With less than a week to go until the second season premiere of Netflix's The Umbrella Academy, it's fair to say that we're pretty excited. We recently rounded up all we know about the upcoming season, which will be see the super-powered Hargreeves siblings split up across early 1960s Texas, and will involve another apocalypse. And now, to amp up the excitement a little more, Netflix have just put out a new, possibly final, poster for season 2 of The Umbrella Academy, and it pays homage to a classic cover from the comic book series.
Arriving as part of a week that's included new additions to Netflix such as The Kissing Booth 2 and Ip Man 4: The Finale, the Mark Ruffalo-starring Spotlight is more than worth your time. Directed by Tom McCarthy, Spotlight won Oscars in 2016 for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, and also includes turns from Michael Keaton, John Slattery, Rachel McAdams and other notable actors.
Alexandre Aja will direct O2, a new survival thriller for Netflix, and we look at who else is involved in this upcoming film from the director of Crawl.
With the premiere of season 2 of The Umbrella Academy only a week or so away, we're getting excited about what new episodes of the Netflix series will bring us. A recent trailer and promo images show that the comic book adaptation is going to be just as strange and compelling as ever, with various theories also going around as to what will be involved in the season. And now, to help navigate what we know so far, What's On Netflix have rounded up all the available information on the upcoming run.
A few weeks ago, Dan Stevens teased the possibility of a sequel to Adam Wingard's 2014 picture The Guest. The cult favorite was recently added to Netflix, and is well worth a watch for anyone wanting to see Stevens as a U.S. soldier who unexpectedly turns up at a family's home. The actor doubled down on his interest in a follow-up to The Guest in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter this week, albeit while still noting that his collaborators are pretty busy right now.
In a surprising move, the original three Jurassic Park movies are moving over to Netflix from Peacock at the end of this month. Given that NBCUniversal's Peacock only launched last week, it's a bit strange that they're already losing the rights to the three films. The new service, which is also losing The Matrix and Shrek movies at the end of the month, still have plenty of content to fall back on, though, as well as next-day streaming premieres of NBC shows.
We don't have long to wait now until the second season of The Umbrella Academy, which arrives on Netflix this July 31st. The series has been putting out some excellent promos and a trailer that promises a lot of time travel weirdness for the Hargreeves siblings. One of the more striking elements in the materials for season 2 though involves Klaus seemingly running a cult, and ScreenRant have a theory as to why this has happened.
After a brief drought in new programming, Netflix are back into adding fresh content and have several new movies and shows lined up for the week of July 20th to July 26th. With the likes of The Old Guard representing another original content success for the streamer, ahead of returning favorites like The Umbrella Academy, the platform continues to go from strength to strength. What new material can we expect, then, this week?
While season 2 of Star Trek: Picard is still presumably some way off due to COVID-19, there has been plenty of talk of what we could see in the series. We've already heard word of more Star Trek: The Next Generation cast members returning for the show, and that there'll be a greater focus on Starfleet than the first year. One question, though, is whether the series will do longer flashbacks, possibly opening the door for a younger actor to play Patrick Stewart's character.
In what's probably not going to be a surprise to most people, the amount of minutes spent streaming content has sharply risen during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a recent research study, between March 30th and June 7th, streaming minutes have grown by 85% compared to same period last year. With people unable to get out to enjoy entertainment, the time spent on Netflix and other services has increased by a large margin.
