A surprise Geeked Week Day 5 announcement, Witchercon is coming early July — a joint Netflix / CD PROJEKT RED event Set your calendars to busy for July 9 and 10 — Witchercon is coming! If you thought a sneak peek (see our Day 5 coverage) at Ciri in a Witcher season 2 trailer was exciting enough, you might want to … >
Coming in June Netflix presents Geeked Week — we tell you how to find out more Over the years, Netflix has been lucky enough to inspire loyal followings for series and films like Stranger Things, Castlevania, The Old Guard and many more. Advertised on the Netflix Geeked Twitter account, 7-11 of June, the first-ever Geeked Week will give … >
Jupiter’s Legacy Volume 1 brings us (another) multi-generational superhero series with (another) deconstruction of the genre. Sadly it fails to excel at either Despite effects, sets, and a cast doing their best, Netflix’s Jupiter’s Legacy fails to concentrate on anything in particular, resulting in eight episodes of slow-moving character introductions and simplistic moralising. We’ll explain. … >
Autumn 2021 sees a new animated series Arcane come to Netflix, welcoming viewers to the world of League of Legends Set in Riot Games’s globally popular League of Legends IP, Arcane is an animated series developed and produced by Riot Games in partnership with Fortiche Productions. Set in the utopian region of Piltover and the oppressed … >
Netflix shares plunge. It’s a statement of fact — following their quarterly investor update, the share price took an 11% hit. So what? Cultbox is about content rather than business, though for most streamers, their business is content. It matters, hence our fascination with global trends and ratings. If you’ve paid any attention to entertainment … >
Netflix and Sony have signed a deal to bring Sony’s films to Netflix from 2020 Where other film studios are launching their own streaming service (eg Paramount+) or being bought by existing studios (Disney acquiring 21st Century Fox for Disney+, Sony has instead signed a deal with Netflix (as StudioCanal has with Sky). Regular CultBox visitors will know, we’ve been doing … >
There are now over one billion subscriptions to streaming services worldwide according to the Motion Picture Association Each year the Motion Picture Association produces a state of the industry report, and the latest for 2020 (it’s 63 pages but quite readable) can be downloaded and studied. Of course any industry trends were trampled on by COVID-19, … >
Netflix has released The Irregulars official trailer and it shows some interesting angles to this supernatural Holmesian series We mentioned the new Netflix Victorian series The Irregulars a few weeks ago when we had the start date and teaser trailer. The show is coming on March 26, in other words next Friday (at the time of writing). … >
Lupin part 2 is scheduled for some time in summer 2021, but that hasn’t stopped Netflix putting out a teaser In case you’ve forgotten, Netflix has dropped a teaser trailer for Lupin part 2. No date — all we know is it’s due this summer. Why drop a trailer now? We assume there’s a grand plan … >
Lucifer season 6 filming is drawing to a close, and it’s reported showrunner Joe Henderson as lined up his net Netflix project If you following Tom Ellis (@tomellis17) or Lesley-Ann Brandt (@LesleyAnnBrandt) on Twitter, you’ll have seen Lucifer and Maze have filmed their final scene together (sob!) Brandt reported so in a tweet: What a … >