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TUDUM Netflix — All the Trailers and Biggest Announcements
There was a bunch of news as well: The Witcher renewed for season 3, Sex Education renewed for season 4, Chris Hemsworth teasing his return for Extraction 2, Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler returning for Murder Mystery 2, Millie Bobby Brown and Louis Partridge doing so for Enola Holmes 2, alongside release dates for Cobra Kai season 4 and Tiger King season 2.
This is all in addition to 11 Indian series and movies that Netflix showcased at the pre-show TUDUM: India spotlight. Head here to watch all the TUDUM India trailers and first looks. Outside of that, here are the biggest trailers, news, and announcements from the three-hour TUDUM global fan event.
Red Notice
Release date: November 12
Three world’s best in one film: Johnson plays the world’s greatest tracker FBI Special Agent John Hartley, Gadot is the world’s most wanted art thief Sarah Black, and Reynolds is the world’s greatest con-artist Nolan Booth. Hartley and Booth team up to take down Sarah.
Stranger Things 4
Release date: 2022
A new teaser for the fourth season of Stranger Things introduces a new location: the Creel House, the home of disturbed and intimidating man Victor Creel (Robert Englund) who’s now imprisoned in a psychiatric hospital for a gruesome murder he committed in the 1950s.
Money Heist season 5 ‘Volume 2′
Release date: December 3
Álvaro Morte showed up at TUDUM to unveil the first look at the final five episodes — Volume 2 — of the fifth and final season of the hit Spanish series. Money Heist fans have already been in tears following the death of you-know-who, and it promises to be a fiery goodbye.
Ozark season 4
Ozark lead star and Emmy-winning director Jason Bateman gave us the first look at the fourth and final season of Netflix crime drama at TUDUM. Laura Linney, Julia Garner, Janet McTeer, Tom Pelphrey, Sofia Hublitz, Skylar Gaertner, Charlie Tahan, Lisa Emery and Jessica Frances Dukes also return.
jeen-yuhs
Filmed over two decades, jeen-yuhs — a three-act documentary from Coodie Simmons and Chike Ozah — is an intimate and revealing portrait of Kanye’s experience, showcasing both his formative days trying to break through and his life today as a global brand and artist. TUDUM gave us the first look.
Sex Education season 4
Just days after the release of Sex Education season 3, stars Nctui Gatwa and Kedar Williams-Stirling showed up at TUDUM to announce that the beloved British secondary school series will return for a fourth season. I wouldn’t be surprised if this doesn’t arrive until 2023.
Bridgerton season 2
Nicola Coughlan, Jonathan Bailey, Simone Ashley and Charithra Chandran came to TUDUM to lift the lid on the sophomore run of the mega-popular Regency-era drama. Ashley is the female lead Kate Sharma in Bridgerton season 2, with Chandran as her sister Edwina.
The Sandman
Release date: 2022
Neil Gaiman’s dark fantasy graphic novel is coming to life — finally. Cast members Tom Sturridge and Kirby Howell-Baptiste joined Gaiman to unveil a mind-bending first look, and teased a bunch of character posters that you can find on The Sandman’s social media pages.
Cobra Kai season 4
Release date: December 31
The dojos are punching back in. Xolo Maridueña, Tanner Buchanan, Mary Mouser, Jacob Bertrand, Gianni DeCenzo and Peyton List performed a failed “heist” at TUDUM to reveal the teaser trailer and the release date. The fourth season of karate (melo)drama series Cobra Kai will premiere December 31 on Netflix.
We already knew Chris Hemsworth would return as Tyler Rake thanks to his extensive workout regimen, but now it’s confirmed. The Thor star also hyped up the sequel that’s been written by Avengers: Endgame director Joe Russo, who also wrote Extraction.
Arcane
Release date: November 6
Bumblebee and Hawkeye star Hailee Steinfeld is the voice lead in this animated series set in the League of Legends universe that will be produced by the game studio Riot Games. Ella Purnell, Kevin Alejandro, Katie Leung, Jason Spisak, Toks Olagundoye, JB Blanc, and Harry Lloyd also lend their voice talents. This is the Arcane trailer.
Tiger King 2
Release date: November 17
Netflix is promising “just as much mayhem and madness” for the second season of its hit unscripted series, which returns November 17. The date announcement teaser shows Joe Exotic making a call from prison where he’s serving a 22-year sentence, and claims “we’ve just scratched the surface.”
Cowboy Bebop
Release date: November 19
John Cho showed up at TUDUM to give us a first look at the title sequence from his live-action adaptation of the beloved anime series about a ragtag crew of bounty hunters chasing down the galaxy’s most dangerous criminals. We also got a taste of Yoko Kanno’s score.
Murder Mystery 2
Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston are returning for another international adventure full of intrigue and hijinks, the two co-leads announced at TUDUM. This confirms what trade reports have been saying for a while, with Jeremy Garelick having reportedly signed on as director.
Emily in Paris season 2
Release date: December 22
Lily Collins, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Ashley Park, Lucas Bravo, Camille Razat, Samuel Arnold, Bruno Gouery and William Abadie were all part of TUDUM, as they revealed that the French capital’s American influencer will return for another round of Paris adventures on December 22.
Army of Thieves
Release date: October 29
Remember Matthias Schweighöfer’s Army of the Dead safecracker Ludwig? He’s the star of this Army of the Dead prequel film set six years before the events of Zack Snyder’s movie. No zombies here — at least that’s what Netflix claims — but plenty of romance, comedy, and bank vaults. The trailer is bonkers.
Don’t Look Up
Release date: December 24
Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Rob Morgan, and Jonah Hill feature in this new clip from Adam McKay’s sci-fi black comedy about two low-level astronomers trying — and failing — to warn everyone about a comet that’s headed straight for Earth.
Enola Holmes 2
Millie Bobby Brown and Henry Cavill were already confirmed to reprise their respective roles of Enola Holmes and her elder brother Sherlock Holmes in the sequel — and at TUDUM, the Stranger Things star confirmed that her love interest, Louis Partridge’s Viscount Tewksbury, Marquess of Basilwether, will also be back.
The Witcher season 2
Release date: December 17
At TUDUM, Henry Cavill and Lauren Schmidt Hissrich unveiled two clips from the second season of The Witcher, that re-immerse us back into the Continent. No full-length trailer unfortunately, guess we will just have to wait a bit more. But some good news: The Witcher will return for season 3.
The Witcher: Blood Origin
Sophia Brown, Laurence O’Fuarain, and Michelle Yeoh lead the cast of this six-part prequel miniseries that is set underwater and 1,200 years prior to The Witcher and follows how the first witcher came about. TUDUM brought a behind-the-scenes first look at The Witcher: Blood Origin.
“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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