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Squid Game was the first Korean drama to hit No.1 on Netflix and did it in just four days after its release. According to Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s Co-CEO and Head of Content, “Squid Game will definitely be our biggest non-English language show in the world, for sure,” and has “a very good chance it’s going to be our biggest show ever.” Netflix typically measures the popularity of its shows based on how many people watch a title for at least two minutes in the first 28 days following its debut. As the series was released on September 17, it only has 11 days of viewership so far. Currently, the most popular series is Bridgerton, followed by Lupin at number 2. The full list of shows can be found here. In an interview with Variety, Dong-Hyuk Hwang says he may return to produce feature movies be...

Brad Pitt and George Clooney are set to star in Spider-Man: Homecoming director Jon Watts’ newest thriller movie. The two A-listers will also be producing the film with their respective production labels, Plan B Entertainment and Smokehouse Pictures. The announcement of the film has sent streamers in one of the biggest Hollywood bidding wars this year. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Studios including Sony, Lionsgate, Apple and Netflix are all vying for the trifecta package that sees George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Jon Watts working together. Amazon, Universal, MGM, Warner Bros. and Annapurna are also thrown into the bidding mix. Watts is also writing, directing and producing the thriller film alongside the duo. Though not much detail has been revealed, the movie packages are expected t...

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story veteran Diego Luna has confirmed that shooting has now wrapped for his spin-off Disney+ series Star Wars: Andor and teased the return of “familiar faces.” Speaking to Deadline in a recent interview, the Mexican actor revealed that several characters previously featured in the massively popular franchise will be making appearances in the upcoming show, possibly teasing a return for various Rogue One personalities. “You’ll definitely see familiar faces,” Luna said. “I can tell you about this project like no other because I can’t spoil the ending if you’ve seen [Rogue One] already. No matter what I say, I can’t ruin the ending.” He added that production during COVID-19 had its challenges, but shooting for the series has successfully wrapped up. “To ...

A man by the name of “Harry Potter” is now offering his extremely rare first-edition Harry Potter book on auction for more than $40,000 USD. Only 500 copies were ever printed, with 300 or so being delivered directly to schools and libraries, leaving only 200 in stores. According to Metro, an English man who shares the same name as the main protagonist in J.K. Rowling‘s massively popular book series and movie franchise Harry Potter is now auctioning off an extremely rare first-edition copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. The book was gifted to him and his sister by their father when it was first released after he had heard about it on the radio and decided to surprise his son with a book sharing his name. As the series became more famous, Potter met many who...

According to reports, WWE and MGM are now developing a reboot of American Gladiators. The duo is now reported to bringing back the classic competition series that originally ran between 1989-1996. American Gladiators was one of the original reality competition series and pitted amateur athletes against “gladiators” in a range of challenges. The reboot being developed by WWE and MGM is currently being to networks and is believed to center around a cast of new gladiators comprised of WWE wrestling superstars. Although the duo has now found a home for the reboot just yet, both WWE and MGM are expected to serve as executive producers when a deal for the show has been reached. For more entertainment news, Netflix recently delivered a trailer for its Kanye West documentary, titled Jeen-Yuhs. Rea...

Naughty Dog co-president Neil Druckmann has dropped the first image of HBO’s “The Last of Us” TV series. HBO and Naughty Dog are clearly playing their cards close to their chest, keeping the faces of both Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsay obscured, but the image clearly sets out the journey aspect of Joel and Ellie’s story. While Druckmann has previously mentioned that the rumored ten-episode first season will loosely follow the plot of the first game, the image sets an ominous tone with a crashed airplane visible in the distance. When I first saw them on set in full costume, I was like: “Hooooooly shit! It’s Joel & Ellie! ?!” The @HBO adaptation of @Naughty_Dog‘s The Last of Us is full steam ahead! Can’t wait to show you more (from all of our projects!) Happy #TLoUDay!!! pic.twitter.com/t...

R. Kelly on Monday was convicted of nine counts of racketeering and sex trafficking, which included acts constituting sexual exploitation of a child, kidnapping, bribery and violating of the Mann Act. According to CNN, the jury was made up of seven men and five women, who began deliberations on Friday. The federal trial began on August 18 in the Eastern District of New York. Kelly had pleaded not guilty to the charges. Kelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, is due to be sentenced on May 4. He now faces several decades to life in prison. According to The New York Times, prosecutors said that over the course of two decades, Kelly and his “inner circle” tried to recruit girls and young women for sexual exploitation and to produce pornography. The racketeering ch...

At its recent Tudum: A Netflix Global Fan Event, the streaming platform revealed an array of previews include the intro for its live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop. Accompanied by the show’s classic “Tank!” opening theme, the intro is inspired by original anime series. Already staying true to the costumes and set design from Shinichiro Watanabe’s 1998 anime source material, the intro is a faithful recreation that captures the rhythm of the music from original main composer Yoko Kanno. Starring John Cho as Spike Spiegel, Daniella Pineda as Faye Valentine, and Mustafa Shakir as Jet Black, the live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop was initially met with mixed feelings but with the latest previews, fans of the series have begun to change their thoughts about Netflix’s take on the beloved a...

In its latest true crime announcement, Netflix reveals Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King, a new documentary that follows a group of investors turned amateur detectives as they try to unravel the suspicious death of crypto tycoon Gerry Cotten, founder of Quadriga Fintech Solutions which operated QuadrigaCX, the largest crypto exchange in Canada at the time. Upon Cotten’s death due to Crohn’s disease in 2019, what was thought to be around $250 million USD worth of digital currency was rendered inaccessible. His wife Jennifer Robertson reported that the only person who knew the password for QuadrigaCX’s offline crypto accounts was Cotten. The over 100,000 clients who entrusted Cotten with their money were left empty-handed. Upon Quadriga’s bankruptcy, Ernst and Young were only able t...

Following its original announcement in June, Bandai Namco has now finally announced the premiere date for the upcoming anime portion of its Gundam Breaker Battlogue project. Due to release in October, the new series will feature six episodes that will stream on both the official Gundam YouTube channel and the Gundam.info website every Thursday. The series is produced by Sunrise with Gundam Build Fighters: Battlogue veteran Masami Obari direction. Yuichiro Kitaoka and So Mayumi are writing the screenplay, while character design comes from Digimon Universe: Appli Monsters‘ Kenichi Ohnuki. While plot details remain scarce at the moment, we do know that there’ll also be an accompanying video game based on the series as well as a new Gunpla line that’ll allow builders to cus...

Ahead of its November release, Riot Games and Netflix has now finally dropped the full trailer for its upcoming League of Legends animated series Arcane. Based on the massively popular MOBA from California-based video game developer, Arcane fans into the world of Runeterra where two deeply contrasting environments collide: the extravagant city of Piltover and the dark underbelly of Zaun. Focusing on the relationship between sisters Jinx and Vi, the series explores the backstory of numerous League characters in what Riot says is a standalone series created for more than just the game’s fans. “When we set out to produce Arcane, we knew that we had something really special with the story of Jinx and Vi,” says the show’s co-creator Christian Linke. “We wanted to explor...