Tag: Netflix

TORONTO: Margaret Atwood's award-winning novel Alias Grace is being turned into a six-hour miniseries by Noreen Halpern's Halfire Entertainment for CBC and Netflix.

BOGOTÁ: Netflix has signed a licensing agreement for two in-development series from Colombia’s Caracol Televisión, including a Pablo Escobar drama.

LONDON: Netflix has signed on as a co-production partner for the second season of the BBC Two drama The Last Kingdom, from Carnival Films.

AMSTERDAM: Divines, a critically acclaimed French drama from this year's Cannes Film Festival, is one of several titles slated to launch on Netflix around the globe.

MUMBAI: Netflix is adapting the best-selling novel Sacred Games by Indian author Vikram Chandra as an original Hindi-English series.

SINGAPORE: The new original Japanese drama series Midnight Diner will premiere on Netflix this October simultaneously to 190 countries worldwide.

AMSTERDAM: Netflix has acquired the global rights, excluding Benelux, for the Dutch World War II thriller Riphagen.

BEVERLY HILLS: Edha, a new series from director Daniel Burman (El Abrazo Partido, El Rey del Once, Supermax), marks Netflix's first original filmed entirely in Argentina.

NEW YORK: Netflix and the recently established Univision Story House are co-producing the new drama El Chapo, based on the life story of the notorious drug kingpin.

NEW YORK: As part of a cross-promotion partnership, Netflix's original series Narcos will air on Univision Network in the run-up to the global debut of the second season on the streaming service.