EXCLUSIVE: Popular Japanese comedian and America’s Got Talent contestant Yuriyan Retriever is to lead Netflix Japan series The Queen of Villains.
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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefOutdoor adventurer Bear Grylls has teamed up with Bollywood star Ranveer Singh for interactive adventure reality special “Ranveer vs Wild with Bear Grylls.”Singh takes off on a date with nature, fending for himself and learning new survival skills as he ventures into the depths of the wild to find a rare flower for his lady love in the harsh forests of Serbia. Viewers get to pick the course of his escapades.The show is produced by Banijay Asia in association with Grylls and Delbert Shoopman’s The Natural Studios.
It launches on Netflix on July 8, 2022. The company Friday released a trailer.“ ‘Ranveer vs Wild’ is a huge step in pushing the envelope of interactive reality TV.
While the world is familiar with Ranveer’s electrifying spirit and adventurous side, with this show, we’ll see the best of both sides coming out as he embarks on his quest for love,” said Deepak Dhar, founder and CEO of Banijay Asia. Continuing the survival theme, Netflix is also launching “Physical: 100,” a reality show from Korea featuring 100 contestants in a competition of physical ability.
The survival game will assemble a hundred contestants, regardless of gender or age, not only to deliver professional expertise in physique, but also engage in tough survival and psychological games.“Physical 100” is co-produced by MBC and Luyworks Media (“Street Woman Fighter”). The production team includes: art director Yoo Jae-heon, who has created concert stages for BTS and Blackpink, and participated in the design of the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics; costume designer Choi Se-yeon of “Broker”, “Parasite High” and “Okja”; and music director Kim Sung-soo, who arranged the music for Netflix hit “Squid
.EXCLUSIVE: Popular Japanese comedian and America’s Got Talent contestant Yuriyan Retriever is to lead Netflix Japan series The Queen of Villains.
EXCLUSIVE: Alice Eve (Belgravia), Shelley Hennig (Unfriended) and Antonio Banderas (Pain and Glory) have signed on to star in Jon Keeyes’ thriller The Last Girl for Yale Entertainment, which will head into production in Ireland this summer.
The family business. Kyle Richards‘ husband, Mauricio Umansky, and her daughters will star in a new reality series for Netflix.
Netflix is giving fans a first look at their upcoming limited series, Keep Breathing!
Two actors on the Netflix series “The Chosen One” died during a horrific car crash in Mexico that also resulted in six production members injured.
Netflix series died during a horrific car crash in Mexico that also resulted in six production members injured.The Baja California Department of Culture also revealed on Friday that Raymundo Garduño Cruz and Juan Francisco González Aguilar are the two actors who died in the crash.According to multiple reports, the crash happened Thursday as the actors and crew traveled near Mulege on the Baja California Sur peninsula. It's unclear at this time what led to the van they were riding in to crash, but reports say the van flipped over after running off the road in a desert area.
Sweet Home will be returning for two more seasons.The streaming service broke the news through a short visual released earlier today (June 15), along with a description that reads: “Die as a human or live as a monster. They’re taking the fight outside.”Netflix added that cast members Song Kang (who plays Hyun-soo), Lee Jin-wook (who plays Sang-wook), Lee Si-young (who plays Yi-kyung), Go Min-si (who plays Eun-yoo) and Park Gyu-young (who plays Ji-soo) are set to reprise their roles for the coming seasons.In addition to the show’s original cast, the upcoming seasons will also introduce characters played by Yoo Oh-seong (My Country: The New Age), Oh Jung-se (It’s Okay to Not Be Okay), Kim Moo-yeol (Juvenile Justice) and former B1A4 member Jung Jin-young.Lee Eung-bok, who directed the first season of Sweet Home, is also set to helm the K-drama’s new seasons.
The new “Hunger Games” movie is shaping up, with Lionsgate revealing new casting information for the upcoming “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”.
The dystopian drama “Squid Game” was such an enormous hit, it’s not a surprise that Netflix is turning the deadly game within the show into an actual competition — minus the killings, of course.Netflix announced on Tuesday that they are launching “Squid Game: The Challenge,” in which 456 real players will enter the game for a chance to win $4.56 million. “As they compete through a series of games inspired by the original show – plus surprising new additions – their strategies, alliances, and character will be put to the test while competitors are eliminated around them,” the Netflix logline reads.
Netflix has set an all-star ensemble for its new untitled romcom as sources tell Deadline Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron and Joey King are set to star in the pic, with Behind The Candelabra writer Richard LaGravenese directing. LaGravenese co-wrote the script with Carrie Solomon while Joe Roth, Jeff Kirschenbaum and Alyssa Altman producing for Roth/Kirschenbaum Films.
Netflix’s The Brothers Sun has found its leads.
Squid Game, which tapped into our societal dystopia and became ever, has gotten the green light for a second season. In a letter to fans, show creator Hwang Dong-hyuk confirmed that “a whole new round is coming,” before tossing out some breadcrumbs for what the next installment may entail.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.“It took 12 years to bring the first season of Squid Game to life last year,” Hwang began.
When Adam DiVello first pitched Selling Sunset to Netflix, the plan wasn’t to turn an unscripted show about The Oppenheim Group—a high-end real estate firm in West Hollywood—into something akin to the Real Housewives franchise.
Angelique Jackson Comedian David A. Arnold is back on Netflix with a new special, “It Ain’t for the Weak!”Produced by Kevin Hart’s Hartbeat, the comedy special will launch globally on July 19 and follows his 2019 Netflix debut, “Fat Ballerina.”“It Ain’t For The Weak!” taped earlier this year at The Hanna Theater in Arnold’s hometown of Cleveland, OH.
Bollywood star Ranveer Singh is heading into the harsh forests of Serbia with adventurer Bear Grylls in an interactive special for Netflix India.
Bob Saget‘s wife, Kelly Rizzo, beautifully pays homage to the late comedian in the upcoming Netflix special “Dirty Daddy: The Bob Saget Tribute”.
Bob Saget's wife, Kelly Rizzo, beautifully pays homage to the late comedian in the upcoming Netflix special .While the night was filled with tons of lighthearted moments — like when Jim Carey told Rizzo to keep it short when she was called up to the stage — there were also some gut-wrenching moments. It's all part of the special that was filmed at the famed Comedy Store in West Hollywood, which premieres globally when it streams Friday on Netflix.Rizzo grew emotional onstage recalling the outpouring of support she and the Saget family received from his legion of fans from all over the world. She also recalled just how much The Comedy Store meant to the star.«He loved being a part of this.
Sasha Urban editorFans of fairytale origins got a first look at the stars of “The School for Good And Evil” on Tuesday, after a teaser was debuted during Netflix’s Geeked Week event. Sofia Wylie and Sophia Anne Caruso star as Agatha and Sophie, respectively, two best friends who are kidnapped and placed in the School for Good and Evil and must find their way back home.“Did you ever wonder where every great fairytale begins?,” Charlize Theron, who plays Lady Lesso, asks in the teaser.
EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Silverman has joined the ensemble of the upcoming Netflix Leonard Bernstein pic Maestro, which has Bradley Cooper directing and starring as the iconic composer. If a deal closes, Bomer joins Carey Mulligan, who will play Bernstein’s wife Felicia as well as Matt Bomer and Maya Hawke. Pic will be produced by Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg,, Kristie Macosko Krieger and Fred Berner and Amy Durning. Sources say Silverman will play Bernstein’s sister in the film.