Netflix NEWS 10.17.17

Netflix NEWS

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

Patton Oswalt: Annihilation (October 17)

Netflix Comedy Special

Oswalt is an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor and writer, known for roles such as Spencer Olchin in the sitcom The King of Queens and voicing Remy in the film Ratatouille.
Watch the trailer 

Slasher: Guilty Party (October 17)

Netflix Distributed Series - 8 episodes

Rampaging serial killers leave their carnage in their wake as their next victims fight to stay alive in this horror anthology series.

1922 (October 20)
 

Netflix Original Movie

Based on a Stephen King novella where an unreliable narrator confesses to killing his wife. Thomas Jane and Molly Parker star.
In the novella, Arlette James wants to sell her family's land to a livestock company. If she does so her husband Wilfred's family property will become unfarmable. To stop it Wilfred resorts to manipulating his teenage son Henry to help murder Arlette.
Watch the trailer

The Day I Met El Chapo: The Kate del Castillo Story (October 20)

Netflix Documentary Mini-series - 3 episodes

The the biographical account by Mexican actress Kate del Castillo as she tells her side of the story using never-before-seen footage and exclusive details of what led to the infamous meeting of the world's most notorious drug lords, Hollywood star Sean Penn, and one of Mexico's most famous television actresses. Kate del Castillo stated "As an actress I've been given the opportunity to portray fascinating fictional characters, roles I am very proud of. Now I get the chance to tell my story, my reality, my truth. This project will dive into how it began, why I pursued the rights of the most controversial narco-figures and what happened after."
Announcement

Haters Back Off Season 2 (October 20)

Netflix Original Series - 8 episodes

This is based on Colleen Ballinger's Youtube persona Miranda Sings. Miranda is a terrible singer that doesn't realize it, but thinks she is destined to be a Youtube star. Her uncle wants to manager her, her mother wants to pacify her. and her sister is the only sane character.
Season 2 announcement

One of Us (October 20)

Netflix Distributed Movie

From the creators of the 2006 documentary Jesus Camp that explores a charismatic children's summer camp, One of Us was three years in the making, taking us inside the world of Hasidic Judaism. We follow three individuals as they decide to leave the ultra-orthodox community, straining family relationships and threatening their safety.
Watch the trailer

Wheelman (October 20)

Netflix Original Movie

Starring Frank Grillo as a double crossed getaway driver on the run.
Watch the teaser video

Netflix Trailers
The Day I Met El Chapo: The Kate del Castillo Story Trailer
Haters Back Off Season 2 Trailer
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold Trailer
Longmire Season 6 Trailer 
She's Gotta Have It Season 1 Trailer 
Stranger Things Season 2 Final Trailer 

Netflix Previews/Videos
Stranger Things - Nosebleed video - debuts October 27
Stranger Things - Friday the 13 trailer teaser video 
Godless teaser video: Welcome to No Man's Land- debuts November 22

Netflix Announcements
Juventus F.C. Italian Football Docu-series in 2018
Charlie Brooker Provides Exclusive Black Mirror Season 4 Details 
Mark Millar of Millarworld - No One Can Compete with Netflix 
Stranger Things Season 2 Soundtrack List 
Stranger Things Season 2 episode names
First Image of Al Pacino as Jimmy Hoffa in The Irishman 
House of Cards Season 6 Confirmed 
Stranger Things Season 1 DVD Release with VHS Inspired Packaging Exclusive to Target - October 17 
Netflix Wants to Increase Content for Kids
Mighty Little Bheem Kids Series Set for 2018 
Netflix Buys Script Dorothy and Alice 
Netflix Buys Script Power

Hype List
Black Mirror Season 4 (2017)
Stranger Things Season 2 (October 27)
Disenchantment Season 1 (2018)
The Witcher Season 1 (TBA)
Ratched Season 1 (TBA)
Trollhunters Season 2 (2017)
Arrested Development Season 5 (2018)
Altered Carbon Season 1 (TBA)
The Umbrella Academy Season 1 (2018)
Pottersville (2017)