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Netflix Orders The House from Nexus Studios

Netflix has joined forces with BAFTA award winning Nexus Studios on The House, an eccentric dark comedy made in collaboration between three of the leading directors in independent stop frame animation. The project centers on a house and the surreal tales of three generations of families who made it their home. The House is produced…

Netflix Announces Abla Fahita Series

Netflix has announced its collaboration with Abla Fahita to produce its second Egyptian original series. Scheduled for release in 2020, Abla Fahita’s debut on Netflix will be produced by OKWRD production in cooperation with ASAP Productions & EP Amin El Masri. The show will shed light on the human side of Abla Fahita in a…

Netflix Orders New Korean Sci-Fi Series

Netflix has announced a new Korean original series The Silent Sea (working title) and confirmed actor Jung Woo-sung serving as an executive producer of the show, which is set in a precarious future where Earth is running out of water. The Silent Sea is a mystery sci-fi thriller that follows a story of elite scientists…

High in the Clouds to be Adapted into Animated Feature

Netflix and Gaumont are producing a new animated feature from iconic songwriter, author and filmmaker, Paul McCartney titled High in the Clouds based on the popular children’s adventure novel of the same title by McCartney and Geoff Dunbar, and Philip Ardagh. An imaginative teenage squirrel named Wirral finds himself pulled into a ramshackle gang of…

Netflix Announces Spotify Series

Netflix has announced the untitled scripted series about the Swedish start-up that shook the entire music industry and evolved into becoming one of the world’s leading music services – Spotify. The limited series is inspired by the book ‘Spotify Untold’ by authors Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud – both business reporters at Swedish Dagens Industri…

Netflix Acquires Shaun the Sheep Sequel Rights

Netflix has acquired the US, Canada and Latin America rights to Aardman’s A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon from STUDIOCANAL, which will be available on the service in early 2020. When an alien named LU-LA crash-lands near Mossy Bottom Farm, her magical powers, irrepressible mischief and galactic sized burps soon have Shaun the Sheep and…

CJ ENM and Studio Dragon announce Partnership with Netflix

CJ ENM and its subsidiary Studio Dragon, Korea’s leading production studio, and Netflix, have entered into a strategic partnership, highlighted by a multi-year content production and distribution agreement. As part of a three-year partnership beginning in 2020, Studio Dragon and its stellar roster of creators will produce original series that will be available to Netflix…

Vikings Spinoff Series for Netflix

Netflix has announced Vikings: Valhalla, a new original series from creator Michael Hirst that continues the storytelling of his beloved epic Vikings saga. Jeb Stuart To Write and Executive Produce New Series The new saga begins 100 years after the original series concludes and dramatizes the adventures of the most famous Vikings who ever lived…