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July 14, 2023

At the Movies: Cheap thrills in tedious Netflix spinoff ‘Bird Box Barcelona'

By LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer

Netflix tries to capitalize on the popularity of its 2018 film “Bird Box” with “Bird Box Barcelona,” set in the Spanish city around the same time, with a new cast that does not include Sandra Bullock.

It's funny to think back to December 2018, that pre-pandemic world, when everyone decided that they wanted to spend their holiday breaks watching a terrified, blindfolded Sandra Bullock try to escape a mysterious force that compels people to suicide. Before “Tiger King,” before “Squid Game,” “Bird Box” was a phenomenon for Netflix. Sure, they self-report their numbers and keep metrics like viewing hours, households and watches intentionally vague, but they also don't tout all their movie-star driven pictures like that: “Bird Box” was an unambiguous hit.


 
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