Co-Created by Erica Spates and Sam Littenberg-Weisberg Based on Personal Experience with Social Anxiety Disorder Netflix has ordered 8 episodes of The Healing Powers of Dude, a family live action (single-camera) comedy series co-created by Erica Spates and Sam Littenberg-Weisberg (Coop and Cami Ask the World, Victorious and Mystery Girls) with half of the episodes…
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JENS LAPIDUS SNABBA CASH BECOMES A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES
Amsterdam – 20 June 2019 – Netflix today announced Snabba Cash, a brand new six part original series from screenwriter Oskar Söderlund and bestselling author Jens Lapidus. The new Netflix original series sets in Stockholm ten years after the events depicted in feature films Snabba Cash trilogy. It is a buzzing environment where the craving…
NETFLIX TO ADAPT AUGUST WILSON’S AWARD-WINNING PLAY “MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM” INTO A FEATURE FILM
Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman, Glynn Turman, Colman Domingo and Michael Potts to Star Director: Multiple Tony Award and DGA Award-winner George C. Wolfe (Lackawanna Blues, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks) Writer: Ruben Santiago-Hudson to adapt the script based on the award-winning play by August Wilson Cast: Academy Award Winner Viola Davis (Widows, Fences), Chadwick…
NETFLIX ACQUIRES IMAGINE ENTERTAINMENT’S “TICK, TICK…BOOM!” WITH LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA DIRECTING AND STEVEN LEVENSON WRITING
“Tick, Tick…Boom!” Will Mark Miranda’s Film Directorial Debut Netflix has acquired worldwide rights to Imagine Entertainment’s film adaptation of Tick, Tick…Boom! Director: Tony Award Winner Lin-Manuel Miranda Tony, Grammy, Emmy and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, lyricist and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda also starred in the New York City Center’s Encores! Off-Center production of Tick, Tick…Boom! Writer: Tony…
NETFLIX RENEWS I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE WITH TIM ROBINSON FOR A SECOND SEASON
— The critically-acclaimed sketch comedy series will return in 2020 — Netflix has renewed the critically-acclaimed sketch comedy series I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson for a second season. The second season will launch globally in 2020. Quote from Tim Robinson and co-creator, Zach Kanin: “We are very excited to be working with…
MIKKI DAUGHTRY AND TOBIAS IACONIS ADAPTING “NIGHTBOOKS” FOR NETFLIX
Writers: Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis (Five Feet Apart and The Curse of La Llorona) are adapting the horror-fantasy children’s book “Nightbooks” by J.A. White for Netflix Producers: Ghost House Pictures’ Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert together with MXN Entertainment’s Mason Novick and Michelle Knudsen. Romel Adam will be overseeing for Ghost House Logline: When…
SETH CARR, TICHINA ARNOLD, ADAM PALLY and KEN MARINO STAR ALONGSIDE WWE SUPERSTARS IN JAY KARAS’ THE MAIN EVENT FOR NETFLIX AND WWE STUDIOS
Production on the Live Action Family Movie Commences This Week in Vancouver Based on an original screenplay by Larry Postel. Director: Jay Karas (Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife, Break Point, Parks & Recreation) Producers: WWE Studios’ Richard Lowell Executive Producers: WWE Studios’ Susan Levison, along with Maggie Malina Cast: Starring Seth Carr (Black Panther), Tichina…
PRODUCER AND DIRECTOR JANET MOCK COMES TO NETFLIX IN EXCLUSIVE, MULTI-YEAR OVERALL DEAL
Netflix has entered a multi-year overall deal with director and producer Janet Mock. Under the deal, Mock will produce new series exclusively for Netflix. Additionally, Netflix will have a first-look at Mock’s features projects. As part of the deal, Janet Mock will serve as an executive producer and director on Ryan Murphy’s upcoming Netflix series…
THE GIRLS ARE BACK! – CABLE GIRLS
The fourth season of Las Chicas del Cable will launch on Netflix next August 9th After an explosive season finale, this August 9th Netflix returns to the 1930’s with a new season of the original series Las Chicas del Cable. After three successful seasons, Blanca Suárez, Maggie Civantos, Ana Fernández, Nadia de Santiago and Ana…
NETFLIX ORDERS PRANK ENCOUNTERS, HIDDEN-CAMERA PRANK SHOW HOSTED BY GATEN MATARAZZO
— Propagate Produced Series Launches Later This Year — Netflix has ordered Prank Encounters, an epic hidden-camera prank show hosted by Gaten Matarazzo (Stranger Things). Prank Encounters launches later this year. Episodes: 8 Executive Producers: Gaten Matarazzo; Ben Silverman, Howard T. Owens, and Kevin Healey for Propagate; Rob Hyde (Terrence Howard’s Fright Club, Troy) Director:…
Leila
India’s first dystopian story, Leila is set in an imagined world, Aryavarta in which there is great suffering, extreme and totalitarian rules of engagement and fictional extremes constructed around an obsession with purity, communal and divisive societal dramas and grit. Leila is the story of a mothers’ imperishable maternal love for her daughter set in…
SIX NEW ORIGINAL TITLES ON NETFLIX WE CAN’T WAIT TO SHARE WITH K-DRAMA FANS!
Netflix continues to grow K-drama library in 2019 Singapore, June 14, 2019 – Fans of K-drama will swoon all over again with the line-up from Netflix’s ensemble of Hallyu’s best content this summer and fall seasons! “There’s just so much love for Korean content in this region, especially in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan….
MATTHEW ALDRICH TAPPED TO OVERSEE CREATIVE ADAPTATION OF THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA FOR NETFLIX
Netflix has announced that Matthew Aldrich has come on board to oversee the development and creative live-action adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ beloved The Chronicles of Narnia series Aldrich will work across both series and film and serve as a creative architect on all projects under the deal. Aldrich most recently co-wrote COCO for Disney and…
GOBELINS AND NETFLIX PARTNER TO PROMOTE DIVERSITY IN THE ANIMATION INDUSTRY
Annecy International Film Festival & Market – June 12, 2019 – GOBELINS and Netflix today announced a new partnership to support equal opportunities in animation. The Netflix Animation Fellowship will enable one GOBELINS graduate each year to work directly alongside animation experts in Japan developing Netflix original Anime titles. This post-graduate program will help deepen…
NETFLIX ANNOUNCES NEW PARTNERSHIPS WITH CANADA’S LEADING INDIGENOUS SCREEN ORGANIZATIONS, SUPPORTING THE NEXT GENERATION OF INDIGENOUS CREATORS
imagineNATIVE, The Indigenous Screen Office and Wapikoni Mobile launch new programs supported by Netflix’s development fund for Canadian screen creatives Banff, AB — June 11, 2019 – Today, at the 2019 Banff World Media Festival, Netflix joined imagineNATIVE, The Indigenous Screen Office (ISO) and Wapikoni Mobile to announce a suite of partnership programs that aim…
NETFLIX REVEALS THE MOST INTIMATE SIDE OF PARCHIS BAND IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY
Directed by Daniel Arasanz and produced by Inedit Producciones, Parchis: the documentary is based on an original idea and script by Richard Royuela featuring testimonies of all the members of the group. The documentary will launch on Netflix on July 10th Madrid, June 11th, 2019 – Netflix announces the new original documentary about the famous…
UBISOFT’S “THE DIVISION” STARRING JESSICA CHASTAIN AND JAKE GYLLENHAAL LANDS AT NETFLIX
Rafe Judkins to Adapt the Screenplay Based on Best-Selling Tom Clancy Video Game Director: David Leitch (Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde, The Fast & Furious Presents: HOBBS & SHAW) Writer: Rafe Judkins to adapt the screenplay based on the best-selling video game Rafe is currently creating the upcoming series Wheel of Time for Amazon, based on…
GEENA DAVIS TO GUEST STAR IN SEASON THREE OF NETFLIX’S EMMY-WINNING ‘GLOW’
GEENA DAVIS TO GUEST STAR IN SEASON THREE OF NETFLIX’S EMMY-WINNING ‘GLOW’ Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Geena Davis will play “Sandy Devereaux St. Clair,” the former showgirl turned entertainment director of the Fan-Tan Hotel and Casino. Davis will appear in five of the season’s 10 episodes. Season 3 follows the ladies of GLOW as…
ANTHONY MACKIE TO STAR IN AND PRODUCE “OUTSIDE THE WIRE” FOR NETFLIX
Mikael Håfström to Direct Director: Mikael Håfström (Escape Plan, 1408, Evil) Producers: 42 and Automatik are producing. Brian Kavanaugh-Jones for Automatik, Ben Pugh and Erica Steinberg for 42, Jason Spire for Inspire Entertainment, Anthony Mackie Executive Producers: Josh Horsfield; Fred Berger for Automatik; Rory Aiken for 42 Co-Producer: Charlie Morrison for 42 Writer: Rob Yescombe,…
JARED AND JERUSHA HESS TO ADAPT ACCLAIMED CHILDRENS NOVEL THELMA THE UNICORN BY AARON BLABEY INTO ANIMATED MUSICAL FEATURE FILM FOR NETFLIX
Jared Hess to Direct Director: Jared Hess (Masterminds, The Last Man on Earth) Writers: Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre) to adapt a screenplay based on the novel by Aaron Blabey Executive Producers: Aaron Blabey and Patrick Hughes of Foundation Media Partners Logline: When a rare pink and glitter-filled moment of fate makes…