From “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” on Disney+ to “Wonka,” “Poor Things,” “Napoleon” and “Anatomy of a Fall,” it’s a huge month on streaming.
• Millie Bobby Brown successfully used her “Stranger Things” fame to launch a Netflix movie franchise with “Enola Holmes.” Can the magic strike twice? She’s front and center for the streamer’s fantasy film “Damsel,” playing a princess whose happily ever after is disrupted when her prince sacrifices her to a dragon. “She’s a damsel who doesn’t need to be saved,” Brown told Netflix. “She saves herself in many ways. It subverts what you expect: You’re expecting the prince to turn around and save her, and… no. Don’t wait for the prince.” “What I really loved in the script from Dan Mazeau was embracing the idea of a fantasy adventure and a princess and dragon story, but taking it into a place [where] it’s completely upside down,” director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo added. “It was a very intense journey that I was so excited to design and to develop. At the core, this is such a beautiful story about a young woman becoming a strong, independent, and empowered adult. Elodie doesn’t have any kind of support. It’s a real survival experience.
