With nearly 150 million subscribers around the world, Netflix has a commanding lead in the streaming wars. But it’s also facing heavy competition from deep-pocketed conglomerates like Disney, Apple, and AT&T, and an ongoing wave of narrow, targeted streaming sites like CBS All Access and DC Universe, which can draw on popular existing franchises for original content. As fewer companies are willing to license out their films and shows to other streaming sites, Netflix is pouring billions of dollars annually into its own original content. Follow along with The Verge as we look at Netflix’s new films and shows, its evolving strategies against new entrants in the market, and how it’s leveraging its technological and marketing lead.
During an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Sarandos was asked which series he wished Netflix produced:
I love The Bear. I wish that was one of ours. Ted Lasso spoke to the time really well. People were looking for something light and fun, and it was just that.
You can check out the full interview below.
Netflix has renewed Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft for a second season that will follow as Lara (Hayley Atwell) “discovers a trail of stolen African Orisha masks.” Sounds like the show might be gesturing towards a bit of Britain’s real-world history of looting the continent.
“Slide rows of scrambled letters to spell words in this thought-provoking word puzzle game from TED,” according to the App Store description for the new game, TED Tumblewords. Seems like the game is trying to be Netflix’s Wordle.
The new game is set to launch on November 19th on Android and iOS, though you’ll need a Netflix subscription to be able to play it.
It’s one thing for Netflix to split Arcane’s upcoming final season into a three-part event, but the streamer has some nerve to keep dropping these banger trailers so close to the show’s return next month.
It’s been a good long while since Wallace and his good friend Gromit help put noted criminal Feathers McGraw in jail at the end of Aardman’s The Wrong Trousers. But in the new trailer for Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl — out January 3, 2025 — the villanous penguin seems to finally be free from his lengthy imprisonment and dead set on striking back at the rubes who put him away.
Into every generation, a(t least one) fictional girl destined to save the world from demons is born, and the latest addition to the Buffy-inspired canon comes by way of Echo Wu’s Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld.
The show hits Netflix on December 5th.
Netflix’s Greek myth-inspired drama Kaos seemed like it had quite a bit (like Jeff Goldblum) going for it, but Variety reports that the show has been canceled after just one season.
Remember when Joe and Anthony Russo snatched up the rights to adapt Simon Stålenhag’s The Electric State?
Netflix does, and the streamer has just released a handful of new images from from the movie, which tells the story of “a young woman (played by Millie Bobby Brown) who embarks on a perilous journey across the robot-ravaged US, accompanied by a mysterious toy robot and a roguish smuggler (Chris Pratt).”
Well, it will soon, at least. The latest teaser for Squid Game season 2 shows everyone’s favorite face slapper getting ready for a long day at work. The new season drops on Netflix on December 26th.
If Seong Gi-hun / Player 456 (Lee Jung-jae) had just walked away with his winnings, his life might be peaceful, but in this teaser from Squid Game’s upcoming second season, there’s an entire army of Masked Men that seem hellbent on killing him.
While Netflix has yet to officially announce who will be voicing / portraying Tony Tony Chopper in the second season of its live-action One Piece adaptation, the (CGI) anthropomorphic reindeer makes a brief appearance in this new behind-the-scenes video.
We already knew the third entry in the series would be a Netflix exclusive, but this new clip also teases an animated short set in the Monument Valley universe.
Despite reports that Netflix’s animated Magic: The Gathering series might have been on the chopping block, the streamer announced during this year’s Geeked Week that the project is still in production with showrunner Terry Matalas at the helm.
That seems to be the premise behind the mobile game spinoff Squid Game: Unleashed, which is “a 32-player party royale showdown featuring challenges fans will recognize from the hit series.” It’ll be available for subscribers later this year.
We have no idea what it is or what it will look like, but the streamer has confirmed that it’s working with CD Projekt Red on some kind of follow up to the excellent anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. “More info coming soon,” Netflix says.
It’s a video game! Netflix is expanding Zack Snyder’s sci-fi opus with a mobile title called Blood Line. It’s described as an “online co-operative action game takes on the role of a rebel, picking between a variety of classes to join a covert rebellion that’s fighting to take back their planet from the tyrannical Motherworld.” It’s launching in 2025.
It’s not the trailer fans were probably hoping for, but Netflix did at least release (another) behind the scenes clip for the upcoming fifth and final season of Stranger Things. The long wait continues.
Netflix’s Geeked Week has been pretty quiet so far, but that’s likely to change during a live event tonight. The main show starts at 8PM ET (there’s a pre-show happening at 7:30PM ET), and you can follow along with the biggest announcements right here. Expect the big names like Squid Game and Arcane to make appearances.
As promised, the first entry in the gorgeous puzzle game series is available for subscribers today on both iOS and Android. And there’s more coming: Monument Valley 2 hits the service on October 29th, while the recently announced third game will be a Netflix exclusive when it launches on December 10th.
Starting 5, which focuses on Jimmy Butler, Anthony Edwards, LeBron James, Domantas Sabonis, and Jayson Tatum, hits Netflix on October 9th.
Woman of the Hour — Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut inspired by serial killer Rodney Alcala’s 1978 appearance on The Dating Game — was one of the most intriguing films to premiere at TIFF in 2023. And it’s finally making its way to Netflix on October 18th.
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin was one of my favorite movies at Sundance this year. It’s a doc that tells the story of a tragically short life, and the film largely takes place inside World of Warcraft. You can watch it for yourself on Netflix on October 25th.
