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YouTube will livestream both weekends of Coachella in April
YouTube is doubling down on its Coachella partnership -- it will stream live performances from both weekends for the first time this year. As has been the case in recent years, the service will stream the festival's first weekend, which takes place April 12th-14th. This time around, YouTube will host a "curated live experience" on the second weekend, including select performances, artist vignettes and behind-the-scenes footage.
Idris Elba's Netflix show is 'Charles in Charge' with turntables
Netflix just scored a comedy coup. The service has unveiled Turn Up Charlie, a comedy series starring and partly executive produced by Idris Elba. The half-hour show has Elba playing a "struggling" single DJ (fitting given his extensive DJ background) who gets another chance when he becomes the caretaker for a famous friend's rebellious daughter. Basically, it's Charles in Charge with mixing and scratching. There's no release date yet, but production on the first eight-episode season starts in May.
Netflix premieres its first feature film: 'Beasts of No Nation'
With its online-first strategy, Netflix has changed the way people watch with TV shows -- now it wants to do the same with movies. Cary Fukunaga's Beasts of No Nation has hit the streaming service today, marking an important milestone in the movie industry by becoming one of the first feature films to debut in theaters and online at the same time. Based on the novel by Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation is a war drama that tells the story of a 14-year-old child soldier who loses his family and is recruited to fight under the command of a guerilla warlord played by Idris Elba.
Netflix's first original feature film will be shown in UK cinemas
Netflix has earned a reputation as a producer of high-quality TV shows and documentaries, and now it wants to do the same with feature films. Beasts of No Nation, a war drama featuring Idris Elba, will be available to stream on October 16th, but Brits will also have option to watch it in cinemas from October 9th. Netflix has struck a deal with Curzon Cinemas, a chain specialising in independent and art house films, to get its first major movie up on the big screen. It's also set to premiere at the BFI London Film Festival on October 8th -- with more mainstream exposure, there's a greater chance it'll pick up some awards and legitimise Netflix's filmmaking efforts. Beasts of No Nation is based on a 2005 novel by Uzodinma Iweala, and stars Abraham Attah as a young boy swept up in the middle of an African civil war and forced to become a child soldier. The first trailer shows promise -- it's a cut above what we're expecting from Adam Sandler's The Ridiculous Six, anyway.
