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Succession may be over, but Jesse Armstrong has written and directed a new feature length project for HBO about “a group of billionaire friends get together against the backdrop of a rolling international crisis,” which sounds like the next best thing to the show coming back for another season. The movie stars Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith, and Ramy Youssef, and it’s set to debut this spring.

But it’ll be a video game. Netflix is continuing to push its gaming efforts towards tie-ins with its streaming offerings, and the latest example is Kid Cosmo, a puzzle game that launches for subscribers on March 18th, just a few days after The Electric State premieres.

Sony is soliciting bids to bring Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune to streaming services, The New York Times reports. The company apparently expects that it will reach a deal by early April.

And now you can try refining numbers yourself on the Lumon Industries website. It’s sort of like an unsettling version of Minesweeper — though it’d be even better played on a Lumon computer.

Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming service added 6.4 million subscribers over the past few months, the company revealed in its Q4 2024 earnings results today. Its streaming business also earned $677 million during 2024, with the goal of reaching 150 million subscribers by the end of 2026 following its expansion into Australia, the UK, Ireland, Germany, and Italy.

During its most recent earnings call, Paramount reported that Paramount Plus’ revenue was up by 16% in Q4, and the streamer added 5.6 million new subscribers bringing its total up to 77.5 million. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Paramount expects to keep the new-sub momentum going through Q1 2025, albeit at a slightly slower rate due to its current content line up.

This new clip from Netflix’s Devil May Cry series definitely makes Dante (Johnny Yong Bosch) look like a demon-killing badass, but it seems like his social skills are going to need some work when the series debuts on April 3rd.

Netflix says that the show’s second season was its most viewed series in the second half of 2024 with 87 million views — this despite not releasing until late December. These mega franchises are a big deal for the streamer, and two of the biggest also happen to be ending this year.

Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming service is expanding to yet another country, with the Australian launch coming on March 31st. The timing is good for fans of the post-apocalypse: The Last of Us’ new season starts streaming in April.

Netflix’s slasher franchise continues, this time with the spinoff Prom Queen. While it may not be as inventive as a three-part movie event, the first teaser does look it could still be fun. It starts streaming way ahead of Halloween, too, with a May 23rd premiere date.

We finally have word about the second season of the best thing on Peacock. The return of Poker Face — a clever detective series from Rian Johnson and Natasha Lyonne — will once again include some great guests, which this time means Cynthia Erivo, John Mulaney, and Katie Holmes, among others. No trailer yet ahead of the spring 2025 premiere window, but you can check out the first images below.

Puck reports that Kennedy, who has steered franchises like Star Wars and Indiana Jones since Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012, has informed the studio and others that she will step down by the end of 2025.

It seems like Warner Bros. Discovery has been pleased with My Adventures with Superman because the studio has kicked off production on a Green Lantern-centric spinoff series as well as a new show revolving around Teen Titans mainstay Starfire according to The Hollywood Reporter.

There are countless chill beats to work / study to, but few of them are as ominous as this new eight-hour-long mix from Severance. Not only is just the right amount of creepy, but it also includes some great close-up shots of those bizarre computers.

While The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim wasn’t exactly worth a trek to the theater, you might want to check it out when it starts streaming on Max on February 28th.

After Google announced in August that it was ending Chromecast production, 9to5Google has spotted that the streaming dongles are no longer available for purchase on the Google store. With the Chromecast line officially dead, Google’s only streaming hardware is now the $100 Google TV Streamer set-top box.

Money was the obviously part of what convinced Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson to give Amazon complete creative control over the James Bond franchise after years of telling the studio to kick rocks. None of the involved parties have disclosed exactly how much cash it took to secure the deal, but Deadline is pretty sure 007 wound up costing Amazon a cool $1 billion — that’s in addition to the $8.5 billion Amazon already spent acquiring MGM.

You might not have been keeping up with the development of Marvel’s Nova, Strange Academy, and Terror, Inc. Disney Plus series, but Deadline reports that the studio is putting all three on hold as it rethinks which projects it wants to prioritize for the MCU’s future.

Netflix has “come aboard” the in-development live-action movie adaptation of Sifu and selected a screenwriter, Deadline says. The adaptation was initially announced in late 2022, but there’s still no indication of if or when it might be released.

Peter Parker only had eyes for Pearl Pangan in Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’s first season, but that might change when the show returns with a new version of Gwen Stacy in tow.

Over the next four years, Netflix plans to spend $1 billion dollars to energize the production of new films and series out of Mexico according to The Hollywood Reporter. The investment is nowhere near the $2.5 billion Netflix committed to South Korean productions a few years ago. And a time when the studio has come under fire for platforming questionable depictions of Mexico (see: Emilia Pérez), the move definitely feels like some strategic damage control.