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Celebration of Creativity Continues: Arek Zasowski Wins the Audience Award at the Marina Del Rey Film Festival and the Bronze Telly Award with Actors by Actors Show
“It was a wonderful annual film event with some fantastic audience held at the beautiful movie theatre in Culver City. As well as screening great selection of independent films, the film festival offered also a fantastic networking opportunity to meet some prominent independent cinema professionals, filmmakers, actors, directors and producers attending the week-long film event. Filmmaking is very much a people’s business so getting to know other creators in the industry and seeing their work is important. You never know where the next future potential opportunity may come from. Considering the large number of films screened at the Marina del Rey Film Festival I am very honored that Actors by Actors Show was selected as one of the highlights of the film festival by the Executives and awarded the Audience Award as Best Pilot / Television Episode,” says Zasowski.
On the fourth episode of the Actors by Actors Show, Arek Zasowski is interviewing Suzanne Von Schaack, a talented actress filmmaker model and bestselling author who is sharing her lifelong creative career, professional experience and wisdom which can serve as an inspiration to younger generation of starting out actors and models.
The most recent of Zasowski’s artistic success comes right after another very recent recognition of his creative work at the very well-known in the industry 44th Annual Telly Awards in New York City, which this year honored the innovative, inclusive, and disruptive work that Breaks Through The Static of overwhelming content delivery and consumption.
“I am thrilled to win the Bronze Telly Award in Television – Entertainment and find my place amongst other esteemed and very well established production companies who also won the Telly Award. Considering the record breaking number of this year submissions, nearly 13,000 entries from five continents and 50 countries, to be selected as one of the few winners is a big honor as well as a true testament that there is an audience for this kind of inspiring and somewhat creative talk show which aims to inspire its audience as well as in the same time is taking advantage of some of the new technologies and innovative solutions, special visual effects such as, for example, a virtual soundstage as a platform to truly break through the static,” says Arek Zasowski. “During the pandemic, at the time when the national lockdowns were a rather commonplace and we could not practically go anywhere I was looking for the best way to remain creative and in the same time grow whilst helping other creative people in the industry and that is how the Actors by Actors Show idea was born, to interview actors with wealth of acting experience accumulated over the years on a virtual soundstage – the idea continues to this day and I am thrilled to see how successful it has become,” adds Zasowski.
“The caliber of the work this season coming from creators such as Arek Zasowski truly has reflected the theme of breaking out and standing out,” said Tellys Executive Director Sabrina Dridje. “Our industry is experimenting with new technologies like never before, crafting truly compelling stories to draw attention to some of the world’s most pressing issues, and companies big and small are turning to more sustainable practices to break the cycle of past production processes.”
The recent winners announcement caps a year-long celebration of creators and talent who truly stand out during a time when the ubiquity of screens brings more clutter than quality into our lives. These are the creators and innovators who spotlight diverse voices, who are building a more sustainable industry, and who break through the static with their creativity.
The Telly Awards honors excellence in video and television across all screens and was judged by leaders from video platforms, television, streaming networks, production companies including some big brands in the business like Adobe, BBC World Service, Netflix, National Geographic Society, ESPN Films, and Vimeo just to name a few.
“Thank you the Telly Awards for the recognition and selecting Actors by Actors Show as one of the 44th Annual Telly Awards Winners. Thank you Marina del Rey Film Festival for screening Actors by Actors Show on the big screen and bringing it to the live audience at the film festival and on ShortsDaily Roku TV channel and for recognising our creative work with the Audience Award as Best Pilot / Television Episode. I am thrilled to see an audience coming to see the Actors by Actors Show on big screen at the film festival and I am grateful to the organisers for screening it,” says Zasowski. “I would also like to take this opportunity and thank Suzanne Von Schaack, Paul A. Taylor, Thom Michael Mulligan and Lizet Benrey, the actors who appeared on the current and the previous episodes of the Actors by Actors Show and who shared their creative career with us all, as well as, Wendy Fout, Thomas Peterson, Eislinn Boyd, Viola Zasowska and everyone who has contributed and supported the show,” adds Zasowski.
Earlier this year, the Actors by Actors Show – Episode #004 won Grand Jury Prize Platinum Award as Best TV Pilot at the Los Angeles Motion Picture Festival and Award of Merit as Best Web / TV Series at the Vegas Movie Awards. Actors by Actors Show was also screened on the big screen with live audience at the iconic TCL Chinese Theatres in Hollywood at the Golden State Film Festival.
Arek Zasowski is an award winning, Polish-born, international film actor, talk show host, visual special effects artist, film director, independent film and talk-show producer. Some of Zasowski’s past film credits include: Detective Jack Berdett, Incoming Impact, Call Me, Let Go: Letting Go and the award winning late night talk show Actors by Actors Show.
Arek Zasowski’s work was aired on cable TV in Victoria, Canada, streamed on ShortsDaily Roku TV channel and screened on big screen to live audiences at the iconic world-renowned TCL Chinese Theatres in Hollywood at the Golden State Film Festival, as well as at various film festivals in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, USA, Canada, Europe and Africa. Since 2016, which marks the beginning of Arek Zasowski’s creative career, Zasowski won over 134 film awards, nominations and official selections at film festivals including: Best Actor, Best Director, Best TV Pilot, and Best Audience Award and the Bronze Telly Award.
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The film was meant to launch Universal’s "Dark Universe," a planned shared cinematic world built around the studio’s classic monster properties. That plan collapsed after "The Mummy" opened to poor reviews and underwhelming domestic box office, and no further Dark Universe films followed.
The streaming resurgence comes as Cruise’s own on-screen monster-movie history draws fresh attention: reports note the film is being rediscovered by viewers nearly a decade after its theatrical run, arriving on Prime Video after what one report described as an underwhelming box office performance at the time. Cruise starred as Nick Morton alongside Russell Crowe, Annabelle Wallis, and Sofia Boutella, who played the title character.
It isn’t clear what’s driving the renewed interest, whether algorithmic promotion, nostalgia, or simple curiosity about a film best remembered for its failed franchise ambitions. Prime Video has not issued a statement explaining the title’s chart position, and no viewership numbers have been made public.
The film’s climb echoes a broader pattern: other theatrical disappointments, including a 2020s Gerard Butler action film, have found similar second lives on streaming platforms long after their box office runs ended.
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Netflix’s October 2026 Slate: ‘East of Eden’ Adaptation, Ben Affleck Thriller, ‘Diplomat’ Season 4
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Netflix’s October 2026 lineup centers on a handful of high-profile originals: Florence Pugh leads the cast in this new adaptation of the classic Steinbeck novel, Ben Affleck and Gillian Anderson star in this political thriller, and "The Diplomat," an Emmy-nominated drama, returns for season four.
The month’s release calendar, detailed in an industry preview, spans more than twenty titles across scripted drama, documentary, anime, reality and international programming, reflecting Netflix’s now-standard approach of pairing a few marquee originals with a steady stream of licensed catalog titles and global-market series aimed at different audience segments.
The Steinbeck adaptation, a limited series titled "East of Eden," casts Pugh as Cathy Ames and arrives October 1 as one of the platform’s more literary bets of the fall. It lands alongside a wave of licensed films that same day, including "Ad Astra," "The Devil Wears Prada," "The Sixth Sense," "Pearl Harbor" and multiple seasons of "NCIS" — the kind of familiar-title bulk that typically pads a month’s new-content count alongside the originals.
October 9 brings "Animals," a political thriller starring Affleck and Anderson about a mayoral candidate and his wife drawn into dangerous territory after their son’s kidnapping, according to the preview and a trailer that has circulated separately. The same week, October 8, brings "Below," a six-episode supernatural thriller starring Josh Hartnett set in a coastal town terrorized by something in the water — a project Netflix has also been promoting through its own trailer release.
Tyler Perry returns October 2 with "Doing Life," a romantic drama starring Naomi Baker and Jay Reeves. It will be Perry’s eighth feature made for Netflix, following titles including "A Fall from Grace," "A Jazzman’s Blues" and "Mea Culpa," continuing a production relationship between Perry and the platform that dates back several years.
Keri Russell reprises her role in "The Diplomat" season four on October 15, continuing the well-received original series. Also on the documentary side: "Lorne," director Morgan Neville’s look at "Saturday Night Live" creator Lorne Michaels, featuring interviews with Tina Fey, Conan O’Brien, Maya Rudolph and Chris Rock, out October 5, and "Schumacher ’94 — The Birth of a Legend," chronicling Michael Schumacher’s 1994 Formula 1 title run, out October 2.
The rest of the slate leans international and genre-specific: a Korean fantasy-horror series ("Dead-End Job"), a German psychological thriller ("The Trap"), a Filipino horror-mystery ("Balaraw: Blood Island"), a Polish biographical drama about rock musician Jan Borysewicz ("Less of a Stranger"), and returning anime and reality titles including "Blue Box" season two and "Love Village" season three.
Netflix has not published an official release calendar for the month as of this writing; scheduling for later-October titles beyond October 15 was not detailed in the available preview.
Studio CarryOnHarry Perspective
Literary adaptations and prestige limited series represent a deliberate bet by streaming platforms that quality and cultural weight still matter to subscribers—that not everyone optimizes for quantity alone. This taps into a deeper hunger: the desire to feel like a viewing choice was *earned* rather than merely convenient, especially when a book like "East of Eden" carries decades of classroom authority and critical standing.
In practice, this strategy appears most valuable at moments of subscriber churn or price increases. A household genuinely torn between services may stay for a prestige drama they can discuss at work or defend to skeptical family members—"we’re watching the Steinbeck adaptation"—in ways a fourth reality dating show cannot match. Awards nominations amplify this effect: an Emmy or Golden Globe nomination becomes free marketing that whispers "this matters."
The constraint here is that prestige does not automatically translate to viewership at scale. A critically adored limited series may underperform the analytics of a mid-tier reality show, making it harder to justify the cost to shareholders. Netflix’s preview itself suggests these titles anchor a broader, more eclectic slate—they’re not the whole strategy, just the visible crown jewel.
The most useful way to interpret this may be not as Netflix suddenly becoming a literary platform, but as a company recognizing that different subscriber segments value different legitimacy markers. A Florence Pugh adaptation and a Tyler Perry romantic drama coexist because they’re solving different retention problems for different viewers.
From the Editor — Harry Johal
"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings." — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I was scrolling through release schedules on my phone this morning—the kind of thing you do while your coffee cools—when I landed on Florence Pugh cast as Cathy Ames. "East of Eden" on Netflix in October. And Fitzgerald’s line came to mind: "You discover that your longings are universal longings."
It stopped me. Because what Netflix is really doing here, underneath all the slate announcements and subscriber retention math, is banking on exactly that discovery. They’re not just releasing a Steinbeck adaptation. They’re releasing permission—permission to sit with a story that millions of readers before you sat with, to feel what they felt, to ask the same questions about ambition and corruption and family that Steinbeck asked seventy years ago.
That’s the real hunger. Not for more content. For confirmation that what moves you isn’t private or small. That your longing to understand cruelty, or redemption, or the weight of a name—these aren’t quirks. They’re human. Universal.
A prestige adaptation doesn’t guarantee viewership. The analytics don’t always justify the cost. But it does something subtler: it reminds people that they’re not alone in what they want to watch, what they want to feel, what they want to *mean* by choosing one story over another. In a world that treats everything as convenience, that reminder matters more than most things Netflix will release that month. Maybe more than Netflix knows.
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