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Netflix’s thriller You has been renewed for a fourth season. Days ahead of the show’s highly-anticipated season three debuts, the streaming platform has announced that there is still more to come from Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley). Based on the books “You” and “Hidden Bodies” by Caroline Kepnes, the show was developed for Lifetime by Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble, premiering on the network in 2018. The series moved to the streaming platform as a Netflix Original for its third season, which arrives this Friday, October 15, following Joe and Love (Victoria Pedretti) as they relocate to a California suburb to raise their first child. Alongside Badgley and Pedretti, Saffron Burrows will reprise her role as Love’s mother, Dottie, in season three. Meanwhile, Shalita Grant, Travis Van Winkle, Dylan...

With the massive phenomenon that is Netflix‘s Squid Game, people around the world are finding ways to capitalize on the trend. A hotel in the Gangwon Province of South Korea has done just that, hosting their own real-life version of the show without the killing. The Korea Times has reported that St. John’s Hotel in Gangneung is holding the event, marketing it as a realistic take on the popular Netflix show. The winner is expected to take home 5 million won (approximately $4,178 USD). Everyone is welcome to join, with the cost to register per person at 10,000 won ($8.39 USD). As one may assume, the event has garnered much attention, leaving no slots left to book. Similar to the start of the show, those who are competing will be given a mysterious business card featuring a phone number. Part...

Netflix Asia’s top executive MinYoung Kim dives into the reason why Squid Game became a smashing success in record time. Kim joined the streaming giant in 2016 as one of the company’s first content hires in Asia. As VP of Content for Asia, Kim’s responsibilities entail overseeing Netflix’s general content across Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Southeast Asia and Australia/New Zealand. In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Kim revealed, “The reason Squid Game has such great meaning for us internally is that it’s perfect evidence that our international strategy has been right.” She continued, “We’ve always believed that the most locally authentic shows will travel best, so having a show that’s about really authentic Korean games and characters become really big not only in Korea but...

The original Cowboy Bebop anime series is coming to Netflix. The full show will be available to stream beginning October 21, providing viewers just under a month to binge all 26 episodes of the anime ahead of Netflix’s live-action Cowboy Bebop debut on November 19. Directed by Shinichirō Watanabe, Cowboy Bebop first premiered in Japan in 1998 and later became the first anime to air on Cartoon Network‘s Adult Swim in the U.S. in 2001. The show is set in the year 2071, following an Earth-shattering event that forced civilizations to colonize surrounding moons and planets. There, the Inter Solar System police draws up a new contract system that allows bounty hunters to turn in criminals for rewards, which ultimately serves as the plot’s focal point. It is unknown whet...

Disney+ has given fans a first look at its upcoming docuseries The Beatles: Get Back. Directed and produced by Peter Jackson, the filmmaker behind the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies, the three-part series follows the making of the band’s 1970 album Let It Be, a record that had the working title of Get Back. The series is based on over 55 hours of restored footage and 140 hours of audio, much of which has never been seen before. It also features live footage from the band’s final public performance, a surprise 42-minute rooftop concert for the album at London’s Savile Row. In making the docuseries, Jackson explained wanting to offer an alternative perspective to the prevailing narrative that The Beatles members were hardly speaking to one another during the creation of the album, wh...

Netflix has released the first trailer for Colin in Black and White, an upcoming six-part series that will delve into Colin Kaepernick‘s childhood. The visual introduces the former NFL player as the narrator, while a younger version of himself, played by Jaden Michael, dreams about becoming a quarterback. In the face of racism and bigotry, Kaepernick learns that he must embrace his identity as a Black man in order to achieve his goals. “In high school, I faced a lot of different challenges from sports, to my family, and other parts of my personal life, which a lot of viewers may be able to relate to,” said Kaepernick of the collaborative project with filmmaker Ava DuVernay in a statement. “But I also faced obstacles as a Black kid growing up in a white family in a white community...

French actor and Lupin star Omar Sy has inked a multi-year feature film deal with Netflix, which enlists Sy’s Paris and L.A.-based production company Korokoro to produce original projects for the streaming service. The new endeavor, which is Netflix’s first deal with a French filmmaker, will see Sy as both a lead actor and executive producer for the forthcoming films.  “I have experienced Netflix’s collaboration with artists and their passion to bring unique and diverse stories to homes all over the world,” Sy told Variety. Known for his role as the protagonist Assane Diop in Netflix’s Lupin, Sy served as a creative producer for some of the series’ episodes. Regarding the new partnership, Sy told Variety he was “happy to have the opportunity to extend the relationship and look forward...

AMC has greenlit a six-episode anthology series titled Tales of the Walking Dead, slated to debut on AMC and AMC Plus in summer 2022. Each episode will run one hour long and take place inside the world of The Walking Dead, with both new and pre-existing characters. Channing Powell, who played a major role in writing and producing The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead, will assume the role of showrunner, working alongside The Walking Dead‘s chief content officer Scott M. Gimple. “The Walking Dead is a show that made television history and attracted an army of passionate and highly engaged fans,” said Dan McDermott, president of original programming for AMC Networks and AMC Studios, in a statement via Variety. “We see so much potential for a wide range of rich a...

Continuing to deliver anime takes on Rick and Morty, Adult Swim recently tasked celebrated studio Sola Entertainment for a new Japanese short. Titled “The Great Yokai Battle of Akihabara,” the 11-minute clip features animation production by Sola Digital Arts Inc. and CGI by Yamato Works, Inc. While Masaru Matsumoto of Sola Entertainment directed the project with a script by Naohiro Fukushima and music composition by Tetsuya Takahashi. With voice actors Youhei Tadano and Keisuke Chiba reprising their roles as Rick and Morty, Adult Swim describes the short, “Rick’s toaster is broken. To repair it, he and Morty must go to Akihabara to find the perfect screw, and battle an old rival along the way.” Watch Sola Entertainment’s Rick and Morty anime short “The Great Yokai Battle of Akihabara” befo...

Disney+ is now reportedly working on a film documenting Walt Disney‘s journey to creating Disneyland, “the happiest place on Earth.” According to Deadline, the project will be helmed by David Gordon Green, who has just come out of directing the highly anticipated Halloween sequel Halloween Kills. Joining him will be Disney veteran Evan Spiliotopoulos, whose previous works include The Jungle Book 2, Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure, Beauty and the Beast‘s live-action remake, Snow White and the Huntsmen, and Hercules. Jason Reed — who spent a year developing the project prior to pitching it to Disney — will be producing under Cavalry Media’s banner. Disneyland first opened its doors on July 17, 1955, and was called Mickey Mouse Parks at the time. The ...

Paramount Pictures has dropped the first trailer for Scream, the fifth installment in the franchise directed by Matthew Bettinelli-Olphin and Tyler Gillet. Marking the return of the Ghostface killer, the latest film reunites several top-shelf players from the original Scream 25, including Neve Campbell, David Arquette and Courteney Cox, each of whom have reprised their respective roles in several sequels. Helmed by the duo who directed Ready or Not, the movie also stars newcomers Melissa Barrera, Kyle Gallner, Mason Gooding, Mikey Madison, Dylan Minnette, Jenna Ortega, Jack Quaid, Marley Shelton, Jasmin Savoy Brown and Sonia Ammar. The visual begins with the classic thriller narrative of a home-alone woman who is terrorized and killed after receiving a call from a masked murderer. Bou...

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 director James Gunn has now confirmed rumors that Will Poulter will be joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Adam Warlock. Rumors first surfaced in a report from Deadline suggesting that the Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Midsommar and The Revenant actor would star in Gunn’s upcoming third film based on the popular band of misfit superheroes. Adam Warlock has long been teased to enter the MCU, with many believing he would join the roster back in 2017’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.  While the character didn’t make it onto the silver screen at the time, a reference to his birth was made in the movie during the post-credits scene, and fans will be delighted that the cosmic being will finally join in on the fight. After news broke out,...