NETFLIX ORIGINAL: New Netflix Original Film Trailer: Burning Sands!

New Netflix Original Film Trailer: Burning Sands!

Burning Sands takes you on a raw, voyeuristic journey of fraternity pledging through the eyes of one favoured pledgee, who is torn between honouring a code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing. Led by a breakthrough performance by Trevor Jackson, director Gerard McMurray's feature directorial debut brings an emotional honesty to the classic tale of "rites of passage" and the complicated bonds of brotherhood. Via Netflix 

BRAND BOYCOTT: Netflix’s “Dear White People” Series Sparks Controversy, Netflix Boycott

Netflix’s “Dear White People” Series Sparks Controversy, Netflix Boycott

Is anyone surprised by this?

Among the many show announcements Netflix made yesterday was their TV series adaptation of the independent film Dear White People. While the trailer’s subject matter (is it okay for white people to dress in blackface?) seems pretty straightforward and uncontroversial (of course not), many people were still furious that the show even existed. In a similar move to the #DeleteUber campaign, many people began to support a movement to boycott Netflix.

For every controversy there’s an equal backlash, so for all the people criticizing the streaming service there were an equal number supporting the show’s premise and Netflix. The entire discussion was as partisan and racial as possible, with one side using the hashtag #WhiteGenocide and the other referencing the now-common “white tears.”

We recommend holding judgement until actually seeing the show, but since this is the internet here are a bunch of people with fully-formed opinions based on a 35-second trailer. Watch it here and let us know what you think. The show releases on April 28. The trailer currently has over 100,000 dislikes on YouTube to only 7,000 likes.

Anti-Netflix

Dear White People✔️
Dear Black People❌
Dear Hispanic People❌
Dear Asian People❌

It's ok to be racist & anti White cuz muh systematic racism

— Irma Hinojosa 🇺🇸 (@latinaafortrump) February 8, 2017

@netflix Dear netflix, here is my reaction to dear white people pic.twitter.com/ag8wrVqYwd

— Spirit Chef (@Daspiritchef) February 8, 2017

@netflix how does it feel to alienate over half of your customers? Are you going to take Dear White People off the stream. Issue an apology?

— Phil Migroin (@deweysteven77) February 8, 2017

Netflix announced a new anti-white show (Dear White People) that promotes white genocide.

I cancelled my account, do the same. #NoNetflix pic.twitter.com/2HIGqviLHj

— Baked Alaska™ (@bakedalaska) February 8, 2017

The 'Dear White People' trailer has 38k thumbs down.

Turns out racism isn't cool. Should have asked MTV. pic.twitter.com/RSCM6vOyTb

— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) February 9, 2017

Apparently Netflix are frantically removing top comments on their "Dear White People" video who claim to have cancelled their subscription 😂

— Conscious Caracal (@ConCaracal) February 9, 2017

no one is forcing you to watch Dear White People on netflix. all you have to do is click "Kids" since that's how you're acting.

— lee yeol ☕️ (@heartpcys) February 9, 2017

"Dear white people, stop wearing black face. stop dressing up as black people for Halloween"

White ppl: WOW!!!! RACISM AT ITS FINEST!!!

— lex loves jasper (@bisexuaInygma) February 8, 2017

People who are pressed about the title "Dear White People" & unsubscribing to Netflix will be back watching OITNB in a few months dw

— 👽 (@leavetrislonely) February 8, 2017

Me scrolling through the thread of all the people canceling their subscriptions to Netflix because of "Dear White People" pic.twitter.com/hMgiWEtvh8

— je•law•knee (@ItsJustJelani) February 8, 2017

People protesting "Dear White People" are the reason there is a movie and TV series called, "Dear White People".

— My wife calls me 🌽 (@Blk_and_Gyphted) February 8, 2017

NEWS: Netflix Orders Hip Hop Drama Called “The Get Down”

Netflix Orders Hip Hop Drama Called “The Get Down”

“The Get Down” comes from renowned film director Baz Luhrmann and is

set to premiere in 2016.

Continuing on from the success of Fox’s Empire and Starz’ 50 Cent-produced show Power, streaming service Netflix has ordered it’s own 13-episode Hip Hop drama series titled The Get Down, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The show — set to premiere in 2016 — comes from famed director and screenwriter Baz Luhrmann, who is scheduled to steer the wheel on the first two episodes as well as the series finale. In addition, Luhrmann is slated to executive produce the show alongside Shawn Ryan.

“The Get Down will focus on 1970s New York — broken down and beaten up, violent, cash strapped — dying,” The Hollywood Reporter says. “Consigned to rubble, a rag-tag crew of South Bronx teenagers are nothings and nobodies with no one to shelter them — except each other, armed only with verbal games, improvised dance steps, some magic markers and spray cans. From Bronx tenements, to the SoHo art scene; from CBGBs to Studio 54 and even the glass towers of the just-built World Trade Center, The Get Down is a mythic saga of how New York at the brink of bankruptcy gave birth to hip-hop, punk and disco — told through the lives and music of the South Bronx kids who changed the city, and the world … forever.”

Speaking on the project, which acts as his debut television series and first musical venture since 2001’s Moulin Rouge!, Baz Luhrmann says The Get Down is something he has been envisioning for over a decade.

“The Get Down [is] a project I have been contemplating and working on now for over 10 years,” Luhrmann says. “Throughout, I've been obsessed with the idea of how a city in its lowest moment, forgotten and half-destroyed, could give birth to such creativity and originality in music, art and culture. I'm thrilled to be working with my partners at Sony and collaborating with a team of extraordinary writers and musicians, many of whom grew up with and lived the story we've set out to tell."

The trailer for The Get Down can be seen below:

TV SERIES: Marvel's Daredevil (Series Trailer)

Marvel's Daredevil (Series Trailer)

Meet Matt Murdock. Blinded as a boy but imbued with extraordinary senses, Matt fights injustice by day as a respected lawyer and by night as the masked vigilante Daredevil in Hell's Kitchen, New York. He'll do anything to make his city a better place, but at what price? All episodes of Marvel's Daredevil arrive on Netflix April 10. http://netflix.com/marvelsdaredevil

These Are The 65 Titles Netflix Will Be Removing On January 1st

These Are The 65 Titles Netflix Will Be Removing On January 1st

A few of your favorite films and shows won’t be making it into the new year.

The holiday season has came and is all but gone —  just like a sizable chunk of Netflix‘s catalog in a few days. On January 1st, 65 total movies and shows will be removed from the the companies streaming service. While 65 titles might seem minuscule in comparison to the vast collection of movies and shows Netflix has to offer, it is the quality of the titles, such as Rocky I – V, Bad Boys, Gladiator, Hitch that make this cut weigh so heavily.

Be sure to check out the following films and television shows on Netflix before their January 1st expiration date:

12 Angry Men

A Mighty Heart

A River Runs Through It

Backdraft

Bad Boys

Batman (1989)

Beethoven

Beethoven’s 2nd

Beverly Hills Cop

Big Trouble in Little China

Boyz n the Hood

Braveheart

Can’t Buy Me Love

Carrie

D3: The Mighty Ducks

Duck Soup

Far and Away

G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Seasons 1–2

Girls Just Want to Have Fun

Gladiator

Good Burger

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

Happy Gilmore

Hitch

Hotel Rwanda

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

Kiss the Girls

Kramer vs. Kramer

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Love Actually

Manhattan

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

My Girl

My Girl 2

Red Dawn (1984)

Rocky I–V

Roman Holiday

Saved!

Scary Movie 2

Spaceballs

Stargate

Taylor Swift: Journey to Fearless

The Bad News Bears Go to Japan!

The Brady Bunch Movie

The Breakfast Club

The Chronicles of Riddick

The Company Men

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

The Grapes of Wrath

The Longest Yard (1974)

The Mighty Ducks

The Original Kings of Comedy

The Parent Trap (1998)

The Phantom of the Opera (1989)

The Usual Suspects

The Wedding Planner

Titanic

Tombstone

Transformers: Generation 1, Seasons 1–4

Turner and Hooch

You’ve Got Mail

It’s  looking like a Mighty Ducks weekend for Khari Clarke. Follow him on Twitter (@KINGCLARKEIII).