Netflix NEWS 08.22.17

Netflix NEWS

Updates on Netflix original content releasing this week and the announcements from last week.
Netflix Originals Releasing This Week

Lynne Koplitz: Hormonal Beast (August 22)

Netflix Comedy Special

Unabashed New Yorker Lynne Koplitz offers a woman's take on being crazy, the benefits of childlessness, and the three things all men really want. 
Watch the trailer


Death Note (August 25) 

Netflix Original Movie

Based on a Manga series, a high schooler possesses a notebook that grants him the power to kill anyone by writing their name in the notebook. He uses the notebook to kill criminals, while a detective pursues him.
Stars Nat Wolff, Margaret Qualley (The Leftovers), Lakeith Stanfield (Get Out), Shea Whigham (American Hustle) and Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man).
Watch the teaser video
Watch the trailer 
Light Meets Ryuk video

Disjointed Season 1 (August 25) 

Netflix Original Series

This workplace comedy from Chuck Lorre (The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men) stars  Kathy Bates as Ruth, a lifelong advocate for marijuana legalization who is finally living her dream as the owner of an Los Angeles cannabis dispensary.
Joining her at Ruth's Alternative Caring are three "budtenders" that include her entrepreneurial twenty-something son and a very troubled security guard.
Date announcement Video 
Watch the trailer

Dragons: Race to the Edge Season 5 (August 25)

Netflix Kids Series continuation

How to Train Your Dragon is adapted to series. Hiccup and Toothless balance life with dragons and vikings.

The Mist Season 1 (August 25) - Available first run outside the U.S., second run in the U.S.

Netflix Distributed Series - 10 episodes

Inspired by the Stephen King story, after an eerie mist rolls into a small town, the residents must battle the mysterious mist and its threats, fighting to maintain their morality and sanity.
Watch the trailer 

Netflix Trailers
Resurface Documentary Trailer
Teach Us All Trailer
Godzilla: Monster Planet Trailer 
Marvel's The Defenders Trailer #3
Fire Chasers Trailer
Ryan Hamilton: Happy Face Trailer 
The Punisher Season 1 Trailer 
Jack Whitehall: Travels with My Father Season 1 Trailer

Netflix Previews/Videos
The Defenders Featurette video - debuts August 18
Welcoming Shonda Rhimes to Netflix video
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) teaser video - debuts October 13 
To the Bone - Shifting Perspectives video 
What Happened to Monday - Apartment Encounter video 
Ozark - What Would Jason Bateman Do video 
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt - Tituss Burgess Performs "One for My Baby"
Death Note - L Confronts Light video clip 
Icarus - Cheating the Olympics video 
The Defenders - Claire Temple video
The Defenders - Objection video - Daredevil Objects to Spoilers 
The Defenders - 360 Street Scene video 
Narcos The Musical - Trailer 
Narcos The Musical - The Blow Must Go On

Netflix Announcements
Haunting of Hill House Casting News - Henry Thomas, Elizabeth Reaser, Kate Siegel
Lana Wachowski Wasn't Sure About 2 Hour Sense8 Finale
Why I Love Working for Netflix - Thoughts from 8 Actors, Directors, Comedians 
Ozark Renewed for a Second Season 
Ali Wong & Randall Park Untitled Movie 
Sanaa Lathan, Ernie Hudson to Star in Nappily Ever After 
Netflix Acquires Teach Us All Documentary - Releases September 25 
Glitch Season 2 Returns November 28 
Justin Theroux to Guest Star on Maniac 
First Images of Frank Grillo in Wheelman
Friends from College Renewed for Season 2