{"id":728413,"date":"2026-08-05T15:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/728413\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T15:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:46:11","slug":"quick-news-bola-secret-deadlocked-poetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/728413\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick News: Bola, Secret, Deadlocked, Poetic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/quick-news-negra-secret-deadlocked-poetic.jpg\" data-caption=\"Netflix\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/quick-news-negra-secret-deadlocked-poetic.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"quick-news-negra-secret-deadlocked-poetic\"\/><\/a>Netflix<\/p>\n<p>La Bola Negra (The Black Ball)<br \/>Los Javis\u2019s Spanish-language Oscar hopeful \u201cLa Bola Negra\u201d is set to have hte longest theatrical run in Netflix history \u2013 the title hits cinemas October 16th ahead of a December 4th bow on the service \u2013 a gap of 47 days.<\/p>\n<p>It beats the previous record-holder, Noah Baumbach\u2019s relationship drama \u201cMarriage Story,\u201d which had a full 30-day window in 2019.  The film spans 85 years of Spanish history, from the 1930s to the present day, and draws on an unfinished fragment by poet and playwright Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca. [Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/awards\/netflix-la-bola-negra-47-day-theatrical-window-record-1236827063\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The Housemaid\u2019s Secret<br \/>Brittany Snow will join Sydney Sweeney, Kirsten Dunst and Paul Anthony Kelly in \u201cThe Housemaid\u2019s Secret,\u201d the sequel to last year\u2019s box office sleeper hit \u201cThe Housemaid\u201d which will begin shooting later this year ahead of a December 2027 release.<\/p>\n<p>The story follows Sweeney\u2019s Millie who works as a live-in maid in a house for a woman she\u2019s never allowed to see. Snow will play the character Marybeth, an unassuming receptionist at the husband\u2019s company. [Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/brittany-snow-the-housemaids-secret-sydney-sweeney-1236826813\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Deadlocked<br \/>Oscar winner Jamie Foxx will lead the Nikhil Bhat-directed action feature \u201cDeadlocked\u201d at Amazon MGM Studios.  Eric Scot Anderson (\u201cThe Black Fox\u201d) and Matt Takejiro Bosack (\u201cNCIS: Hawai\u2019i\u201d) penned the script.<\/p>\n<p>The story follows a grieving former Marine serving jury duty who is forced back into action when the trial of the century turns into a deadly hostage situation as the defendant\u2019s daughter seizes the courthouse to free her father.  Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Fred Berger produce. [Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/08\/jamie-foxx-to-star-deadlocked-amazon-mgm-1237017119\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Poetic License<br \/>Maude Apatow\u2019s directorial debut \u201cPoetic License\u201d has been picked up for release by Sony Pictures Classics following a distribution mess with original buyer Row K Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Leslie Mann and Cooper Hoffman lead the film about a former therapist and soon-to-be empty nester who relocates to a new town for her husband\u2019s job. Her quiet attempt to settle in takes an unexpected turn when she becomes the point of tension between two inseparable best friends. [Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/maude-apatow-poetic-license-sony-pictures-classics-row-k-1236827137\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix La Bola Negra (The Black Ball)Los Javis\u2019s Spanish-language Oscar hopeful \u201cLa Bola Negra\u201d is set to have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-728413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}