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Netflix Responds To Tyra Banks’ Defamation Suit Over ‘Next Top Model’ Docuseries

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Netflix‘s move today against Tyra Banks‘ defamation suit probably will not see the former America’s Next Top Model host SMIZE.

Two months after supermodel Banks hit the streamer with a legal action over her depiction in the docuseries Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model, the Greg Sarando- and Greg Peters-run Netflix has hit the court catwalk with an anti-SLAPP motion to toss the whole thing out.

“These are complaints about ordinary editorial decisions,” the motion filed Friday in L.A. Superior Court exclaims (read it here).

Aiming for an October 30 hearing on its anti-SLAPP and dismissal motion, Netflix’s attorneys at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher skewer Banks’ June 13 filing with Anna Wintour precision.

Friday’s motion adds: “Documentary filmmakers decide whom to interview, what to ask, which answers to include, how to sequence competing accounts, and what to leave on the cutting-room floor. Banks expressly agreed those decisions belonged to the filmmakers. Dissatisfaction with editorial judgments is not actionable defamation.”

In case you’re missing the point Netflix is making about Banks’ complaint, the motion lays it out with unadorned clarity.

“Strip away the Complaint’s rhetoric of ‘manipulation’ and ‘surgical editing,’ and Banks’s theory reduces to a request for more airtime and an edit more to her liking,” the 28-page motion says. “Defamation law does not permit that result, and courts do not second-guess editorial judgments merely because an interview subject would have preferred different ones.”

In a direct statement to Deadline, Netflix reiterated its opposition to Banks’ suit as well as its determination to not only defend Reality Check and its directors (who are named as defendant’s in the model’s suit).

“Directors Daniel Sivan and Mor Loushy are respected documentarians who thoroughly interviewed the people behind America’s Next Top Model,” a Netflix spokesperson told Deadline on Friday. “Tyra Banks was given the opportunity to speak openly about her experience and the creators fairly presented her perspective alongside those of every other participant shown in this documentary. We stand behind Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model and will continue to vigorously defend it.”

Erik Pedersen contributed to this report.

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‘Never Have I Ever’s Maitreyi RamaKrishnan Jokes “Devi’s Dead”

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After three years, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan has some thoughts about where her Never Have I Ever character would be today.

The actress cautioned against “selective listening” as she discussed the possibility of reviving the Netflix coming-of-age series from creators Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher, which ran for four seasons from 2020 to 2023.

“If the right script and the right time in everyone’s life occurred, and all the stars lined up, sure,” she told Netflix. “But that hasn’t happened yet. I don’t foresee it happening anytime soon.”

Ramakrishnan continued, “I just love Devi so much. I truly am a fan of the show, and I would never wanna do anything that compromises the beautiful story that we made, that truly made history in the YA genre, but also a really heartfelt story that means a lot to people. I don’t want to rush into another version of the story for a check, because I really love Davi and everyone involved with the show. So, I wanna do it right.

“So, that’s my way of encapsulating that all into, ‘So, Devi’s dead,’” she joked.

In Never Have I Ever, Ramakrishnan played first-generation Indian-Americana teenager Devi Vishwakumar, who attempts to juggle her social life at a Los Angeles high school with her family life following the death of her father.

Recalling that the show was “loosely based on my childhood and the loss of a parent,” Kaling recently explained that Never Have I Ever was the first part of a TV trilogy “loosely based” on her life, followed by HBO Max’s Sex Lives of College Girls and Hulu’s Not Suitable for Work.

“That’s just the pretentious way that I like to frame my career now,” joked Kaling, noting that she didn’t intend to create a spiritual trilogy.

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Anne Hathaway Says Films Where Dogs Die Should Be Rated R

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Anne Hathaway believes that films that include storylines about dogs dying should come with an R rating.

In a recent interview with Complex, the Oscar winner admitted she’d seen speculation about the fate of the dog, Starbuck, in The End of Oak Street. “I feel like movies that kill dogs should automatically be rated R. Doesn’t matter if anybody curses, it doesn’t matter if there’s violence, if a dog dies, R-rated,” she said.

“Somebody was like, ‘Can you just let the audiences know that, like, it’s all gonna be OK?’ We break rules in this movie, that might not be one of them. Don’t worry,” she continued. “I think everybody’s so traumatized by John Wick, because I’ve been seeing those [comments about The End of Oak Street] too, like, ‘They better not kill the dog.’

She added, “I’m like, which movies are out there killing dogs that everybody’s scared that we’re just casually doing it in movies now?”

The End of Oak Street stars Hathaway and Ewan McGregor as parents whose family is suddenly shifted to a location inhabited by dinosaurs. The Hollywood Reporter‘s chief film critic David Rooney commended her performance in his review, writing, “Hathaway, on the other hand, is the essential glue holding the film together. Denise — a name that kept making me wish this were an all-out schlocky B-movie with Denise Richards — is basically an Anne Tyler character in a Michael Crichton novel. She’s a woman looking around now that her kids are growing up and acknowledging her lack of fulfillment, feelings expressed in a novel she’s secretly been writing, in which the protagonist keeps a suitcase packed in the hope she might one day run away from her suffocating life as a wife and mother.”

The new film adds to Hathaway’s jam-packed year, as she’s already starred in The OdysseyDevil Wears Prada 2 and Mother Mary. She has another film still on her schedule for 2026, that of an adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s Verity, due in October.

“When I got my schedule for this year from all the wonderful film studios that I’ve worked with, I saw it and I kind of thought I was being punked,” Hathaway told THR at The End of Oak Street premiere. “But then they showed me that no, no, no, all these [release] dates were going to hold and I just said as long as audiences don’t get sick of my face — which I wouldn’t blame them, I would not blame them if they did — let’s go.”

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Ryan De Nino Dead: ‘Married at First Sight’ Alum Was 40

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Ryan De Nino, who appeared on Season 2 of Married at First Sight, has died. He was 40.

On Tuesday, Ryan’s sister Melissa remembered his “huge heart” as she announced that he had died with a heartfelt tribute. A cause of death was not immediately known.

“Ryan was so damn funny and witty. He was fiercely loyal to those he loved. He had a huge heart, always,” wrote Melissa on Facebook. “I can’t explain what it’s like to lose a sibling. Someone who’s been there from the beginning and shares the same memories. No matter what we were going through, I loved him immensely. Life as I know it will never be the same.”

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In 2015, businessman Ryan De Nino appeared on Season 2 of the FYI reality series Married at First Sight, in which he was matched with receptionist Jessica Castro.

After the couple married upon their first meeting at the altar, they decided to stay together on Decision Day, but they ultimately got divorced.

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