Netflix Movie World: Netflix NEWS 10.23.2018

Netflix NEWS

Updates on Netflix original content releasing this week and the announcements from last week. You can always read more about what's coming out this week and in the future on our Upcoming page.
Netflix Originals Releasing This Week

Robozuna Season 1 (October 21) - Excludes United Kingdom
Netflix Kids Series
This animated series features an orphan and his homemade robot attempting to free their country from robot oppressors.

Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh (October 23)

Netflix Original Comedy Special

Adam Sandler is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and film producer. After becoming a Saturday Night Live cast member, Sandler went on to star in Hollywood feature films. He's released four Netflix original films with a deal for four more in the future.
Date Announcement

Bodyguard Season 1 (October 24) - Excludes UK, Ireland

Netflix Distributed Series with ITV - 6 episodes

David Budd, a war veteran-turned-cop, is assigned to protect a senior politician, Julia Montague. Richard Madden and Keeley Hawes star.
The series was announced on September 18, 2018.
Watch the trailer

Been So Long (October 26)

Netflix Distributed Movie

A romantic musical set in London about a single mother who meets a handsome stranger.
Watch the trailer

Castlevania Season 2 (October 26)

Netflix Original Animated Series - 8 episodes

Based on the video game, the last member of the Belmont clan must save Eastern Europe from Vlad Dracula in this animated series. Episodes are a half hour in length.
Read my Season 1 review - It depends
Season 2 announcement
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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Season 1 (October 26)

Netflix Original Series - 10 episodes

The series re-imagines the origin and adventures of Sabrina the Teenage Witch as a dark coming-of-age story that traffics in horror, the occult, and witchcraft. In the vein of Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist, this adaptation finds Sabrina wrestling to reconcile her dual nature of half-witch, half-mortal while standing against the evil forces that threaten her, her family, and the world humans inhabit. The one-hour drama is based on the comic Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
Kiernan Shipka will play Sabrina.
Announcement
Kiernan Shipka to Star in Untitled Sabrina Project
Meet Salem the Cat
Miranda Otto Cast
Season 1 Poster
Season 1 Date Announcement
First Look at Kiernan Shipka as Sabrina
Teaser Poster
Happy Birthday video
Watch the trailer
Salem Appears video

Dovlatov (October 26)
Netflix Distributed Movie
This slice-of-life drama follows visionary Russian dissident writer Sergei Dovlatov as he contemplates life and art over six days in 1971.

Jefe (October 26)

Netflix Distributed Movie

A rude, self-centered businessman seems to be on the brink of losing everything until a night janitor at his office helps him find redemption.

Shirkers (October 26)

Netflix Distributed Documentary

In 1992, teenager Sandi Tan and her friends Sophie and Jasmine shot Singapore's first indie road movie called Shirkers with their enigmatic American mentor, Georges Cardona. Sandi wrote the script and played the lead, a killer named S. After shooting wrapped, Georges vanished with all the footage. Twenty years later, the 16mm cans are recovered in New Orleans, sending Sandi, now a novelist in Los Angeles, on a personal odyssey across two continents. Premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.
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Terrorism Close Calls Season 1 (October 26)

Netflix Distributed Series - 10 episodes

The series probes the world's deadliest terrorist attacks thwarted by counter-terrorism, intelligence, and law enforcement, including a planned attack on the New York City subway system in 2009, a 2006 plot over the eastern United States, and a domestic terrorist attack at Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade. International incidents are also reviewed, including planned plots for Germany, Israel and Australia. Each episode showcases the plots that have been disrupted through surveillance, intelligence sharing, infiltration, and most critically through the work of the courageous agents, counter-terrorism experts and every day citizens helped.
First reported on September 25, 2018.

Girl From Nowhere (October 27)

Netflix Distributed Series

A Thailand series about a mysterious girl called Nanno.

Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj Season 1 (October 28)

Netflix Original Weekly Talk Show - 32 episodes

Minhaj's comedy show will explore the modern cultural and political landscape with depth and sincerity. Each week, Minhaj will bring his unique comedic voice and storytelling skill to investigate the larger trends shaping our fragmented world.
Minhaj had a Netflix comedy special Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King, after being on The Daily Show, and being assigned the 2017 White House Correspondents' Dinner.
Announcement
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Netflix Trailers
Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh comedy special trailer - October 23
The Final Table series trailer - November 20
Narcos: Mexico series trailer - November 16
The Degenerates comedy series trailer - October 30
Super Drags: Red Band Slayage trailer - November 9
The Holiday Calendar trailer - November 2

Netflix Previews & Videos