Netflix claims to have 300 million viewers worldwide

Earlier this year, Netflix smashed through the 100 million customer mark, as people around the world subscribe to the VOD service. The streaming giant’s actual audience, though, may be as much as three times that.

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Amazon greenlights Ken Block’s The Gymkhana Files

Amazon has greenlit The Gymkhana Files, a new unscripted series featuring famed motorsports star and entrepreneur Ken Block.

The eight-episode series will chart the making of Gymkhana 10, the recently-announced tenth installment of his award-winning, record-breaking Gymkhana Film series. The … Read More

Black: Netflix snaps up South Korean series for simultaneous streaming

Netflix has snapped up the rights to Black, a South Korean series.

The fantasy thriller is written by Choi Ran and directed by Kim Hong-sun, with a cast that includes Song Seung-heon, Go Ara, Lee El and Kim Dong-jun.

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Mudbound: New trailer for Netflix’s Oscar contender

“Violence is part and parcel of country life,” says Carey Mulligan in the new trailer for Mudbound.

Netflix’s latest original film, snapped up at Sundance this year, follows two families who work the same land in the Mississippi Delta but … Read More

Stranger Things after show to launch with Season 2

Stranger Things is getting its own after show, Netflix has revealed.

These days, you’re not a show if you don’t have your own after show – a programme about the programme that dissects the episode that has just broadcast. The … Read More

Michael Landes joins You Are Wanted Season 2

Michael Landers will co-star in Season 2 of Amazon’s You Are Wanted.

The streaming service’s first German original series is a tech thriller that follows Lukas Franke, a young hotel manager who finds himself the victim of a hacker. Created … Read More

Netflix raises $1.6bn extra funding for new content

Netflix is raising an additional $1.6 billion funding, as the streaming giant continues to step up its original content production.

The VOD service is selling almost $2 billion worth of notes to “qualified institutional buyers”. The proceeds from that wave … Read More

Michael Patrick King and Glenn Close lead Amazon’s new pilot season

Amazon has unveiled its latest season of TV pilots, with projects from an impressive line-up of names that includes Michael Patrick King, Glenn Close and Bobcat Goldthwait.

The season consists of three new half-hour pilots – The Climb, Love … Read More

New clip from Stranger Things 2 asks all the questions

How do you release a clip from a mystery show’s second season without spoiling the mystery? Simple: Show a character denying all knowledge of everything. It’s an inspired choice of clip for Stranger Things 2, which finally arrives this Friday … Read More

Andy Lau’s Shock Wave Tunnel to preview at London Comic Con

Andy Lau’s latest thriller, Shock Wave Tunnel, will preview at MCM London Comic Con this weekend, before it hits VOD.

Cine Asia presents the Hong Kong thriller starring the Infernal Affairs and House of Flying Daggers legend. Lau plays Officer … Read More