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If you ever wondered about the behind-the-scenes story of the Jason Varitek and Alex Rodriguez fight, now’s your chance: Netflix is diving into one of the most discussed sports brawls of all time with a new clip from “The Comeback: 2004 Boston Red Sox,” exclusively shared with TheWrap.

“I have a vivid memory of sitting on the plate with Theo in that game,” Jed Hoyer, assistant general manager for the 2004 Boston Red Sox, says in the clip, referring to general manager Theo Epstein. “And when the fight started, he jumped out of his seat. He was like pumped, like ‘Finally, we show some energy this year.'”

“Every barroom and household, it used to be like Cardinal Cushing, John F. Kennedy. But now it’s Jason Varitek stuffing his mitt into Alex Rodriguez’s face,” Dan Shaughnessy, a Boston Globe sports writer who covers the Red Sox, says. Watch the full clip below.

11 feature projects are entering production this year

The Slovenian Film Centre (Sfc) is to boost local film production by increasing the amount it invests in films to a record €8.8m.

This compares to €6.7m in 2022 and €4.5m in 2014.

Eleven Slovenian projects are set to shoot this year, the highest number in history. Sfc director Nataša Bučar said the centre was “significantly” increasing local film production in 2023.

The 11-strong slate includes new films from Gregor Božič (Tales Of Fruits And Monsters); Urša Menart (Everything That’s Wrong With You); and Darko Štante (The Last Son).

Four debuts will also shoot in...

It’s that time of year again. While some directors annually share their favorite films of the year, Steven Soderbergh lists everything he consumed, media-wise. For 2021––another year in which he not only released a new film, but shot another (and produced the Oscars)––he still got plenty of watching in.

Along with catching up on 2021’s new releases, he took in plenty of classics, including Jaws, Citizen Kane, Metropolis, The French Connection, and Lubitsch’s Ninotchka and Design For Living. Early last year, he also saw a cut of Channing Tatum’s Dog, which doesn’t arrive until next month. He also, of course, screened his latest movies while in post-production, with three viewings of No Sudden Move and three viewings of Kimi, which arrives on February 10 on HBO Max and the first look of which can be seen below.

Check out the list below via his official site.

In a rare week where no single program exceeded the 1 billion minute threshold, the Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer-led film “Thunder Force” opened with thunderous viewership on Netflix. The movie towered over all other programs on subscription-based streaming platforms in Nielsen’s Weekly Top 10 list, with 950 million viewing minutes for the week of April 5-11. The action-comedy flick also ended up in the number one slot on Nielsen’s Weekly Top 10 Movies list. It has been the strongest film release since Amazon’s “Coming 2 America” debuted in March.

In addition to the acquired content list, the global marketing research firm will also be pushing out weekly Top 10 lists that take into consideration original programming and movies in an effort to provide an expanded and more inclusive look at most streamed programs for that given week.

First in originals was Disney Plus’ second-ever Marvel Studios television series, the action-and-drama-packed...

Photo: ‘This Is a Robbery: The World’s Greatest Art Heist’/Netflix Gentlemen, This Is a Robbery. Netflix has made a name for itself over the past five years releasing several hit-limited documentary true-crime series. From the eccentric, humorous Joe Exotic in the hit series ‘Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness’ to the darker, more intense subject matter in ‘Night Stalker: The Hunt For A Serial Killer’ audiences have been captivated by these informative documentary series that depict and tell the story of a real-life crime. ‘This Is a Robbery: The World’s Greatest Art Heist’ is the latest addition to Netflix’s true-crime catalog documenting the 1990 theft of thirteen works of art at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and the resulting search for the perpetrators and paintings. Related article: The Complete List of 2021 Oscar Nominations – Celebrations, Surprises & Snubs | The Show Must Go On Related article: April Movies Release Schedule:...

Netflix’s next documentary will examine one of the nation’s most infamous murderers via the upcoming “The Sons of Sam: A Descent Into Darkness” docuseries. The streaming service released the trailer for the four-part series Wednesday.

The docuseries, which consists of four hour-long episodes, will premiere May 5 on Netflix. Here’s Netflix’s synopsis:

The hunt for the “Son of Sam” captivated the world in the late 1970s, but the story behind one of America’s most notorious serial murderers is all but forgotten — until now. While the arrest and conviction of David Berkowitz brought the nightmare to an end for many New Yorkers, for journalist and “Ultimate Evil” author Maury Terry, the real mystery was just beginning. Terry, convinced Berkowitz had not acted alone, would go on to spend decades attempting to prove that the web of darkness behind the murders went deeper than anyone imagined — and his...

Crimes involving art are inherently captivating. Even in its most basic form, the theft of a priceless work of art is a singular draw, regardless of any person or group’s reason for swiping it. (That appeal almost singlehandedly catapulted “Lupin” to “TV phenomenon” status earlier this year.)

But what’s kept the events of March 18, 1990 in the public fascination is everything about it that still makes no sense. “This is a Robbery” outlines the circumstances surrounding the pilfering of 13 items from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston on that legendary day-after-St.-Patrick’s grab. Collectively, it was a nine-figure haul of irreplaceable works from legendary artists like Rembrandt, Vermeer, Manet, and Degas.

Despite the built-in chaos of the event itself — most notably: a combination of clear operation planning and a seemingly random sacking of paintings and relatively worthless objects — director Colin Barnicle’s four-part series is a fairly...

Another intriguing entry into Netflix's true-crime library, the docuseries This Is a Robbery takes a deep dive into one of the most baffling art heists in history. In 1990, two men disguised as Boston police officers broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and stole 13 pieces of art worth hundreds of millions of dollars. 30 years later, we have leads about the robbers, but we don't know very much about the art's whereabouts. Suffice to say, the stolen works have not been returned.

The missing pieces include some of the most valuable works in art history: Govaert Flinck's "Landscape with Obelisk," Rembrandt van Rijn's "Christ in the Storm on the Lake of Galilee," Édouard Manet's "Chez Tortoni," and Johannes Vermeer's "The Concert." Oddly, the robbers left behind expensive Titian and Michaelangelo works while going for more obscure and less valuable pieces such as a Shang dynasty vase and bronze-plated eagle.

Netflix's This Is a Robbery, a four-part true-crime documentary, follows the largest and most confounding art heist in history: the theft of 13 pieces at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Over St. Patrick's Day weekend in 1990, two men posed as Boston police officers and robbed the museum, taking $500 million worth of artwork. While many leads have come up over the years, none of them ever panned out in the museum's favor. The paintings' status remains a mystery, and recent theories have even tied the puzzling heist to the Boston Mafia. Let's break down the most crucial details of the case to paint a picture of what happened that night.

In the early hours of March 18, 1990, Richard Abath was working the night shift as a guard at the Gardner Museum. He saw two police officers on the security camera and buzzed them in against protocol. The men told him...

If you’re anything like me, you speed-raced through the four parts of Netflix‘s This Is A Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist docu-series, aware that the creators behind the documentary were almost certainly not going to break this 30-year-old cold case wide open, but also desperate to see what conclusions would be drawn. As much as this is a documentary about the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist, it also quickly becomes a story about organized crime in Boston and New England circa 1990, and the methods with which the FBI investigates. Because of this, the final part of This Is A Robbery focuses on the Boston Mafia and the FBI.

Who stole the paintings from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum?

While This Is A Robbery is careful not to make any declarations about who actually pulled the heist, the docu-series does seem to come to the broad conclusion that...

The 1990 robbery of Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum remains a part of that institution’s life to this day, as empty frames hang on the wall marking the spots from which paintings were removed. The case remains unsolved — vexingly so. The items stolen, including works by Vermeer and Rembrandt, were cut out of their frames and have never materialized on the black market, meaning they exist in a kind of limbo, presumably somewhere but unaccountable. They’re ghost frames on the wall, missing pieces of art history on a criminal’s wall somewhere, or being used to bolster a deal, or kept unseen in a vault.

That’s what’s at stake in “This Is a Robbery,” a Netflix documentary series directed by Colin Barnicle — not the possibility of solving the case, which authorities have been trying to do for many years, but the question of the ends to...