The Studio Giant You’ve Never Heard Of: How MBS Group Powers James Cameron and Some of Hollywood’s Biggest Productions

You might not recognize the name The MBS Group right away, but if you ever wandered through legendary studio lots like Radford Studio Center, Culver Studios, Raleigh Studios, or Symmetry Park Studios London, you’ve stepped onto one of the nearly 50 studio campuses they operate globally. The company is the world’s largest studio operator, running top-tier campuses in iconic entertainment hubs like Los Angeles, New York, and London. But they’re not just renting out space — they’re the behind-the-scenes powerhouse designing studios,

Guillermo del Toro’s Dream Project Comes to Life: New “Frankenstein” Images Showcase Jacob Elordi’s Monster

Frankenstein is ready for his close-up.

Netflix has released nearly a dozen new images from Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming Frankenstein, which is slated to have its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, followed by a global release on Netflix in November.

The new images include a look, at long last, at Jacob Elordi as the iconic monster, along with Oscar Isaac’s mad scientist,

“The Diplomat” Creator Debora Cahn on Refusing to Write Easy Villains in a World of Hard Choices

For Deborah Cahn, the journey from The West Wing to Netflix’s The Diplomat began with a simple encounter that revealed the extraordinary lives hidden within the foreign service. The former West Wing writer spent years cultivating relationships with real diplomats, ambassadors, and State Department officials, learning first-hand how complex the world of international politics was, and how much it demanded of the individuals who dedicated their lives to it.

How “Nobody Wants This” Creator Erin Foster Finally Found Success Writing About Herself

After 15 years of chasing what television networks wanted—workplace comedies, procedurals, whatever was trending—actress and writer Erin Foster had almost given up on her writing career.

“I had a lot of setbacks as a writer,” Foster says. “Some of those were like, ‘You’re not a good joke writer’ and ‘You write things that feel sort of like a play—it’s just people talking and there’s not enough plot.’ So there were a lot of times that I really second-guessed what path I was going to go down.”

Case Closed: How Uzo Aduba Mastered the Art of Playing Television’s Smartest Detective in “The Residence”

From the moment the first episode streamed on Netflix in March, The Residence has garnered millions of fans and great ratings. There’s also been a growing fan base for its lead character, Cordelia Cupp, known as the world’s greatest detective by those surrounding her in this unique mystery dramedy. The whodunit comes from longtime Shondaland collaborator Paul William Davies (Scandal, For the People), and is inspired by Kate Anderson Brewer’s nonfiction book on the history of The White House and its staff.

The Trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” Electrifies Millions

The trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein has electrified viewers. The first glimpse of the visionary director’s remake of the iconic monster movie has garnered millions of views since its release on Sunday. There are few directors alive who are more perfectly suited to enliven a fresh adaptation of Mary Shelley’s deathless novel, one of the most adapted stories ever told; and after thinking and dreaming about tackling his own version for decades,

“Black Mirror” Creator Charlie Brooker on Remaking Reality

Charlie Brooker is known for many things, and depending on whom you ask, you might get a different answer. In England, where Brooker was born, you may hear about cult comedies The 11 O’Clock Show, Brass Eye, or Nathan Barley, which he wrote, or maybe Newswipe, where he satirizes current events, or the fictionalized reality show Dead Set about zombies attacking the Big Brother house.

Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc Goes Dark in First “Wake Up Dead Man” Teaser, a Horror-Tinged “Knives Out” Murder Mystery

“This was dressed as a miracle…it’s just a murder. And I solve murders.”

So says Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) in the middle of a minute-long teaser for his return as the southern detective in Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, the third film in Johnson’s whodunit franchise. The teaser is a much darker affair than the previous two Knives Out installments, the last of which was a sun-baked mystery set on a Greek Island,

Paul Giamatti on Finding Redemption in the Most Human “Black Mirror” Season 7 Episode

Seven seasons in, Charlie Brooker’s anthology series Black Mirror still gets under your skin. Usually, the load is heavy and dark, with characters’ lives driven to unambiguously worse places by technology we don’t yet have, but it feels like it may come frighteningly soon. But there’s one episode in this most recent season, Eulogy, starring Paul Giamatti, that stays in your mind for its emotional rewiring of one lonely man’s core memories.

Building the First “Black Mirror” Sequel: How Production Designer Miranda Jones Upgraded the USS Callister Universe

Back in Season 4 of Black Mirror, an enthusiastic programmer, Nanette (Cristin Milioti), gets trapped in a virtual-reality game by its creator and her boss, Robert Daly (Jesse Plemons). Shy and self-minimizing in real life, Nanette’s in-game clone is creative and confident enough to lead the rest of her colleagues, also trapped as crew by Daly on the starship USS Callister, out through a wormhole. Black Mirror picks up the thread with a sequel in Season 7,

One-Shot Wonders: How Casting Director Shaheen Baig Assembled the Perfect Cast for “Adolescence”

Co-created by and co-starring Stephen Graham, Netflix’s four-part series Adolescence has been a widely viewed hit for the streaming site. Nothing about casting the show, about an otherwise ordinary boy, Jamie (Owen Cooper), who has been influenced to such a malign degree by his online life that he becomes capable of murdering a classmate, Katie (Emilia Holliday), was standard operating procedure. Each episode is a single take, and finding an actor young enough to play the difficult role of thirteen year old Jamie and do so while shooting repeat one-shots was no small feat.

Rufus Sewell on Playing ‘The Good Guy’s Bad Guy’ in Netflix’s “The Diplomat”

A proper English thespian who originated a role in Tom Stoppard’s Laurence Olivier Award-winning play Arcadia fresh out of acting school, Rufus Sewell has since excelled as a character actor with leading man looks. Over the past few years he’s played a sadistic aristocrat (The Illusionist); a Nazi (The Man in the High Castle); an astrophysicist (Eleventh Hour);

Lighting Love in LA: How “Nobody Wants This” DP Adrian Peng Correia Lit Netflix’s Coziest Rom-Com

The moment Nobody Wants This became one of Netflix’s most beloved romantic comedies comes at the end of the second episode. Rabbi Noah (Adam Brody) and podcaster Joanne (Kristen Bell) have been glancing off one another in an uneasy will-they-or-won’t-they start to their relationship that finally ends in a kiss over ice cream. But it’s not just any kiss, Joanne later tells her sister, Morgan (Justine Lupe), but the greatest kiss of her life.

The Gauls Go Global: Inside Director Fabrice Joubert’s Vision for Netflix’s “Asterix & Obelix: The Big Fight”

It was in 1959 that Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo published their first comic strip about a village of Gauls resisting occupation by the Roman Empire.

In the nearly 70 years since, Asterix & Obelix have placated the Romans and conquered the entire world. It has become one of France’s most successful franchises, leading to 40 volumes of comics, 10 animated films, 5 live-action movies, games, merchandise, and a theme park.

Director Alex Graves on Keri Russell’s Balletic Excellence in Netflix’s Hit Series “The Diplomat”

Keri Russell plays blunt but brilliant U.S. Ambassador Kate Wyler in The Diplomat. She’s often anything but diplomatic in the taut political thriller, loath to dress in fancy clothes or brush her hair, but Kate exhibits invaluable tenacity as she tracks down the perpetrators of a horrendous ship explosion and car bomb attack. The Emmy-nominated Netflix series, which aired its second season last fall, co-stars Rufus Sewell as Kate’s ambitious husband Hal,

End Game: “Squid Game” Season 3 Trailer Teases Final Reckoning

The official teaser trailer for Squid Game‘s third and final season has arrived, bringing the games to a close with what promises to be the most sadistic season yet. But don’t take our word for it, this was confirmed for us by both the series’ star, Lee Jung-jae, and creator, Hwang Dong-hyuk, when we interviewed both of them last month.

Seasons 2 and 3 were filmed back-to-back,

“Wednesday” Season 2 Trailer Finds the Return of Jenna Ortega’s Precocious Psychic

Jenna Ortega’s Wednesday Addams is back in the first trailer for Tim Burton’s Wednesday season 2. Burton’s series returns in two parts, with the first part arriving on Netflix on August 6 and the second part on September 3.

Wednesday’s still trying to master her burgeoning abilities in the psychic realm, while also doing her best to sort out and stop a killing spree and help her parents unpack a mystery that’s been plaguing them since season one.

Not Playing Games: “Squid Game” Star Lee Jung-jae on Gi-hun’s Transformation in Final Seasons

Season 2 of Squid Game revealed protagonist Gi-hun’s desperate transformation from spirited and naïve recruit to traumatized and hardened champion. The iconic wide smile he flashed in his player photo has faded with the knowledge that more lives are on the line. Actor Lee Jung-jae appreciated the new depth his character has developed.

“I was really drawn to that personality of Gi-hun, where he is quite optimistic.

Game Changer: “Squid Game” Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk on his Audacious Ambitions for Seasons 2 & 3

Squid Game is a provocative experiment not only in strategy and skill, but also in the addictive pursuit of risking it all – even death – for a big win. Ironically, the show’s episodes are equally addictive, and fans demanded more after the innovative first season. Series creator, writer, and director Hwang Dong-hyuk didn’t intend to return to the intense filming schedule, but demand drove him to continue the captivating competition.

New “Black Mirror” Season 7 Trailer Reveals Episode Details Ahead of Series Return on April 10

We know about as much information on Black Mirror season 7 as we’ll get before one of the great sci-fi series of all time returns to Netflix on April 10.

A new trailer includes more details about Charlie Brooker‘s unnervingly prescient anthology series’ return, including the titles of all six episodes, the synopsis, cast, run time, and credits for each episode. Season 7 also boasts, for the first time in the series’