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  • ‘The Kissing Booth 3’ to hit Netflix on August 11

    By Express News Service
    In a new video released by Netflix to promote its slate of summer releases, Joey King and Joel Courtney appeared as their characters from the teenage-romance series The Kissing Booth to reveal the release date of the third installment.

    The Kissing Booth 3 is set to hit the streaming platform on August 11. Directed by Vince Marcello, the film was shot back-to-back with The Kissing Booth 2 in 2019.

    The third film is based on an original screenplay by Michael Jordan, Vince Marcello, and Jay S. Arnold.

  • Netflix’s ‘You’ season 3 wrapped up

    By Express News Service
    The filming of Netflix’s popular thriller You has officially been wrapped for season 3. The first season of the show premiered in 2018, and the second season came out in 2019.

    The production of the third season began in February 2020, but got delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

    You’s official Twitter handle announced the wrapping up of productions with a picture of lead actor Penn Badgley in a chair and a caption stating, “Don’t worry, we have eyes on Joe at all times.”

    Sera Gamble, the creator of the series, also shared the news on Twitter. She added that the filming went ahead during the “significant and scary surge” of COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles at the start of the year and that the team had “zero on-set positive COVID tests.”

    “I feel privileged to have gotten to witness everyone’s creativity, resilience and kindness. All the way up the Warner/Netflix ladder and in every product ion department ,” she wrote.

    Gamble also teased about the upcoming series, writing, “The episodes are bonkers and the performances are insanely good. That’s all I’ll say about that till we are ready to talk about the new season.”

    Based on novels by Caroline Kepnes, You delves into the mind of Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) and his sinister obsession with a woman (Elizabeth Lail’s Beck) who does not know what has she has got herself into.

  • ‘It will be bonkers’: Netflix show ‘You’ showrunner gives update on release date of season 3

    By ANI
    WASHINGTON: Good news for all the ‘You’ fans! Joe Goldberg is getting ready to make a creepy comeback as the Netflix series will return to the streamer later this year.

    As per E! News, recently, Netflix executives shared that they expect new episodes of the popular drama to arrive before the end of 2021.

    On Friday, showrunner Sera Gamble offered a few more details on Twitter. She revealed that it was the last day of shooting season three, and she had some serious and rightfully earned bragging to do about how well the production handled the pandemic, with not a single outbreak or positive case on set.

    She wrote in the first tweet, “Today is our last day of shooting season 3 of #YouNetflix. Can I brag to you for a hot second?”

    Gamble revealed how the pandemic impacted filming on the new episodes, which finished up this week.

    “We had zero on-set positive COVID tests through a significant and scary surge here in LA. And haven’t had one since. Because every single member of cast & crew worked very hard to take care of each other during a time that’s stressful, in a situation that’s tough to control,” she added in a subsequent tweet.

    “I feel privileged to have gotten to witness everyone’s creativity, resilience and kindness. I mean, I knew our team was tough and good at their jobs, but holy s**t” did everyone show up for each other,” she further said.

    The TV creator also gave fans a little preview of what is to come in season three.

    “Also, the episodes are f—ing bonkers and the performances are insanely good. That’s all I’ll say about that till we are ready to talk about the new season,” she added.

    The Netflix series was a huge success in its first two seasons, partially due to the sinister yet somewhat likeable protagonist named Joe Goldberg played by actor Penn Badgley.

    ‘You’ season three will have Badgley return as Goldberg and actor Victoria Pedretti as his girlfriend, Love Quinn. Towards the end of the second season, viewers saw Joe and Love moving to the California suburbs after Quinn confirmed that she was expecting their child. Although, season two ended with a hint of a new character’s entry which has been a talking point among fans.

    The third season also has some new faces coming on board including Shalita Grant, Travis VanWinkle and Scott Speedman. 

  • Carey Mulligan joins Adam Sandler’s upcoming Netflix film Spaceman

    By Express News Service
    Carey Mulligan, who recently starred in The Dig, has joined Adam Sandler in the upcoming Netflix film Spaceman. The film marks her fifth collaboration with the streaming platform.

    Spaceman is made by Johan Renck, the Primetime Emmy-winning Swedish director of Chernobyl. The actor has worked with Netflix in The Dig, Mudbound, the BBC miniseries Collateral and the upcoming Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro opposite Bradley Cooper.

    Spaceman first announced last year, was originally titled The Spaceman of Bohemia. It’s based on Jaroslav Kalfar’s 2017 novel.The actor will play the wife of Adam Sandler’s astronaut, who is sent on a mission to find mysterious ancient dust.

    Mulligan is nominated for the Best Actress Oscar for her role in Promising Young Woman, which is also nominated in the Best Picture, Best Director and Screenplay categories.

  • Gundam animated series to get a live-action reboot at Netflix

    By Express News Service
    Streaming giant Netflix has announced that filmmaker Jordan Vogt-Roberts (Kong: Skull Island) will direct and produce a live-action adaptation of the wildly popular anime series Gundam. Mobile Suit Gundam, first launched in 1979 as a TV series gained popularity through the 1980s due to multiple adaptations in the form of animated feature films, novels, manga, toys, models and video games.

    The original series, set in the distant future in what is known as the Universal Century, follow human colonies in a space fighting for independence from Earth. The battles are fought largely through giant robots called Mobile Suits.

    As of now, there are details about the storyline that the Netflix adaption will adopt. Comic book writer Brian K Vaughan will write the screenplay and executively produce. Legendary’s Cale Boyter is overseeing the project, along with Sunrise, the Japanese animation studio behind the Gundam franchise.

    Vogt-Roberts, known for his directorial debut The Kings of Summer and Warner Bros’ Kong: Skull Island, is also currently developing an adaptation of the popular video game franchise Metal Gear Solid for Sony Pictures, with Oscar Isaac attached to star.

  • Benedict Cumberbatch to star in Netflix series ‘The 39 Steps’

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: British star Benedict Cumberbatch is set to headline streamer Netflix’s upcoming limited series “The 39 Steps”.

    The series will reunite Cumberbatch with Berger, who directed the “Doctor Strange” actor in Showtime’s 2018 mini-series “Patrick Melrose”, reported Variety.

    The six-episode show is based on the 1915 John Buchan novel that has previously been adapted several times.

    Legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock had a film on the book in 1935, starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll.

    The spy thriller takes place just before the outset of World War I and follows Richard Hannay, a man who comes into possession of a key to a global conspiracy and goes on the run.

    “The Revenant” scribe Mark L Smith will pen the screenplay for the series, which will be produced by Anonymous Content, Chapter One Pictures and SunnyMarch.

    Cumberbatch will executive produce the limited series with his producing partner Adam Ackland, alongside Smith, Berger, Sophie Gardiner, Cliff Roberts and Keith Redmon.

    The actor most recently starred in “The Mauritanian” and thriller “The Courier”.

    He will next reprise his superhero role of Doctor Strange for two Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) movies — “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”.

  • Netflix’s ‘The Crown’ season 5 to commence filming in July

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: The fifth season of critically-acclaimed Netflix show “The Crown” will start production in July this year.

    According to Variety, the Left Bank-produced series is geared to start filming in July and features an all-new cast to play.

    The crew members have started arriving at Elstree Studios, just north of London, where the bulk of “The Crown” is filmed.

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    The cast and crew are hopeful the cameras can begin rolling again under strict COVID-19 protocols in July.

    By that time, the UK should be well on the way to recovering from the devastating COVID-19 pandemic, as restrictions begin to ease on April 12 following the country’s third national lockdown.

    The fifth and sixth seasons of “The Crown” will take the royal family into the 1990s and early 2000s.

    It will feature Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth II, Jonathan Pryce as Prince Philip, and Lesley Manville as Princess Margaret.

    “Tenet” star Elizabeth Debicki will play Princess Diana opposite actor Dominic West, who will be portraying Prince Charles.

    The fourth season of Peter Morgan-created show had debuted in November 2020 and also featured actor Gillian Anderson as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

  • Jodie Turner-Smith leaves ‘The Witcher’ prequel series

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: British star Jodie Turner-Smith has exited Netflix”s prequel series to “The Witcher”.

    Titled “The Witcher: Blood Origin”, the show will expand the universe of the original fantasy series, headlined by Henry Cavill.

    Turner-Smith, who was cast as one of the leads, a warrior named Eile, left the project over scheduling issues, reported Variety.

    “Due to a change in the production schedule for ‘The Witcher: Blood Origin’ limited series, unfortunately Jodie Turner-Smith will no longer be able to continue on in the role of Eile,” a Netflix spokesperson said.

    “Blood Origin” will be set in an elven world 1,200 years before the world of “The Witcher” and will tell the origin story of the first Witcher and the events that led to the “conjunction of the spheres,” when the worlds of monsters, men and elves merged to become one.

    The character of Eile, which will now be recast, was described as an elite warrior blessed with the voice of a goddess, who has left her clan and position as Queen’s guardian to follow her heart as a nomadic musician.

    A grand reckoning on the continent forces her to return to the way of the blade in her quest for vengeance and redemption.

    Recently, “Vikings” star Laurence O’Fuarain was cast in the show for the role Fjall.

    Declan de Barra will serve as the showrunner and executive producer.

    Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, who is the showrunner on “The Witcher” series, is attached as the executive producer on the prequel.

  • Netflix acquires ‘Knives Out’ sequels for a whopping USD 450 million

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Streaming platform Netflix has bought the rights to the sequels of director Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out” for a whopping USD 450 million, with Daniel Craig set to return in the two follow-ups of the murder mystery franchise.

    Touted as one of the biggest deals ever made for the rights to a movie series by a streamer, the deal gives Netflix a new and popular film series led by the outgoing James Bond star.

    “Knives Out” follows a family gathering gone horribly awry, after the family patriarch’s death leads master detective Benoit Blanc (Craig) to investigate.

    The 2019 whodunnit also features Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, Lakeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford, Jaeden Martell, and Christopher Plummer.

    The film was produced by Media Rights Capital (MRC) and was distributed by Lionsgate.

    It earned USD 311.4 million on a USD 40 million budget, with Johnson garnering a nomination for an Oscar for best original screenplay.

    According to Variety, it is unclear if MRC will also return to back the sequels.

    Craig, who is waiting for his fifth and final outing as the iconic spy James Bond in “No Time to Die” to hit theatres later this year after several production and COVID-19 related delays, will get to be part of another money-spinning film series in “Knives Out”.

    Johnson, whose previous directing credits include “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” and “Looper”, said in a 2019 interview that he wants to follow the template made famous by iconic detective author Agatha Christie if he decides to make another film in the whodunnit genre.

    “I had so much fun with this, and I had so much fun with Daniel, if I can make another mystery with the same character, and do what Agatha Christie did and do a new cast and a new setting and make a few of these,” the director had said.

    It is unclear if the films will also have a limited theatrical release besides streaming on Netflix.

  • ‘To All The Boys’ spinoff series starring Anna Cathcart in the works

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: A series spinoff of Netflix’s hit teen rom-com film franchise “To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before” is in development with Anna Cathcart, who played Kitty, the youngest of the three Covey sisters in the popular trilogy, in the lead.

    According to Deadline, the franchise from Awesomeness and ACE Entertainment is behind the potential series.

    The final chapter of the trilogy, “To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before: Always and Forever”, released in February.

    Jenny Han, author of the “To All the Boys” books, is the creator, writer, and executive producer of the potential series.

    Siobhan Vivian and Han are co-writing the pilot script.

    The untitled half-hour romantic comedy series spinoff, now in early development, would follow Kitty on her quest to find true love.

    “Always and Forever” saw the middle sister Lara Jean Covey, played by Lana Condor, find a middle path of enrolling into the college of her dreams while trying out a long-distance relationship with high school boyfriend Peter Kavinsky (Noah Centineo).

    The final film also saw Cathcart’s Kitty meets a boy in Seoul during the family’s trip to South Korea and start a long-distance relationship with him.

    Over the course of the trilogy, Kitty has served as matchmaker — initially for Lara, when she secretly mailed the letters penned by her older sister to her crushes, triggering all the follow-up events, then for her father Dan (John Corbett), helping him find a companion and future wife in their neighbour Trina Rothschild (Sarayu Rao).

    The film franchise also stars Jordan Fisher, Janel Parrish, Ross Butler, Madeleine Arthur, Emilija Baranac, Trezzo Mahoro, and Holland Taylor.

    Netflix declined comment on the news of the series spin-off.