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Netflix has taken on the second season of The Sidemen’s YouTube reality series.

The streamer has greenlit a second season of the Big Brother-esque Inside, which will air early next year. The first season aired on YouTube, with the first ep having amassed 14 million views via the Sidemen YouTube channel, which has 21.8 million subscribers while the group have nearly 150 million subs between them. Netflix taking on the second season marks a rare occurrence of a YouTube-originated show moving to a streamer.

In collaboration with Netflix and The Sidemen, UK studio Cowshed Collective will produce the seven-part show that features prolific influencers locked inside a house, where they compete in a series of challenges for a prize worth up to £1m ($1.26M).

The Sidemen told the BBC they have “hit the limit” of what they can achieve on YouTube. “Netflix is the gold standard and part of us working...

Fans might not know to look on YouTube for some great series. For almost two decades, YouTube has been a place where creativity and entertainment from the ground level can flourish into iconic staples of pop culture. Creators like Mr. Beast, Pewdiepie and Dude Perfect, to name a small few, have flourished on the platform and become household names. As it's so accessible, anyone can find anything that piques their interest. And some creators are so efficient and intricate with their creative process, that their videos feel of similar quality to movies and television. And while YouTube videos are a completely different medium with different standards, some YouTubers are able to exceed those expectations and create something that feels like a genuine television show.

Popular gaming personality and all-around YouTube sweetheart Markiplier is producing and directing a feature film called Iron Lung. Similarly, hes joined alongside YouTube movie reviewer and appreciator Chris Stuckmann,...

Exclusive: It’s a big week for husband-and-wife production duo Luke Hyams and Sunita Mirchandani Hyams.

Not only does their debut documentary, The Sidemen Story, launch tomorrow (February 14) on Netflix in the UK, but this interview with Deadline is the first they’ve given since the launch of their indie cross-cultural producer Pangaea.

In a wide-ranging chat that interrupts a break in Jamaica — what they call their “first holiday in quite a few years” — they talk about the gruelling hours of work that went into shooting and producing a doc on British YouTube stars The Sidemen, the state of the UK production sector and a slate that includes Work in Progress, a talk show in which UK TV host, broadcaster and creative Julie Adenuga quizzes major public figures.

Hyams is the former Head of Originals for YouTube Emea, Director of Global Content for The Walt Disney Company and the creator...

Netflix has acquired a doc about British YouTubers The Sidemen — the debut project from former YouTube Emea content chief Luke Hyams’ production company.

A teaser posted yesterday on social media for uber-popular group confirmed the Netflix deal for The Sidemen Story, with a launch date of February 14 set.

Hyams is directing, with Pangaea co-founder Sunita Mirchandani Hyams producing. Arcade Media is also attached. Luke Hyams said the doc would follow “an inspirational decade plus [a] story of friendship, ambition, perseverance and seven grown men who still love to play Hide N Seek.” It includes behind-the-scenes footage and interviews, including contributions from the group, commentators and industry sources.

The doc has quietly been in the works since 2022.

The Sidemen — a group comprising web personalities Olajide ‘JJ’ Olatunji (Ksi), Simon Minter (Miniminter), Joshua Bradley (Zerkaa), Tobit ‘Tobi’ Brown (Tbjzl), Ethan Payne (Behzinga), Vikkstar123, and Harry Lewis (W2S) — have amassed well over 100 million subscribers across platforms,...

A new London-based digital talent management company called Arcade Media has launched and signed as its first client YouTube supergroup The Sidemen.

The Sidemen, which was formed by seven gaming creators in 2013 and now reaches 93 million collective subscribers and 30 million Instagram followers, comprises Olajide ‘JJ’ Olatunji (Ksi), Harry Lewis (Wroetoshaw), Simon Minter (Miniminter), Vik Barn (Vikkstar123), Josh Bradley (Zerkaa), Ethan Payne (Behzinga), and Tobi Brown (Tbjzl).

Arcade Media, for its part, was co-founded by Sam Uwins (a former business manager for The Sidemen who is a partner at financial firm Mha Carpenter Box); Aaron O’Neill; and Jordan Schwarzenberger (the former chief creative officer at talent management company Ymu).

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Women in Film is now accepting applications for its 2017 Finishing Fund, with a new partner on board.

Belgian beer-maker Stella Artois will award four $25,000 grants to socially conscious narrative or documentary films, especially those that focus on water. Last year, the company commissioned The Wolfpack director Crystal Moselle for the documentary Our Dream of Water, which premiered March 22 on National Geographic.

“Stella Artois has long believed in the power of film as a compelling medium to bring awareness to important social issues that affect our global community,” Stella Artois vice president Harry Lewis said in a...

It's time for another monthly installment of our Tubefilter Top 100 Most Viewed YouTube Gaming Channels Chart and there's officially a new normal in the top spot.

Chart Toppers

TheDiamondMinecart is in first place for the fourth month in a row. The gaming channel with an affinity for Minecraft helmed by a Brit known as DanTDM saw a slight 4% dip in its monthly viewership numbers, but still scored an impressive almost 337.4 million views on the month. In a semi-distant second place is PewDiePie. Felix Kjellberg's Let's Play gaming channel witnessed an 18% uptick in views to top out at just about 291.1 million views on the month.

PopularMMos is next up in third place. The top Us-based gamer dropped down one spot on the chart despite a 9% increase in views and having amassed nearly 278 million views in the month. Up next in the #4 spot is JackSepticEye. The Irish gamer dipped 2% in views...

Bogie and Bacall are back, but with Edward G. Robinson's oily gangster breathing down their necks -- "Nyah!" Excellent direction (John Huston) and great performances (Claire Trevor) have made this one an eternal classic. We want subtitles for whatever Eddie whispered in Betty's ear... A most-requested, or demanded, HD release from Warners. Key Largo Blu-ray Warner Archive Collection 1948 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 100 min. / Street Date February 23, 2016 / available through the WBshop / 21.99 Starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor, Thomas Gomez, Harry Lewis, John Rodney, Marc Lawrence, Dan Seymour, Monte Blue, William Haade, Jay Silverheels, Rodd Redwing. Cinematography Karl Freund Film Editor Rudi Fehr Original Music Max Steiner Written by Richard Brooks, John Huston from the play by Maxwell Anderson Produced by Jerry Wald Directed by John Huston

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

I'd guess that Key Largo became a classic the moment it hit the screen,...

"Heat" is arguably everyone's favorite Michael Mann movie.

It's the source of a rare Robert De Niro/Al Pacino summit, one of the most gripping cops-and-robbers thrillers ever made, and a quintessential Los Angeles movie. Yet, when it opened 20 years ago (on December 15, 1995), it went unheralded by the Angelenos in the Academy.

Despite being snubbed for Oscar nominations, it went on to be considered a classic, one imitated not only by filmmakers (ahem Christopher Nolan's "Dark Knight") but also by real-life crooks. Still, for all the obsessive viewings and re-viewings, there's a lot you may not know about "Heat." Here are 11 things you need to know.

1. The inspiration for De Niro's Neil McCauley was a real-life Chicago thief of the same name. The real-life Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino's character) was Chicago cop Chuck Adamson, a technical adviser on Mann's TV police dramas "Miami Vice" and "Crime Story."

2. As in the film,...

Humphrey Bogart movies: ‘The Maltese Falcon,’ ‘High Sierra’ (Image: Most famous Humphrey Bogart quote: ‘The stuff that dreams are made of’ from ‘The Maltese Falcon’) (See previous post: “Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall Movies.”) Besides 1948, 1941 was another great year for Humphrey Bogart — one also featuring a movie with the word “Sierra” in the title. Indeed, that was when Bogart became a major star thanks to Raoul Walsh’s High Sierra and John Huston’s The Maltese Falcon. In the former, Bogart plays an ex-con who falls in love with top-billed Ida Lupino — though both are outacted by ingénue-with-a-heart-of-tin Joan Leslie. In the latter, Bogart plays Dashiel Hammett’s private detective Sam Spade, trying to discover the fate of the titular object; along the way, he is outacted by just about every other cast member, from Mary Astor’s is-she-for-real dame-in-distress to Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nominee Sydney Greenstreet. John Huston...

Harry Lewis, a nasty accomplice of Edward G. Robinson in the Humphrey Bogart classic Key Largo who went on to launch the showbiz-hotspot restaurants Hamburger Hamlet and Kate Mantilini, has died. He was 93. Lewis died Sunday of natural causes in a convalescent home in Beverly Hills, publicist Greg Rogers announced. Photos: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2013 In John Huston's Key Largo (1948), Lewis played Edward “Toots” Bass, one member of Johnny Rocco’s (Robinson’s) gang who pose as vacationers before taking over a run-down hotel in South Florida as a menacing hurricane approaches. When hotel owner James Temple

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