Manifest is proving to be an asset for Netflix. The sci-fi drama debuted the first half its fourth and final season on the streamer on Friday, easily making its way to the No. 1 spot on last week’s Top 10 list.
20.10.2022 - 00:21 / deadline.com
Heartbreak High is coming back for a second session.
Netflix has renewed the reboot of the classic Australian comedy drama for a second season.
The show, which is produced by Fremantle Australia and NewBe, launched on September 14 and amassed over 42.6M hours viewed in its first three week, putting it in Netflix’s top ten lists.
It originally aired in Australia between 1994 and 1996 on Network Ten and between 1997 and 1999 on ABC Australia as well as having a big fan base in the UK.
The reboot, which comes from Hannah Carroll Chapman, stars Asher Yasbincek, Gemma Chua-Tran, Josh Heuston, James Majoos, Chloe Hayden, Ayesha Madon, Sherry-Lee Watson, Will McDonald, Bryn Chapman-Parish, Brodie Townsend, Thomas Weatherall and Chika Ikogwe
It follows the kids at a fictional high school.
Production is set to resume in Sydney.
Manifest is proving to be an asset for Netflix. The sci-fi drama debuted the first half its fourth and final season on the streamer on Friday, easily making its way to the No. 1 spot on last week’s Top 10 list.
Netflix has landed feature rights to Seesaw Monster — a 2019 book by Kotaro Isaka, whose novel Maria Beetle was recently adapted into the David Leitch actioner Bullet Train for Sony, starring Brad Pitt.
Anne Hathaway and Salma Hayek Pinault are teaming up to star in and produce action-comedy “Seesaw Monster.” Netflix acquired the rights to the book by Kotaro Isaka (the author of “Bullet Train”), with Olivia Milch (“Ocean’s Eight”) attached to adapt the screenplay.While plot details are being kept under wraps, Hathaway and Hayek Pinault will play enemies forced to work together in an action comedy two-hander. Joining the pair on the producing side are Akiva Goldsman and Gregory Lessans for Weed Road Pictures, and “Bullet Train” producers Ryosuke Saegusa and Yuma Terada for CTB Inc.
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is entering into a strategic partnership with Japanese production company The Seven, owned by leading broadcaster TBS Holdings, which will produce multiple original live-action titles for the streamer over the next five years.
Ryan Murphy has another anthology after Netflix ordered two additional installments of his Monster franchise following the success of Dahmer.
Guy Ritchie is set to reunite with longtime collaborator Vinnie Jones (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch) in Netflix’s The Gentlemen, a TV series inspired by Ritchie’s 2019 Miramax film. Jones joins the cast alongside Kaya Scodalerio (Crawl), Giancarlo Esposito (Better Call Saul), Daniel Ings (I Hate Suzie), Joely Richardson (Lady Chatterley’s Lover) and Peter Serafinowicz (The Tick).
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has greenlit a second season of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman.
Netflix is heading back in to the wild with a major new natural history push.
EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker David E. Talbert and his wife and producing partner Lyn Sisson-Talbert have appointed veteran entertainment exec Jim Miller as Head of Film at their production company Golden Alchemy Entertainment, at the same time bringing on Tessie Goodrich as Vice President of Development.
EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker David E. Talbert and his wife and producing partner Lyn Sisson-Talbert have appointed veteran entertainment exec Jim Miller as Head of Film at their production company Golden Alchemy Entertainment, at the same time bringing on Tessie Goodrich as Vice President of Development.
“Ozark” only just ended earlier this year, but Jason Bateman already has another project with Netflix on deck. Deadline reports that Bateman will team up with Jude Law for “Black Rabbit,” a one-hour limited series for the streamer.
EXCLUSIVE: Jason Bateman and Jude Law have teamed to develop Black Rabbit, a one-hour limited series for Netflix, Deadline has learned. Both are attached to star and executive produce and Bateman is set to direct. The drama hails from Bateman and Michael Costigan’s Aggregate Films, Law and Ben Jackson’s Riff Raff Entertainment, Zach Baylin and Kate Susman’s Youngblood Pictures and Automatik Entertainment.
The band has a new home: Girls5eva is moving to Netflix from rival streamer Peacock for its third season.
The Upshaws will be back for a third go-round. Netflix has renewed the comedy series from Regina Hicks and Wanda Sykes for a third season.
Discovering if love is blind or blurry. Bartise Bowden has been caught in a messy love triangle on Love Is Blind season 3.
Netflix has added a disclaimer to the description for its latest The Crown trailer following a difficult couple of weeks for the royal series.
EXCLUSIVE: Garret Dillahunt (Sprung) has joined the third and final season of Netflix’s acclaimed dark comedy series Dead to Me, debuting on the platform on November 17, as a recurring guest star.
Strong words. Judi Dench slammed Netflix’s “completely inaccurate” portrayal of the royal family in the upcoming season of The Crown.