Alton Brown is one of the Food Network’s fan favorite celebrity chefs, however, he recently made the decision to leave the channel and head to Netflix to host
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Things are heating up in the “Iron Chef” kitchen.Netflix announced Wednesday that the latest series in the cooking franchise, “Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend” will debut June 15. The series will see five new Iron Chefs welcome their Challengers to the reimagined Kitchen Stadium, where they’ll face off and be pushed to the limits of endurance and creativity, as they cook up extraordinary culinary creations.
The competition’s most successful Challenger will return to battle in a grand finale for the chance to be named the first-ever “Iron Legend.”A trailer for the upcoming series, which you can watch above, promises plenty of innovation and exploding flavors in the recipes that each chef will whip up. “Nobody does what I do,” says Marcus Samuelsson, one of the Iron Chefs returning to the series.
The others are Curtis Stone, Dominique Crenn, Ming Tsai and Gabriela Cámara.Andrew Zimmern and Nilou Motamed will judge. Throughout the season, fans can also expect guest judges including Francis Lam, Nancy Silverton, Justin Willman, Danny Trejo, Lorena Garcia, Loni Love, Wolfgang Puck and Masaharu Morimoto.“Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend” will be the “toughest culinary challenge a chef will ever experience,” according to Netflix, which added: “This is where world-class cuisine meets high-octane sports.”In addition to “Quest,” Netflix will also be releasing “Iron Chef Mexico” and “Iron Chef Brazil” this year.
.Alton Brown is one of the Food Network’s fan favorite celebrity chefs, however, he recently made the decision to leave the channel and head to Netflix to host
Earlier this week, Efron also joined Nicole Kidman and Joey King in an untitled romantic comedy for Netflix that Richard LaGravanese will direct.Netflix’s logline for the film reads “A surprising romance kicks off comic consequences for a young woman, her mother and her movie star boss as they face the complications of love, sex, and identity.”Efron is currently starring in the “Firestarter” remake for Universal. His other credits include “The Greatest Beer Run Ever,” “The Greatest Showman,” “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile.” Efron is repped by WME and Johnson, Shapiro, Slewett & Kole and Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman.Deadline first reported the news.
EXCLUSIVE: Days after announcing his next star studded comedy at Netflix, Zac Efron is continuing to build up his diversified slate as he is set to star in A24’s The Iron Claw, the latest drama from writer-director Sean Durkin. A24 is set to finance and produce the pic with Durkin writing and directing. Producing alongside A24 are Tessa Ross, Derrin Schlesinger and Harrison Huffman. The film was developed by House Productions, with the support of Access Entertainment, and BBC Films.
in 2012, Kristen Kish has become a fixture in the culinary world as well as on TV thanks to her longtime success in the kitchen and, more recently, as one of three chefs featured on TruTV's cooking competition show, . Now, Kish is teaming up with Alton Brown to co-host Netflix’s revival of, the famed Japanese cooking competition series. Although “the original is iconic in its own way,” Kish tells ET that when “you put it on Netflix, it just becomes bigger.
Netflix is set to transform its biggest hit show into “the biggest reality competition series ever,” titled Squid Game: The Challenge.The streaming giants officially confirmed the record-breaking Korean survival drama has been renewed for season two on Sunday (June 12). The series, which premiered on the platform last year, became the most-viewed original title in Netflix history within 12 days of its release.Now, boasting both the largest cast and lump sum cash prize in reality TV history, 456 real players will enter the game, with the chance to win a staggering $4.56million (£3.65million).According to a press release, contestants will take part in a series of games inspired by the original show – as well as “surprising new additions” – in a variety of contests, with the opportunity to forge alliances and develop potential winning strategies to survive.Naturally, however, elimination will not be quite as brutal in The Challenge as it is in the violent drama.
If you have ever wanted to play “Squid Game” without fear of plummeting to your death or getting stabbed by your bunkmate, you are in luck.
Selome Hailu Netflix has greenlit “Squid Game: The Challenge,” a reality competition series based on the hit 2021 South Korean drama.The news came from Bela Bajaria, Netflix’s head of global TV, at the Banff World Media Festival on Tuesday. According to Netflix, “Squid Game: The Challenge” will be “the biggest reality competition series ever,” hosting the largest cast and offering the largest lump sum cash prize in reality television history as 456 players compete for $4.56 million.Contestants will go through a series of games inspired by the original show, plus new additions, which are all intended to test their strategies, alliances and character as others are eliminated around them.
Dakota Johnson is the latest actress to embody one of Jane Austen’s leading ladies in the trailer for the upcoming Netflix adaptation of “Persuasion.”Johnson plays Anne Elliot, an overlooked middle daughter who is nonetheless incredibly insightful and clever — if easily persuaded. Surrounded by her entitled relatives, she is on her own when faced with the return of the dashing, self-made Captain Frederick Wentworth (Cosmo Jarvis), with whom she broke off her engagement nearly a decade prior at the behest of those around her deeming it a degrading match.The trailer, which you can watch above, is full of heartfelt and also hilarious moments as Johnson’s Anne navigates her rekindling romance, as well as the emergence of a potential new romance with William Elliot (Henry Golding). It’s by no means easy, but Anne is determined to figure it out without letting other people’s opinions cloud her judgment this time.
Emilio Mayorga Alberto Vázquez’s “Unicorn Wars” is an Annecy competition frontrunner. “They Shot the Piano Player,” from Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal, weighs in as one of the festival’s most anticipated works in progress.A bevy of Annecy MIFA unveils and score of Spanish titles, sometimes sneak peeked at other events, form part of a historic growth on Spain’s animation scene.At March’s Cartoon Movie, only France had a larger number of titles than Spain.
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 unknown stalks, you must escape:” is the tagline from the trailer for the forthcoming Spanish-language miniseries “El Refugio” (“The Shelter”), which portrays one family’s odyssey against a force of nature they aren’t even sure exists. As a vacationing family begins to witness bizarre events on television, such as mass military mobilization, they find that their home in the Mexican countryside is untouched, “nothing seems to be happening.” The family’s locale is calm, offering the various pleasantries a springtime vacation carries.
With gorgeous animation provided by Sony ImageWorks, utilizing some of the same tools that brought “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” and “The Mitchells vs. the Machines” to the screen, and a cast that also includes Jared Harris, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Dan Stevens and Kathy Burke, “The Sea Beast” could be a solid sleeper this summer.
Thania Garcia For Adrian Quesada, co-founder of the psychedelic soul duo Black Pumas, all it took was the stillness of the pandemic to finally create the project that had existed only in his head for the last 10-plus years — his latest release, “Boleros Psicodélicos.”The 12-track album, out today via ATO Records, is infused with the multi-instrumentalist’s admiration for the golden era of romantic bolero music that continues to transcend cultural borders today. Bolero ballads first manifested throughout Latin America in the late ’60s and early ’70s, with elements of instrumental experimentation that would go on to influence future generations like electric guitars with an influx of added reverb, the electric organ, harpsichord strings and the mellotron.