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Netflix invents new green-screen filming method using magenta light

7 July 2023

A faster and more accurate method for putting footage of actors in different backgrounds allows directors to see how their shots will appear as they film them


Don't Miss: The Sandman, Netflix's adaptation of Neil Gaiman's comics

Don't Miss: The Sandman, Netflix's adaptation of Neil Gaiman's comics

27 July 2022

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The Netflix Inc. television series 'Squid Game' on a laptop computer arranged in the Brooklyn Borough of New York, U.S., on Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021. Netflix Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on October 19. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The flawed way Netflix measures views leaves TV stuck in the past

27 October 2021

Netflix claims its audience "views" reflect the desires of the masses, but this unreliable data means some bad shows get green-lit, while potentially good stuff doesn't, says Annalee Newitz


Don't Miss: Netflix teen superpower series Zero

Don't Miss: Netflix teen superpower series Zero

14 April 2021

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Don't Miss: Wild tech in weekly podcast Our Ludicrous Future

Don't Miss: Wild tech in weekly podcast Our Ludicrous Future

31 March 2021

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Don't Miss: Netflix's Tribes of Europa, a German near-future sci-fi

Don't Miss: Netflix's Tribes of Europa, a German near-future sci-fi

10 February 2021

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Don’t Miss: BFI Film Festival airs across the UK for the first time

Don’t Miss: BFI Film Festival airs across the UK for the first time

7 October 2020

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Ratched review: Netflix show fails with stereotypes of mental health

Ratched review: Netflix show fails with stereotypes of mental health

16 September 2020

Netflix's thriller about Nurse Ratched does well to remove much of the misogyny present in the book and film that created her, but it also peddles harmful stereotypes about mental health


Don't Miss: Netflix's Away sees Hilary Swank on perilous Mars mission

Don't Miss: Netflix's Away sees Hilary Swank on perilous Mars mission

2 September 2020

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Netflix's John Was Trying to Contact Aliens is amazing and moving

Netflix's John Was Trying to Contact Aliens is amazing and moving

26 August 2020

John Was Trying to Contact Aliens is a 16-minute film that brilliantly captures the eccentric 1970s world of UFO hunter John Shepherd, who built kit to hunt aliens, playing jazz and reggae to lure them


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