Tokyo Broadcasting Sets Multi Series Deal With Netflix

EXCLUSIVE: The venerable Power Rangers TV series is on the move. Netflix will be the exclusive US home for the upcoming second season of Power Rangers Dino Fury — Power Rangers‘ 29th season overall — which will debut on the streamer in spring 2022. Netflix has incensed the series from Entertainment One and Hasbro.

Selome Hailu editorNetflix has acquired “The Henna Artist,” a series being developed by Sri Rao as an adaptation of Alka Joshi’s novel of the same name.Freida Pinto will star in and executive produce “The Henna Artist,” which is set in 1950s Jaipur, India and follows Lakshmi (Pinto) as the city’s most in-demand henna artist.

John Cho is “Cowboy Bebop” come to life in Netflix’s live-action teaser.

Did you think a talking tree and gun-toting racoon were weird Marvel characters? Well, how about a Japanese snow monkey that dresses in a suit and becomes a world-class assassin? Yeah, we’re talking about one of the strangest Marvel creations, Hit-Monkey. As seen in the trailer for Hulu’s new animated Marvel series, “Hit-Monkey,” the deep-dive superhero is literally a monkey who is also a hitman.

Xbox Series X|S has sold over 100,000 units in Japan, which means that the console has already outdone what it took the Xbox One four years to achieve. Initially reported by Japanese publication Famitsu (thanks, GamesIndustry.biz) the Xbox Series X has sold 64,283 units, whilst the Xbox Series S has sold 38,307.

Gay diver Tom Daley wants to ban countries from competing in the Olympics if they have the death penalty for gay people.The British athlete, who won gold in the men’s 10-meter synchronized platform at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, said it would be his “mission” to implement such a ban.“I think it’s really important to try and create change, rather than just highlighting or shining a light on those things,” Dailey said last week at the 2021 Attitude Awards, where he was honored with accepting the

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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Walt Disney Company Thursday unveiled twenty new titles in Asia as it expands the footprint of its Disney Plus and Disney Plus Hotstar streaming services in the world’s most populous region.The streaming service is currently available in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Singapore, India, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, with upcoming launches in South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan in November 2021.“We aim to create fifty original series and shows by 2023,” said

The latest animated film from acclaimed Studio Ghibli is coming to Netflix on Nov. 18, expanding the streamer’s already extensive catalog.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefStreaming giant Netflix has licensed rights to “Earwig and the Witch,” the most recent animated feature from Japan’s Studio Ghibli. The deal excludes the U.S.

Netflix has teased the latest series of smash hit Money Heist (La Casa De Papel), billed as part five, vol 2 and coming out on 3 December.

Out British diver Tom Daley is on a “mission” to get the Olympics to ban countries where homosexuality is punishable by death.While accepting the Sport Award at the 2021 Attitude Awards, the Tokyo Olympics gold medalist said he would like to see these changes made before the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.“I think it’s really important to try and create change, rather than just highlighting or shining a light on those things,” Daley said.At the Tokyo Olympics,  there were more out Olympians than any

Manori Ravindran International EditorFilmRise has struck an exclusive deal with Japan’s Fuji Television Network for the iconic Japanese culinary competition series, “The Iron Chef.”The New York-headquartered studio and streaming network made the deal with Fuji’s distribution arm, Fuji Creative Corporation. The pact, which spans 7 seasons, covers all SVOD and AVOD rights for domestic and international, and includes the FilmRise Streaming Network.“Iron Chef” first launched on Fuji in 1993.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorTelepool’s Global Screen has sold the miniseries “Dark Woods” to further international territories, including Japan (NHK Enterprises), CIS (Mauris Film), Poland (Canal Plus), Czech Republic (Ceska Televize), Slovenia (RTV Slovenija), Latvia (Latvian Television), Lithuania (LRT), India and sub-continents (BookMyShow), and French-speaking Switzerland (RTS).

Olympic gold medallist Tom Daley and musical theatre legend Elaine Page were among the winners at the Attitude Awards. The event, which raises money for the Attitude Magazine Foundation, which in turn benefits LGBTQ+ causes, was held at the Camden Roundhouse on Wednesday evening.

Like the Tokyo Olympics and Euro 2020 soccer championships, CSI’s revival tied to the series’ 20th anniversary was delayed by a year amid the pandemic.

Tom Daley has candidly revealed he was hospitalised with coronavirus shorty before the Tokyo Olympics.The 27 year old diver won his first gold medal at the Olympics earlier this year, but his medal winning dreams were almost dashed as he contracted Covid.Tom was hospitalised with the deadly virus seven months before he travelled to Tokyo to win the medal for team GB. He began having headaches and dizziness in January, which he put down to a mild concussion in training on New Years Eve.