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Time of India
03-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Netflix 2025 Arrivals: Here's the list of upcoming series and films
Netflix continues to expand its global lineup in 2025 with many new and returning titles from various genres and countries. Viewers can expect to see familiar characters return and fresh stories debut. #Pahalgam Terrorist Attack Code of war: India and Pakistan take their battle to the (web)front Forex reserves show a pauperised Pakistan, a prospering India Pakistan conducts training launch of surface-to surface ballistic missile Netflix 2025 Arrivals June Aniela Ginny & Georgia (Season 3) – June 5 5 5 Next Stay Playback speed 1x Normal Back 0.25x 0.5x 1x Normal 1.5x 2x 5 5 / Skip Ads by by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Understand Why Some Households Hire Help for Room-to-Room Moves Furniture | Search Ads Read More Undo Tires (Season 2) – June 5 K.O. (2025) – June 6 Straw (2025) – June 6 FUBAR (Season 2) – June 12 Live Events Long Story Short – June 12 The Waterfront (Season 1) – June 19 Olympo (Season 1) – June 20 Squid Game (Season 3) – June 27 July Glass Heart The Summer Hikaru Died – July 1 The Old Guard 2 (2025) – July 2 The Sandman (Season 2 – Volume 1) – July 3 7 Bears (Season 1) – July 10 Brick – July 10 Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano – July 11 My Melody & Kuromi (Season 1) – July 24 Happy Gilmore 2 – July 25 The Sandman (Season 2 – Volume 2) – July 24 August Katrina: Come Hell and High Water The Echoes of Survivors: Inside Korea's Tragedies – August 5 Final Draft (Season 1) – August 5 Wednesday (Season 2 – Part 1) – August 6 The Thursday Murder Club – August 8 Fixed (2025) – August 13 She the People (Season 1 – Part 2) – August 14 Old Dog, New Tricks (Season 1) – August 22 Soul Mate (Season 1) – August 28 Also Read: The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2: When will new season premiere? Here's release date, where to watch, cast, trailer and what to expect September Alice in Borderland (Season 3) Pokémon Concierge (Season 2) Crime Scene Zero – September 2 Wednesday (Season 2 – Part 3) – September 3 Billionaire's Bunker (Season 1) – September 19 October Genie, Make a Wish (Season 1) – October 3 Nobody Wants This (Season 2) – October 23 Physical: Asia (Season 1) – October 28 November Last Samurai Standing – November 15 Frankenstein December 10Dance FAQs What are the most anticipated Netflix shows coming in mid-2025? Ginny & Georgia, Squid Game, The Sandman, Wednesday and The Old Guard 2 are some of the most anticipated releases between June and December 2025. Are there any anime or Japanese shows on the list? Yes, several Japanese titles including The Summer Hikaru Died, Glass Heart, Final Draft, Soul Mate and 10Dance are scheduled.
Hindustan Times
27-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
From $200k debt to being set for life: How Ryan Coogler's 'genius' deal for Sinners may change Hollywood
Ryan Coogler's new film, Sinners, has taken the box office by storm. The R-rated horror film has minted over $100 million worldwide in just over a week and is still going strong. The film has firmly solidified Coogler's position as one of Hollywood's foremost new-age black filmmakers. But more than the box office receipts, what has earned Hollywood's attention is Coogler's unusual deal for the film with the studio, which has set him up for life. (Also read: Is Sinners based on a true story? How the movie is dominating the box office) Starring Michael B Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, and Miles Caton, Sinners is a horror film that blends racial segregation in Jim Crow America with elements of vampire lore. The film, made on a modest budget of $90 million, has grossed $121 million worldwide in eight days. Its most significant achievement is sustaining itself via word of mouth. The film earned $48 million in its first weekend and is now set to mint $42 million in the second, an unheard-of 12% drop. This figure can be in excess of 40-50% for most major studio films. But Sinners is soldiering on, and looks set to become one of the highest-grossing horror films by the time it ends its run. Warner Bros has produced and distributed Sinners, but the studio agreed to an unusual request from Coogler. The rights for the film - its full ownership - will revert from the studio to Coogler after 25 years (in 2050). The director told Business Insider that he fought for the film's rights as his family history inspires the story. There is some element of truth to the track about two black siblings opening a juke joint in the South in the 30s. This meant that not only did Coogler have full creative control of the film, but he also stands to benefit from the film's royalties and legacy earnings 25 years from now. The move has been called genius by many trade pundits. This also marks an incredible turnaround for Coogler, who was grappling with debt just a decade ago. On a recent episode of WTF with Marc Maron podcast, Coogler recounted his life before the release of his debut film, Creed, in 2015. 'Back then, bro, I wasn't making no money. I was $200,000 in debt for film school. It was bad,' he said, adding, 'I was trying to write [movies] in Microsoft Word. It's impossible because your format gotta be right. I was broke, playing football on the little scholarship money. And my wife scraped together some cheese and bought me Final Draft, which is the software that you write your movies on.' Till now, filmmakers would only earn a portion of their films' earnings as the studios own the rights. Even creators of extremely successful franchises like George Lucas, James Cameron, and Steven Spielberg do not have full ownership over their IPs. But Coogler has managed that. This opens the doors for more Hollywood filmmakers negotiating similar deals, and potentially setting themselves up for life.
Business Insider
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Insider
Ryan Coogler's production company Proximity Media is thriving — and 'Sinners' is just the beginning
There was a time when the only person who believed in Ryan Coogler was his wife, Zinzi. Back in the early 2000s, when Coogler was playing football at Saint Mary's College of California, he began thinking about life beyond the gridiron and whether becoming a storyteller could possibly be his next passion. He was told that if he were serious, the first thing he had to do was get the software that all scribes in the business use to write their stories: Final Draft. But barely surviving off the scholarship money he had, he couldn't afford it. "She bought it for me," Coogler told Business Insider over a video chat while sitting next to Zinzi, who gave a shy smile in response. Five movies and two Oscar nominations later, it turned out to be money well spent, as Coogler has become one of Hollywood's top visionary filmmakers. But he's not stopping there. Alongside Zinzi Coogler and producer Sev Ohanian, the trio launched the production company Proximity Media in 2018, which handles everything from feature films to documentaries and podcasts. Their efforts helped bring the 2021 best picture Oscar nominee "Judas and the Black Messiah" to the screen. They also teamed with LeBron James for the remake of "Space Jam" in 2021 and launched the popular podcast "In Proximity." The three formed a close bond in the 2010s when Ohanian was Ryan's classmate at USC (Zinzi and Ryan, who have known each other since they were teens, married in 2016). There was even a time when Ohanian was sleeping on the Cooglers' couch while they were making Coogler's debut feature, "Fruitvale Station," in 2013. Five years later, the three went into business for themselves, forming Proximity. "We were young people trying to make it in this business before we started the company," Coogler said. "We are a company that was built on that feeling of not being taken seriously because of our age and constantly being told we're doing it wrong because we want to do right by people. That has been the common theme; it's a blue-collar aspect." That blue-collar approach has become the company's guiding light. While many production companies led by Hollywood heavyweights are locked into first-look deals at a studio, Proximity has taken the less-traveled path and is a free agent in the business. This has led to them being busy all over town, working with Marvel Studios on the upcoming "Black Panther" spin-off series "Ironheart" and landing Coogler's latest directing effort, "Sinners," at Warner Bros. following a heated bidding war. "When we know we're doing something right, it's often when we can approach things unconventionally and not necessarily industry standard," Ohanian said. But Proximity isn't focused on just the moving image. Under the leadership of Oscar-winning composer and longtime Coogler collaborator Ludwig Göransson, the company was behind the soundtracks for " Creed III" and "Judas and the Black Messiah," the latter of which earned an Oscar nomination for best original song. The company will also be releasing the "Sinners" soundtrack. Meanwhile, Paola Mardo is heading its audio division, Proximity Audio, focused on continuing to grow the Webby Award-winning "In Proximity" podcast. "We have had Jordan Peele and Michael B. Jordan sit across from Ryan, but the pie in the sky is to keep having those intimate and in depth conversations about how we do what we do, to just give perspective on the many different things it takes to put something on screen for audiences to enjoy," Zinzi Coogler said. With a staff of around 25, the founders describe Proximity as a scrappy working environment fueled by the underdog mentality from which the company was born. They often hire people who, like them, once had little to no industry experience, just a drive to work in the business. This has led to Proximity's much-sought-after paid internship program. "At any given time, there are brilliant young filmmakers and podcast makers that are in and out of our company getting college credit and getting paid to learn," Ryan Coogler said. "It has gotten to the point that some of these people have gone on to be assistants to major Hollywood players." " Sinners" shows off the fruits of Proximity's labor. The genre-bending thriller, written and directed by Coogler and produced by the Cooglers and Ohanian, had the biggest opening weekend for an original movie since the pandemic, making $48 million domestically. In addition to handling the soundtrack, Proximity also used its podcast "In Proximity" to give a deeper insight into the movie and its themes, with its latest episode featuring a conversation between Coogler and Göransson. "Our first goal was to make a film that would be very music-oriented if not a full-blown musical, and I think with 'Sinners' we've accomplished that," Ohanian said. While "Sinners" is poised to continue its success at the box office, there's plenty more in the pipeline at Proximity. An adaptation of the New York Times bestselling novel "California Bear" and an adaptation of the graphic novel series "A Vicious Circle" are both in development. They're also in production on an as-yet-unannounced docuseries following the success of "Stephen Curry: Underrated," which was released by Apple TV+ in 2023. I ask Zinzi if she ever imagined that buying Ryan Final Draft would lead to all this. "Not at all," she said softly. "I mean, we grew up with parents who had very practical jobs. I had zero expectations. I just knew it was something that he was very interested in and curious about."
BBC News
13-02-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Tom Cruise nearly played a squirrel in film made by Welsh teenagers
Have you ever dreamed of writing and making your own movie that's shown in the cinema ? Now, thanks to a new project called Supporting Shorts, it's hoped that will become a reality for lots of young project is all about helping young people who have additional learning needs create their own short films. It's designed for people who might find the usual movie-making rules a group of teenagers from a school in north Wales are the first to see a short film they made, called Race to the Start Line, make it all the way to movie screens. Shown before the feature-length animation Dog Man, Race to the Start Line is a comedy about a boy rushing to get to a mountain bike race. The group even contacted Hollywood actor Tom Cruise for a small guest role as the voice of a stop-motion squirrel, also called Tom. In the end it was a scheduling issue that meant Tom couldn't clear his diary to join the cast of the film."Yeah, we had a bit of him back and forth, but it was. No," said Nancy, one of the actors in the film. "It was very close," adds Nancy's co-star Gareth. "He was probably busy jumping off a building or something." Steve Swindon worked with the young people on their film, he's from an organisation called TAPE that tries to make it easier for people to get involved in explained that throughout the process, it was important to take "people's ideas seriously, whatever they might be." "The Tom cruise thing, was a genuine idea. And we very nearly got him as well."It was a scheduling change that stopped it from happening in the end."But, if we hadn't asked we wouldn't be here - the confidence in the room with the young people when their question to Tom Cruise was heard and taken seriously and they got a response, the next day, changed people's self belief." When it came to writing their film, the students at the school were first to use a new version of computer software called Final Draft, which is used by filmmakers in Hollywood. Specially adapted to make storytelling easier - it's now hoped more young people will have the opportunity to make movies, screened before feature-films in cinemas around the who directed Race to the Start says there hasn't always been opportunities for disabled people like him in the movie industry, but says that through the project, "we're trying to change that". He told Newsround that the process has made him feel more confident and that filmmaking is the job he would like when he's older. As this group is the first to have a film shown in cinemas, he adds that "the pressure's on" for it to be successful. Meanwhile Nancy, one of the film's stars is taking her new found fame in her stride. Asked how she feels about being on the big screen and watched by hundreds of people, she says she's waiting "for the line [of people] to queue up to ask for my autograph."
Yahoo
12-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Betty Gilpin Joins Jennifer Lopez & Brett Goldstein In Netflix Rom-Com ‘Office Romance'
EXCLUSIVE: Betty Gilpin (American Primeval) has closed a deal to join Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein in Netflix's Office Romance, the rom-com written by Ted Lasso co-creators Goldstein and Joe Kelly. It kicks off production in New Jersey in March, sources tell Deadline. Netflix declined comment. More from Deadline Jennifer Lopez & Brett Goldstein Are Having An 'Office Romance' At Netflix 'Oh, Mary!' Broadway Review: How Was The Play, Mrs. Lincoln? Sensational Netflix Expands Japan Slate With 'Final Draft', 'Badly In Love' & 'Welcome, Now Get Lost' Plot and character details are under wraps. Ol Parker (Ticket to Paradise) will direct, with Aaron Ryder and Andrew Swett to produce for Ryder Picture Company along with Goldstein; Kelly; and the trio of Lopez, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas and Benny Medina for Nuyorican Films. Courtney Baxter is exec producing for Nuyorican, which has a multiyear first-look deal with Netflix spanning features, TV series and unscripted content. We were first to tell you about Netflix's acquisition of the package in a heated bidding war last fall. Gilpin is no stranger to Netflix, having earned three Emmy nominations for her work on the streamer's series GLOW. Currently, she can be seen starring in Netflix's American Primeval, which premiered in the Top 10, and she's also on board to star opposite Michael Shannon and Matthew Macfadyen in the service's Death by Lightning, a limited series executive produced by Game of Thrones' David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. Recently making her Broadway debut as Mary Todd Lincoln in the Broadway smash Oh, Mary!, Gilpin will remain with the show through March 16. She is represented by CAA, Anonymous Content, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller. Best of Deadline 'Paradise' Episode Release Guide: When Are New Episodes Streaming On Hulu? 2025 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Oscars, Spirits, Grammys, Tonys, Guilds & More Everything We Know About Christopher Nolan's Next Film – 'The Odyssey': Release Date, Cast And More
