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Irul, Shadow and Bone, The Disciple, and More on Netflix in April
Internationally, on April 23, we’ll get the Shadow and Bone series based on Leigh Bardugo’s best-selling dark fantasy Grishaverse novels. April 14 brings the monster adventure movie Love and Monsters — led by Dylan O’Brien and Jessica Henwick — to India, six months after its US video-on-demand release. A similar thing happens with the Sarah Paulson-led psychological thriller Run, which released in November on Hulu and arrives April 2 on Netflix. As is also the case with crime drama The Serpent; it premiered in January on BBC One and comes to Netflix on April 2. Two Stranger Things stars appear in Netflix movies in April: Caleb McLaughlin is opposite Idris Elba in Concrete Cowboy (April 2), while Natalia Dyer is alongside Amanda Seyfried in Things Heard & Seen (April 29).
From The Big Bull to Mortal Kombat, What to Watch in April
There are some American comedies worth keeping an eye out for as well. Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer suit up in the superhero spoof Thunder Force, releasing April 9 on Netflix. Jamie Foxx is the creator and star on the sitcom Dad Stop Embarrassing Me! — premiering April 14 — inspired by his his relationship with his daughter. And finally, The Lego Movie directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller (as producers) bring us The Mitchells vs. The Machines, a new animated family action comedy featuring the voice talents of Abbi Jacobson, Danny McBride, and Maya Rudolph.
Beyond Netflix originals, April brings a number of critically-acclaimed and beloved (licensed) titles too. On April 1, we saw the likes of Shrek, Everest, Zodiac, GoodFellas, Steve Jobs, Schindler’s List, How to Train Your Dragon, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. While Godzilla vs. Kong romps its way in theatres and on HBO Max, its predecessor Godzilla: King of the Monsters is moving from Prime Video to Netflix on April 10. That is also the case for a few other Warner movies, including It Chapter Two (also April 10), Pokémon Detective Pikachu (April 17), and the Joaquin Phoenix-led Joker (April 20). Also on April 20, the How to Train Your Dragon closing chapter, The Hidden World, also arrives on Netflix India.
Netflix April 2021 releases — the full list
With that, here’s the full list of movies and TV shows coming to Netflix India in April 2021. We’ve marked Netflix Original titles in bold for your convenience.
April 1
47 Ronin
American Sniper
Bee Movie Beethoven (1992)
The Boy Next Door
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Death Becomes Her
Duplicity (2009)
Everest (2015)
The Game (1997)
Glimpses of a Future: Season 1
GoodFellas
Greta (2018)
How to Train Your Dragon
Ibrahim a Fate to Define
Jurassic World: Double Trouble
Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!: Season 1
Lego Jurassic World: Legend of Isla Nublar: Season 1
Magical Andes: Season 2 🇺🇾 🇩🇪
Madagascar (2005)
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
Mama (2013)
Megamind (2010)
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Monsters vs. Aliens
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Over the Hedge
Prank Encounters: Season 2 🇺🇸
Pet Sematary
Puss in Boots (2011)
Ride Along (2014)
Rise of the Guardians
Robocar Poli: two seasons
Schindler’s List
The Scorpion King
Seven Souls in the Skull Castle: Season Bird
Seven Souls in the Skull Castle: Season Flower
Seven Souls in the Skull Castle: Season Wind
Shrek
Shrek 2
Slaughterhouse Rulez
Sleepers (1996)
State of Play
Steve Jobs (2015)
Tersanjung the Movie 🇮🇩
The Theory of Everything
Unbroken (2014)
Wanderlust (2012)
Worn Stories: Limited Series 🇺🇸
You, Me and Dupree
Zodiac (2007)
April 2
Bitter Daisies: Season 2 🇪🇸
Concrete Cowboy 🇺🇸
God Calling
Irul 🇮🇳
Just Say Yes 🇳🇱
Madame Claude 🇫🇷
Run 🇺🇸
The Serpent: Limited Series 🇬🇧
Sky High 🇪🇸
April 3
Tale of the Nine Tailed: Season 1
April 4
The Fisherman’s Diary
April 5
Coded Bias
Family Reunion: Part 3 🇺🇸
April 6
The Last Kids on Earth: Happy Apocalypse to You 🇨🇦
April 7
The Big Day: Collection 2 🇮🇳
Dolly Parton: A MusiCares Tribute 🇺🇸
Snabba Cash: Season 1 🇸🇪
This Is A Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist 🇺🇸
The Wedding Coach: Season 1 🇺🇸
April 8
The Kitchen (2019)
Story of Kale: When Someone’s in Love
The Way of the Househusband: Season 1 🇯🇵
April 9
Have You Ever Seen Fireflies? 🇹🇷
Heaven Official’s Blessing: Season 1
Night in Paradise 🇰🇷
Ojukokoro: Greed
Thunder Force 🇺🇸
Two Distant Strangers 🇺🇸
April 10
Don’t be the First one: new episode
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
It Chapter Two
April 12
New Gods: Nezha Reborn 🇨🇳
April 13
Mighty Express: Season 3 🇺🇸
My Love: Six Stories of True Love: Limited Series 🇺🇸
Peter Rabbit
April 14
The Circle USA: Season 2 🇺🇸
Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!: Season 1 🇺🇸
Law School: new episode 🇰🇷
Love and Monsters 🇺🇸
The Soul 🇨🇳
Why Did You Kill Me? 🇺🇸
April 15
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: multiple seasons
Ride or Die 🇯🇵
Wave of Cinema: One Day We’ll Talk About Today
April 16
Arlo the Alligator Boy 🇺🇸
Ajeeb Daastaans 🇮🇳
Doctor Bello
Fast & Furious Spy Racers: Season 4: Mexico 🇺🇸
Into the Beat 🇩🇪
Synchronic
Why Are You Like This: Season 1 🇦🇺
April 17
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
April 18
Luis Miguel – The Series: Season 2 🇲🇽
April 20
Izzy’s Koala World: Season 2 🇺🇸
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Joker
April 21
Oloibiri (2015)
Zero: Season 1 🇮🇹
April 22
Let’s Fight Ghost: Season 1
Life in Colour with David Attenborough: Season 1 🇬🇧
Searching for Sheela 🇮🇳
Stowaway 🇺🇸
April 23
Heroes: Silence and Rock & Roll
Perfume Imaginary Museum “Time Warp”
Shadow and Bone: Season 1 🇺🇸
Shadow and Bone: The Afterparty 🇺🇸
Tell Me When 🇲🇽
April 25
Roman J. Israel, Esq.
April 26
Rainbow High: Season 1
April 27
Fatma: Season 1 🇹🇷
Go! Go! Cory Carson / Toot-Toot Cory Carson: Season 4 🇺🇸
April 28
Falsa identidad: Season 2
Get the Grift 🇧🇷
Headspace Guide to Sleep: Season 1 🇺🇸
Señora Acero: multiple seasons
Sexify: Season 1 🇵🇱
April 29
Things Heard & Seen 🇺🇸
Us (2019)
Yasuke: Season 1 🇯🇵
April 30
The Disciple 🇮🇳
The Innocent: Season 1 🇪🇸
The Mitchells vs. The Machines 🇺🇸
Pet Stars: Season 1 🇺🇸
The Unremarkable Juanquini: Season 2 🇨🇴
“At Xbox, we believe that with better tools, creators can make even more extraordinary games,” Haiyan Zhang, GM, Xbox Gaming AI, said in a blog post. “This partnership will bring together: Inworld’s expertise in working with generative AI models for character development, Microsoft’s cutting-edge cloud-based AI solutions including Azure OpenAI Service, Microsoft Research’s technical insights into the future of play, and Team Xbox’s strengths in revolutionizing accessible and responsible creator tools for all developers.”
The aforementioned AI design copilot is a toolset that will help game designers turn prompts into scripts and dialogue trees. In contrast, the character runtime will enable dynamically generated plot beats and quests. We’ve already seen heavy AI integration in games by way of procedural generation — a more recent example being the 1000+ planets in Starfield. Not to mention, enemy AI has been around for way longer.
Inworld made headlines in August when it launched a modded story mode for Grand Theft Auto V, Sentient Streets, in which players had to investigate the rise of a bizarre AI-worshipping cult — a segment loaded with characters that spoke in AI-generated dialogue, on the fly. The mod was later taken down by publisher Take-Two, leaving a permanent strike on the creator Bloc’s YouTube channel. As per The Verge, Inworld’s AI technology can also be used for narration in top-down RPGs to warn players about any events awaiting off-screen and respond to questions like we’ve seen in the past year with AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Bing Chat. Microsoft has also been heavily banking on artificial intelligence, having made a $10 billion (about Rs. 83,254 crore) investment in OpenAI. The company has also integrated AI tools into its popular suite of services and also added an AI copilot to Windows.
Despite being a Microsoft-affiliated AI toolset, it would be interesting to see whether titles using them will be allowed to thrive on other platforms. In July, Valve claimed that it would be cracking down on games that included AI-generated assets if the developer didn’t own the copyright to the piece of art. For the uninitiated, when you insert a prompt to create something in AI, the software simply repurposes existing assets found online and mushes them together — basically stealing from other artists and writers without appropriate commercial licenses. Infringing them would lead to the game not being distributed on Steam, forcing the developers to seek proper licenses for the asset by reaching out to the AI companies involved. It’s unclear how Microsoft’s partnership will play out — as long as AI content is being used as a catalyst to innovate and create something new, it should be fine.
In a post on X shared by BSNL’s Andhra Pradesh (@bsnl_ap_circle) unit, the company confirmed that BSNL users can upgrade their older 2G or 3G SIMs to a 4G SIM for free. Not only will the upgrade be free, but a promotional image shared with the post suggests that users who opt for the upgrade will also receive 4GB of free data that will be valid for three months. It is speculated that BSNL is aiming to boost its upcoming 4G services with this offer. The announcement was first spotted by Telecom Talk.
To access the free data offer and the free upgrade, BSNL users are requested to get in touch with executives at BSNL’s Customer Service Centre, franchisee or retailer stores, or contact one of their Direct Selling Agents (DSA). The promo image also adds in a finer print that the offer is available with certain terms and conditions, but hasn’t detailed any, so far.
Reliance’s Jio recently launched the 4G-supported Bharat B1 feature phone in India. The handset is priced at Rs. 1,299 in India. Alongside 4G connectivity, the phone comes with JioCinema and JioSaavn applications pre-installed.
The Jio Bharat B1 is equipped with the JioPay application, which is said to allow users to make UPI payments. Aiming to increase accessibility, the phone supports 23 languages overall, including multiple regional languages.
Realme, via Weibo, announced the arrival of the Realme GT 5 Pro in China. The display of the handset is confirmed to offer 3000 nits peak brightness. It has also been teased to offer heat dissipation with a surface area of around 10,000mm2. It is confirmed to ship with Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC. The post doesn’t specify the exact launch date of the smartphone, however, given the release of the teasers, the launch could be just around the corner.
The Realme GT 5 Pro has been in the news a lot lately. It is expected to feature a 6.78-inch (1,264×2,780 pixels) AMOLED display and is tipped to come in 8GB, 12GB, and 16GB RAM options along with 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB inbuilt storage options.
For optics, the Realme GT 5 Pro is said to have a triple rear camera unit comprising two 50-megapixel sensors and an 8-megapixel shooter at the rear. The camera setup might include a Sony LYTIA LYT808 sensor, an OmniVision OV08D10 secondary sensor, and a Sony IMX890 telephoto sensor. For selfies, there could be a 32-megapixel sensor at the front. It is said to carry a 5,400mAh battery with support for 100W wired charging and 50W wireless charging.
The Realme GT 5 Pro is expected to come with upgrades over Realme GT 5. The latter was launched in China in August with a price tag of CNY 2,999 for the base model with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage.
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