Netflix's plan to account for its increasing saturation in the U.S. market by looking overseas for new customers is well-documented. With its latest maneuver, the Svod platform is looking to sell international subscribers on a format that has proved successful in the States. It has announced Una y no más, a stand-up special featuring Spanish comedian Joaquin Reyes.
Reyes, a 42-year-old actor and stand-up performer, is perhaps best known in Spain for his role in Muchachada Nui, a long-running sketch comedy TV show. He is also known for his impressions, and in his Netflix special, he will show some of them off. Variety notes that Reyes' signature characters include Mick Jagger, Barbra Streisand, and Michael Jackson. Here's a clip of his comedy; though it lacks subtitles, it displays his stage presence.
In America, Netflix's catalog of original programming includes dozens of stand-up specials, including entries from well-known comedians like Aziz Ansari,...
Reyes, a 42-year-old actor and stand-up performer, is perhaps best known in Spain for his role in Muchachada Nui, a long-running sketch comedy TV show. He is also known for his impressions, and in his Netflix special, he will show some of them off. Variety notes that Reyes' signature characters include Mick Jagger, Barbra Streisand, and Michael Jackson. Here's a clip of his comedy; though it lacks subtitles, it displays his stage presence.
In America, Netflix's catalog of original programming includes dozens of stand-up specials, including entries from well-known comedians like Aziz Ansari,...
- 7/7/2017
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Netflix is continuing its comedy spree with Grillo Vs. Grillo, the first-ever original production by the streaming giant to hail from Italy. Grillo Vs. Grillo is a standup special starring the Italian comedian-turned-politician Beppe Grillo, who is the founder of the country's Five Star Movement -- a populist party that has become increasingly influential in Italy, and which grew out of Grillo's massively popular blog.
Grillo is frequently compared to U.S. President Donald Trump, as he boasts a non-immigrant stance and also supported the Brexit, according to Variety, which was first to report the special's debut.
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Grillo is frequently compared to U.S. President Donald Trump, as he boasts a non-immigrant stance and also supported the Brexit, according to Variety, which was first to report the special's debut.
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- 2/6/2017
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
Matteo Garrone's comedy moralises that the call of reality-show fame isn't a worthy pursuit. No surprise there
Matteo Garrone (director of the Italian mob drama Gomorrah) has confected a sentimental-realist fable about celebrity culture and its discontents, and it certainly has a resonance in the age of Beppe Grillo and the Five Stars Movement. But nothing in Reality quite lives up to its thrilling and dynamic opening sequence. After a Fellini-style swoop from high above the streets of Naples, Garrone's camera descends to a wedding reception at a resort hotel, where one guest, a voluble fishmonger called Luciano (Aniello Arena), is planning on doing his unfunny party piece to amuse the others – a wacky drag act. But a bona fide celebrity steps in: a former Big Brother contestant called Enzo (Raffaele Ferrante) has been booked to make a personal appearance, and poor Luciano is stunned with awe and envy...
Matteo Garrone (director of the Italian mob drama Gomorrah) has confected a sentimental-realist fable about celebrity culture and its discontents, and it certainly has a resonance in the age of Beppe Grillo and the Five Stars Movement. But nothing in Reality quite lives up to its thrilling and dynamic opening sequence. After a Fellini-style swoop from high above the streets of Naples, Garrone's camera descends to a wedding reception at a resort hotel, where one guest, a voluble fishmonger called Luciano (Aniello Arena), is planning on doing his unfunny party piece to amuse the others – a wacky drag act. But a bona fide celebrity steps in: a former Big Brother contestant called Enzo (Raffaele Ferrante) has been booked to make a personal appearance, and poor Luciano is stunned with awe and envy...
- 3/22/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Gianroberto Casaleggio hints Five Star Movement could offer limited support to minority government made up of other parties
The joint founder of the Five Star Movement (M5S), which holds the balance of power in Italy after its astonishing performance in this week's elections, has said it will not play any role in the formation of the country's next government.
But in his first interview since the results became known, Gianroberto Casaleggio, the digital mastermind behind the M5S's vertiginous ascent, signalled that the movement could provide limited support for a minority government, such as that proposed on Friday by the centre-left leader, Pier Luigi Bersani.
Italy and the eurozone plunged into crisis this week after no one party or alliance emerged from the election with the necessary outright majority in both houses of parliament.
Speaking exclusively to the Guardian, Casaleggio said: "If a government is put together, formed by other parties,...
The joint founder of the Five Star Movement (M5S), which holds the balance of power in Italy after its astonishing performance in this week's elections, has said it will not play any role in the formation of the country's next government.
But in his first interview since the results became known, Gianroberto Casaleggio, the digital mastermind behind the M5S's vertiginous ascent, signalled that the movement could provide limited support for a minority government, such as that proposed on Friday by the centre-left leader, Pier Luigi Bersani.
Italy and the eurozone plunged into crisis this week after no one party or alliance emerged from the election with the necessary outright majority in both houses of parliament.
Speaking exclusively to the Guardian, Casaleggio said: "If a government is put together, formed by other parties,...
- 3/1/2013
- by John Hooper
- The Guardian - Film News
Gervais collaborator gets his own TV pilot, Pegg's Comic-Con costume fetish causes offence, and Russell Brand wants to be a vicar ... so it seems
Best of the week's news
Stephen Merchant is working on his own TV project – his first outside of his partnership with Ricky Gervais. The lanky star is to write and appear in a pilot entitled Hello Ladies, based on his 2011 standup tour of the same name. The pilot – like the standup show – will focus on Merchant's supposed cackhandedness with the opposite sex, and will shoot later this year, according to Deadline. Merchant (who will also executive produce) has written the episode with Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, both former writers on the Us version of The Office. Eisenberg and Stupnitsky also worked on the comedy films Year One and Bad Teacher.
Lovers of comedy, look away now: Russell Crowe is to direct a biopic of Bill Hicks.
Best of the week's news
Stephen Merchant is working on his own TV project – his first outside of his partnership with Ricky Gervais. The lanky star is to write and appear in a pilot entitled Hello Ladies, based on his 2011 standup tour of the same name. The pilot – like the standup show – will focus on Merchant's supposed cackhandedness with the opposite sex, and will shoot later this year, according to Deadline. Merchant (who will also executive produce) has written the episode with Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, both former writers on the Us version of The Office. Eisenberg and Stupnitsky also worked on the comedy films Year One and Bad Teacher.
Lovers of comedy, look away now: Russell Crowe is to direct a biopic of Bill Hicks.
- 7/24/2012
- by Brian Logan
- The Guardian - Film News
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