Netflix’s record-breaking series Squid Game will hit a pair of movie theaters in Los Angeles and New York later this month as the streamer ramps up its awards campaigning for the Korean series.
21.01.2022 - 04:25 / etcanada.com
“Squid Game” has been given the green light for season 2.
Netflix co-CEO and chief content officer Ted Sarandos confirmed the news during the streaming company’s fourth quarter 2021 earnings interview.
“The ‘Squid Game’ universe has just begun,” he said, according to Variety.
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Meanwhile, “Squid Game” creator Hwang Dong-hyuk previously said that lead actor Lee Jung-jae will return as the show’s main character, Seong Gi-hun.
Season 1 of “Squid Game” premiered on Sept. 17 2021, and became an immediate global hit for Netflix. The critically acclaimed show was the top-viewed program in 94 countries, according to the streaming service, and is officially its most-watched series.
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The show follows a group of desperate and indebted people who compete in grownup versions of schoolyard games from childhood, lured by the chance to win $45.6 billion Korean won (approximately $48 million Canadian), not realizing that while winning brings big bucks, losing results in a violent, painful death.
Netflix’s record-breaking series Squid Game will hit a pair of movie theaters in Los Angeles and New York later this month as the streamer ramps up its awards campaigning for the Korean series.
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeRed light, klieg lights: “Squid Game” is hitting the big screen. As Screen Actors Guild Award voting continues, Netflix is screening the Korean-language thriller via two-night theater engagements in both New York and Los Angeles.The first season of “Squid Game” will be screened over two successive Saturday afternoons, on Feb. 12 and Feb.
Mónica Marie Zorrilla “Lucifer,” “Squid Game,” “Luca” and “CoComelon” were among the most popular programming titles on streaming services in 2021 for Black, Asian and Hispanic viewers, Nielsen Analytics found. Other SVOD winners with these three demographic groups were Disney Plus’ “Moana” and “Raya and the Last Dragon” and Netflix’s “Manifest,” “Criminal Minds” and “You” across the categories of original, acquired and movie content.“Squid Game” was a standout on the originals list, as it was one of the most popular programs with Asian, Hispanic and African American viewers. Crunching the demographic data even further, Nielsen researchers found that in Asian households, the Korean-language version of the dystopian, anti-capitalist thriller garnered 45% viewing, and generated one-third of its viewing minutes in Hispanic households.
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Squid Game.During Netflix’s fourth-quarter earnings call, held yesterday (January 20), Sarandos, who also chief content officer at Netflix, announced that a second season of the platform’s hit K-drama series Squid Game has been ordered by Netflix and is currently in the works, per Variety.In addition, Sarandos also described Squid Game’s highly anticipated continuation as the beginning of something big for the series. “The Squid Game universe has just begun,” teased the Netflix head.
The press agent was in a dour mood. “Once upon a time this was the hot season,” she told me. “The town came to life.”
Hwang Dong-hyuk that would be back for a new installment. «Absolutely,» he said on the call, as reports. «The universe has begun.»A move for more comes after Netflix crowned the international phenomenon, led by storied Korean actor Lee Jung-jae, as its biggest and most popular original series ever. The streamer said last fall that in the first 28 days of release since its Sept.
“The Squid Game universe has just begun.”
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorIt’s official: “Squid Game,” Netflix’s breakout hit of 2021, will be getting a season 2, co-CEO and chief content officer Ted Sarandos affirmed.On Netflix’s fourth quarter 2021 earnings interview, Sarandos was asked whether there would be a second season of the violent South Korean survival drama, which has scored as the company’s No. 1 most-viewed TV series.“Absolutely,” Sarandos replied.
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