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☆ 'Bridgerton' star Phoebe Dynevor subtly revealed she's engaged at the Met Gala
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Samantha Grindell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Phoebe Dynevor attended the Met Gala on Monday in a custom Victoria Beckham gown. She also quietly revealed she is engaged to Cameron Fuller with her Met Gala look. AdvertisementOne of Phoebe Dynevor's accessories for the 2024 Met Gala was not like the others. A-list stars, billionaires, and athletes attended the "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion"-themed gala in various interpretations of " The Garden of Time " dress code. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: Phoebe Dynevor, Victoria Beckham, Cameron Fuller, Dynevor, —, Phoebe Dynevor's Organizations: Service, Metropolitan Museum, Art's Costume, Business

☆ Shonda Rhimes thinks people tried too hard to make 'Barbie' a 'feminist manifesto'
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-29 | by ( Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Shonda Rhimes said that she thought "Barbie" was a great movie. However, she thinks some people may have overhyped it as a "feminist manifesto." download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementShonda Rhimes said that the "Barbie" movie was "delightful" — but thinks that it might have been overhyped as a feminist masterpiece. Rhimes told Variety that she saw the film at home rather than theaters, and initially declined to comment on whether or not she liked the film.

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☆ Black royals say Hollywood erased their existence. They're fighting to change the whitewashed narrative.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Mikhaila Friel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Black royals have existed around the world for millennia. Mainstream TV shows and movies that depict the true history of Black royal families are few and far between. And while movies about fictional Black royals exist — "The Princess and The Frog" (2009), "Black Panther" (2018), and the latest "The Little Mermaid" (2023) — Hollywood still isn't doing enough to educate viewers that Black royals exist in the real world, according to Nigeria's Princess Keisha Omilana. - Prince Asfa-Wossen AsserateMeanwhile, Asfa-Wossen said educators are too often preoccupied with using slave narratives to recount Black history. But in order to portray Black royals as equal to their white counterparts, there must be a shift in perspective, he said.

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☆ Insider Today: Nantucket's 'free' homes
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-06 | by ( Joi-Marie Mckenzie | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . "Bridgerton" is back, and if you're like the millions of viewers who tuned in last season, you'll want to hear this. The island is replete with dozens of "free" homes — but there's a catch. AdvertisementSee the full listMore of this week's top reads:The Insider Today team: Joi-Marie McKenzie, editor-in-chief, in New York.

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☆ 'Bridgerton' season 3 teasers have fans freaking out about the famous 'mirror scene' — here's what actually happens in the book
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-04 | by ( Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Teasers for season three of "Bridgerton" have hinted at the famous "mirror scene" from the books. Here's what actually happens in the "mirror scene" from Julia Quinn's fourth "Bridgerton" novel. AdvertisementIf you were paying attention to the "Bridgerton" teaser drop on March 27, you might feel very intrigued by something that the book's fans call the "mirror scene." pic.twitter.com/KRC6nsx7H1 — Bridgerton (@bridgerton) March 27, 2024Fans were quick to link the sequence to the book's famous "mirror scene." NetflixHere's how the 'Bridgerton' mirror scene actually goes down in the bookIn book four, "Romancing Mister Bridgerton," Penelope and Colin finally get engaged.

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☆ 'Vanderpump Villa' isn't 'Vanderpump Rules' in the French countryside. Meet the cast and let them tell you why.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-01 | by ( Caralynn Matassa | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

No, the new reality show "Vanderpump Villa" isn't just a remixed version of "Vanderpump Rules." "This is not Château Shitshow," a frustrated Vanderpump tells a pair of servers at the start of the second episode of her latest reality show, "Vanderpump Villa." AdvertisementUnlike in 'Pump Rules,' the villa staff must work together — and that raises the stakesLisa Vanderpump and the chateau staff in "Vanderpump Villa." 'Vanderpump Villa' is more like 'Below Deck'Lisa crowns Harlan, a villa guest, at her "Rebirth" party in episode three. The first three episodes of "Vanderpump Villa" are now streaming on Hulu, with new episodes released weekly.

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☆ Hollywood’s New Fantasy: A Magical, Colorblind Past
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-31 | by ( Kabir Chibber | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Across the arts, we now see so many worlds that never existed. The hit Netflix series “Bridgerton” depicts a version of Regency England ruled by a Black queen and an anachronistically multiracial royal court. When you see these examples gathered, they’re often followed by some complaint of a world gone mad with inclusion. In Britain, for instance, there was some outrage when the protagonist of an otherwise faithful Agatha Christie adaptation was revised to be a Nigerian immigrant. But the problem, for viewers, isn’t wokeness run amok; it’s the incoherence of the world we are watching.

Persons: David Copperfield, Dev Patel, they’re, Agatha Christie, isn’t Organizations: Netflix Locations: England, Britain, Nigerian

Photos You Should See View All 60 Images“He apparently has said he’s out,” she told The Associated Press. “I think I’m the most famous ‘Bond’ actor that never actually played the part. “I think he’s brilliant. “By the time they cast it again, I’ll be too old,” the 44-year-old actor told The Associated Press in 2022. Richard Madden brushed off rumors about his involvement in Bond at a press conference for “Rocket Man” in Cannes back in 2019.

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☆ 4 of the biggest mistakes couples make, according to a wedding photographer
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-08 | by ( Cameron Dever | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Here are a few of the biggest mistakes I wish more couples would avoid on their big day. But your wedding day shouldn't be a blur. AdvertisementYou'll likely be disappointed if you don't invest in a good photographer or videographerMy parents don't have many photos from their wedding day. Courtesy of Cameron DeverOne of the things I always tell my couples right before their wedding day is that something will go wrong. Courtesy of Cameron DeverThe biggest mistake I see couples make on their wedding day is not doing what they want.

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☆ 13 shows like 'One Day' to watch if you loved Netflix's latest romance series
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Ayomikun Adekaiyero | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Netflix's "One Day" is a slow-burn romance series that has left fans wanting more. If you are looking for another romance series to watch, try "Bridgerton" or "Starstruck." AdvertisementNetflix's "One Day," a beautiful depiction of a slow-burn romance, has left many fans in tears and hungry for more. Since Netflix's "One Day" is a limited series, there won't be another season for fans. However, here are 13 similar series that you may want to watch next, from "You're the Worst" to "Bridgerton."

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☆ Netflix is 'thrilled' with its crackdown on shared passwords. Don't expect it to end anytime soon.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewLast year, Netflix made the controversial move to stop allowing users to share passwords with people outside their households. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. And it looks like it paid off for them, so don't expect them to ease up on the new rules. AdvertisementSarandos added that Netflix subscribers average roughly two hours of engagement each day with the platform, with hits like "Stranger Things," "Bridgerton," and "Squid Game" attracting enormous audiences in countries all over the world.

Persons: —, Ted Sarandos, Sarandos, We're, Greg Peters, Peters, we've Organizations: Service, Netflix, Business Locations: France

☆ Everything we know so far about 'Bridgerton' season 3
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-25 | by ( Ayomikun Adekaiyero | Gabbi Shaw | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

"Bridgerton" season three will be released in two installments. Nicola Coughlan as Penelope Featherington in a first look photo of "Bridgerton" season three. Laurence Cendrowicz / NetflixNetflix has announced that "Bridgerton" will return for its third season on May 16, 2024. However, for the first time, the season will be released in two installments. Here is everything we know so far about the upcoming season.

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☆ ‘The Buccaneers’ review: Edith Wharton’s last novel becomes a ‘Bridgerton’ wannabe
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Although “The Buccaneers” comes with the literary pedigree of being based on Edith Wharton’s last, unfinished novel, the series so desperately wants to emulate “Bridgerton” that it almost makes your teeth ache, down to the mix of corsets and contemporary music. The result is a mildly watchable Apple TV+ series that proves, to quote Fred Allen, imitation is the sincerest form of streaming, too. Even so, everything feels a little too familiar, including the series’ hissable villain, hidden beneath a polished and presentable veneer. Consumed entirely on its terms, “The Buccaneers” works reasonably well as a soapy distraction for those willing to check their brains at the ballroom door. “The Buccaneers” premieres November 8 on Apple TV+.

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☆ ‘You Can’t Hide It’: Georgette Heyer and the Perils of Posthumous Revision
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Alexandra Alter | More About Alexandra Alter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Georgette Heyer, one of the most popular and influential romance authors of all time, was not a romantic when it came to her work. “I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense,” she once declared in a letter to her publisher. Among her ardent fans, though, she remains revered as the Queen of Regency Romance, a subgenre she essentially created and popularized. Her intricately researched historical narratives are still widely read nearly 50 years after her death; Julia Quinn, whose Regency romance series “Bridgerton” spawned the hit Netflix series, called her “the original.”To date, Heyer’s books have sold around 20 million copies. But some readers have questioned her enduring popularity in light of offensive ethnic and antisemitic stereotypes that occasionally appeared in her work.

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☆ Netflix wants its own version of 'The Bear' and more 'Dahmer'-style true crime. Here's its series wish list, per Hollywood insiders and leaked agency documents.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Several producers, agents, and other dealmakers also weighed in for this story about the content market and what the streamers are looking for. In short, broadcast network-type shows that will grab broad viewership are the top priority for Netflix and all its competitors. Netflix wants another 'Squid Game' and more true crime, but 'nothing too political'"Squid Game." And for its version of Hulu's "The Bear," it wants a series set in a fast-paced world, but not a restaurant. In unscripted and non-fiction programming, per both documents and Insider's sources, true crime remains a big area of focus for series as well as films.

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☆ To Make ‘Fellow Travelers,’ Ron Nyswaner Had to Fall in Love
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Alexis Soloski | More About Alexis Soloski | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ron Nyswaner, the Oscar- and Emmy-nominated screenwriter, can still recall a chance meeting on a beach more than 50 years ago. Then a teenager and a self-described “Jesus freak,” he’d come to Ocean City, N.J., to attend a Youth for Christ conference. That young man asked him to speak in tongues — it was an invitation to religious ecstasy and nothing more. Moving back and forth from the early 1950s to the late ’80s, “Fellow Travelers,” based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Thomas Mallon, is a précis of 20th-century queer history viewed through a turbulent relationship between two men. Jonathan Bailey (“Bridgerton”) plays Tim Laughlin, a milk-drinking, God-loving naïf who dreams of working for Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Persons: Ron Nyswaner, he’d, Nyswaner, ”, Thomas Mallon, Matt Bomer, Mike ”, Hawkins Fuller, Hawk, Jonathan Bailey, Tim Laughlin, Joseph McCarthy Organizations: Christ, “, Paramount, Showtime, State Department Locations: Ocean City, N.J, Manhattan’s Soho

☆ Inside Passalacqua, the 'world's best hotel'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Maria Pasquale | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —The “best hotel in the world” was built by a pope and was regularly visited by one of Italy’s most famous opera composers. On 19 September in London at the inaugural World’s 50 Best Hotels, the hotel on Lake Como was named number one. Passalacqua didn’t invent the term villeggiatura, but her every detail embodies it – a romantic 18th century villa turned faultless luxury hotel where you come to exhale and leave your worries behind. Rooms without a lake view start at 1,300 euros ($1,381) per night or 1,700 euros ($1,806) for a view in November – lowest season. Next summer, rates rise to 2,300 euros ($2,443) for a standard room without a lake view, or 3,200 ($3,400) for the cheapest room with a view.

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☆ Netflix is planning 'houses' where fans can get closer to their favorite shows
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Netflix is planning to open two permanent locations in the US by 2025. Fans will be able to eat, drink, and shop at stores based on its most popular shows, Bloomberg reported. Two "Netflix House" venues are in the works for the US with others to follow, its consumer products chief, Josh Simon, told Bloomberg. Netflix Houses will be a mix of entertainment and retail experiences, where customers can eat, drink, and buy merchandise. Further details about the locations of Netflix Houses are yet to be announced.

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☆ Netflix to end Kenyan free access plan after two years
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic Acquire Licensing RightsNAIROBI, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Netflix (NFLX.O) said on Monday it is ending its free mobile plan in Kenya, which has allowed users to access a quarter of its shows and movies without paying over the past two years. "We definitely learnt a lot from the test," a Netflix spokesperson told Reuters, without giving details. Netflix is rolling out an advertisement-supported plan, offering subscribers a monthly plan at 4.99 pounds ($6.07), but the spokesperson did not comment on its availability in Kenya. Although low middle-income economies like Kenya offer streaming services big opportunities for subscriber growth, they also pose challenges as purchasing power dwindles due to inflation, industry executives said. Under the free plan, which will end on Nov. 1, viewers were able to watch Western-produced shows like "Money Heist" and "Bridgerton", and African ones like "Blood & Water".

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☆ My family inherited a 900-year-old Italian castle. Here’s what it’s like living there
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Francesca Street | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Ludovica Uberta Sannazzaro NattaSannazzaro Natta moved into the 45-roomed, turreted, fairytale Castle Sannazzaro when she was four years old. “I would just run around the castle,” Sannazzaro Natta recalls. Ludovica Uberta Sannazzaro Natta“I didn’t really know how to tell people about living in a castle,” she says. Experience a slice of castle lifeA few rooms in Castle Sannazzaro are available as a vacation rental. Ludovica Sannazzaro NattaNow that she’s an adult, Sannazzaro Natta is increasingly aware of the costs and upkeep associated with castle living.

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Some of them, like “Dune: Part Two," have been postponed until next year due to the ongoing actors and writers strikes. Gillespie’s film features a freewheeling ensemble including Pete Davidson, Anthony Ramos, Seth Rogen, Shailene Woodley, America Ferrera and Nick Offerman. “Fair Play” (in theaters Sept. 29, on Netflix Oct. 13)Hedge funds also play a role in writer-director Chloe Domont’s drama about sexual politics and gender dynamics in the high-charged, male-dominated world of finance. Eight years after the last “Hunger Games” movie (“Mockingjay – Part 2”) a prequel is returning to the science fiction dystopia of Panem. Francis Lawrence’s film, set 64 years before the events of the first “Hunger Games” film, introduces a host of new characters in the lead-up to the 10th Hunger Games.

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☆ The Lower East Side Fabric Store That Helped Outfit ‘Bridgerton’
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Reggie Nadelson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Later that afternoon, Tsigie White, the costume designer for the TV series “Power Book III: Raising Kanan,” stops in. “I’ll find something to do with it for the show,” she says while Goldberg measures a yard of it for her. Goldberg’s customers are based all over the country, as well as abroad; some of them ask to browse the fabrics over Zoom or FaceTime. “I want everyone to buy on the internet with the same confidence as if they walked in the store. Let’s say you’re in Texas and you order something online.

Persons: Tsigie White, ”, “, Goldberg, “ I’ve, ” Goldberg, —, ’ ” Locations: She’s, Texas

☆ Netflix shielded from Hollywood strike by global crew, strong pipeline
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Samrhitha A | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Some of the people on strike are also picketing the Netflix offices in Los Angeles. Netflix's international production capabilities are a "huge differentiator", and a lot of their content comes from countries that are not involved in the strike, analysts at SVB MoffettNathanson, Credit Suisse and Insider Intelligence said. Netflix is expected to have added a net 1.77 million subscribers, according to Refinitiv, in what is typically a weak quarter due to school holidays. The company lost nearly 1 million subscribers in the year-ago period. The second quarter also featured some strong programming from Netflix, including hits like "Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story" and "Never Have I Ever Season 4".

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REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File PhotoLOS ANGELES, June 14 (Reuters) - The Netflix (NFLX.O) romantic comedy "XO, Kitty" is returning for a second season, becoming the No. 1 streaming service's first television series to be spun-off from an original Netflix film, the "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" movie trilogy. "XO, Kitty" has a Korean lead character and "Queen Charlotte" features a Black actor in the title role. The 2016 science fiction series "Stranger Things" was its first successful entertainment franchise, with related merchandise and plans for a spin-off series and a stage play. The "XO, Kitty" brand has a partnership with Sanrio, a Japanese entertainment company, and American fashion retailer Forever 21 for a clothing line.

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☆ Catching Up With Celebrities in Cannes
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-27 | by ( Alyson Krueger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The amfAR Gala in Cannes, France, may be the only social event to rival the Met Gala. Held at the sprawling Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc during the Cannes Film Festival, the event raises money for AIDS research. So many models and actors showed up that the red carpet (this one was actually blue) lasted for more than three hours. Orlando Bloom was spotted in the bathroom line (yes, even celebrities have to wait in line). Lucien Laviscount (Alfie in “Emily in Paris”) showed up at his table after starters, accompanied by the actor Aidan Walsh, a close friend .

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