A Stranger Things spin-off might be on its way.
08.06.2022 - 18:29 / deadline.com
A Ghostbusters animated series is in development at Netflix, Deadline has confirmed. The project, based on the Ghostbusters IP, hails from Ghostbusters: Afterlife co-writers Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan (Ghost Corps) and Sony Pictures Animation.
Plot details are not yet known. The project was announced Wednesday, day 3 of Netflix’s Geeked Week.
Reitman and Kenan will executive produce, and production will be in conjunction with Ghost Corps, Inc.
The series is part of the expanding Ghostbusters universe, which began with Ivan Reitman’s Ghostbusters in 1984 and has since become a mega-pop culture phenomenon culminating in last year’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife.
The 1984 Ghostbusters film starred Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis as three eccentric parapsychologists who start a ghost-catching business in New York City. The film was directed and produced by Ivan Reitman (Jason Reitman’s father), and written by Aykroyd and Ramis. It earned $282M during its initial theatrical run, making it the second-highest-grossing film of 1984 in the U.S. and Canada, and went on to become the highest-grossing comedy ever.
The 2021 film Ghostbusters: Afterlife, a sequel to Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II and the fourth film in the Ghostbusters franchise, was directed by Jason Reitman and written by Reitman and Gil Kenan. It starred Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, and Paul Rudd, and featured Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, and Sigourney Weaver reprising their characters from the earlier films. Set thirty-two years after the events of Ghostbusters II, it follows a single mother and her children who move to an Oklahoma farm they inherited from her estranged father Egon Spengler, a member of the original
A Stranger Things spin-off might be on its way.
“The Dragon Master is here.” So proclaims Jack Black’s Po the Panda in the official trailer for Netflix/DreamWorks Animation’s new animated series Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight.
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Netflix has set September 30 for the premiere of Entergalactic, the adult-animated music series based on the upcoming album of the same name by rapper, singer and actor Kid Cudi. The series hails from Kenya Barris and Scott Mescudi, better known by his stage name Kid Cudi, who also stars. The date was announced Wednesday during Netflix’s Animation Showcase at the Annecy International Film Festival. You can watch the date announcement teaser above. Entergalactic will showcase music from Kid Cudi’s album. The series follows a young artist named Jabari, voiced by Mescudi, as he attempts to balance love and success. Finding the latter brings Jabari a step closer to the former, when moving into his dream apartment introduces him to his new neighbor, photographer it-girl, Meadow, voiced by Williams. An explosion of art, music, and fashion, Entergalactic takes place in the only city that can handle all three: New York.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe Netflix drama series “The Brothers Sun” has set its main cast, which includes Michelle Yeoh, Variety has learned.Yeoh will star alongside series regulars Justin Chien, Sam Song Li, Highdee Kuan, and Joon Lee. Alice Jewkin, Jon Xue Zhang, Jenny Yang, Madison Hu, and Rodney To will appear in recurring roles.The show was ordered to series at Netflix back in February with an eight-episode pickup. It is set in Los Angeles and Taiwan and features an all-Asian writers room and all-Asian cast.
Netflix and Bioware are teaming up for a new animated series titled “Dragon Age: Absolution.”The series is set in Tevinter and features an ensemble of new characters inspired by Dragon Age lore, including elves, mages, knights, Qunari, Red Templars, demons and other special surprises. A teaser for “Dragon Age: Absolution” that was released Friday, which you can watch above, doesn’t give away many details — but teases plenty of action and lore from the award-winning video games. Since debuting in 2009, the video-game franchise has brought players into the world of Thedas with rich stories, unforgettable characters, and beautiful and deadly locales to discover.
After speculation among gamers that a Dragon Age series was in the works at Netflix, the streamer has confirmed Dragon Age: Absolution, an animated series based on the popular Bioware video game franchise, will premiere in December. We’re also getting a first look at the series in the trailer above. Netflix and Bioware announced the series Friday during the streamer’s Geeked Week event.
There’s no shortage of “Stranger Things” on Netflix thanks to the hit series’ massive fourth season, which was split into two volumes. After the first seven episodes were released on the streaming platform during Memorial Day weekend, the final two episodes will debut on July 1, just ahead of the Independence Day weekend. With just three weeks to go, Netflix released the first trailer for “Volume 2” during the streaming platform’s weeklong Geeked Week event.
Ghostbusters animated movie and series have been announced.In a series of announcements to mark Ghostbusters Day (June 8), an animated feature film “with all new characters and a whole new take” was revealed to be in the works.The untitled film for Sony Pictures Animation will be directed by Jennifer Kluska (Hotel Transylvania 2) and Chris Prynoski (Beavis And Butt-Head Do America), with a script written by Brenda Hsueh (How I Met Your Mother).A Ghostbusters animated series is also in development at Netflix from Sony Pictures Animation, with Ghostbusters: Afterlife writers Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan serving as executive producers. No writer is attached to the project yet.A new animated #Ghostbusters feature is in development with all new characters and a whole new take – helmed by #JenniferKluska and @ChrisPrynoski, and written by #BrendaHsueh.
on Netflix thanks to the hit series’ massive fourth season, which was split into two volumes. After the first seven episodes were released on the streaming platform during Memorial Day weekend, the final two episodes will debut on July 1, just ahead of the Independence Day weekend.
Ellise Shafer Big news for “Ghostbusters” fans: the franchise is in development on an animated film, and the sequel to “Afterlife” is returning to the original films’ home of New York City.Several announcements were delivered by Sony Pictures and Ghost Corps’ Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan as part of Ghostbusters Day, the annual celebration of the first “Ghostbusters” film’s release on June 8, 1984. The new animated film is based on “Ghosbusters” IP and being developed by Jason Reitman and Kenan along with Sony Pictures Animation.
The announcement was made on the Sony Pictures lot by “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” director Jason Reitman and his writing partner Gil Kenan Wednesday as part of “Ghostbusters Day,” a special event commemorating the anniversary of the original 1984 “Ghostbusters” release. As teased by the post-credit sequence in “Afterlife,” the sequel will see the series return to the Ghostbusters’ original headquarters in a New York City firehouse, where Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson) is seen driving the Ecto-1 back to its first home.
On the heels of the newly announced Ghostbusters toon series in the works at Netfilx comes word of an animated feature based on the 38-year-old IP.
We’re getting the first look at Netflix’s anticipated anime series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners based on the Cyberpunk 2077 video game. The streamer unveiled the teaser trailer on Day 3 of its Geeked Week. Netflix also announced the series will premiere in September.
The “Ghostbusters” franchise is expanding into the animated realm. Again.Netflix announced on Wednesday that the streamer and Sony Pictures Animation are developing an all-new “Ghostbusters” animated series to debut exclusively on Netflix.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterA new “Ghostbusters” animated series is in development at Netflix, Variety has learned exclusively. The series hails from Sony Pictures Animation, with Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan of Ghost Corps, Inc. onboard as executive producers.
It has been one week since Stranger Things season four (part 1) was released on Netflix, and to celebrate, we’ve unearthed the salary information for the principal cast members.
Some Stranger Things fans see a mystery behind the mysteries of the show’s fourth season.
Stranger Things cast today, the kids we knew and loved in 2016 are so grown up it's crazy.WATCH: Stranger Things season four trailerThe iconic Netflix show just released the first half of its fourth season and fans are losing their minds over how much the series' child stars have matured.From Millie Bobby Brown, who has turned into a young woman before our very eyes, to Finn Wolfhard, who just keeps getting taller, the young cast have gone through some major transformations.READ NEXT: Here's everything we know about Bridgerton's third seasonAnd if you thought it was obvious on the show, just wait until you compare these photos of the cast on their first red carpet and the most recent 2022 show premieres.The kids are all grown up and we feel positively ancient.