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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…

Fast & Furious Animated Series Coming to Netflix

Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Animation have announced the cast of the Netflix original series Fast & Furious: Spy Racers, based on Universal’s multi-billion dollar franchise. The series is executive produced by Vin Diesel, Neal H. Moritz, Chris Morgan, Tim Hedrick and Bret Haaland and is slated to debut on Netflix December 26. Teenager Tony Toretto…

Netflix to Turn Jeff Smith’s Bone into Animated Series

Netflix has announced that it has secured the rights to Jeff Smith’s award-winning and New York Times best-selling international comic book series, BONE, with plans to develop an animated kids series that follows the iconic Bone cousins on an adventure through a vast, uncharted desert and into a mysterious valley filled with wonderful and terrifying…

Netflix Orders Ghee Happy

Netflix has greenlit a new animated preschool series, Ghee Happy, from Academy Award and Annie Award-nominated director-animator-illustrator Sanjay Patel. Patel is best known for his work on numerous Pixar films, such as Monsters Inc., Ratatouille, Cars, Toy Story 2 and The Incredibles 1 & 2. He directed the short animated film Sanjay’s Super Team, inspired…

Netflix Announces Series Based on Equinox 1985 Podcast

Netflix has announced the new Danish Netflix Original series, Equinox – based on the well-known podcast, Equinox 1985. The six-part series will be created by Tea Lindeburg and executive produced by Piv Bernth (The Killing, The Bridge and Follow The Money) and her company Apple Tree Productions, which is backed by ITV Studios. Production is…

Netflix Enters into Overall Deal with Kuku Studios

Netflix has entered into a multi-year overall agreement with Kuku Studios, under which its key members – Alex Woo, Stanley Moore, Tim Hahn, and Erik Benson – will exclusively produce animated films and series for Netflix members worldwide. Their credits include Ratatouille, Wall-e, Toy Story 3, Monster’s University, and Finding Dory, among others. Kuku Studios’…

Young Wallander Series Coming to Netflix in 2020

The filming of Young Wallander has just begun the new Netflix original series based on Henning Mankell’s best-selling Kurt Wallander novels. The cast includes Adam Pålsson (Kurt Wallander), Richard Dillane (Superintendent Hemberg), Leanne Best (Frida Rask), Ellise Chappell (Mona) and Yasen Atour (Reza). The series is created by Yellow Bird UK, a Banijay Group company,…

Netflix Announces Cast for Upcoming Film The White Tiger

Netflix has announced the cast of its upcoming film The White Tiger. Adapted from Arvind Adiga’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel by the same name, The White Tiger stars debutante Adarsh Gourav, award-winning actor Rajkummar Rao (Stree, Bareily Ki Barfi, Newton, Shahid and Omerta), and global icon Priyanka Chopra Jonas (Isn’t it Romantic, A Kid Like…