(by Alessandra Baldini) (ANSA) - NEW YORK, AUG 24 - A shower of films for Netflix subscribers: the streaming giant has confirmed that, by the end of the year, its subscribers will have access to one film per week for a total of 43
downloadable
opportunities in the last four months of 2021.
It will be a feast for cinema fans and "twice the volume of new releases that most of the students manage to afford in a whole year", points out Deadline.com wondering if Netflix will be able to keep quality high.
The programming for the next quarter includes niche jewelry and productions designed for "Serie A" stars such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, Idris Elba, Regina King, Jennifer Lawrence and Benedict Cumberbatch. Some films will be screened for a few days in a limited number of cinemas including the legendary Paris in New York, the only single screen room left in Manhattan, which Netflix took over with a long-term lease and reopened earlier this month "to preserve a historical institution and a house for cinema lovers ".
Among the new films slated for next fall-winter that will be screened on a big screen a decade before distribution online are the dark comedy "Don't Look Up," with Lawrence and DiCaprio directed by Adam McKay, Jane's highly anticipated drama. Campion "The Power of theDog" with Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons (on November 17th and online from December 1st after the debut in a few days at the Venice Film Festival) and Rebecca hall's allaregia debut with "Passing".
To close the year will be "The Lost Daughter", the adaptation that Maggie Gyllenhaal, in her first test as a director, made of the novel "The Dark Daughter" by Elena Ferrante: exceptional cast with Olivia Colman in the role of the protagonist, DakotaJohnson, Peter Sarsgaard and Paul Mescal of "Normal People": will debut in theaters on December 17th and 31st in streaming after the premiere in September at the Venice Film Festival. (HANDLE).