She burned at the stake as a witch in 1646; she rises out of the ocean unscathed in 2019. That’s the premise of Siempre Bruja, a Colombian drama coming to Netflix. Angely Gaviria stars as Carmen, a woman who lived in Cartagena before being killed for being in love. When she is transported to our present-day, she has to become accustomed to our high-tech way of life. The trailer gives us a taste of the magic we can expect, but you can be sure that Carmen’s ascension to our time isn’t the only supernatural element in store for us. Siempre Bruja, which also stars Verónica Orózco and Dylan Fuentes, will hit Netflix next year.

Is there a date yet?

Update

The official trailer is here, y’all 🙌🏾. Siempre Bruja premieres on Feb. 1, 2019.

queer eye (1x02): saving sasquatch

Hey everyone, look! Something on Netflix made by Asians about Asian culture featuring… Asians!

I’ll be watching this instead of Iron Fist, that’s for sure.

The Get Down (2016)

“While the nerdverse eagerly anticipates the premiere of Luke Cage on Netflix come September, the streaming giant has already introduced the next crew of superheroes, without anyone even realizing it. On the surface, it may seem unlikely for a musical drama/ historical fiction about the birth of hip-hop to be a priority binge for any diehard comic book fan, but make no mistake – Baz Luhrmann’s The Get Down is a multi-genre mashup that has all the key elements of any solid comic book fable, sans the Marvel or DC moniker.”

1st trailer for american reboot of “Voltron” japanese TV series. Produced by Netflix and Dreamworks. Animated by korean Studio Mir (Legend of Korra). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXW1waqRCb0

Gorgeous!

Netflix producers are looking for someone to play Buck, a teenage, Asian American trans boy.

Netflix has clearly heard the message: Use trans actors for transgender roles.

Here is the call:

Yes, the call is legit!

Thanks to duvallon for checking and double checking!

Gina Prince-Bythewood got a top Netflix official to explain how its algorithm treats films with majority-black casts

The 2014 film “Beyond the Lights” has way more in common thematically with “Notting Hill” than it does with “A Different World” or “Being Mary Jane,” which, like “Beyond the Lights” both feature majority-black casts. But you wouldn’t know that if you hadn’t seen either film and were going solely based on the “more like this” recommendations powered by Netflix’s enigmatic algorithm.

Writer/director Gina Prince-Bythewood took issue with this publicly. Writing on Twitter, Prince-Bythewood, who also directed the classic “Love and Basketball,” argued that by categorizing films by race rather than genre, Netflix was doing a disservice, one that’s repeated over and over in Hollywood when movies about universal themes get relegated to niche categories simply because they have majority-black casts.

We know Netflix is pretty oblique about the workings of its algorithm. We also know that Netflix employs a small army of humans to binge-watch their content and help categorize it.

We weren’t expecting them to give away any secrets, but we did reach out to see if Netflix had anything to say about Prince-Bythewood’s point. We never heard from them, but Prince-Bythewood told The Post she received a call Thursday from Netflix’s chief content officer, Ted Sarandos. She said they had a “good conversation.”

According to Prince-Bythewood, Sarandos explained that films such as “Beyond the Lights” and Ava DuVernay’s “Middle of Nowhere” were sorted by genre in Netflix’s merchandising banners such as “romantic movies featuring a strong female lead.” The categories that you see when you first log in to Netflix’s streaming service, along with “continue watching,” “popular on Netflix” and others, scoop up and categorize films by genre.

“It is reflective of what it should be,” Prince-Bythewood said.

Bythewood said Sarandos told her the “more like this” recommendations were based on statistics.

“Let’s say for ‘Beyond the Lights,’ people who watched my film and graded it, it captures what they have also watched,” Bythewood explained. “It’s a unique algorithm just for that. ‘More like this’ is different from the merchandising banners, which is the first thing that people see on Netflix and the way most people use Netflix.”

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Guys I’m so excited about Orange is the New Black right now

TUMBLR, WHY HAVEN'T YA'LL WATCHED THIS SHOW LIKE FIVE HUNDRED TIMES ALREADY. HOLY HELL, IT IS SO GOOD.

CRIES

Streamageddon is here: Tomorrow, Netflix will lose nearly 2,000 movies on its streaming service after deals with Warner, MGM and Universal lapse. Warner is moving its movies to its own streaming service that costs $10 a month. By the end of May, movies and TV shows under the CBS-Viacom umbrella may also go away. [More at Mashable]

One would think the movie industry would have learned from the example of the music industry nearly cutting their own throats over distribution rights (and putting the power over digital music in Steve Jobs’s hands).

And yet, one should never overlook the overwhelming avarice lurking behind every ridiculous move that mass media giants make in an effort to squeeze a few more bucks from their customers.

It’s the end-times, ladies and gentlemen. I swear to god.

I think it’s pretty safe to say Viacom will snatch their stuff back, because Viacom is the devil. 

WHAT THE HELLLLL

Fanterns, I just finished chatting with a representative of Netflix. I inquired why Green Lantern: The Animated Series was not available for streaming. After looking into it, the lady informed me that it was only available through DVDs, but she would add a request for streaming services.

If y’all want to watch GLTAS anytime, anywhere, you NEED to contact Netflix directly and request it be added to the streaming service. Here’s how to go about it:

If you do not have Netflix, I encourage you to voice your interest on their social websites: Contact the company via their Twitter Account or their Facebook Page.

Be active and be positive in your support for this series!

IMMA CALL THEM RIGHT NOW!! DO THIS THING, FRIENDS, IF YOU WANT YOUR SHOWS ON NETFLIX FOR STREAMING!

Ok rebloggan, because I just got off the phone with one of their reps. Basically this is how it goes: If you DO have Netflix, and tell them you want GLTAS for streaming. You have to tell them because each request for this show they put in is LIKE A VOTING SYSTEM to get CN/WB to put it up for stream. Especially for shows that were recently not renewed. So please contact them! Make it happen, and don’t wait for someone else to do it for you!

Latest update on the Netflix availability. GLTAS and YJ are not yet available for streaming. They have, however, been added to the catalog, thus these search results as opposed to the usual title not found result. This means the DVDs are up and available for Netflix DVD subscribers. That’s a start.

When I checked around 1am last night (shh, I sleep) Justice League Unlimited had this same result if you searched for it, and it is now available for streaming There may just be a delay with our two shows making it to the streaming servers. I’ll update you if see things change.

Just keep your eyes peeled, Fanterns! Wait for it!