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The Art Directors Guild Awards has announced the nominations for its 29th annual kudos, and all five of this year’s predicted production design Oscar nominees received bids from the guild on Thursday: The Brutalist and Gladiator II in the period race, Dune: Part Two and Wicked in the fantasy category, and Conclave in the contemporary contest.

This group, which celebrates excellence in theatrical motion pictures, television, commercials, and music videos, has an impressive track record for previewing the Academy Awards. Over the past 28 years, the eventual Oscar winner for Best Production Design has always numbered among the Adg nominees in the various categories, including last year when Poor Things prevailed at both events.

This year’s honors will be distributed on Feb. 15 during a ceremony hosted by comedian and actress Rachael Harris at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown. (See the complete list of names below.) Final voting for guild members opens on Jan.

The Art Directors Guild has announced the nominees for its 29th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards. Production design is all about worldbuilding, and so it’s fitting that the nominees are spread out by the kinds of worlds production designers are asked to create and the demands of their setting. The feature film nominee categories are amongst period settings, contemporary settings, and fantasy settings and the television shows are divided further by format between single-camera hourlong, half-hour, multicamera series, limited series, and TV movie, among others.

But the nominees themselves align with IndieWire’s predicted frontrunners for the Oscar category. “Dune: Part Two” and “Wicked,” among others, are nominated in the fantasy feature film category, while “The Brutalist,” and “Conclave” each received nominations in period feature and contemporary feature, respectively. On the TV side, “Shōgun” continues its conquest of guild nominations with one for period single-camera series, but “Squid Game,...

The Art Directors Guild (Adg, IATSE Local 800) has announced the nominees for its 29th annual Excellence in Production Design Awards, set to be held Feb. 15 at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown.

Feature nominees include the production designers on A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, Gladiator II, Nosferatu and Saturday Night in the period film category; Alien: Romulus, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Dune: Part Two, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and Wicked for fantasy film; and Civil War, Conclave, Emilia Pérez, The Substance and Twisters in the contemporary film category.

Over the past six years, the winner of the Adg’s fantasy film prize has gone on to win the Academy Award for production design three times: Poor Things in 2024, Dune in 2022 and Black Panther in 2019. During that time, the winner of the period film prize won the production design Oscar twice: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in 2020 and Mank in 2021. In 2023, the...

“Wicked,” “Dune: Part 2,” “Conclave,” “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” “Emilia Pérez,” “Nosferatu” and “The Brutalist” were among the film nominees for the 29th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards, which the Art Directors Guild announced on Thursday. Notably, Steve McQueen’s WWII drama “Blitz” and Pablo Larraín’s Maria Callas fantasia “Maria” were shut out.

On the TV side, “Shōgun,” naturally, scored yet another nomination to add to its Mt. Everest of accolades. “Pachinko,” “Bridgerton,” “Fallout” “Slow Horses,” “Squid Game,” “Hacks” and “Only Murders in the Building” were also nominated.

“This year’s nominees showcase the incredible artistry and vision that define our craft and our industry,” award show producers Michael Allen Glover, Adg, and Megan Elizabeth Bell, Adg, said in a joint statement. “We’re thrilled to bring the Guild together to celebrate the achievements of these incredible Production Designers and their Art Departments.”

The Adg Awards celebrate achievement in production design in movies,...

“The Substance,” “Conclave” and “Wicked” are among the films nominated by the Art Directors Guild (IATSE Local 800) for its 28th Excellence in Production Design Awards in motion pictures, television, commercial and music video categories.

The Adg divides live-action features into three categories: period feature film, fantasy feature film and contemporary feature film. “A Complete Unknown,” “The Brutalist,” “Gladiator II,” “Nosferatu” and “Saturday Night” were nominated in the period feature film category. In the fantasy film category, “Alien: Romulus, “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, “Dune: Part Two,” “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” and “Wicked” all landed nods. “Civil War,” Conclave,” “Emilia Pérez” and “The Substance” and “Twisters” earned contemporary film nominations.

While it’s difficult to use the Adg winners as a precursor to the Academy Awards, last year’s winner “Poor Things” (Shona Heath and James Price) went on to win the Oscar. Previously, 2023 winners “Dune” (Patrice Vermette and Zsuzsanna Sipos) also won the Oscar for production design.

Awards-season regulars A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, Dune: Part Two, Wicked, Conclave, Emilia Pérez and The Substance are among the nominees revealed Thursday for the Art Directors Guild’s 29th annual Excellence in Production Design Awards.

A Complete Unknown and The Brutalist, the latter coming off a Best Picture – Drama win at the Golden Globes on Sunday, are nominated in the Period Feature Film Category, joined by Gladiator II, Nosferatu and Saturday Night. In the Fantasy category, Dune 2 and Wicked are up against Alien: Romulus, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.

This year’s Contemporary nominees are Conclave, Emilia Pérez, The Substance, Civil War and Twisters.

Last year, the Adg bestowed its top movie honors to Poor Things for Fantasy, Oppenheimer for Period and Saltburn for Contemporary, with Poor Things and designers James Price and Shona Heath going on to win the Oscar for Production Design.

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Squid Game S2 Lee Jung-jae as Seong Gi-hun in Squid Game S2 Cr. No Ju-han/Netflix © 2024 The highly anticipated second season of Squid Game has taken the world by storm, breaking the record for the most-watched premiere week in Netflix history. With a staggering 68 million views, the Korean thriller surpassed the previous record holder, Wednesday, proving the global phenomenon is far from over. This captivating series, starring Lee Jung-jae, has become Netflix’s seventh most popular non-English TV show of all time. The success has even spilled over to the gaming world, with the Squid Game: Unleashed video game topping the App Store charts in 57 countries. The holiday season brought some exciting programming to viewers. NFL fans were treated to two thrilling Christmas Day games: The Ravens vs. Texans (featuring a spectacular halftime show by Beyoncé) and the Chiefs vs. Steelers. These games were the two most-streamed NFL matchups in US history,...

Carry-On, a film about traveling through the airport at Christmas, is on course to break into Netflix’s top ten films of all time.

The thriller, which stars Taron Egerton, Jason Bateman, and Sofia Carson, bested its performance last week by adding another 55M views on top of last week’s 42M number. It remains number one on Netflix’s weekly film charts, having already become Netflix’s biggest launch of a film this year.

Given that it has scored 97M views in its first ten days, Carry-On, which was directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and produced by Amblin Partners, it could well enter Netflix’s top ten films of all time. For reference, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery wrapped up 136.3M views in its first month to take the ten spot, Jennifer Lopez’s The Mother is number nine with 136.4M views, We Can Be Heroes got 137.3M for...

Why was it argued that Gabriel García Márquez’s 1967 literary masterwork “One Hundred Years of Solitude” is un-filmable and anti-cinematic, while the novel is one of the most picturesque pieces of literature ever written? One can hardly finish this 422-page novel without bypassing the images it evokes. I assume, the reason behind this ‘un-filmability’ or ‘un-adaptability’ lies in the kaleidoscope of realism that stems from Gabriel García Márquez’s life and works.

Once, while delivering a lecture on García Márquez at the Harry Ransom Center, Salman Rushdie remarked that, while reading García Márquez’s works, his readers’ often, enchanted by the ‘Magic,’ overlook the ‘Real.’ This magic of Gabo, which at times overshadowed the real, is perhaps one of the key reasons for making it look like cinema or television is inefficient in adapting his texts. But, García Márquez, who throughout his life was inextricably involved with cinema, himself did...

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One Hundred Years Of Solitude, the magnum opus by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez, simply should not work on screen. Even with the blessing of the writer's family, recapturing the essence of his landmark achievement seems even more impossible than the mystical occurrences that unfold in the book's fictional town of Macondo. Yet capture it they have — and remarkably better than anyone could have hoped for.

Shot in the Spanish language, using a Colombian cast, Netflix's highly anticipated adaptation is one of the largest productions in Latin American history, befitting the multi-generational story beating at the heart of the book's prose. The lavish production, shot on a town-sized set specifically constructed for this show, smartly evolves over time as we travel through history with the Buendía family. Historical realism and mythic surprises ebb and flow as the family's saga rises and falls, encompassing...

We're halfway through December, and Netflix has already released so many great shows this month. We're talking about series like The Ultimatum: Marry or Move on season 3, Black Doves, Queer Eye season 9, No Good Deed, etc.

Of course, some become instant hits with viewers, but others end up flying under the radar. This doesn't necessarily mean that they're bad. It's just that people either didn't know about them or they just didn't pull them in right away. These are called hidden gems, and they deserve some love and attention, just like the more popular shows.

In this article, we shared four underrated Netflix shows released this month that you should add to your watchlist. Don't you think it's time to broaden your horizons and watch something different from what you're used to watching? We think so!

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Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s magnum opus, One Hundred Years of Solitude, is famously regarded as the single most important piece of literature in the Spanish language since Don Quixote, and the recently released Netflix TV series adaptation of the seminal novel shows us precisely why. Chronicling an epic saga set in the fictional town of Macondo revolving around several generations of the Buendía family, which touches upon a myriad of themes ranging from human emotions, the cyclical nature of time, imagination, legacy, religion, and existential crisis—the nature of life itself—One Hundred Years of Solitude proves itself as a timeless classic, the universal tone of which will keep it relevant and appealing through ages to come. It’s a veritable microcosmic journey of human civilization that begins with new discoveries, wonders, explorations, and gradually adapts darker undertones of outside interventionism, violent politics, hatred, and conflict—harboring the...

The first part of Netflix’s TV series adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude highlighted the growth of the Buendía family, which became synonymous with the prosperity of the city of Macondo. Hidden in the swampy wilderness, Macondo was as free and liberated as its founding family wanted the city to be. But eventually, as the bitter realities of the outside world started pressing into the mystical city, it started to transform into a troubled, war-ravaged version of itself and the Buendia family’s downfall almost started in synchronization as well. By the end of the first season, the city and its founding family have changed into something unrecognizable when their past is taken into context. Although the story hasn’t ended yet, as a second part consisting of eight more episodes is to be released next year, it doesn’t seem either the city or the family will...

As a period drama, One Hundred Years of Solitude is epic in scale in the way it charts the growth and eventual decline of the fictional city of Macondo and, by extension, the Buendia family as well. Within the first part of the series, consisting of eight episodes, we have reached the fourth generation of the Buendía family, and for viewers, it can be a daunting task to keep track of the family connections given the promiscuous tendencies of the men of the family, which have led to more children being born out of wedlock than in it. Viewers who are familiar with the source material already know that the family tree will become much more confusing in the final part with new members adding on in each generation. To avoid mixing up the family dynamics among the members of the Buendia family, let’s take a look at the...

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This week in streaming news, YouTube TV is starting the new year with price increases on its plans for both new and existing customers (with some current exceptions). Find out when the subscription hikes will go into effect and if your increase may be delayed.

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What to Watch on Netflix This Weekend? The Best New Releases to Binge-Watch From December 13-15 - Main Image

It's the weekend again, and you might be looking for new releases to binge-watch on Netflix that you can watch this December 13-15. Here are some of the titles that you should look out for.

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The new comedy-drama series No Good Deed was finally released on Netflix just in time as you're looking for shows to binge this week. The new original is coming from Dead to Me creator Liz Feldman.

The series is about the highs and lows of searching for a safe, happy home and just how far we're willing to go to protect ourselves and our loved ones in the process.

The star-studded cast includes Linda Cardellini, O-t Fagbenle, Abbi Jacobson, Lisa Kudrow, Denis Leary, Poppy Liu, Teyonah Parris, Ray Romano, and Luke Wilson.

For a novel that has been claimed difficult to adapt in a live-action setting, Netflix proved that time solves everything – at least with how they handled Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. Many Hollywood filmmakers have attempted to translate the 1967 Nobel Prize-winning story to the screen, but it was only today that an adaptation has been successfully made.

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Part of the reason the author had firmly refused to make a movie or show out of his work was because he believed the beautiful and enchanting town of Macondo could never be rendered onscreen. Finally, Netflix made it possible.

Netflix brings a realistic approach to One Hundred Years of Solitude

The setting for Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude stood in a field outside the city of Ibagué where they built a tangible production from the ground up. In plain speaking,...

Exclusive: Filming the adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude in Colombia delivered a 225Bn Peso ($51.8M) economic boost to the country, the streamer said.

Sharing the headline figure with Deadline, Netflix Lat-Am said it is a measure of the impact to Colombian Gdp and includes both the impact of its direct spending on the production and of the spending in the downstream supply chain. The number excludes the budget for the series, which has never been broken out.

The adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s seminal novel is the biggest TV project ever out of Colombia. In securing the rights to the magical realist tome, Netflix agreed the mythical town of Macondo would be recreated in Colombia and built by Colombians.

The series has just launched and will drop in two eight-episode instalments. It was produced by Dynamo and filmed entirely in Colombia with a 900-person production team. The...

Netflix’s 2024 drama series, One Hundred Years of Solitude, is a fascinating adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel by the same name. Based on the first half of the book, the Netflix’s series follows the Buendia family as their foundations are laid in the new town of Macondo, up until the death of the patriarch, Jose Arcadio Buendia. Both because of its faithful adaptation of the novel and also the grand scale of production, One Hundred Years of Solitude part 1 is a thoroughly entertaining watch.

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What is the Netflix series about?

One Hundred Years of Solitude begins on a night of festivities in an unnamed town in Colombia, where two cousins, Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula Iguaran, were madly in love with each other. Although their friends and neighbors had grown supportive of the relationship, their relatives, and particularly Ursula’s mother, did...

Lebanese Canadian director Katia Jarjoura’s drama Robbing Beirut has won the top $75,000 in-development prize in the Red Sea Souk project market, presenting 31 feature films and seven series projects within Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival.

Set against the backdrop of Lebanon’s economic crisis, the movie revolves around a woman who decides to rob a bank after it refuses to hand over her $30,00 savings deposit, which she needs to pay for medical treatment for her sister.

The film marks Jarjoura’s first fiction feature after a number of documentaries including Goodbye Murbarak, The Road to Kerbala and most recently, Escape, about Syrian artists living in exile.

Runners-up for the in-development prizes were Indonesian director Makbul Mubarak’s Watch It Burn, which clinched a $20,000 award, and Afghan director Aboozar Amini’s Tahmina, which won the $20,000 third prize.

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s magnificent magnum opus has now finally been adapted to the screen by Netflix, with the release of One Hundred Years of Solitude part 1. The series, with eight hour-long episodes, satisfyingly stays true to the original work despite having to be selective about which parts to adapt and presents viewers with a grand finale. This article is a brief exploration into the events taking place in One Hundred Years of Solitude’s ending. Meanwhile, you can check out our season recap here.

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How does politics destroy the peace at Macondo?

The manner in which people, unofficially led by Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula Iguaran, settled in the swamps and built the town of Macondo bears resemblance to the first humans stumbling upon a piece of land and settling down to create their own civilization. More facilities and amenities were gradually introduced to the town, following the natural flow of advancement,...

Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week we’re talking to Alex García López, a director on Netflix’s epic adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s seminal novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. The first eight episodes land today (December 11) on the streamer and the Argentine director lifts the lid on the pressures that come with steering Netflix’s most ambitious Latin American project to date, why the project had to be set in Colombia and his next steps, which includes a move into the feature film space.

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Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez’s 1967 magnum opus, “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” has long been considered one of the greatest works of modern literature. However, during Márquez’s life, he refused to sell the rights to the novel because he felt a film adaptation would not come close to scratching the surface of this century-long tale. Now, with the blessing of his sons Rodrigo García and Gonzalo García Barcha, who serve as executive producers, Netflix has adapted the sweeping masterwork into a two-part limited series spanning over 16 hours of television. (Netflix hasn’t yet announced when Part 2 will premiere.) With directors Alex García López and Laura Mora at the helm for Part 1, “One Hundred Years of Solitude” is exquisitely detailed and layered in intricate symbolism. The show is one of the most faithful page-to-screen adaptations in recent years.

A tale of family, fate, power and the frailties of humanity,...

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez is a monumental work in the literary realm. Its pages are alive with the magic of memory, the weight of history, and the delicate dance of fate—a tapestry woven with threads of love, loss, and a real longing.

As I settled in to watch Netflix’s adaptation, I felt a familiar flutter of anxiety: how do you transform the ineffable beauty of Márquez’s words into a visual medium? The novel’s popularity is almost heavenly, revered not only for its narrative complexity but also for its significant impact on the landscape of magical realism. It’s a towering achievement that makes many adaptations feel like pale shadows of the original—a formidable challenge that this series must carefully navigate.

Márquez famously opposed film adaptations of his writings, claiming that no film could capture the depth of his vision. And yet,...

Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece “One Hundred Years of Solitude” — an elliptical epic of fate, family, politics and madness in Macondo, a fictional town that represents the wider, tragic history of Colombia and Latin America as a whole — has been made into a Netflix series.

That’s Netflix; the streaming service better known for “Squid Game,” “Tiger King” and the more overpriced works of Ryan Murphy and Shonda Rhimes.

Bad idea, right? Well, to further quote that other prizeworthy wordsmith Olivia Rodrigo, “f—k it, it’s fine.”

More than fine, actually. The first season of this two-part, Spanish-language production can come across at times like a highbrow telenovela. But the sweeping pageant does an impressive job of streamlining García Márquez’s idiosyncratic, discursive novel into an expeditious but still thoughtful, contemplative and, yes, realistically magical eight hours.

The author’s sadness and humor come across intact; the...

Three years ago, Max released a limited series adaptation of a well-regarded novel that blended magic realism and an all-too-real snapshot of a global pandemic. Dreamy and uncomfortably familiar, bleak and yet bursting with hope, Patrick Somerville’s translation of Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven has settled into a reputation as a modern classic — THR placed it at No. 42 on our list of the 50 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century So Far — but owing to the timing of its premiere, the show was initially a little lost. It missed deadlines for many critics’ Top 10 lists and didn’t attract the awards attention you might expect based on its subsequent acclaim. It had to take a long path to adoration.

We’ll have to see if a similar fate awaits Netflix’s adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, a novel with one of...

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With over 500 scripted shows now airing across broadcast, cable and streaming, it’s easy to forget that a favorite comedy is returning, or that the new “prestige drama” you anticipated is about to debut. So consider this our reminder to set your DVR, order a Season Pass, pop a fresh Memorex into the Vcr… however it is you roll.

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Netflix’s slate will include many a festive film in December 2024 ahead of Christmas. Several already arrived on the streamer in November, including Meet Me Next Christmas, Hot Frosty, The Merry Gentlemen and Our Little Secret.

Angelina Jolie’s portrayal of Maria Callas will land this month as well. Carry-On, a thriller starring Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman set during Christmas at an airport, will put a twist on the Christmas classic. Lisa Kudrow, Ray Romano and more will also star in Liz Feldman’s next ensemble series, No Good Deed. Season 6 of Virgin River arrives ahead of Christmas as well.

Here’s what’s new on Netflix in December 2024:

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Avail. 12/2/24

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December is the perfect month to relax with a binge or two and Netflix is providing plenty of new options.

Leading the hype charge for the final month of 2024 is the hotly anticipated second season of “Squid Game.” The story of the runaway cultural phenomenon picks up where Season 1 left off. Also featured in December are the first two live NFL games on the streamer. Both the Chiefs/Steelers and Ravens/Texans games will stream back-to-back on Christmas Day.

Other notables are the “30 for 30” Collection, the latest season of “Virgin River,” the first “Transformers” film and Sabrina Carpenter’s Christmas special, “A Nonsense Christmas.”

See the full list of what’s coming to Netflix in December 2024 below.

Dec. 1

“A Different World” Season 1-6

“Faster”

“Run All Night”

“Transformers”

“The Dark Tower”

“Top Five”

Dec. 2

“30 for 30” Collection

Dec. 3

“Sleeping Princess”

“Fortune Feimster: Crushing It”

Dec. 4

“Churchill at War”

“That Christmas”

“The Children’s Train...

Netflix is unleashing a great slate of TV shows to close out 2024, so here’s what’s coming!

2024 closes out in December and with most network shows on hiatus, it’s a great time to catch up on Netflix shows! The streamer is keeping it busy with a couple of new shows alongside some others making their debut. That includes the long-awaited second season of one of the hottest TV shows of the last decade! There’s a lot to see so here’s a quick look at what’s coming to Netflix in December!

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Netflix is ready with an entertainment-packed December this year. We already covered the new movies that are coming to Netflix in December 2024. In this article, we will see what new shows will be coming on the streaming service in the upcoming month, including the return of top-rated original shows like Squid Game and Virgin River and new original shows like Black Doves. Just like every month, Netflix is ready to overload you with great content. So, we’re here to tell you about the best 7 new TV shows coming to Netflix in December 2024.

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The Red Sea International Film Festival (Rsiff) has announced its full industry programme. Running from December 7th to 11th, 2024, in Jeddah’s vibrant Al Balad district, this year’s expanded five-day program offers an exceptional line-up of activities bringing together new talent, emerging filmmakers and established regional and international industry leaders for a series of events, talks and networking opportunities. The Red Sea Souk activities will take place alongside the growing marketplace which features 142 exhibitors from 32 countries this year.

Shivani Pandya Malhotra, Rsiff’s Managing Director, said: “The Souk is a vital part of the Rsiff experience, serving as a hub for collaboration, innovation, and opportunity. This year, we are more committed than ever to creating an environment where filmmakers, producers, and industry professionals can come together to share knowledge, forge meaningful connections, and shape the future of cinema. We are excited to present this year’s events and thankful...

“One Hundred Years of Solitude” is a new live-action dramatic TV series, based on the ‘magical realist’ 1967 novel by Gabriel García Márquez, directed by Alex García López and Laura Mora, starring Claudio Cataño, Jerónimo Barón, Santiago Vásquez, Marco González, Diego Vásquez and Leonardo Soto, streaming December 11, 2024 on Netflix:

“…in the Spanish town of ‘Macondo’, seven generations of the ‘Buendía’ family, weave a rich tapestry of love, power, isolation and destiny.

“From the town's inception to its foreordained demise…

“…the story encapsulates the cyclical nature of history and the universality of human experiences…”

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After years of anticipation, Netflix’s adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude” finally has a premiere date: Wednesday, December 11, 2024. This ambitious undertaking aims to bring the sprawling, multi-generational saga of the Buendía family and the mythical town of Macondo to life, and judging by the initial trailer (see below), the […]

One Hundred Years of Solitude Premieres December 11 on Netflix...

You won’t have to wait 100 more years for Netflix’s adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s classic novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude” — the two-part series premieres on December 11. Each part is eight episodes.

“One Hundred Years of Solitude” (the book) was published in 1967; Márquez won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. The novel has sold more than 50 million copies and has been translated into more than 40 languages.

“One Hundred Years of Solitude (the series) was entirely filmed in Colombia with the support of the Márquez family. Like the book, it follows cousins José Arcadio Buendía and Úrsula Iguarán who are married against their parents’ wishes.

“Accompanied by friends and adventurers, their journey culminates with the founding of a utopian town on the banks of a river of prehistoric stones that they baptize Macondo,” the Netflix synopsis reads. “Several generations of the Buendía lineage will mark the future of this mythical town,...

"We're going to build the place we've dreamt of." It's time. Netflix has revealed their full official trailer for the epic new series One Hundred Years of Solitude, adapting the iconic novel of the same name. They debuted a teaser earlier in 2024 and the series is ready for streaming in December. In the timeless town of Macondo, 7 generations of the Buendía family navigate love, oblivion and the inescapability of their past — and their fate. The book by Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel García Márquez comes to Netflix, telling the story of the Buendía family, tormented by madness, impossible love, war, and fear of a curse that condemns them to solitude for a 100 years in this town. This stars Claudio Cataño, Jerónimo Barón, Santiago Vásquez, Marco González, Diego Vásquez, Leonardo Soto, Susana Morales, & Marleyda Soto. Netflix has spent tons of money making sure this adaptation is accurate and authentic, but also...

Netflix has unveiled the official trailer and key art for One Hundred Years of Solitude, which is based on the masterpiece by Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez and directed by Laura Mora and Alex García López. The series, consisting of two parts of eight episodes each, will debut its first installment on December 11, 2024.

In the new trailer, some of the iconic moments that have captivated readers of the novel for over 50 years come to life on screen: the founding of Macondo and the arrival of Melquíades, the tensions of family life, the passions of the town’s inhabitants, the emergence of political conflicts and the ensuing war, and the chestnut tree where José Arcadio Buendía fulfills the prophecy of his solitude, unleashing a rain of yellow flowers.

One Hundred Years of Solitude represents one of the most ambitious audiovisual projects in Latin American history. The series was filmed entirely in Colombia,...

“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”

That’s the opening line of Nobel Prize–winning author Gabriel García Márquez’s best-selling magical realist novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, and it’s echoed in the teaser above, a first look at the series adaptation coming to Netflix. The words are spoken generations later, read aloud from the diary of Melquiades (Moreno Borja).

The clips that follow take you to the mythical town of Macondo with the Buendía family, previewing breathtaking scenes as José Arcadio Buendía (Marco González) and Úrsula Iguarán (Susana Morales) search for happiness.

Claudio Cataño, who felt an “enormous responsibility” in playing Colonel Aureliano, tells Tudum it was “an honor and a risk” to take on the role. He adds, “Macondo and its host of characters, who I...

The world took the stage in Los Angeles this week at a special event celebrating Netflix’s wide variety of films and series from creators and filmmakers around the globe. The international showcase, led by Netflix chief content officer Bela Bajaria, presented a lineup of returning hits, including Squid Game and Alice in Borderland, and coming attractions, like an adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, which script consultant Maria Camila Arias described at a recent Q&a as “a history of civilization and also of Colombia.” The Next on Netflix: International event also saw the unveiling of some future favorites, including Love Is Blind: France and Physical: 100 Asia, and shined a spotlight on some of the most anticipated films and series from around the world that will hit Netflix in the coming months.

From Korea to Brazil and from Norway to Colombia, these global offerings...

The Netflix December 2024 originals, movies, and TV series have been revealed and can be viewed below. The streaming service has also announced the list of movies and TV series leaving next month.

The December schedule features such titles as The Dragon Prince Season 7, Jentry Chau vs the Underworld, Maria, Mary, No Good Deed, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Polo, and Queer Eye Season 9.

Squid Game Season 2

Also coming are Squid Game Season 2, The Great British Baking Show: Holidays Season 7, The Six Triple Eight, The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On Season 3, That Christmas, and Virgin River Season 6.

The lineup includes the comedy specials Fortune Feimster: Crushing It, Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was…, Michelle Buteau: A Buteau-ful Mind at Radio City Music Hall, Ronny Chieng: Love To Hate It, and Your Friend Nate Bargatze. Netflix will also stream two NFL games and the A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter special.

Netflix has said its Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul boxing match set a record in the relatively new arena of streamed sports as the most-watched event of all time.

Despite buffering and picture quality issues, the streamer announced on Tuesday that last Friday’s (November 15) entire evening comprising four bouts peaked at 65million concurrent streams worldwide, with 38million concurrent streams in the US.

According to media measurement outfit TVision, 56% of all US television viewing between 12am and 1am Et was for the Tyson-Paul bout, which garnered an estimated average minute audience (Ama) of 108million live viewers globally from opening to closing bell.

Timothée Chalamet and director James Mangold will receive Gotham Film & Media Institute’s Visionary Tribute for their work on Searchlight Pictures’ Bob Dylan drama and upcoming awards hopeful A Complete Unknown.

The tribute recognises “groundbreaking collaborations that push the boundaries of storytelling in film”. The filmmakers will be honoured at the 34th edition of The Gothams on December 2 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.

Production on A Complete Unknown took place in New York City and New Jersey in spring 2024. The story is set in the1960s as Dylan stuns the folk community when he plugs in...

In a major declaration of intent between two Hollywood and Asian studio powerhouses, Warner Bros Motion Pictures Group and Cj Enm have formed a co-development, co-financing and distribution partnership to exploit remakes of each other’s films.

Warner Bros Motion Pictures will act as lead studio on English-language films emanating from Cj Enm’s library, while Cj Enm will act as lead studio on Korean-language remakes from the Warner Bros vault.

Warner Bros Pictures will serve as global distributor on the films, with the exception of Cj Enm remakes, where the latter will distribute in South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Turkey.

"For me it was all about the camerawork." Netflix has unveiled a full 3-min behind-the-scenes featurette for their upcoming series One Hundred Years of Solitude, adapting the iconic novel of the same name. They debuted a teaser trailer earlier in 2024 but with the series ready to launch for streaming in December they're starting the final marketing blitz. In the timeless town of Macondo, seven generations of the Buendía family navigate love, oblivion and the inescapability of their past — and their fate. The book by Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel García Márquez comes to Netflix, telling the story of the Buendía family, tormented by madness, impossible love, war, and the fear of a curse that condemns them to solitude for a 100 years in the mythical town of Macondo. The series stars Claudio Cataño, Jerónimo Barón, Santiago Vásquez, Marco González, Diego Vásquez, Leonardo Soto, Susana Morales, and Marleyda Soto. This new making...

Netflix gave a sneak peek at its 2025 line-up of non-English programming yesterday with shows such as The Leopard (Italy), Last Samurai Standing (Japan), The Empress S2 (Germany), El Refugio Atómico (Spain), Senna (Brazil), Alice in Borderland S3 (Japan), and even this year’s One Hundred Years of Solitude (Colombia).

“People like the authenticity of local stories,” Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria said.

“When you try to make something that appeals to everyone, you just end up making something that appeals to no one.” It’s why Bajaria encourages her teams to be ambitious and support the vision of creators with the “goal to make shows and films that resonate in their home country first.”

Netflix shouted out the stat that they dub in 36 languages and subtitle shows in 33 languages. Bajaria also said that 80% of Netflix subs watch Korean content.

Bajaria at Netflix’s International Showcase

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Netflix leadership have touted the streamer’s upcoming slate of local-language film and television including the Japanese feature Bullet Train Explosion and Troll 2, Roar Uthaug’s sequel to his most-watched non-English-language film on the platform.

Chief content officer Bela Bajaria and her team of regional executives held a press presentation at the company’s first International Showcase at Tudum Theatre in Hollywood on Monday.

“People like the authenticity of local stories,” Bajaria said, adding that, as she has said before, the “goal is to make shows and films that resonate in their home country first”. She added, “When you...

As Netflix expands its live output in a big way over the next few months, chief content officer Bela Bajaria said she wasn’t concerned about last weekend’s buffering hiccups during the Mike Tyson/Jake Paul fight. Speaking with reporters on Monday morning during Netflix’s International Showcase (more on that in a moment), Bajaria said the streamer felt “very ready” for its next big live event: Two NFL games on Christmas Day.

“We always knew we were going to do a really big thing,” Bajaria said of the Netflix engineering team, adding that the streamer immediately set about to fix issues. The buffering and freezing happened during earlier undercards, and it appeared that issues were mostly resolved by the time Tyson and Paul faced off.

Asked if NFL commissioner Roger Goodell expressed concerns after the fight, Bajaria quipped that he loved seeing “that Netflix can bring you a...

Netflix leadership have touted the streamer’s upcoming slate of local-language film and television including the Japanese feature Bullet Train Explosion and Troll 2, Roar Uthaug’s sequel to his most-watched non-English-language film on the platform.

Chief content officer Bela Bajaria and her team of regional executives held a press presentation at the company’s first International Showcase at Tudum Theatre in Hollywood on Monday.

“People like the authenticity of local stories,” Bajaria said, adding that, as she has said before, the “goal is to make shows and films that resonate in their home country first”. She added, “When you...

Netflix touted the fruits of its massive international content expansion, promising a vast slate of upcoming films and television series from across the globe.

Chief content officer Bela Bajaria, along with content executives from around the world, gathered in Los Angeles for the streamer’s first international showcase Tuesday. Along with debuting footage for major titles like “Squid Game” Season 2 from South Korea — Netflix’s most-watched series ever, returning Dec. 26, and already renewed for a third and final season — Colombia’s anticipated adaptation of “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” and more, Bajaria also celebrated how Netflix’s investment in fostering local talent and production internationally has lent to the creation of hits that resonate globally.

“It’s about trying to find the best version of every genre, rather than focusing on only one demo or sensibility,” Bajaria said during the presentation Tuesday, highlighting her approach to programming for an audience of 650 million people.

From a landmark of Mexican magical realism literature to a breathtaking Cinematic experience that reawakens the soul of a cherished classic for new generations. Juan Rulfo’s ‘Pedro Páramo’ is one of the most influential pieces of fictional literature in Mexican history, shaping pieces such as One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. This led to multiple adaptations across the years. The most recent one is directed by Rodrigo Prieto and written by Mateo Gil. Starring Manuel García Rulfo as Pedro Páramo and Tenoch Huerta as Juan Preciado. The film perfectly recreates the unsettling unease, and disorientation of the book while using the power of Cinema to enhance scenes and characters alongside its themes of power, corruption, and the destructive nature of human desire. Allowing us to dive deeper into the Mexican Classic. Things to do: Subscribe to The Hollywood Insider’s YouTube Channel, by clicking here. Limited...