Netflix Turns to ‘Stranger Things’ for First Test of Gaming Strategy

Marta Balaga Poland’s documentary festival Millennium Docs Against Gravity is set to finally come of age after postponing its 18th edition due to COVID-19 restrictions, originally slated to take place in May. Once again unspooling in seven different cities between Sept.

EXCLUSIVE: The fight against Rome continues. Good news for Barbarians fans, cameras are now rolling on the second season of the historical action show, which is Netflix’s most successful German series.

British actress Thandiwe Newton has been making a career tackling genre projects with roles like Maeve in HBO‘s “Westworld,” the female lead in John Woo‘s “Mission: Impossible 2,” “The Chronicles of Riddick,” Guy Ritchie‘s gangster comedy “RockNRolla,” “Interview with the Vampire,” and now reunites with “Westworld’s” Lisa Joy for the new feature, “Reminiscence.” READ MORE: ‘Solo’: Thandiwe Newton Says Val Wasn’t Supposed To Die In The ‘Star Wars’ Spinoff & Calls The Death “A Big, Big Mistake”

Netflix show has an opening credits sequence that some are audiences accusing of copying artwork from GTA V.The Snitch Cartel: Origins is a show that launched on the streaming platform this summer, but it’s only now that GTA V fans on Reddit have noticed some “suspiciously similar” images to the game’s artwork, as reported in Dexerto.While the open-world Rockstar Games title is known for its photorealistic visuals, the artwork adorning the boxed game and loading screens have more of a cartoonish

Christopher Vourlias New Europe Film Sales has closed several deals for “Leave No Traces,” from Polish director Jan P. Matuszyński (“The Last Family”), which has its world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival.

Naman Ramachandran Top Netflix Europe executives have said that the streamer is practising a local-first approach to production.Speaking at the Series Mania Forum on Monday, Anna Nagler, director, local language originals, Central and Eastern Europe and Russia, said, “We’re so happy that when when we enter the local market, we can work with local community, with local talent and local directors, the way to learn from them and to actually give them space, to give them the platform to create, to

Netflix subscribers in Poland can now access two mobile games for free as the service trials video game expansion.The two games, Stranger Things 3 and Stranger Things 1984, are both tie-ins with the Stranger Things Netflix original, and were paid releases on the Android and Apple app stores.The Netflix Geeked Twitter account launched the trial, saying it was “very, very early days and we’ve got a lot of work to do in the months ahead, but this is the first step”.Let’s talk Netflix and gaming.

Angelique Jackson “Stranger Things” breakout Priah Ferguson is sticking to the spooky (and spunky) theme, signing on to star opposite Marlon Wayans in his upcoming Halloween adventure-comedy movie for Netflix.Ferguson stars in the yet-to-be-titled movie as a teenage girl who accidentally unleashes an ancient and mischievous spirit on Halloween, causing decorations to come alive and wreak havoc.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has given a two-season order to a hybrid docuseries about African Queens, from Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s Westbrook Studios and Nutopia, with Pinkett Smith set to executive produce.

Naman Ramachandran Netflix India has revealed a first look and trailer for “Call My Agent: Bollywood,” the Indian adaptation of popular French series “Dix Pour Cent.”The series is produced by Applause Entertainment in association with Banijay Asia.

Angelique Jackson If you don’t know what “Tudum” is, allow Regina King, Álvaro Morte, Idris Elba, Chris Hemsworth, Millie Bobby Brown and dozens more of Netflix’s biggest stars to tell you.“Tudum… or not Tudum?” that is the question “Sex Education” star Ncuti Gatwa asks (as Kedar Williams-Stirling cracks up beside him) in a comedic teaser, which explains that “tudum” is the way to spell out the sound you hear when you press play on Netflix.And now, Tudum is also the name of the streamer’s first

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaIn 2010, Hank Morris, a big-time political consultant and powerbroker, pleaded guilty to involvement in a pension fraud pay-to-play scandal.

Latest DIY project! Joy-Anna Duggar is flexing her renovation skills as she and her husband, Austin Forsyth, started to fix up an RV.

EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Garelick has been set to direct a sequel to Murder Mystery, with the expectation that Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler will reprise in the Netflix film. There is a script by James Vanderbilt, and Garelick will do a polish. The fast tracked film will shoot in Paris and the Caribbean.