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Tyler Perry Bringing Madea Out of Retirement For Upcoming Netflix Film
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Michael Tran / Getty Madea is not done yet. Tuesday (Jun.8), Netflix announced that Tyler Perry is bringing the beloved gun-toting grandmother from retirement for a new film called A Madea Homecoming. The Hollywood Reporter says the film, which will be the 12th movie starring Perry as Madea, will be shot at his studio in Atlanta and will see him handle both writing and directing duties and premiere exclusively on the streaming service 2022. The decision to bring Madea back comes just three years after he announced he put the grey wig on the shelf. Perry took to Instagram to make the big announcement in a video saying the reason he brought her back is the fact “we need to laugh, man, too much is going on in the country. We need to laugh, so, I wa...
Cowboy Bebop Composer Yoko Kanno Returns to Score Netflix’s Live-Action Series
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-06-09T00:25:41+00:00“>June 8, 2021 | 8:25pm ET Netflix has been working on a live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop for years now and the pandemic delayed it ever further, but thankfully the series is finally set premiere later this year. Perhaps even more exciting, the streamer revealed that Yoko Kanno, the original composer who worked on the classic anime series, will return to score the upcoming version. Kanno will create the soundtrack for the new series as she sees fit, which means fans can likely expect a faithful homage to the original’s music with a couple modern updates that suit it thrown in, too. Because shooting wrapped up earlier this year, it’s likely that she’s w...
Bo Burnham Announces Album Inside (The Songs) Featuring Music from His Special
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-06-08T22:12:38+00:00“>June 8, 2021 | 6:12pm ET At the end of last month, Bo Burnham surprised fans by releasing Inside, his first comedy special in five years. It’s less of a traditional Netflix standup special than it is an experimental look at quarantine’s highs, lows, and the dark comedy that lies in between. It’s held up by a number of catchy songs that Burnham created himself, and it turns out those tracks are about to get a proper album release later this week. As The Hollywood Reporter points out, Burnham will put Inside (The Songs) on music streaming platforms this Thursday, June 10th. It will include songs that have already become fan-favorites for their discussion of capit...
Top 4 Most Trending Stories – Week in Review
/* custom css */ .tdi_4_f6c.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_4_f6c.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } As this week comes to a close we take a look at the stories that resonated most with our readers. An enormous underwater mudslide cripples the internet. The South African government seeks to regulate Netflix and other digital streaming services, and how blockchain and cryptocurrency can increase financial inclusion in developing countries. Finally, the Huawei Band 6 round out this week’s most trending stories. Find out more about this week’s top articles: /* custom css */ .tdi_3_f21.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_3_f21.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } 4. How Blockchain and Crypto Can Lessen Financial Exclusion in Developing Countries COVID-19 has had many different ...
Channing Tatum, Simon Pegg, Killer Mike Star in First Trailer for America: The Motion Picture: Watch
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-06-03T20:07:15+00:00“>June 3, 2021 | 4:07pm ET Forget about the history books. Netflix’s new animated comedy is ready to set the record straight when it comes to the formation of the US and our founding fathers. It’s called America: The Motion Picture and features an all-star voice cast led by Channing Tatum as George Washington. Watch the newly revealed trailer below. Billed as “the untold, totally legit, historically accurate origins of America,” America: The Motion Picture is a feature-length film satirizing the American Revolution. It comes from the producers of Archer (Matt Thompson) and Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse (the inimitable Phil Lord and Chris Miller), with Th...
South African Government Now Seeks to Regulate Netflix Content
Sourced from Getty Images. /* custom css */ .tdi_4_360.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_4_360.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } A new white paper proposal from the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies is set to enforce locally produced content on digital streaming services, with Netflix zeroed in. The paper also seeks to apply other regulations to these services, according to Business Tech. The white paper proposal, contained in the department’s Audio and Audio-Visual Content Services policy framework, suggests that the department will regulate up to 30% of the video catalogue that Netflix has available in South Africa. Netflix’s director of public policy for sub-Saharan Africa, Shola Sanni, says that the streaming goliath is already investing heavily in produci...
Twin Peaks Departing Netflix in June
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-25T01:58:12+00:00“>May 24, 2021 | 9:58pm ET If you haven’t yet solved the mystery of who killed Laura Palmer, your investigation may have to move to another platform. As Entertainment Weekly notes, the first two seasons of Mark Frost and David Lynch’s iconic television series Twin Peaks will be leaving Netflix at the end of June. Twin Peaks debuted on ABC in 1990, and instantly established itself as damn good content… and hot! But ratings began to dwindle by the time Season 2 rolled around, and although it was unceremoniously cancelled, it quickly achieved a reputation as one of the finest television series ever made. In 1992, it was followed by the prequ...
Netflix Debuts Trailer For Upcoming Horror Trilogy ‘Fear Street’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Netflix / Netflix Who’s in the mood for a horror film trilogy this summer? We know we are. Knowing many will be choosing to stay at home with the air conditioner on full blast instead of melting out in these streets come summer 2021, Netflix is premiering a brand new horror trilogy based off of R.L. Stine’s book series, Fear Street. The young adult horror series which debuted in 1989 has been known to feature ghosts and other supernatural phenomenon, but it seems like the Netflix adaptation will center around serial killers that run amok in the fictional city, Shadyside. Seemingly to be a mix of Scream, American Horror Story, and Friday The 13th, the Fear Street trilogy will be debuting split into three different years (1994, 1978, 1666) and will be premi...
Edward Norton to Star in Knives Out Sequel
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-12T01:26:12+00:00“>May 11, 2021 | 9:26pm ET From Fight Club to The Illusionist, Edward Norton knows a thing or two about solving mysteries — or actually, maybe he’s just good at getting caught up in them. Either way, it’s fitting that he’s now joining the cast of Rian Johnson‘s upcoming Knives Out sequel. Norton will star alongside returning lead Daniel Craig, who plays the Southern detective Benoit Blanc, and new addition Dave Bautista, who was revealed as a co-star earlier today. Rian Johnson is back to write and direct what is said to be the first of two sequels to his 2019 smash hit Knives Out. Both movies have already been snatched up by Netflix, which reportedly paid $450 m...
Streaming Wars 2021 Mid-Year Scorecard: How Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+, and HBO Max Stack Up
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-10T19:00:25+00:00“>May 10, 2021 | 3:00pm ET Q1 earnings for media and tech companies are now behind us, so it’s a good time to recap how Netflix and its four biggest challengers — Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+, and HBO Max — stack up and are trending for the rest of 2021. Just 18 months ago, Netflix largely played alone. What a difference those months make for the reigning champ in these “streaming wars.” Now, Netflix faces giant global competitors seemingly around every turn. Ditto for us consumers, as streaming became our activity of choice (frequently, our only activity!) during the past pandemic year’s global lockdown. While life during the COVID-19 pandemic has been...
Kevin Hart Navigates Being A Single Dad In Trailer For Netflix’s ‘Fatherhood’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Netflix / Netflix Being a parent is a tough job but doing so all alone is even harder, and it is rare that the struggle single fathers face is depicted in films. Kevin Hart is set to play a widower and sudden single dad in the upcoming movie, Fatherhood, and a new trailer shows some of the stand-up comic’s range as an actor. Fatherhood is based on a novel by author Matthew Logelin, who wrote Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss & Love after losing his wife a day after she gave birth to their daughter. The film follows the same premise with Hart cast as Matt and details what he learns about raising his baby girl and the doubts heaved upon him by the family. However, it appears in the film that despite the hardships, Matt will learn the hardest lesson...
‘Stranger Things’ Season 4 Teaser Drops, We Are Ready
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Netflix / Netflix Netflix just released a teaser for the forthcoming fourth season of Stranger Things, and it can’t get here soon enough. SPOILERS AHEAD The new clip seems to confirm the return of Dr. Martin Breen, portrayed by Matthew Modine, the doc who raised Eleven at the Hawkins National Laboratory where he experimented on numerous children, tracking them by number designations. At the end of the teaser, the viewer stops in front of a door marked 11 and Dr. Brenner is heard saying, “Are you listening, Eleven?,” and we see her open her eyes. At the end of the third season, the fate of Hopper was in question for a minute before it turned out he was probably in Russia. This was confirmed in a trailer that dropped over a year ago that found our acerbic s...
