Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Netflix’s anime take on Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novels, looks great translated to moving pictures in its first full trailer.
Netflix posted to its YouTube channel yesterday. This one focuses more on the show’s fights than the August teaser. You can tell because it uses that one song from Mortal Kombat. Except with new words and stuff.
Talks between SAG-AFTRA and the studios to end the union’s ongoing strike were derailed on Wednesday evening. One area of contention was the actor’s union request for viewership bonuses.
Sarandos defended the studios, calling the bonuses “a bridge too far to add deep into the negotiations right now,” in a conversation with Bloomberg journalist Lucas Shaw on Thursday morning at the Screentime conference in Los Angeles.
Netflix announced the release date on Wednesday evening, and you can read more about the adaptation in this post on Netflix’s website from July 2022.
Hopefully it turns out as well as Netflix’s One Piece, which will be getting more episodes at some point in the future.
Star Trek Prodigy has completed its voyage home, landing safely on Netflix. The adorable kid-friendly Star Trek series aired one season on Paramount + and Nickelodeon starting in late 2021, but got the axe this June despite having its second season largely in the can.
Trek fans, being not new to this problem, launched a fan campaign over the summer begging other streamers, including Netflix, to take up the mantle — and, apparently, won. Prodigy’s first season will hit Netflix later this year, and my 10-year-old can continue shipping Dal and Gwyn with new episodes launching sometime in 2024.
Flanagan’s latest Netflix series returns to horror-tinged family drama, but with a larger scope.
Netflix’s big crime drama starts streaming on October 27th, and while it’s a pretty uneven movie — check out my thoughts from TIFF last month — it does feature some strong performances from stars Emily Blunt and Chris Evans. You can get a brief taste of that in the new trailer below.
Netflix no longer ships DVDs, but you can remember the red shipping envelopes forever by buying a themed $50 sleeping bag. Netflix says you can pre-order it now ahead of shipping in late October.
Jeremi Gorman, who joined Netflix from Snap last year, is departing the company, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Shortly after Gorman left Snap, Netflix launched its ad-supported tier, which had nearly 5 million global monthly active users as of May. Gorman will be replaced by Amy Reinhard, who has been at Netflix for seven years.
Netflix also made two big promotions: Elizabeth Stone has become its chief technology officer, while Eunice Kim is now the company’s chief product officer. (Greg Peters, who became a co-CEO of Netflix earlier this year, was once the company’s CPO.)
