Netflix NEWS 03.20.2018

Netflix NEWS

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

The Standups Season 2 (March 20)

Netflix Comedy Series - 6 episodes

Each episode is a half hour of stand-up comedy. This season features comedians Aparna Nancherla, Kyle Kinane, Gina Yashere, Brent Morin, Joe List, and Rachel Feinstein.
Watch the trailer

Alexa & Katie Season 1 (March 23)

Netflix Original Series - 13 episodes

Aimed at teens and pre-teens, two best friends eagerly anticipating the freshman year of high school confront a crisis that leaves them feeling like outsiders when the need to fit in seems the most important. This is Netflix's first multi-camera comedy produced themselves.
Tiffani Thiessen will co-star as one of the teen's determined mother.
Series announcement
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Dinotrux Supercharged Season 2 (March 23)

Netflix Kids Series

Set in a world where dinosaurs are mechanized construction robots, Tyrannosaurus Trux and his reptile-tool Revvit defend against bad guy robots, the D-structs. The Dinotrux are back and supercharged, ready to face new challenges.

Game Over, Man! (March 23)

Netflix Original Movie

Produced by Seth Rogen, this is an action comedy inspired by Die Hard. Three friends are on the verge of getting their video game financed when their benefactor is taken hostage by terrorists.
Watch the teaser video 
Watch the trailer 
Watch trailer #2

Layla M. (March 23)

Netflix Distributed Movie

When a Moroccan teenager in Amsterdam is radicalized, she marries a jihadist and joins an Islamist cell in the Middle East, but she finds there are other prejudices there, too.

Paradox (March 23)

Netflix Distributed Documentary

A fantasy, a loud poem and a free-spirited tale of music and love. A film by Daryl Hannah starring Neil Young and his band of outlaws sow seeds of strange mischief and musical wonder under Western skies in this dreamlike film.
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Requiem Season 1 (March 23)

Netflix Distributed Series - 6 episodes

A British supernatural drama series, beginning in 1994 with a toddler's disappearance in a Welsh village, twenty-three years later her mother's suicide sends a talented young cellist Matilda to that very same village where mysteries from her past come back to haunt her.
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Roxanne Roxanne (March 23)

Netflix Distributed Movie

In the early 1980s, the most feared battle MC in Queens, New York, was a fierce teenage girl with the weight of the world on her shoulders. At the age of 14, Lolita "Roxanne Shante" Gooden was well on her way to becoming a Hip-Hop legend as she hustled to provide for her family while defending herself from the dangers of the streets.

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Santa Clarita Diet Season 2 (March 23)

Netflix Original Series - 10 episodes

Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant play married real estate agents Sheila and Joel Hammond whose lives take a dark turn when Barrymore's character experiences a dramatic change. She dies and develops a taste for human flesh, all while maintaining her family and business relationships.
Joel McHale, Maggie Lawson, Gerald McRaney & Zachary Knighton will guest star in Season 2. McHale and Lawson will play Chris and Christa, married realtors in Santa Clarita,a more successful and aggressive version of Sheila and Joel. McRaney portrays Ed Thune, retired army colonel who Joel finds himself intimidating. Knighton is Paul, the descendant of Serbian ancestors tasked with pursuing the truth of the undead, no matter who or what stands in his way. 
Read my Season 1 review - Watch it 
Date Announcement Video 
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Sword Gai: The Animation (March 23)

Netflix Distributed Japanese Language Series

In this modern world fantasy anime, a boy fuses with a demonic sword.

The Defiant Ones (March 23) - Excludes U.S./Canada

Netflix Documentary Series - 4 episodes

Telling the stories of Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre, one a Brooklyn longshoreman, the other straight out of Compton, and their improbable partnership and surprisingly leading roles in transforming contemporary culture. This revealing, compelling, and often-gritty story takes place in recording studios, humble homes, massive mansions, criminal courts. and the highest corridors of corporate power. The Grammy Award winner is directed by Allen Hughes, who conducted extensive interviews with both men as well as Bono, David Geffen, Eminem, Nas, Stevie Nicks, Ice Cube, Gwen Stefani, Jon Landau, Tom Petty, Trent Reznor, Snoop Dogg, Bruce Springsteen, Diddy and will.i.am.
Announcement 
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The Mechanism [O Mecanismo] Season 1 (March 23)

Netflix Original Portuguese Language Series - 8 episodes

This Portugues language Brazilian series created by Jose Padilha of Narcos follows judicial investigators into the largest corruption investigation Brazil has witnessed as a retired federal police deputy mentors an ambitious federal agent.Previously titled Operation Car Wash.
Production Started
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Netflix Trailers
Paradox trailer - March 23
6 Balloons trailer - April 6
The Standups Season 2 trailer - March 20
Rapture Season 1 Nas and Dave East trailer - March 30
Rapture Season 1 T.I. trailer
Rapture Season 1 Rapsody trailer 
Edha Season 1 trailer - March 16
James Acaster: Repertoire trailer - March 27
Happy Anniversary trailer - March 30
Chef's Table: Pastry Season 1 trailer - April 13
Amateur trailer - April 6

Netflix Previews & Videos

Lost in Space - The Robinson's Journey Featurette
Netflix Even Works in Outer Space
3% Season 2 Date Announcement video  - April 27

Netflix News & Announcements
Netflix Gets International Rights to Thermodynamics
The Crown Producers on Going Past 6 Seasons
Netflix Adapting Winx Club to Young Adult Series
Netflix Announces Enissa Amani Comedy Special 
Dax Shephard will Guest Star in The Ranch Season 3
Travelers Season 3 will be a Netflix Exclusive 
Ross Lynch Cast as Harvey Kinkle in Sabrina Series 
Tati Gabrielle To Play Prudence in Sabrina Series
Netflix Acquires Stop Motion Animated Wendell and Wild 
There's Someone Inside Your House Coming of Age Slasher Movie in the Works
Bobby Kennedy for President Documentary Debuting on April 27

Hype List
Black Mirror Season 5 (2019, projected)
Disenchantment Season 1 (2018)
Arrested Development Season 5 (2018)
Stranger Things Season 3 (2018, projected)
Altered Carbon Season 2 (unconfirmed)
The Witcher Season 1 (TBA)
Ratched Season 1 (2019)
Dark Season 2 (2018, projected) 
Mindhunter Season 2 (2018)
The Umbrella Academy Season 1 (2018)