squid-game
Netflix’s reality spinoff, Squid Game: The Challenge has been put on blast by contestants. Rolling Stone reports that some of the 456 people who participated in the reality series have revealed just how unsafe the show’s working conditions were—and that the show was rigged. Players who were competing to cash in on $4.56 million did […]
Squid Game was victorious at Monday’s 74th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, as Netflix’s hit 2021 series took home six awards, including actor Lee Jung-jae winning outstanding lead actor in a drama series and director Hwang Dong-hyuk taking the award for top director. While speaking to reporters after the show, Squid Game creator Hwang dong-hyuk was asked about Netflix’s upcoming reality series […]
While Stranger Things remains an indisputably massive property for Netflix, with its upcoming final season sure to extend that dominance, the latest batch of the Duffer Brothers’ supersized-blockbuster has been determined to have fallen short of the initial viewership numbers needed to best a certain Squid Game record. Per Variety, the split-release strategy for Stranger […]
Netflix’s Squid Game took the world by storm, but one of the Korean drama’s stars thought she didn’t do so well when watching the show for the first time. Jung Ho-yeon’s character Kang Sae-byeok quickly became a fan favorite, but the actress told the Hollywood Reporter in a roundtable discussion with Sandra Oh, Emmy Rossum, Rosario Dawson, Lily James, and […]
Netflix’s hugely popular series Squid Game won’t be get its second season until late next year or possibly even 2024, according to Hwang Dong-hyuk. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Squid Game creator/director/writer Dong-hyuk said he is currently speaking with Netflix about Season 2 and so far has “three pages worth of ideas that he plans to turn into a script.” […]
It’s official. Squid Game is getting a second season. Netflix’s co-chief executive Ted Sarandos confirmed the news Thursday, during the streamer’s 2021 fourth quarter earnings interview: “Absolutely,” Sarandos said when asked whether the drama would receive a sophomore season. “The Squid Game universe has just begun.” The South Korean survival series was released worldwide in September 2021, and managed to pull in […]
Following the explosive popularity of titles like Squid Game and Hellbound, Netflix will release multiple Korean features in 2022, with 25 originals slated for release this year. Don Kang, the streaming service’s Vice President of Korean Content, told the Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday that the company is “excited to continue collaborating with Korean storytellers to bring the K-wave to new […]
After the massive success of the first season of Netflix’s Korean-drama, Squid Game is undeniable. The show has already become one of the streamer’s most popular ever, and now creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has not only talked about how he plans to continue the story in Season 2, but that he and Netflix are already in talks about a Season […]
January of 2022 will mark 15 years since Netflix launched its streaming service. Back then, the world wasn’t ready for what streaming television meant; there are still tens of millions of Americans who don’t have access to broadband internet, but somehow everyone knows what Netflix & Chill means, who their favorite Stranger Things characters are, and is […]
