Netflix Sheds Fewer Than 1M Subscribers In Q2, Exceeding Expectations

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent“Senna,” Netflix’s biggest and most ambitious series ever in Latin America, now has a director, seasoned Brazilian film-TV action thriller director Vicente Amorim, whose credits include “Good” with Viggo Mortensen and “Yakuza Princess,” with Japanese American singer Masumi and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.Portraying the life of Formula One racing genius Ayrton Senna,“Senna,” produced for Netflix Brazil by Sao Paulo-based Gullane in partnership with the Senna family, is now in prep.The eight-episode fiction miniseries will plumb “the intimacy of the man who became a national hero and conquered the world,” Netflix Brazil announced on Monday.It looks set to be the biggest play ever by Netflix for one of its biggest markets anywhere in international. In January 2021, Netflix was reported to have already run up 19 million household accounts in Brazil, nearly as many as the streamer’s then 25.49 million for the whole of Asia.

Bae Suzy and Yang Se-jong will be co-starring in Netflix’s upcoming original K-drama The Girl Downstairs.On July 19, South Korean news outlet JoyNews24 reported that the two actors have been confirmed to lead the upcoming series. Based on the Naver webtoon of the same name by Min Song-ah, The Girl Downstairs revolves around college students Lee Doo-na (Bae) and Lee Won-joon (Yang) who end living together.In the original webtoon, Lee Doo-na is a former member of the fictional girl group Dream Sweet, who abruptly decides to retire to resume her studies at Minsong University as a theatre and film student.  It is currently unknown if the Netflix adaptation will retain the same plot.As of writing, Netflix has yet to announce a projected premiere date for The Girl Downstairs.

Geoffrey Owens is opening up about his son, Jordyn Owens, acting debut.

Trouble in the ton! Netflix’s Bridgerton has fast become one of the streamer’s most popular hit series, which soon inspired plenty of fan theories, content creation and original music.

EXCLUSIVE: Faraway Road Productions, the production label founded by Fauda creators Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff and which was acquired this year by Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs’ Candle Media, has hired Salome Peillon and Adi Ezroni, as Chief Operating Officer and EVP of Content, respectively.  

Production on season three of The Witcher has been halted, according to online reports.

Idris Elba has said the upcoming Luther movie is a ‘massive achievement’ for the cast and crew. The Hollywood star, who scored his breakthrough role in hit US TV series The Wire 20 years ago, also revealed the Netflix film version of his breakthrough BBC detective drama is close to completion.

Netflix has greenlit a premium documentary on software pioneer John McAfee, who went on the run after his neighbor was murdered in Belize.

Kevin Hart makes the most of his “me time” with Mark Wahlberg in the debut trailer for the upcoming Netflix comedy.

Pallavi Sharda and Suraj Sharma take over the dance floor in these brand new images from their new Netflix movie, Wedding Season.

Virgin River, most likely you're either cheering or totally stunned—or perhaps a combination of both. Regardless, there's no denying it was an epic finale with plenty of shocking developments. It's going to be hard to wait for season five, but the good news is that star Alexandra Breckenridge ("Mel") confirms to Glamour that it will be .

The first thing you notice when you pick up the new and improved Amazon Fire 7 tablet is how it feels in the hand. In the past, Amazon’s tablets have felt a little bit, well, cheap.

Netflix has announced its collaboration with Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn’s on  drama Copenhagen Cowboy, which marks his first production in his native Denmark in 15 years.

Netflix have announced they will charge for password sharing in an additional five countries, as the streaming giant continues to crackdown on the practice.Today (July 22), news broke that Netflix have asked customers in five more countries – Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and the Dominican Republic – to pay additional fees if they are sharing their password with viewers outside of their household. The additional fees vary between countries but users can expect to pay no more than an additional US$2.99.According to IGN, the extra cost won’t affect the use of the streaming service from mobile devices.

Seoul Vibe. Netflix Golden, a social media channel of the streaming platform dedicated to celebrating the pan-Asian diaspora, took to Twitter to announce Seoul Vibe will begin streaming on August 26.The announcement also arrived alongside the first visual for the new movie: a poster depicting two race cars forming the number “88” through skid marks, setting the stage for the film’s setting in 1988. “Drive back to 1988,” reads the poster.Seoul Vibe: coming Aug.

How To Build A Sex Room has a lot of merit on paper.Netflix’s new show looks like a fabulous opportunity to showcase a whole range of different types of human relationships on television. And they do, including heterosexual couples, a gay couple in a long distance relationship, two women living out of a van, a couple exploring non-binary sexuality and even a sex room for a polyamorous family of seven!@melanieruthrose https://t.co/bdHR4ZLHa4 pic.twitter.com/KLXAc2HWNu— melanieruthrose (@melanieruthrose) July 21, 2022  One of the first questions that a viewer would think of is whether a sex room conversion consultant service actually exist or has some hapless creative chained up in the basement of Netflix, finally scraping the bottom of the ideas barrel, thought of this idea up out of sheer desperation for new content?It turns out the host of this show, interior designer Melanie Rose, does actually, at least according to her website, provide this consultation as a service to interested parties and has been for at least the last ten years. “In the last decade I have specialized in creating sacred spaces, fantasy rooms (sometimes called sex rooms), giving my clients an exclusive experience.”I wrote about "How to Build a Sex Room," the Netflix show about, well, it's kind of obvious from the title, isn't it? Anyway, if you're looking for how to kink out your space….

The economics of Netflix’s forthcoming ad-supported tier will be more favorable than those of its primary ad-free one, one senior executive indicated during the company’s second-quarter earnings interview.

Shares of Disney, Paramount, Warner Bros. Discovery all closed higher and continued to gain in after-hours trading when Netflix, the dominant streamer, lost fewer subscribers in the June quarter than it said it would.