “over $1,000 a year” versus similar Verizon

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Independence Day (1996) heads to Netflix on Feb. 1, 2026

Movieweb reports that Roland Emmerich's 1996 sci‑fi disaster blockbuster Independence Day will begin streaming on Netflix on Feb. 1, 2026. Released on July 3, 1996, the film features a cast that includes Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Margaret Colin, Randy Quaid, Robert

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre to leave Netflix on February 18

Collider reports that Tobe Hooper’s 1974 horror classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is scheduled to leave Netflix on February 18. The film, released October 11, 1974, runs 83 minutes and is often cited as the definitive original despite multiple sequels, remakes and reboots; the piece says the original

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Netflix’s The Eternaut earns 96% on Rotten Tomatoes and is renewed for Season 2

Movieweb reports that Netflix's post-apocalyptic sci-fi series The Eternaut, which debuted April 30, 2025, holds a 96% Rotten Tomatoes score and has already been renewed for a second season. Based on the Argentine comic by Héctor Germán Oesterheld, the six-episode show is set on an alternate Earth where

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Night at the Museum trilogy lands on Netflix on February 1

Collider reports the entire Night at the Museum trilogy arrives on Netflix beginning February 1. The franchise began two decades ago, headlined by Ben Stiller and directed by Shawn Levy. The first film was produced on a reported budget of $110 million and grossed nearly $575 million worldwide, placing ahead

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The Rip ranks sixth among Matt Damon and Ben Affleck collaborations

Movieweb has ranked every Matt Damon and Ben Affleck movie collaboration, placing their Netflix crime thriller The Rip at number six on the list. The piece notes the pair have both costarred and traded cameos across a lengthy shared filmography, and that factors such as brief appearances can heavily influence

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Netflix secures streaming rights to live-action Legend of Zelda film

Pcgamer reports Netflix has secured streaming rights to the live-action Legend of Zelda movie, an announcement made in a press release Thursday. The release said the agreement reflects a continued partnership between Netflix and Sony Pictures Entertainment, with Sony set to distribute the film. It described the arrangement as part

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Black Mirror remains relevant as Netflix renews series for Season 8

Movieweb reports that Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror, which premiered on Channel 4 in 2011 and had seasons 3 through 7 produced by Netflix, continues to feel especially relevant. The anthology has explored topics from grief and pop stardom to dating apps, and several AI-focused episodes now echo real-world

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Marcello Hernández’s Netflix special positions him as an ‘SNL’ breakout

In a New York Times review, critic Jason Zinoman says Marcello Hernández’s debut stand-up special, American Boy, on Netflix highlights the leading-man charisma and hunger that have made him the breakout of the current Saturday Night Live cast. Zinoman writes that Hernández has been powered on S.N.L.

Business

Sarandos pledges 45-day theatrical window for Warner Bros. films

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said the company will keep future Warner Bros. films in theaters for at least 45 days after the proposed acquisition closes, Businessinsider reported. Sarandos framed the commitment as part of running Warner Bros.ʼ theatrical business “largely like it is today,” saying, “we will run that