Tag: Netflix

BEVERLY HILLS: Netflix is planning the first-ever global on-demand competition series, Ultimate Beastmaster, featuring and produced by Sylvester Stallone (Creed, Grudge Match) and producer Dave Broome (The Biggest Loser, Strong).

LONDON: Netflix and U.K. channel E4 have picked up Crazy Face, a new comedy horror series from Misfits creator Howard Overman.

BEVERLY HILLS: Netflix has picked up a Lionsgate-produced comedy series based on the 2014 indie film Dear White People.

Millennials stream more than half of their TV content and are more likely to choose Netflix over live viewing, according to a new report from Horowitz Research. The study, titled State of Cable & Digital Media 2016, found that 18- to 34-year-old TV viewers report spending 54 percent of their viewing time streaming and just 25 percent watching content live.

MEXICO CITY: Netflix has acquired The Chosen Ones (Las Elegidas) from Mundial, lining up the film for a global debut on the streaming service.

LOS GATOS: Netflix has slated 2017 for the premiere of a new original series based on the 2001 indie film Wet Hot American Summer.

BALI: Netflix’s Reed Hastings and Ted Sarandos weighed in on the ups and downs of the platform’s international expansion at a session at APOS in Bali today.

LOS GATOS: Netflix wrapped up Q1 with more than 81 million members, adding a record 6.74 million subs in the period, but the company is projecting a weaker second-quarter forecast.

SÃO PAULO: Netflix is prepping a new original series based on recent corruption investigation Operation Car Wash (Lava Jato in Portuguese) that will begin filming this year in Brazil.

BEVERLY HILLS: Netflix is making all episodes of the original anime series Perfect Bones available simultaneously in 190 countries around the world.