Netflix Top 10: ‘Never Have I Ever’ Final Season Jumps to First Place, ‘Black Mirror’ Season 6 Debuts at No. 2

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Local titles dominated at the mainland Chinese cinema box office over the latest weekend. “Never Say Never” overtook the previous sensation “Lost in the Stars” to lead another strong summer session. “Never Say Never” (aka “Octagonal”) released officially on Thursday, ahead of China’s more normal Friday system. It earned $55.3 million (RMB384 million) between Friday and Sunday, according to verified data from consultancy Artisan Gateway. To that can be added some $9.6 million from Thursday and over $60 million previews and the film finished Sunday with a cumulative of $121 million. Co-written and directed by actor Wang Baoqiang (“Lost in Thailand,” “Detective Chinatown”), the film tells a tale of a man who tries to teach orphans about martial arts. But he is publicly shamed after his efforts are misinterpreted.

Audiences were eager to revisit Avatar: The Way Of Water when the smash hit sequel hit streaming.

Though not as huge as something like “Stranger Things” or “Squid Games,” the comedy series, “Sex Education,” has been a steady hit for Netflix over the course of its run. But all good things must come to an end, and it appears “Sex Education” is ready to say goodbye.

Extraction 2 was No. 1 on Netflix’s English-language film list for the week of June 26-July 2, its third straight week at the top, with 17.5M views.

Chris Hemsworth took over Netflix for the week of June 19 to June 25.

Netflix’s Terms and Conditions have soared sixfold over the weekend, following the premiere of the new Black Mirror series.It comes after the first episode of the sixth season of Black Mirror – released on June 16 – called ‘Joan is Awful’. It features a dramatic situation that resulted from a common everyday mistake: accepting the terms and conditions of an online service without reading them.CasinoAlpha.ie discovered that searches for “Netflix terms and conditions” soared by 596 per cent on Google after just three days of the new season arrived on the streaming platform.Tudor Turiceanu, CEO of CasinoAlpha.ie said on the findings: “Without triggering any spoiler alerts, it is clear that despite today’s awareness of data privacy concerns being higher than ever, it is so easy to forget that terms and conditions are, in fact, a contract.

Netflix has launched a website for a fictional streaming service featured in an episode of Black Mirror.In season six’s episode, Joan Is Awful, Joan (Annie Murphy) discovers her life has been turned into a TV series where she’s played by Salma Hayek. The show within the episode, also titled Joan Is Awful, is released on a streaming service named Streamberry, which shares many similarities with Netflix including the “tudum” sound.On Tuesday (June 20), Netflix UK and Ireland changed its Twitter handle to Streamberry UK and Ireland.

“Black Mirror” references couldn’t get more real, Netflix has pulled a “Joan Is Awful” by including terrifying — and familiar — terms and conditions to its new show-based experience.The “Black Mirror” experience, launched Tuesday following the release of Season 6 last week, enables fans to get the full “Joan Is Awful” treatment by seeing their own faces on the Streamberry streaming platform.The website takes after the Season 6 episode “Joan Is Awful,” which centers on an ordinary woman named Joan (Annie Murphy) who is shocked to see her life depicted on a new show by the one and only Salma Hayek.Netflix made a splash with the announcement, changing their Twitter name to “Streamberry US” (the streaming service referenced within the Season 6 installment) and drawing attention to their new profile picture, which features a red “S” à la Netflix’s “N.”#NewProfilePic https://t.co/UnR4DULFrWThe streamer also included a link to “Streamberry,” whose Netflix-esque setting features “Black Mirror” references in its featured shows, including “Selling San Junipero,” “Five Stars at a Wedding,” “Finding Ritman” and “USS Callister,” among others.As expected, the featured program is “You Are Awful,” and features a blank face, inviting users to allow the streamer to “Make Me Awful.” “Whether your name is Joan or not, you are the star of the show,” the description reads.

The Bear season two are out, with critics praising new episodes as “electrifying” and “fresh”.The FX show’s first season, created by Christopher Storer, followed award-winning chef Carmen ‘Carmy’ Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White) who returns to run his family’s Italian beef sandwich shop following the suicide of his older brother.The second season picks up after Carmy’s decision to close the shop in order to open a new restaurant, with an official synopsis sharing: “Season two follows Carmy, Sydney and Richie as they work to transform their grimy sandwich joint into a next-level spot. As they strip the restaurant down to its bones, the crew undertakes transformational journeys of their own, each forced to confront the past and reckon with who they want to be in the future.”Early critics’ reviews of the new series are positive, which has given the show a 100 per cent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.Rolling Stone described season two as “electrifying” while avoiding a “sophomore slump”.“The new season has its moments, and even whole episodes, that might not be healthy viewing for anyone under a cardiologist’s care, but the tone is often much lighter, and at times plain joyous,” Alan Sepinwall wrote.Variety said season two “keeps up the heat” and wisely gets out of the kitchen”.

The sixth season of “Black Mirror,” Charlie Brooker’s award-winning anthology series that Netflix turned into an original in 2016, might be the most inconsistent in the show’s history. At first, it’s tempting to dismiss it entirely as a production that’s past its sell-by date, especially given how much the world has changed in the four years since the last installment.

Netflix revealed the primary cast of Squid Game season two.The news was shared in a video screened at the event, which first confirmed (via archival clips from season one) that returning stars would include Lee Jung-Jae (as Seong Gi-Huh), Lee Byung-Hun (Front Man), Wi Ha-Jun (Hwang Jun-Ho) and Gong Yoo (Recruiter).New players added to the fray will include Yim Si-Wan, Kang Ha-Neul, Park Sung-Hoon and Yang Dong-Geun. At the time of writing, it’s unknown which characters they’ll play.

Joe Goldberg himself (aka Penn Badgley) is giving us a glimpse of what’s to come in the upcoming fifth and final season of Netflix thriller series You, from Warner Bros. Television and studio-based Berlanti Prods.

Maitreyi Ramakrishnan is basking in the fan response to the final season of Netflix's coming-of-age comedy premiered its fourth season one week ago, with Ramakrishnan's Devi Vishwakumar saying goodbye to college and hello to Princeton — with a new boyfriend, Ben Gross (Jaren Lewison), in tow. Of course, it wasn't all about love and hookups for Devi, as she navigated through grief following her father's sudden death, reaching a place in her life by the end of the series where she felt empowered and, in a way, free.The 21-year-old actress spoke with ET's Denny Directo ahead of hosting Netflix's Tudum global fan event in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Saturday about the response from fans so far to the final season.«I can't believe that season 4 only came out a week ago.

As Netflix viewers finished tuning into the first episode of Black Mirror's new season, many soon took to social media to make the same comment.

Black Mirror returns with five new episodes this month.Created by Charlie Brooker, the dystopian anthology series has taken a dark satirical swipe at various technologies over the years, from dating apps, surveillance to virtual reality.As per a synopsis, the show’s sixth season is described as “the most unpredictable, unclassifiable and unexpected yet”. Cast members include Aaron Paul, Ben Barnes, Annie Murphy, Clara Rugaard, Danny Ramirez, Josh Hartnett, Kate Mara and Michael Cera.The show’s fifth season was released in June 2019, which featured three episodes.

Charlie Brooker’s anthology series, Black Mirror, has been quietly working on its sixth series ready for release to hardcore fans today. The show, which first aired in 2011, has already produced quite the next level and bizarre stories, from Miley Cyrus’ Ashley O AI doll in series five to the ‘Hang the DJ’ dating app ep in season four. However, in the run-up to the season six drop, Charlie was drip feeding fans teasers of what they could expect.

Salma Hayek Pinault and Annie Murphy are filling in for Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova!

Physical: 100 will return for a second season.Physical: 100 is a survival show where a hundred men and women with well-developed physiques compete in various challenges to determine the one contestant with the “perfect” physique. The first season debuted in January 2023 and became Netflix’s first unscripted show to top the streamer’s list of most-popular non-English TV programs.In a press release today (June 14), Netflix confirmed that Physical: 100 has been renewed for a second season and will feature a new group of 100 contestants.

SPOILER ALERT: These interviews contain spoilers from the Season 6 “Black Mirror” episodes “Joan Is Awful,” “Mazey Day” and “Beyond the Sea,” now streaming on Netflix. Back after a four-year hiatus, the long-awaited sixth season of “Black Mirror” opens — fittingly — with “Joan is Awful,” an exploration of the dubious inner workings of a fictional streaming service called Streamberry. Streamberry, which bears more than a passing resemblance to “Black Mirror’s” IRL producing partner Netflix, co-opts users’ lives to create AI-driven, CGI-rendered semi-fictional dramas without its subjects’ consent. Kind of like, say, “Inventing Anna” (which had the consent of the eponymous Anna Delvey, but not her erstwhile BFF Rachel Williams, who sued the streamer for defamation last year) or “The Crown” or “The Tinder Swindler” or “Narcos” or… you get the gist.

You are reading an exclusive WrapPRO article for free. Want to level up your entertainment career? Subscribe to WrapPRO now.“Manifest’s” final installment has topped Netflix’s Top 10 list for its English series. Season 4, Part 2 clocked in 78.15 million hours.