 "All Quiet on the Western Front" The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced nominations for the 95th Academy Awards on Tuesday morning. Netflix's German-language war film "All Quiet on the Western Front" picked up nine nominations, including Best Picture. More: - "All Quiet's" nine nominations are the second-highest tally in history for a non-English-language film, behind only "Roma" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," which scored 10 nods apiece.
- Apple's "Causeway" grabbed a surprise nomination for supporting actor Brian Tyree Henry.
- Netflix is twice nominated in the Best Animated Film category, for both "Guillermo del Toro's Pinnochio" and "The Sea Beast"; they'll compete against A24's "Marcel the Shell with Shoes on," DreamWorks' "Puss in Boots: The Last Wish," and Pixar's "Turning Red."
- Amazon's "Argentina, 1985" scored a nom in the International Feature category, where it competes against Best Picture nominee "All Quiet on the Western Front."
- A24's indie fantasy-comedy "Everything Everywhere All At Once" leads all nominees with 11 overall honors, including Best Picture and actors Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Lee Curtis, Stephanie Hsu, and Ke Huy Quan.
- Netflix's "Glass Onion" also grabbed an adapted screenplay nom for writer/director Rian Johnson.
- The Oscars will be held on March 12 at the Dolby Theater with host Jimmy Kimmel; they're scheduled to air on ABC.
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 Peters and Sarandos In a new interview with Bloomberg, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos makes the bold claim that the company has "never canceled a successful show." In the Bloomberg piece, Sarandos discusses his former co-CEO Reed Hasting's decision to step down from the position, and the transition with new co-CEO, Greg Peters. More: - According to Sarandos, Netflix's goal is to "talk to a small audience on a small budget and a large audience on a large budget."
- He notes, while many canceled shows were "well-intended," for the most part, they were talking "to a very small audience on a very big budget."
- Speaking about the unconventional decision to keep two people in the CEO position, Sarandos said "leadership is super hard and can be lonely," noting that "shared leadership can solve some of that problem."
- Both Sarandos and Peters suggested that Hastings -- who will retain the title of executive chairman -- will stay "in the mix" on major decisions, serving as an ongoing "senior adviser."
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DAILY CALENDAR TUESDAY, JANUARY 24 HOW I MET YOUR FATHER: The "How I Met Your Mother" spinoff -- centered around 30-year-old photographer Sophie's (Hilary Duff) search for her soulmate in present-day Manhattan -- returns this week for a second season. Chris Lowell, Francia Raisa, Suraj Sharma, and Tien Tran co-star; Kim Cattrall narrates as Sophie in the year 2050. [Hulu] THE BACHELOR: The ABC dating competition series returned on Monday night for a 27th season; new episodes hit Hulu on Tuesdays. This year's Bachelor is 26-year-old tech executive Zach Shallcross, who previously finished in third place on the 19th season of "The Bachelorette." [Hulu] YU-GI-OH! SEVENS: The most recent anime series in the ongoing "Yu-Gi-Oh!" franchise is set in the futuristic town of Goha, and centers on invention-loving fifth-grader Yuga Ohdo. The first Season 2 episodes hit Hulu in the US today. [Hulu] PHYSICAL: 100: Debut "reality survival" series from Korea in which 100 contestants -- each in peak physical shape -- take part in a string of grueling challenges to determine the ultimate competitor and win a major cash prize. "Single Inferno" veteran Cha Hyun-seung is among the Season 1 competitors. [Netflix] LITTLE ANGEL: The animated YouTube series for young kids features a mix of original songs and classic nursery rhymes. A second volume of new videos arrives today. [Netflix]
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 Amazon Studios is planning a wide theatrical release for the upcoming scripted drama feature "Air." It's the first original film from Amazon to get a wide theatrical release since its Sundance acquisition "Late Night" in Summer 2019. More: - "Air" centers on the origin of Nike's blockbuster Air Jordan brand.
- Matt Damon and Ben Affleck co-star as Nike executive Sonny Vaccaro and co-founder Phil Knight, respectively; Affleck also directed.
- Jason Bateman, Chris Messina, Matthew Maher, Marlon Wayans, Chris Tucker, and Viola Davis co-star.
- According to Deadline, Amazon is planning an extended theatrical run for "Air" in the spring before it hits the Prime Video platform; Warner Bros. will handle international distribution as part of its overall deal with Amazon-owned MGM.
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 Episode 2 of HBO's "The Last of Us" was viewed by around 5.7 million people across both linear TV and HBO Max streams. That's a 22% increase over the viewership of last week's premiere, which was pegged at around 4.7 million. More: - According to the network's internal figures, that's the largest Week 2 jump in viewership for any HBO original drama series in history.
- After a full week online, the "Last of Us" pilot has apparently been seen by around 18 million viewers, a 4x increase over its premiere night audience.
- The only recent HBO debut to score similar numbers was the "Game of Thrones" prequel "House of the Dragon" last year, which was viewed by around 10 million people on its premiere night.
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 Apple picked up the international series "Drops of God," in a rare outside acquisition for the TV+ platform. The series is based on a manga by Yuko, Shin Kibayashi, and Shu Okimoto, and centers on a young French woman who discovers that her father -- a legend in the world of fine wines -- has bequeathed her his extraordinary collection. More: - Apple apparently beat out a number of other streamers to land the series, which was produced by Legendary Television in a combination of English, French, and Japanese.
- Fleur Geffrier and Tomohisa Yamashita co-star.
- The series was written by Quoc Dang Tran, a veteran of the international hit "Call My Agent" and Disney+'s first French-language series, "Parallèles."
- Though most Apple TV+ series are produced and fully owned by the tech company, it has made a few acquisitions in the past, including the espionage thriller "Tehran" and the domestic drama "Losing Alice."
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By July, Hulu's "full suite of ad products and services" will be employed across Disney+'s new ad-supported tier, along with the rest of the company's streaming portfolio. Disney Advertising president Rita Ferro discussed the new plans with Digiday ahead of the company's Tech & Data Showcase event for advertisers this week. More: - The new features headed to Disney+ include Hulu's specific ad-targeting capabilities, dividing up audiences based on age, gender, and location.
- The expanded suite includes 2,000 pre-determined "audience segments" based on the company's Disney Select data platform, which includes info on 235 million monthly unique visitors in the US alone.
- Better targeting makes ad buys more valuable for sponsors.
- Disney's overall goal is to automate 50% of its total ad sales; Ferro said they're at 35% currently and on pace to hit that mark this year.
- Disney also now has the option of re-routing campaigns between Hulu, Disney+ and other platforms, with advertiser approval.
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- Neil Patrick Harris will reprise his "How I Met Your Mother" role as Barney Stinson throughout Season 2 of Hulu's "How I Met Your Father," and will apparently have a major impact on the narrative.
- Starz dropped some photos from the upcoming revival of workplace comedy series "Party Down," arriving on February 24.
- HBO Max's animated superhero comedy series "Harley Quinn" returns in February with "A Very Problematic Valentine's Day Special."
- Five actors joined the cast of Peacock's scripted true-crime anthology series "Dr. Death" ahead of its second season, including Rita Volk, Judy Reyes, Jack Davenport, Annika Boras, and Sandra Andreis.
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 |  | Lon Harris is the writer and editor of Inside Streaming and was the very first person to ever write an Inside newsletter. He lives in Los Angeles, California, and also writes about TV and film for Fandom, Screen Junkies, Rotten Tomatoes, Gamma Ray and others. Plus he has a Game of Thrones podcast called "Casterly Talk" and competes on The Movie Trivia Schmoedown as "The Professor." |  | | Editor | Eduardo Garcia is a writer and editor based in New York. He is the author of "Things You Can Do," an illustrated book about climate action. Bylines in The New York Times, The Guardian, Slate, Scientific American, and others. In one of his previous lives, Eduardo worked as a Reuters correspondent in Latin America for nearly a decade. | |
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