Arts & Entertainment Adrian Grenier, Betty Gabriel, and Zoe Kazan Starring In Oakland-Based Thriller For Netflix A new Netflix limited series called 'Clickbait' is currently being shot in Melbourne, Australia, but the story is set in Oakland and centers on a missing persons case that's impacted by social media.
Business & Tech Netflix Sees First Subscriber Decline In Almost A Decade Bay Area-based Netflix had a not-great second quarter this year, with an overall loss of 126,000 subscribers in the US — the first quarterly decline in US subscribers in eight years, basically since it began streaming content.
Arts & Entertainment New Netflix Movie 'Always Be My Maybe' Stars Ali Wong As A Celebrity Chef Opening A San Francisco Restaurant Comedian Ali Wong stars in an upcoming Netflix movie that did some of its exterior shooting in San Francisco, all about a jilted, newly single celebrity chef who rekindles a romance with a childhood friend.
Arts & Entertainment New Season of 'Black Mirror' Featuring Miley Cyrus Tackles AR, Home Assistants The upcoming, three-episode season of Black Mirror, its fifth overall, turns its dystopian lens on augmented reality technology, Alexa-esque home assistant devices, and somehow Miley Cyrus is involved as a Hannah Montana-like pop-singer alter-ego?
Arts & Entertainment Watch The Trailer For 'Wine Country,' The Amy Poehler-Directed, Napa-Set Comedy Based On Rachel Dratch's Actual 50th Birthday "Just remember guys, whatever gets said, it's probably what the person has always felt, and the alcohol just let it out," says Tina Fey's character, Tammy.
Arts & Entertainment Netflix Reportedly Signs $60 Million Three-Project Deal With Beyonce Los Gatos-based Netflix may have some more Beyoncé movies coming out, as we now learn that the 'Homecoming' documentary of her 2018 Coachella performance was just the beginning of a three-project deal.
Arts & Entertainment Netflix Drops Gorgeous Trailer For 'Tales Of The City' Featuring Bob the Drag Queen San Francisco looks stunningly beautiful and gloriously kooky and bohemian in the newly released trailer for Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, the Netflix reboot of the ensemble tale that began with a 40-year-old serial column in the Chronicle, and a PBS miniseries based on those columns.
Arts & Entertainment Netflix Releases 'The OA: Part II' Trailer Set In Bizarro San Francisco The trailer just dropped for the second season of Brit Marling's creepy surreality series The OA, and surprise! It takes place in San Francisco now.
SF News Netflix Guy Wants To Give You All The Movie Theater Tickets You Want For $10 A Month A cineplex subscription service dropped the price of a monthly MoviePass to $10. Will you please now leave the house and go to an actual movie theater? Bloomberg brings us news of Mitch
SF News Reddit, Facebook, Other Tech Giants Rally For Net Neutrality In 'Day of Action' Today is a day of protest and calls for action from major players in the tech industry as the FCC prepares to roll back two-year-old protections for net neutrality. CEOs Mark Zuckerberg and
Arts & Entertainment Good News, 'Sense8' Fans: There Will Be A Finale Movie Following an outpouring of tears and outrage in reaction to Netflix's cancellation of cult favorite series Sense8, it was revealed Thursday that they will be letting the Wachowski sisters give the fans some
Arts & Entertainment 'Tales Of The City' Is Coming Back, Via Netflix Reboot Cue the sound of angels. Something is finally going right. Are you sitting down? Variety has reported that Netflix is developing a 10-episode "present-day continuation of San Francisco author Armistead Maupin's Tales of
Arts & Entertainment SF-Set 'Girlboss' Is Latest Casualty In Netflix Cancellation Spree #Bye #Girlboss. The Netflix series Girlboss, shot in San Francisco last year in and around the Haight and elsewhere, has been canceled after just a single season, the latest in a wave of
Arts & Entertainment Two Bay Area Families Say Netflix's '13 Reasons Why' Triggered Their Teens' Suicides The parents of two 15-year-old girls, one in Livermore and one in San Mateo, say that their children each took their own lives just days after watching the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why.
Arts & Entertainment Open Casting Call For Season 2 Of '13 Reasons Why' Is This Weekend In Vallejo Our show @13reasonswhy came out tonight and I couldn't be more overwhelmed with pride and joy. After 7 years of holding onto this book, I couldn't of picked a better time for this
Arts & Entertainment Hacker Steals Upcoming Season Of 'Orange Is The New Black,' Releases Most Of It Online After Ransom Isn't Paid Those who engage in illegal file-sharing on pirating sites can already watch the first 10 episodes of Orange Is the New Black Season 5, thanks to a hacker using the handle "thedarkoverlord." Netflix
Arts & Entertainment Peninsula School District Issues Warning About Netflix Series '13 Reasons Why' That Deals With Teen's Suicide The just-released, Bay Area-based Netflix show 13 Reasons Why, produced by actress Selena Gomez, has been cause for concern for the San Mateo-Foster City School District, which sent out a letter to parents
Arts & Entertainment Watch The Trailer For 'Thirteen Reasons Why,' A Bay Area-Shot Netflix Series Produced By Selena Gomez A peek at a passion project I've been working on with @Netflix. @13ReasonsWhy arrives 3/31. A video posted by Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) on Jan 25, 2017 at 8:10am PST Actress Selena
SF News Today Is The Winter Solstice And You Should Totally Embrace The Darkness Today, as San Francisco's many proud pagans will tell you, is the Winter Solstice. That means it's the shortest day of the year — the sun will set at 4:55 p.m. barring
Arts & Entertainment Watch The Trailer For The 'Sense8' Christmas Special, Airing This Week Like characters on Sense8, the Netflix original sci-fi series centered on eight psychically interconnected characters, fans of the cult-favorite show knew together and at once last week that the trailer for the show's
Arts & Entertainment 'Sense8' Christmas Special, Season 2 Netflix Premiere Date Announced Fans of Sense8 have reason to celebrate today, as the producers of the Netflix show just announced a forthcoming Christmas special episode as well as the long-awaited season two premiere date. CNet reports
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: The Tanners Go Home Again A photo posted by Beth Spotswood (@bethspotswood) on Dec 2, 2016 at 4:40pm PST It looks like you can go home again. Well, if your show creator drops $4 million on your
Arts & Entertainment It Turns Out The 'Full House' House In SF Was Bought By Show Creator Jeff Franklin "Whatever happened to predictability?" Back in the late '80s the Full House theme song longed for a simpler time, but at least we can rest assured now that the touchstone location of the
SF News SFist Interviews: Oakland's Malkia Cyril On '13th' And Social Media Surveillance One major theme of Selma director Ava DuVernay's powerful documentary 13th is the protean way that systems of oppression can change to cling to power. The film's name, for example, is a reference
Arts & Entertainment Now Disney's Talking About Buying Netflix, Which Would Be Good For Both Of Them The latest merger rumor, first floated Friday and continuing into Monday, is that Disney is in discussions to possibly buy Netflix outright, in a deal that would provide the media giant with its
