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BreAnna Bell Netflix’s latest limited series starring Matthew Broderick and “Orange is the New Black” alum Uzo Aduba, “Painkiller” opened atop the top 10’s English TV list with 7.2 million total views. Thus, ending “The Lincoln Lawyer” Season 2’s second run in first place following the release of part 2. The procedural drama moved to No.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses several major plot developments in the feature film “Red, White & Royal Blue,” currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video, as well as the novel it’s based on. Over this past weekend, certain corners of the internet were hyperventilating with excitement over the release of “Red, White & Royal Blue,” the romantic comedy about how Alex Claremont-Diaz (Taylor Zakhar Perez), the First Son of the United States, and Prince Henry (Nicholas Galitzine), third in line to the British throne, transform from enemies to friends to lovers.

Uma Thurman‘s southern accent in the new movie Red, White & Royal Blue has been a big topic of conversation on social media ever since the film was released last week and we decided to compile some of the best tweets.

The charm and sweetness of Casey McQuiston's novel Red, White & Royal Blue shine through in its Prime Video adaptation, directed by Matthew López.The core of the story remains intact, centring on the whirlwind romance between Alex Claremont-Diaz, played by Taylor Zakhar Perez, the First Son of the United States, and Prince Henry of Wales, played by Nicholas Galitzine. As with any adaptation, certain alterations have been made to bring the story to the screen. Let's delve into the significant changes and explore their impact on the film.

if you can get past a career-worst performance from Uma Thurman.Based on a popular novel (TikTok videos on the topic have over 500 million views), the Prime Video movie is directed by Matthew Lopez and produced by Greg Berlanti. The story follows Alex Claremont-Diaz (Taylor Zakhar Perez), a bisexual law school student who is the “first son” of the United States, since his mom, Ellen Claremont (Uma Thurman), is the President.

Red, White and Royal Blue director Matthew López was able to bring one of the book’s most “magical” moments to screen, and it ended up being his favorite part of his debut film.

Like all good love stories, Prime Video’s gay romantic comedy “Red, White, & Royal Blue” has its cake and eats it too. Literally.

What To Watch. Today we recommend a mix of new releases and newly available titles, from movies and shows, all available to stream on the most popular platforms.What to watch: 7 movies and shows to stream this week — August 4thWhat to watch: 7 movies and shows to stream this week — July 28Starring Taylor Zakhar Perez and Nicholas Galitzine, “Red, White and Royal Blue” follows the first son of the President of the United States, who falls in love with the Prince of Wales. It’s sweet and frothy, perfect for a weekend watch.

Netflix’s Painkiller charts the birth of the opioid crisis in the US through the story of pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma, who created the drug OxyContin.Created by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster, the miniseries follows the origins and impact of OxyContin across the US, a painkiller drug which was widely marketed without any concerns for its side effects and addictive qualities.A synopsis describes the show as “an examination of crime, accountability, and the systems that have repeatedly failed hundreds of thousands of Americans”.The show stars Uzo Aduba as Edie Flowers, an investigator pursuing Purdue Pharma over its marketing, alongside Matthew Broderick as the company’s president Richard Sackler. Other cast members include Sam Anderson, Taylor Kitsch and Carolina Bartczak.Just as a trial against Purdue Pharma gets underway, the judge announces the company has settled the matter out of court, with Purdue agreeing to “plead guilty to one count of fraudulently misbranding OxyContin”.

Like a lot of book-to-movie adaptations, not everything from the Red, White and Royal Blue novel made it into its film adaptation.

, which is now streaming exclusively on Prime Video. Based on the New York Times bestselling novel of the same name by Casey McQuinston, the romantic comedy follows a complicated and unexpected journey from distain to friendship to love.Streaming exclusively on Prime Video now, is one of the summer's most hotly anticipated movies.To watch, you'll just need an Amazon Prime membership or a membership to Prime Video.

Changes are made in every book-to-movie adaptation, and Red, White and Royal Blue is no different. However, director Matthew López was thinking about future generations of viewers when he made one change — swapping a queen for a king.

New Yorker article, “The Family That Built an Empire of Pain” and Barry Meier’s book, “Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America’s Opioid Epidemic.” It retells the opioid crisis from several different perspectives, including billionaire Richard Sackler (Broderick) and his team at Purdue Pharma (Sackler has denied responsibility for the crisis); Edie Flowers (Uzo Aduba), a lawyer working for the US attorney’s office in Roanoke who’s investigating the drug OxyContin; Glen Kryger (Taylor Kitsch), a family man with a small business who gets hooked on OxyContin after he’s injured at work; and Shannon Shaeffer (West Duchovony), a new recruit to the Purdue sales team who begins having doubts. “Back in 2003, I was working at the New York Times and we got a tip that there was this new drug called OxyContin that was running wild on the streets of all these small towns,” Meier, a consulting producer on the show, told The Post.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. “Red, White and Royal Blue,” the hotly anticipated queer rom-com based off Casey McQuiston’s best-selling romance novel, is finally here. The film arrives on Prime Video on Friday, Aug.

As of last year, over a million people have died of opioid overdoses in the United States. The central culprits, as outlined in Netflix’s latest miniseries, “Painkiller,” are Purdue Pharma and the “non-addictive” prescription drug they marketed to anyone with a pulse and a toothache: OxyContin.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic The “prince of England’s hearts” falls for the American president’s son (or is it the other way around?) in “Red, White & Royal Blue,” an effervescent gay rom-com that might be easily dismissed as a mere trifle, were it not for the still-historic novelty of its existence. Arriving less than a year after “Bros,” director Matthew López’s Amazon-backed, R-rated lark goes even further to normalize queer romance on-screen, taking a classic “chick flick” premise — the kind once reserved for Mandy Moore and Amanda Bynes movies, à la “Chasing Liberty” or “What a Girl Wants” — and recasting it with dudes.

Red, White and Royal Blue director Matthew López initially thought he had his work cut out for him when the first cut of the movie was three-hours long — but as he exclusively explained to Us Weekly, bringing it down to under two hours wasn’t as hard as it may seem.

Netflix's latest limited series is a fictionalised re-telling of a drugs crisis which has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans since the late 90s.

Netflix original series to become a summer hit looks set to be the drug drama Painkiller, fronted by Matthew Broderick – you can find episode details below.The series takes on the ever-headline-making prescription drugs crisis that continues to grip America and other parts of the world. Broderick plays a slick pharmaceutical executive, Richard Sackler, while Uzo Aduba’s Edie Flowers is the government lawyer set on taking him down.An official synopsis for Painkiller reads: “A fictionalized retelling of events, Painkiller is a scripted limited series that explores some of the origins and aftermath of the opioid crisis in America, highlighting the stories of the perpetrators, victims, and truth-seekers whose lives are forever altered by the invention of OxyContin.“An examination of crime, accountability, and the systems that have repeatedly failed hundreds of thousands of Americans, Painkiller is based on the book Pain Killer by Barry Meier and the New Yorker magazine article The Family That Built an Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe.”The first season of Painkiller comprises six one hour episodes that chart the battle between the good guys (Flowers and the Feds) and the big bad (Sackler and his Pharma company).As with many TV series on Netflix, the series will have its entire season released in one go as of Thursday, August 10.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.The actor, who achieved worldwide fame as Ferris Bueller in the 1987 teen comedy, explained how it was “hard” for people to get on board with his later roles.Speaking in an interview with The Guardian, Broderick said: “I did have nice early success. But it’s not easy to maintain that first flush. It’s always a hard adjustment for child actors, young actors.