It’s time to have a look again at a number of the greatest Netflix tales of the previous week and diving into what we’ve been studying over the previous week. Right here’s a recap of the largest Netflix headlines from the previous week.
Earlier than we dig into the information, in case you’re in search of what’s new, Netflix US acquired 85 new releases over the past 7 days and you can even discover a recap of Netflix UK, Netflix Canada, and Netflix Australia by way of their respective classes.
Monday, March 29th
- Peter Berg alongside together with his manufacturing firm Movie 44 signed a first-look deal with Netflix.
- Amy Poehler who has produced two titles for Netflix (Moxie and Wine Nation) is returning for an animated comedy known as Steps. Right here’s what you may count on: “In a spin on the basic Cinderella story, two stepsisters are ignored for marriage by the Prince and embark on an epic journey, realizing that their very own good fairytales may be totally different from what they initially thought.”
- Netflix mistakenly added the Lucifer season 5b launch date a bit too early for Might 28th after which later introduced it formally.
Tuesday, March 30th
Wednesday, March 31st
- Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw posted about Universal currently mulling over the decision arising for his or her first window rights and the place it’ll head subsequent. HBO at the moment has the primary window rights for the live-action content material whereas Netflix will get animated options.
- The most important information merchandise this week is the truth that Netflix is getting two sequels to Knives Out with each Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig returning. Maybe the larger story was the eye-watering quantity spent on it. It’s believed $450 million was the worth tag for each films. This sparked loads of debate as as to if it’s definitely worth the cash. Cue an awesome analogy from EntStrategyGuy.
In each instances–Knicks and Netlfix–the belongings are precious. Amare was good. Knives Out was good.
Have been they value max contracts? See, that is the place the rubber hits the street.
— The Leisure Technique Man (@EntStrategyGuy) April 2, 2021
- Netflix carried out nicely on the Nielsen prime 10 this week which reported viewing figures between March 1st and March seventh with Ginny & Georgia persevering with its domination from the week earlier (possible spurred on by a Tweet from Taylor Swift). Legal Thoughtss received the acquired prime spot however Prime Video beat Netflix with Coming 2 America scoring 1,413 million minutes. Netflix got here second with Bigfoot Household with 363 million minutes watched.
Friday, April 2nd
- Bridgerton season 2 is quickly to begin manufacturing and won’t see the return of Regé-Jean Web page who, in many individuals’s eyes, made the collection what it was. As Selection revealed, he was solely signed on for a single-season arc and has opted to not return regardless of his character that includes in many of the subsequent books.
- The Witcher had lots of information this week (Redanian Intelligence shall be filling you in on all that sooner or later) together with the very fact season 2 wrapped filming. That is vital because it was one of the publicized collection that was disrupted on account of COVID-19.
Sunday, April 4th
- Ma Rainey’s Black Backside continues its award dominance scooping one of the major prizes from the MUAHS Guild Awards
- Netflix Anime hosted a two-hour particular their upcoming anime slate. It wasn’t very announcement heavy with many of the focus masking the tales of every of the already introduced exhibits.
What we’ve been studying / Odds and ends
Rumor of the Week
Large Freaking Robotic reported that Netflix is working on a Bioshock series. We’ve heard this being in improvement (or presumably being purchased in) beforehand too. We heard totally different names tossed round as to who would helm the challenge (The Duffer Brothers being one in every of them). Netflix is investing huge in video-game IP so time will inform if it’s true.