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Netflix New Releases: September 2025

by jummy84 September 2, 2025

written by jummy84

The concluding part of season two of Wednesday; the story of Charlie Sheen’s redemption; a clash between the two greatest super middleweights in the world; an A-list crime drama starring Jude Law and Jason Bateman; a lavish period drama from the creator of Peaky Blinders; and the third season of one of the most talked-about Japanese sci-fi shows are among the highlights of the new film and TV projects hitting Netflix in September.

Starting the month off strong is part two of season two of Wednesday, that hits Netflix on Sept. 3. There’s no need to introduce this absolute monster hit for the streamer, as seemingly everyone is watching — the first half of Wednesday season two delivered 50 million views worldwide, the most views for an English-language show’s opening week on the streamer since season one of Wednesday. Part two kicks off with “Hide and Woe Seek,” the 13th episode in total of the series, and we pick up the action after our titular heroine was unceremoniously defenestrated by Tyler.

On Sept. 10, Netflix debuts a Charlie Sheen documentary that is sure to dominate the discourse online. The two-parter aka Charlie Sheen recounts the once-troubled tabloid regular’s life and career, from the professional highs of a respected film and TV career, to the lows of the “tiger blood” public meltdown era, and finally the path to sobriety and the semblance of normalcy. The talking heads involved include ex-wife Denise Richards, Heidi Fleiss, Jon Cryer, Sean Penn, Ramon Estevez, Brooke Mueller, and Chris Tucker. The doc comes from Andrew Renzi, who directed Netflix’s docuseries Pepsi, Where’s My Jet?

Live sports is very much a regular thing on Netflix now, and this month’s boxing main event is the hotly anticipated fight between Mexico’s Canelo “Cinnamon” Álvarez and American Terence “Bud” Crawford. Streaming live from the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Sept. 13, the fight is dubbed “Once in a Lifetime” and sees the two greatest super middleweights fighting today for the WBA (Super), WBC, IBF, WBO and The Ring undisputed super middleweight titles.

Netflix’s big crime drama for this month is the starry Black Rabbit, which stars Jason Bateman and Jude Law as the leads and debuts Sept. 18. The show tells the story of a pair of estranged siblings who reconnect when the troubled brother (Bateman) brings the chaos that follows him and threatens the other brother’s successful nightspot. Written by Zach Baylin, the scribe behind Justin Kurzel’s excellent Law-starring feature The Order, and co-writer of the less excellent reboot of The Crow, the series also stars Cleopatra Coleman, Amaka Okafor, Sope Dirisu, Dagmara Domińczyk, Chris Coy, Abbey Lee, Odessa Young and Oscar-winner Troy Kotsur.

Sept. 25 sees the launch of House of Guinness, a lavish new British period drama from Netflix. Hailing from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, House of Guinness goes inside the drama and heartache of the Guinness brewing family. The action centers on the Irish and New York wings of the family around the 19th century and concerns itself with the fate of the four children of Sir Benjamin Guinness, the man who really expanded the family’s wealth and business empire. Expect wondrous sets and costumes, as well as classically trained actors reallying earning their money. The series stars Louis Partridge as Edward Guinness, Anthony Boyle as Arthur Guinness, Emily Fairn as Anne Guinness and Fionn O’Shea as Benjamin Guinness and the cast also includes talented thesps David Wilmot, James Norton, Jack Gleeson, Niamh McCormack, Seamus O’Hara, Dervla Kirwan, Michael McElhatton, Danielle Galligan, Hilda Fay and Cassian Bilton.

This month’s international gem on Netflix is the eagerly anticipated third season of Japanese sci-fi drama series Alice in Borderland, which also launches Sept. 25. Based on Haro Aso’s manga series of the same name, the series tells the story of two young people trapped in an empty parallel version of Tokyo, where they have to survive by competing in increasingly dangerous games. That brief description is not really doing the show justice, but strong critical praise, and word-of-mouth, has seen Alice in Borderland become a sleeper hit for Netflix. The series was co-written and directed by Shinsuke Sato and stars Kento Yamazaki and Tao Tsuchiya as the leads. Well worth a watch if you’re interested in the survival genre or cleverly made dramas.

Movies added to Netflix in September include 10 Things I Hate About You, Idiocracy, Sweet Home Alabama, 8 Mile, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Billy Madison, The Boy Next Door, Boyz n the Hood, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Bridesmaids, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Chicken Run, Dennis the Menace, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Edge of Tomorrow, Escape Room, Good Advice, Hot Shots!, Hot Shots! Part Deux, Inglourious Basterds, Inside Man, Inside Man: Most Wanted, Knocked Up, LA LA Land, The Land Before Time, Liar Liar, Limitless, Long Shot, Paddington, Phantom Thread, Puss in Boots, The Rookie (1990), The Running Man, Shark Tale, Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Shrek, Shrek 2, Shrek Forever After, Shrek the Third, Stand by Me, We’re the Millers and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.

Missed what came to Netflix last month? Check out the August additions here.

Read on for the complete list of titles hitting Netflix in September.

Sept. 1

8 Mile
A Thousand Tomorrows: Season 1
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Billy Madison
The Boy Next Door
Boyz n the Hood
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Bridesmaids
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Chicken Run
Dennis the Menace
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Edge of Tomorrow
Escape Room
Good Advice
The Four Seasons
Franklin & Bash: Seasons 1-4
Hot Shots!
Hot Shots! Part Deux
Inglourious Basterds
Inside Man
Inside Man: Most Wanted
Knocked Up
LA LA Land
The Land Before Time
Liar Liar
Limitless
Long Shot
Money Talks
Orphan Black: Seasons 1-5
Paddington
Phantom Thread
Puss in Boots
The Rookie (1990)
The Running Man
Shark Tale
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Shrek
Shrek 2
Shrek Forever After
Shrek the Third
Stand by Me
We’re the Millers
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Sept. 3

Wednesday: Season 2, Part 2

Sept. 4

Countdown: Canelo v Crawford
Pokémon Concierge: Season 1, Part 2 (JP)

Sept. 5

Inspector Zende (IN)
Love Con Revenge

Sept. 7

The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity (JP)

Sept. 8

Dr. Seuss’s Red Fish, Blue Fish
Her Mother’s Killer: Season 2 (CO)

Sept. 9

Daddy’s Home
Daddy’s Home 2
Jordan Jensen: Take Me With You
Kiss or Die (JP)

Sept. 10

aka Charlie Sheen
The Dead Girls (MX)
Love Is Blind: Brazil: Season 5 (BR)
Love Is Blind: France (FR)

Sept. 11

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Diary of a Ditched Girl (SE)
Kontrabida Academy (PH)
Tyler Perry’s Beauty in Black: Season 2
Wolf King: Season 2 (GB)

Sept. 12

Beauty and the Bester (ZA)
Maledictions (AR)
Ratu Ratu Queens: The Series (ID)
The Wrong Paris
You and Everything Else (KR)

Sept. 13

Canelo Álvarez vs. Terence Crawford

Sept. 14

Ancient Aliens: Season 11
Moving On

Sept. 15

Call the Midwife: Series 14
Nashville: Seasons 1-6
S.W.A.T.: Season 8

Sept. 16

Rebel Royals: An Unlikely Love Story

Sept. 17

1670: Season 2 (PL)
Matchroom: The Greatest Showmen (GB)
Next Gen Chef

Sept. 18

The BA***DS of Bollywood (IN)
Black Rabbit
Platonic: Blue Moon Hotel (TR)
Same Day with Someone (TH)

Sept. 19

Billionaires’ Bunker (ES)
Cobweb
Haunted Hotel
She Said Maybe (DE)

Sept. 22

Blippi’s Job Show: Season 2

Sept. 23

Cristela Alonzo: Upper Classy
Spartacus: Seasons 1-4

Sept. 24

The Guest (CO)

Sept. 25

Alice in Borderland: Season 3 (JP)
House of Guinness (GB)
Wayward (CA)

Sept. 26

Ángela: Limited Series (ES)
French Lover (FR)
Pokémon Horizons: Season 2—The Search for Laqua Part 4 (JP)
Ruth & Boaz

Sept. 28

10 Things I Hate About You
Idiocracy
Sweet Home Alabama

Sept. 30

Earthquake: Joke Telling Business
Interview With the Vampire: Season 2
Nightmares of Nature: Cabin in the Woods

September 2, 2025 0 comments

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Netflix Release Date, Cast & More – Hollywood Life

by jummy84 August 31, 2025

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Image Credit: Ken Woroner / Netflix

He’s alive! Leave it to Guillermo del Toro to bring back Frankenstein in a new, eerily creative way. Coming to Netflix in late 2025, the new Frankenstein movie has a star-studded cast, and it’s based directly on author Mary Shelley‘s 1818 novel of the same name.

“The most important figure from English legacy is, incredibly, for me, a teenager by the name of Mary Shelley, and she has remained a figure as important in my life as if she were family,” Guillermo said, according to Netflix’s Tudum. “And so many times when I want to give up, when I think about giving up, when people tell me that dreaming of the movies and the stories I dream are impossible, I think of her.”

Frankenstein Movie Release Date

Guillermo’s Frankenstein will debut on Netflix on November 7, 2025. The film had its world premiere on August 30, 2025, at the Venice International Film Festival.

Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein Trailer

During Netflix’s Tudum 2025: The Live Event, the trailer for Frankenstein dropped. Though it’s a brief compilation of scenes, fans can hold onto it for now as they wait for an official release date.

Though the monster-creating story tends to take on a more horrific side in Hollywood renditions, Guillermo said his version is not a thriller.

“Somebody asked me the other day, ‘Does it have really scary scenes?’ the filmmaker said during a conversation at the Cannes Film Festival with composer Alexandre Desplat. “For the first time, I considered that. It’s an emotional story for me. It’s as personal as anything. I’m asking a question about being a father, being a son … I’m not doing a horror movie — ever. I’m not trying to do that.”

Frankenstein Netflix Cast

The Frankenstein 2025 cast features some of the biggest names in show business. Oscar Isaac is playing the main role of Victor Frankenstein, Jacob Elordi is Frankenstein’s monster and Mia Goth is Elizabeth Lavenza, Victor’s fiancée.

Also in the Frankenstein 2025 cast is Christian Convery as young Victor, Christoph Waltz as Dr. Pretorious, Felix Kammerer as Williams, Lars Mikkelsen as Captain Anderson, David Bradley as Blind Man and Ralph Ineson as Professor Kempre

August 31, 2025 0 comments

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Colin Farrell in Bad Netflix Thriller

by jummy84 August 31, 2025

written by jummy84

A deep-pocketed neon-noir starring Colin Farrell as an inveterate gambling addict and see-thru fraud who has three days to fork up the $45,000 USD he owes to his Macau hotel and casino (lest he be deported back to England, or worse), Edward Berger’s “Ballad of a Small Player” sounds like a mighty decent bet on paper. And yet something is off from the moment it starts with Farrell’s Lord Doyle groaning “fuck” into the bathroom mirror, as if he’s just noticed it too.

The situation doesn’t need long to grow more ominous from there, as Volker Bertelmann’s thunderous string and horn score — squelching in your face like a wet fart throughout the course of a movie that’s meant to feel like a fever dream — accompanies the arch comedy of watching our protagonist try to slip out of his penthouse suite without getting caught. There’s a Coen brothers’-like smirk to Lord Doyle’s cartoon obviousness, but that doesn’t stop Berger from shooting the sequence like it’s straight out of “Conclave,” all straight lines and holy purpose.

Anyone with eyes can see that Lord Doyle is an impostor (his green velvet suit screams “I’m bluffing!” loud enough for people to understand it in every language, which is extra silly for someone who exclusively plays a pure luck game like baccarat), but that isn’t enough for locals to notice a gweilo like him. In a place built on empty promises, a peninsula whose Eiffel Tower is a copy of a copy of the real one in Paris, he’s just another lie that doesn’t even have the heart to believe in itself.

The only problem there is that “Ballad of a Small Player” suffers from the same half-defeated identity crisis; much like our dear Doyle (or whatever his real name is), Berger’s film is so desperate for a win that it loses any real sense of what the stakes are. Despite promising a welcome throwback to the sort of down-and-out milieu that authors like Graham Greene once put on the map, this Lawrence Osborne adaptation winds up feeling like nothing so much as a quintessential Netflix movie: Easy to watch and impossible to care about.

I’ll say this in its favor: Watching Doyle eat a meal is possibly one of the most uncomfortable things I’ve ever seen on the big screen, and I would have to imagine that its horror will translate to small ones as well. The man is rapacious — a hungry ghost with a big mouth and an empty stomach. He shoves food into his maw like a human No-Face, and his entire body trembles while he does it, as if Doyle is trying to survive his acute gambling withdrawal by distracting his other senses. Every bite feels like his last, and yet he’s also convinced that a single lucky streak is all he needs to clear his debts. Alas, there are some debts that can’t be repaid. There are some stains that don’t wash out. There are some problems that money can’t solve.

One of them seems to be private investigator Cynthia Blithe (Tilda Swinton, splitting the difference between “Michael Clayton” and “Snowpiercer” with a pro forma performance memorable only for the glasses she gets to wear), who’s been hired to secure photographic evidence that Doyle is hiding out in Macau. More susceptible to money — or at least more understanding of why Doyle tries to buy his way out of everything — is an enigmatic Rainbow Casino employee named Dao Ming (Fala Chen), who watches the Englishman blow a fortune at her baccarat table only to be endeared by his lost soul sloppiness. Chen is the wraith-like heart of this story, but her character strains belief even in a shaky hand of a movie that operates with all the internal logic of a gambling addiction.

Then again, so does everything else in “Ballad of a Small Player,” which reshuffles its cards so often that you start to wonder if it’s playing with a full deck. Switching gears between heightened comedy, self-destructive bender, ex-pat farce, and an empty meditation on the relationship between capitalism and shame, Berger’s film doesn’t juggle genres so much as it careens out of control between them, its crumbling hero too narcissistic for anything to matter beyond the tunnel vision of his next line of credit.

Of course, Doyle is only looking for loans while he bides his time for a miracle, but it’s going to take something a bit more proactive than that in order to cleanse him of the sins that he’s been trying so hard to outrun, or at least out bet. “You can be anyone in Macau,” Doyle tells Cynthia as part of a sales pitch to leave him alone and “live a little,” but Doyle — who’s already faked his own death once — will have to become someone if he hopes to survive.

This movie tries its best to nudge him in the right direction, but the path it offers him to rock bottom — and to the redemption that lies beyond it — proves exasperating. It’s some consolation that Doyle travels along the scenic route, as James Friend’s ultra-wide cinematography allows the purgatorial casinos of Macau to look as sterile as the fluorescent streets outside are aglow with sizzle and seduction. Still, the film’s rich sense of place never catalyzes into a legitimate atmosphere, which makes it that much harder to reconcile the “fun” of Berger’s tone and the flustered charisma of Farrell’s performance with the soul rot on display.

“Ballad of a Small Player” mines so much of its queasy momentum from Lord Doyle’s relentless desperation and refusal to give up, but the movie doesn’t give us much of a reason not to throw in the towel. Doyle’s luck might turn before the end of this story — ours will not.

Grade: C

“Ballad of a Small Player” premiered at the 2025 Telluride Film Festival. Netflix will release it in select theaters on Friday, October 17, and on Netflix on Wednesday, October 29.

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August 31, 2025 0 comments

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TV & Streaming

Guillermo Del Toro On ‘Frankenstein’, Netflix, Theatrical And AI

by jummy84 August 30, 2025

written by jummy84

Guillermo del Toro‘s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein launches at the Venice Film Festival today and the filmmaker, cast and backers Netflix were at the film’s Lido press conference.

Oscar Isaac stars as Dr. Victor Frankenstein, the brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature (Jacob Elordi) to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.

Oscar winner Del Toro was asked by a journalist — sitting a row back from Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos — whether he would have liked more than a three-week theatrical run for his big-budget spectacle?

Del Toro quipped initially: “Yeah. I mean, look, look at my size. I always want more of everything,” before adding of the $120M movie: “To me, the battle we are going to fight in telling stories is on two fronts, obviously the size of the screen, but the size of the ideas is very important. The size of the ambition. Can we reclaim scale, and reclaim scale of ideas. It’s a dialogue, and it’s a very fluid dialogue. I’m very happy. You never know what’s going to happen….To reach more than 300 million viewers, you take the opportunity and the challenge to make a movie that can transform itself and that evokes cinema.”

Del Toro said of his inspiration for making the movie: “It was a religion for me. Since I was a kid — I was raised very Catholic — I never quite understood the saints. And then when I saw Boris Karloff on the screen, I understood what a saint or a messiah looked like. So I’ve been following the creature since I was a kid, and I always waited for the movie to be done in the right conditions, both creatively in terms of achieving the scope that it needed for me to make it different, to make it at a scale that you could reconstruct the whole world.”

Del Toro was asked about the danger AI and technology poses to humanity: “We live in a time of terror and intimidation, certainly. And the answer, which art is part of, is love. For me, forgiveness is part of love and so many other things. And the central question in the novel from the beginning is, what is it to be human? What makes us human? And there’s no more urgent task than to remain human in a time where everything is pushing towards bipolar understanding of our humanity…I think that the movie tries to show imperfect characters and the right we have to remain imperfect, and the right we have to understand each other under the most oppressive of circumstances. It is very biographical to me, but it is, I think, biographical for anyone that tries to preserve their soul in the times we’re living in. And to me, artificial intelligence I’m not afraid of; I’m afraid of natural stupidity, which is much more abundant.”

Oscar Isaac described the journey he had been on since meeting Del Toro about the part two years prior: “I can’t believe that I’m here right now. I can’t believe we got to this place from two years ago, sitting at your table [looking at Del Toro] eating Cuban pork; just talking about our fathers and our life too…It was like a fusion. I just hooked myself into Guillermo, and we flung ourselves down the well.”

Elordi said he poured his whole being into the role of the monster: “It was a vessel that I could put every part of myself into. From the moment that I was born to being here with you today, all of it is, is in that character. And in so many ways, the the creature that’s on screen in this movie is the sort of purest form of myself. He’s more me than than I am.”

At Netflix’s Tudum event earlier this year, Del Toro called the film “the culmination of a journey that has occupied most of my life,” adding, “Monsters have become my personal belief system. There are strands of Frankenstein through my films.”

Coming off his third Oscar win for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, another literary adaptation for Netflix, Del Toro’s Frankenstein also stars Mia Goth (X), Felix Kammerer (All Quiet on the Western Front), Lars Mikkelsen (The Witcher), David Bradley (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio), Christian Convery (Sweet Tooth), Charles Dance (Game of Thrones) and Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds).

Del Toro directed from his own script and produced alongside J. Miles Dale and Scott Stuber.

August 30, 2025 0 comments

gosh, you're annoying - yeon ji-yeong (im yoon-ah)

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ROYAL KITCHEN, FORBIDDEN LOVE DIALOGUES!” – ‘Bon Appétit, Your Majesty’ On Netflix Unfolds In Time-Travel Twist | Glamsham.com

by jummy84 August 28, 2025

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Netflix has released the trailer for its new Korean fantasy romance drama Bon Appétit, Your Majesty, which is due to arrive globally on August 23, 2025. The show features Lim Yoon-a and Lee Chae-min and is said to combine time travel, political intrigue, and fine dining.

The trailer meets Yeon Ji-young (Lim Yoon-a), an elite French chef who finds herself inexplicably whisked 500 years into the past to the Joseon Dynasty during the peak of her culinary reign. Finding herself in a world of palace politics and strict tradition, Ji-young is tasked with cooking for demanding King Lee Heon (Lee Chae-min), who’s as much an refined epicurean as he is a menacing despot.

Promised as a “sweet and savage survival tale,” the show tells the story of Ji-young’s battle to impress the king’s discerning taste buds with contemporary cooking methods, while adjusting to a world she is unfamiliar with. The trailer features sizzling food, intense kitchen politics, and the sudden spark of romance between the monarch and the chef.

Lim Yoon-a, who appeared in King the Land and Big Mouth, sparkles as the fiery Ji-young, with Lee Chae-min (Crash Course in Romance, Hierarchy) giving a forceful performance as the moody king. Their chemistry on screen promises an interesting and emotional ride.

Sidelights are provided by Kang Han-na as the king’s long-time concubine Kang Mok-ju and Choi Gwi-hwa as Prince Je Seon, adding drama and competition.

With eye-catching visuals, a compelling time-slip premise, and Netflix’s customary high production standards, Bon Appétit, Your Majesty has the potential to be the next global K-drama phenomenon.

“I am this nation’s King” – Lee Heon (Lee Chae-min) Gosh, you’re annoying – Yeon Ji-yeong (Im Yoon-ah)

"the gates of hell really have opened" - yeon ji-yeong (im yoon-ah) — **“The gates of hell really have opened” – Yeon Ji-yeong (Im Yoon-ah)**

"this taste i simply cannot believe it" - lee heon (lee chae-min) — **“This taste I simply cannot believe it” – Lee Heon (Lee Chae-min)**

"your skill transcends this era" - lee heon (lee chae-min) — **“Your skill transcends this era” – Lee Heon (Lee Chae-min)**

"no one can be trusted.....well i have always been alone anyway" - lee heon (lee chae-min) — **“No one can be trusted…..Well I have always been alone anyway” – Lee Heon (Lee Chae-min)**

"it means survival here is not easy" - prince je seon (choi gwi-hwa) — **“It means survival here is not easy” – Prince Je Seon (Choi Gwi-hwa)**

"am i going to die sadly here like this in joseon?" - yeon ji-yeong (im yoon-ah) — **“Am I going to die sadly here like this in Joseon?” – Yeon Ji-yeong (Im Yoon-ah)**

"you think i will let you die" - lee heon (lee chae-min) — **“You think I will let you die” – Lee Heon (Lee Chae-min)**

"why is my heart beating so fast?" - lee heon (lee chae-min) — **“Why is my heart beating so fast?” – Lee Heon (Lee Chae-min)**

"i'll find my way back somehow. no matter what" - yeon ji-yeong (im yoon-ah) — **“I’ll find my way back somehow. No matter what” – Yeon Ji-yeong (Im Yoon-ah)**

August 28, 2025 0 comments

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Sushin Shyam Flags Netflix Over Uncredited Use of Aavesham Track in Splinter Cell: Deathwatch Teaser

by jummy84 August 27, 2025

written by jummy84

Malayalam composer Sushin Shyam, who gave Aavesham its pulsating soundscape, has publicly raised concerns after hearing his track The Last Dance in the teaser of Netflix’s new animated series Splinter Cell: Deathwatch. The track, originally created with rapper Hanumankind, plays prominently in the action-packed promo, but neither artiste was credited.

A Familiar Beat, An Absent Credit

The teaser quickly went viral, but for Malayalam cinema fans, the music was unmistakable. Sushin drew attention to the omission in typically wry fashion, commenting beneath the official YouTube upload: “Thanks Netflix for featuring my track! Would’ve been even cooler if my name had made it to the credits too.” His words sparked a wider discussion online about how regional creators often slip through the cracks when their work is repurposed for global platforms. As of now, neither Netflix nor Ubisoft, which owns the Splinter Cell franchise, has issued a statement.

Milestones Beyond the Controversy

The composer, however, has also had reasons to celebrate. Recently, Sushin described experiencing his “first real fanboy moment” when AR Rahman followed him on Instagram, a gesture he said left him overwhelmed and grateful. On the personal front, Sushin tied the knot last year, while professionally he has been on a short breather since delivering back-to-back hits with Manjummel Boys and Aavesham.

Still, he hasn’t been idle. July saw him drop Ray, his first independent single, marking a step into non-film music. And on the horizon are two big projects: Balan: The Boy, directed by Chidambaram and written by Aavesham filmmaker Jithu Madhavan, and Torpedo, filmmaker Tharun Moorthy’s next, starring Fahadh Faasil, Naslen, Arjun Das and Ganapathi.

Sushin Shyam Flags Netflix Over Uncredited Use of His Aavesham Track in Splinter Cell: Deathwatch Teaser

The Bigger Picture

Sushin’s blunt yet humorous response highlights a larger debate: when regional music travels beyond borders, are its creators given their due? While The Last Dance finding space in a high-profile Netflix production is undeniably a milestone, the lack of credit raises uncomfortable questions about visibility and fairness. For now, the incident has amplified Sushin’s voice beyond Kerala and reaffirmed the growing global appetite for music born in Indian cinema.

Also Read: Tharun Moorthy Sets Sail With Torpedo, Featuring Fahadh Faasil And Arjun Das

August 27, 2025 0 comments

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Netflix Reacts to Huda Mustafa Love Island USA Reunion Reference

by jummy84 August 26, 2025

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Kyra Green & Cashel Barnett: Split

The delivered one of the U.S. version’s most unexpected couplings, with Kyra choosing to leave the show to see if she still had a shot with Cashel after sending him home…only to find out he’d already returned. But, unfortunately, the musically inclined couple split in October 2019.

By the end of November, they had reconciled. However, Kyra and Cashel ended their relationship for good in February 2020.

“We had a good go,” he said on the #NoFilter podcast. “I think we’re just in different places in our lives…I think she blocked my number, to be honest.”

Kyra went on to appear on other shows including Match Me If You Can in 2021, The Challenge: USA in 2022 (which Cashel also competed on) and Love Island Games in 2023. But she ended up finding her match off-camera with dental student and former basektball player Tal Sahar in 2024.

In May 2025, Cashel was jailed in Utah on charges of domestic violence and assault, according to online records. The following month, new charges of assault and domestic violence were filed against him.

According to NBC News, Cashel denied the allegations, with his attorney Andrew K. Deesing telling the outlet, “My client and his family are enduring an incredibly difficult time, and we hope that his privacy will be respected as we work diligently to defend his name and reputation. Obviously, we’re in the very early stages of this and don’t have any further comment at this time.”

August 26, 2025 0 comments

Is Huda Mustafa Single? Her 'Love Island USA' Journey & Relationship Update

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Who Is Huda Mustafa Dating? Inside Netflix Relationship Rumors – Hollywood Life

by jummy84 August 26, 2025

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Image Credit: Ben Symons/PEACOCK

When it comes to Love Island USA, certain contestants become Villa famous, and Huda Mustafa is one of them. Throughout season 7, Huda faced backlash from fans for her choices on the show. Now that she and Chris Seeley ended the season 7 finale parting ways, she dropped a bombshell during the reunion — when host Andy Cohen asked if she’s dating anyone, Huda claimed Netflix won’t let her talk about it. Find out what we know so far about Huda’s romance here.

Who Is Huda Mustafa From Love Island Dating?

After completing her stint on Love Island USA. Huda was spotted getting close to Too Hot to Handle star Louis Russell. Louis has also appeared on the streamer’s series Perfect Match.

When pressed about her romance during the reunion, Huda said, “I’m not allowed to speak. It’s Netflix. I’m not allowed to talk about it.” As for why she apparently couldn’t talk about her love life, Huda cited “legal reasons.”

What Happened Between Huda & Chris?

During the two-hour season 7 finale episode, Huda and Chris sat down over a candle-lit dinner to discuss where their budding relationship was going wrong.

In the end, Huda and Chris broke up and actually made Love Island USA history by becoming the first couple to break up during a season finale.

Why Did Huda & Chris Break Up?

Huda and Chris split because she expressed doubts about their compatibility, while he questioned her confidence in their connection.

“Moving forward in the outside world, there’s no more time in here to figure this out. We’re not exclusive, we’re still getting to know each other, and a lot of the things that we do need are the physical aspects,” Huda said to Chris. “I’m not sure how we would work on that with long distance.”

However, shortly thereafter, Huda proposed that she and Chris just be friends, which he declined.

“Right off the bat, I’m gonna be honest with you — no,” Chris said to Huda about a friendship. “But will I have any hatred toward you? No. But I need to not like you anymore, so that means I need to separate myself a little bit, I’m going to.”

What Happened Between Huda & Jeremiah?

Love Island USA fans watched Huda and Jeremiah get super close way too fast, which resulted in serious ups and downs in their communication. The couple looked like they were head over heels for each other, but that quickly changed. Their dynamic took a turn for the worse, and Huda and Jeremiah’s fling eventually fizzled out. But just before he could explore more connections further, Jeremiah was voted off the island by the boys.

Huda Mustafa’s Past Relationships

Huda’s only known past relationship was with the father of her baby: ex Noah Sheline. He serves in the U.S. Army. Noah and Huda welcomed their child in 2020 and broke up at some point.

During her time on Love Island USA, Noah felt the need to speak out regarding the backlash she got from fans about the drama on the show. In a TikTok Story, he asked social media users to show Huda respect despite “regardless of how ridiculous she might seem” on the show, according to People.

“She’s maybe not doing a great job idk I don’t watch the show but I don’t like that I’m seeing so much negative s*** on my page or even clips of it about her,” Noah wrote in June 2025. “It’s not my job to police her or the people in my comments, but I will say what you guys do will affect her mental health and my daughter’s maybe in the future.”

Noah continued that it’s “crazy I have to involve myself in this, but I don’t want my daughter’s mom to get out and see this and her mental health goes down a hill. For people who have been respectful and nice and defending her as a mother, thank you! She tries just as much as any other young parent in this world.”

August 26, 2025 0 comments

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Former Netflix Ad Chief Jeremi Gorman Joins Fanatics

by jummy84 August 26, 2025

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Fanatics hired Jeremi Gorman, the veteran ad exec who led Netflix’s foray into advertising, to lead the sports merchandise and media company’s new advertising division.

Gorman has been appointed Fanatics’ chief revenue officer and will oversee the ad division as it “introduces a new model for positioning brand partners at every touchpoint of modern fandom across content, commerce and culture,” the company announced. She previously served as a strategic adviser to Fanatics since November 2024.

Gorman previously served as president of advertising at Netflix, exiting the streamer after a little over a year. Prior to that, she was chief business officer at Snap, parent of Snapchat, following a seven-year run leading global advertising teams at Amazon.

At Fanatics, Gorman will split her time between Los Angeles and New York City and report into Tucker Kain, Fanatics’ chief strategy and growth officer.

The new vertical reimagines Fanatics’ advertising approach as a unified, end-to-end marketing engine that reflects the scale and global reach of the Fanatics brand, now reaching more than 100 million sports fans worldwide. The team oversees the advertising and brand partnerships strategy that spans Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, Fanatics Betting & Gaming, Fanatics Collect, and Fanatics Events. The model enables brands to reach sports fans in the right place at the right time, creating connections around the clock, whether they are shopping for gear, checking scores, placing bets, participating in live trading card breaks, or attending live events.

“Sports have a unique power to bring people together,” said Jeremi Gorman, Fanatics Advertising Chief Revenue Officer. “Fanatics sits at the center of that passion, with a connected ecosystem that spans commerce, content, and culture. This gives us the ability to deliver for our partners in ways few companies can, authentically engaging fans at scale, at every moment that matters.”

Over the past several months, the Fanatics Advertising team has been building the division’s infrastructure and capabilities and will soon launch the Fanatics Advertising Network (FAN) and Sports Video Network (SVN). Set to debut with the kickoff of the NFL season, these platforms will help brands extend their reach through digital video and CTV placements, strategically positioned alongside key sports programming.

“A unified advertising division unlocks cross-collaboration and creates incredible value for brands who are looking to get the most out of the Fanatics platform — a combination of assets that includes more than 100 million global fans, innovative businesses that reach across the full sports ecosystem, deep relationships with the world’s top sports properties, and a brand that has become synonymous with fandom,” said Tucker Kain, Fanatics Chief Strategy & Growth Officer. “With her impressive track record building and scaling Ad businesses for some of the most transformative global companies, Jeremi is the right leader to launch our new advertising model and offer unique ways for brands to engage deeper with fandom.”

August 26, 2025 0 comments

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‘Adolescence’ Co-Creator Says Netflix Hit Started Off ‘Impossible’

by jummy84 August 25, 2025

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Welcome to It’s a Hit! In this series, IndieWire speaks to creators and showrunners behind a few of our favorite television programs about the moment they realized their show was breaking big.

So many things can go wrong on any given project. When they go right, it means that the creators in charge have made a series of decisions that support the story they want to tell. Netflix’s “Adolescence” broke out way bigger than anyone ever expected, and wound up scoring 13 Primetime Emmy nominations.

Decision 1: Actor and producer Stephen Graham approached his frequent collaborator Jack Thorne (“The Virtues,” “Help”) to write the show.

KPOP DEMON HUNTERS, (aka KPOP: DEMON HUNTERS), from left: Rumi (voice: Arden Cho), Zoey (voice: Ji-Young Yoo), Mira (voice: May Hong), 2025. © Netflix / Courtesy Everett Collection

Decision 2: Thorne convinced Graham to write it with him. “I’ve always thought that he was an actor that had a writer within him,” said Thorne to IndieWire over Zoom. “He is instinctively a storyteller. And so I wanted to find a way to harness that side of his brain and use it. He’s nervous about writing, he’s dyslexic, he doesn’t see himself as a writer, but I thought we could find a way to work together that would allow that side of his brain to flower.”

They met on Zooms; as Graham and Thorne talked things through, Thorne finalized dialogue and typed the script into the computer.

Decision 3: They wrote the show to be shot in four episodes as single long takes. “I want this to be about knife crimes,” Graham told Thorne, “and I want this to be in a single take and four episodes.” During the writing process, Thorne realized that “the single take was changing the way I write. I could see the joy of the incomplete. Where, conventionally, I would tell a story was not possible. Writing this show I realized the damage of that rhythm. This kicked me halfway across the road, and I was seeing traffic come towards me. And Stephen was an army captain, he’s ruthless. It’s done with love, and it’s done with care.”

Decision 4: With a rapidly approaching window to shoot the show, Graham and Thorne did something risky. All they had written was Episode 1. “I didn’t want to lose that window, and I didn’t want the project to die,” said Thorne. “Let’s write episodes 2 and 3 on spec and and thankfully, it paid off for us.”

ADOLESCENCE, from left: Erin Doherty, Owen Cooper, (Season 1, ep. 103, aired March 13, 2025). photo: courtesy of Ben Blackall / ©Netflix/ Courtesy Everett Collection — ‘Adolescence‘ ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection

Decision 5: Amazon, the original home of the series, did not want to make the show they wanted to make. So they walked away. “We just didn’t suit what they wanted to do,” said Thorne.

Decision 6: This allowed the two creators to go to Netflix UK. Graham had starred in the Netflix political series “Bodies.” They met with Netflix in January 2024 and were shooting by the summer. “Adolescence” launched production in July 2024 with director Phil Barantini and cinematographer Matthew Lewis, who had both shot the one-take drama “Boiling Point” with Graham. “They knew how to do it,” said Thorne. “The difference was that was a single room, and we weren’t doing single rooms. We were throwing cameras out of trucks. One of my jobs was to write the impossible and let these technically brilliant people work out ways to solve it, because it is always in the impossible that the interesting things happen.”

Decision 7: They fixed Episode 3. The first episode to be filmed was the confrontation between the 13-year-old accused murderer Jamie (Owen Cooper) and his psychologist (Erin Doherty). But Netflix had notes. “We had rehearsal week, tech week, and shoot week,” said Thorne. “Particularly Thursday of tech week, there will be a lot of people around watching the take, because that would be a dress rehearsal for where we were going to go with it. And at that point, any problems with the script would be apparent, and we’d have to get the spanners and the screwdrivers out and fix it, because there was no edit. The script wasn’t a document which then would be taken into filming, which then would be taken into the edit. The script was the story. On Episode 3, Anne Mensah, our Netflix exec, felt like we were taking way too long to get into the room. We slashed the script, and that still felt too ponderous. And so we ended up with [the psychologist] being late. And she was then traveling through the center at triple speed. It was one of those golden processes that happened so rarely, where it felt like everyone wanted to be on the same team.”

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MAY 27: (L-R) Jack Thorne, Owen Cooper, Stephen Graham, Ashley Walters and Erin Doherty attend Netflix's "Adolescence" ATAS Event at Television Academy's Wolf Theatre at the Saban Media Center on May 27, 2025 in North Hollywood, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images) — Jack Thorne, Owen Cooper, Stephen Graham, Ashley Walters, and Erin Doherty attend Netflix’s ‘Adolescence’ ATAS Event at Television Academy’s Wolf Theatre at the Saban Media Center on May 27, 2025 in North Hollywood, CaliforniaGetty Images

Decision 8: Netflix got behind it. The show was screened for content chief Bela Bajaria, who showed it to Co-CEO Ted Sarandos. “They were helping us position it so that it did have an international life,” said Thorne. “They were on it from the start, and they were passionate about it, and they felt like they had something that people will want to see. But that’s not to say it wasn’t a massive surprise. Because we thought we’d made a little show that might have some international interest, but we didn’t think it would do what it did, no one would ever dare. It did well in countries that I wouldn’t expect to be interested in the story of a lad from Pontefract just outside of Doncaster. We weren’t trying to tell a story that would work in America. It was about knife crime, not gun crime. It was local, but when it is specific enough it does work internationally, if given the chance. And that’s not just true of ‘Adolescence,’ that’s true of a lot of stories.”

Once the show aired to raves, Thorne started getting messages from old school friends, people who aren’t in the business. “You became aware of how many people in different countries were watching it and having that response,” said Thorne. “It is partly down to the single shot, and people were interested in the technical prowess that Matt and Phil showed in making the show, and there is an element of the fear of ‘What’s going on with my teenager behind a closed door?’ But the main reason is there was something about the performances that was special. The actors weren’t being required to do Scene 13 from Episode 2, followed by Scene 16 from Episode 3, and then Scene 20 from Episode 6, because we only have the location for the single day. They were actually telling the story of an hour. And they were telling it on their faces.”

Next up: Thorne is working on Sam Mendes’ series of films about The Beatles. That’s all he can say. He also adapted William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies,” directed by Mark London and filmed with 42 boys off the coast of Malaysia.

All episodes of “Adolescence” are now streaming on Netflix.

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