Netflix Geeked, Netflix’s home for all things genre entertainment, is back with Geeked Week ‘22….and it’s bigger than ever! The five-day virtual fan event celebrating Netflix’s genre series, films, and games returns on Monday, June 6 – Friday, June 10 with tons of your favourites.
Netflix has released a first look at what to expect in our brand new trailer narrated by the one and only David Harbour from Stranger Things. In addition to a trip to the Upside Down, Netflix geeks can expect the latest on The Sandman, The Umbrella Academy, Manifest, The Gray Man, Alice in Borderland,Day Shift, Resident Evil, The Sea Beast and for the first time ever we’ll be sharing exclusive Netflix games. THERE IS SO MUCH TO GET GEEKED ABOUT!
Each day will be jam-packed with cast reveals, talent appearances, trailer premieres, sneak peeks, surprise announcements and so much more covering over 60 Netflix projects.
Every day of Geeked Week will be dedicated to different themes:
Arcane, Riot’s first tv series, will premiere on Saturday, November 7 at 1 AM GMT. The show will premiere on Tencent video in China and Netflix globally just hours after the League of Legends Worlds Final.
The show is structured into three distinct acts with three episodes per act. The first three episodes focus on the very beginnings of the two sisters and will launch on November 7. The second act will launch a week later on November 13, and the third act will release on November 20.
The premiere of the show will be at the center of a global celebration for gamers and fans of the League of Legends IP.
Nicolo Laurent, CEO of Riot Games: “Players all over the world love League and its universe. Their passion is what inspires us to create expressions of Runeterra worthy of their fandom. The launch of Arcane is the beginning of the next chapter for Riot and we can’t wait for players to see what we have in store for them across games, entertainment, and sports.”
“In recognition of this moment, we’re putting players at the center of an amazing launch experience. Worlds and Arcane will combine to form a unified, global celebration, blending competition, entertainment, and community in a whole new way. Think about it like a super weekend for players.”
Based on the world behind League of Legends, Arcane dives into the delicate balance between the rich city of Piltover and the seedy underbelly of Zaun. Known across Runeterra as the “city of progress,” many of the most brilliant minds call these cities home. But the creation of hextech, a way for any person to control magical energy, threatens that balance. While Arcane holds the backstories of League of Legends champions, the series is designed to stand on its own as a complex world filled with moral decisions, breathtaking animation, and suspenseful storytelling.
Christian Linke, Co-Creator of Arcane: “When we set out to produce Arcane, we knew that we had something really special with the story of Jinx and Vi. We wanted to explore the idea of what you would do for your family, what values you’d compromise, and the conflict you’d endure. The story, combined with the hand-painted art style and nuanced character animation we created in partnership with Fortiche, will bring players a rich glimpse into the world of League of Legends.”
Players will see some familiar faces in Arcane, like Jinx, Vi, Jayce, and Caitlyn, and learn about the events that made them into the iconic champions we know today as we push their stories forward. Players will also be introduced to some new faces too, like Vander and Silco, who are both citizens of Zaun and play critical roles in shaping the evolving world.
Alex Yee, Co-Creator of Arcane: “Arcane is a story of duality. How characters become divided across two halves of a city with values and opportunities that are opposite but complementary. Each with their own merits and flaws. You may be the hero in your story, but the villain in someone else’s.”
The champions in Arcane are the ones players have come to love in our games. They should feel very familiar, but there might be some differences from what you remember as we’ve adapted them for the TV show format.
The show will explore the extremes our characters will go to when family and tradition are put at odds with their principles and beliefs. Their personal struggles impact the world in ways they never expect and shape the future of the sister cities.
Earlier this week, Riot announced the global voice actors for Arcane. Below is a selection of the global English language cast:
Netflix members around the world are making their own rules when it comes to watching TV. Instead of one episode per week, Netflix members choose to binge watch their way through a series – that is, on average, finishing an entire season in one week. Though binge watching is clearly the new normal, not all series are enjoyed the same way. Today Netflix unveils The Binge Scale, revealing which shows we devour and which we savour.
Binge Watching is the new norm in TV viewing behaviour. Instead of being held to an episode a week, we can now complete an entire season. However, while all series are being binged, not all are watched the same way – some are devoured and some are savoured.
o Savour = on average members complete in 6 days / watch 1 hour, 45 minutes per day
o Devour = on average members complete in 4 days / watch 2 hours, 30 minutes per day
Netflix examined global viewing* of more than 100 serialized TV series across more than 190 countries and found when members are focused on finishing a series, they watch a little over two hours a day to complete a season. When organizing series in relation to this benchmark, interesting patterns emerge, ranging from high energy narratives that are devoured to thought-provoking dramas that are savoured.
Series like Sense8, Orphan Black** and The 100 grab you, assault your senses, and as The Binge Scale shows, make it hard to pull away. The classic elements of horror and thrillers go straight for the gut, pushing the placement of series like The Walking Dead, American Horror Story and The Fall towards the devour end of the scale. Likewise, comedies with a dramatic bent, like Orange is the New Black, Nurse Jackie and Grace and Frankie, seem to tickle our fancy and make it easy to say ‘just one more.’
It’s no surprise that complex narratives, like that of House of Cards and Bloodline, are indulged at an unhurried pace. Nor that viewers take care to appreciate the details of dramas set in bygone eras, like Peaky Blinders and Mad Men. Maybe less obvious are irreverent comedies like BoJack Horseman, Love andUnbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. But the societal commentary that powers their densely layered comedy paired with characters that are as flawed as they are entertaining allow them to be savoured.
“As The Binge Scale indicates, the viewing experience of a series can range from the emotional to the thought-provoking,” said Cindy Holland, Vice President of Original Content at Netflix. “Netflix helps you to find a series to binge no matter your mood or occasion, and the freedom to watch that series at your own pace – whether that’s to appreciate the drama of Bloodline or power through Orange is the New Black.”
METHODOLOGY
Netflix analysed more than 100 serialized TV series across more than 190 countries between October 2015 and May 2016. The research examined member completion of the first season for all series. Data was only included for accounts that fully completed the season. Completion rates were organized into days and hours. The global median days to complete the first season of these series was five days. The median hours per session for completers overall was two hours and ten minutes. Series viewed less than two hours per day were identified as ‘savoured.’ Series viewed more than two hours per day were identified as ‘devoured.’ Series were not restricted by launch dates, runtime or number of episodes. Where a series falls on The Netflix Binge Scale has no relation to viewership.
Check out the official trailer for Voltron Legendary Defender, premiering on Netflix June 10. Voltron Legendary Defender will premier with an hour-long origin story, followed by 10 episodes.
The Netflix original series DreamWorks Voltron Legendary Defender reimagines one of the most popular fan-favourite shows of all time in this all-new comedic action-packed show from executive producer Joaquim Dos Santos (The Legend of Korra, Avatar: The Last Airbender) and co-executive producer Lauren Montgomery (The Legend of Korra).
Five unsuspecting teenagers, transported from Earth into the middle of a sprawling intergalactic war, become pilots for five robotic lions in the battle to protect the universe from evil. Only through the true power of teamwork can they unite to form the mighty warrior known as Voltron Legendary Defender.
We live in an age when almost everything is located on Internet and every day more and more of our Media are at some point, unplayable due to some “Format Restriction” of any kind.
Well, soon that’s about to end thanks to the recently announced Alliance for Open Media.
Starting on September 1st Seven of the most greatest Media creator have created this “Justice League” of Formats and Codecs for video and media in general.
“The Open and royalty-free format for next-generation ultra high definition media”
Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla andNetflixhave made partnership into this Open-Source Project to reach to ultimate goal of “develop next-generation media formats, codecs and technologies in the public interest.”
Something that really complicate media consumption in the format of the video we’re trying to see.
For example:
For using MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 formats, a royalty must be paid to MPEG LA.
Mozilla has Daala
Google is has on VP9 and 10
Etc.
That’s why should not come as surprise that this guys wanna save some money and as result we have a more persistent and pleasant usability of video formats.
What they want to do as main task is to create media:
Interoperable and open.
Optimized for the web.
Scalable to any modern device at any bandwidth.
Designed with a low computational footprint and optimized for hardware.
Capable of consistent, highest-quality, real-time video delivery.
Flexible for both commercial and non-commercial content, including user-generated content.
(Something worth the mention is Apple absence in the group, which is easily explainable.
Apple owns QuickTime and they need to pay anyone to implement videos on iTunes or Apple TV.)
The license name will be Apache 2.0 and will work under the W3C patent rules.
If you want to know more about the project you can go HERE or follow them at @a4omedia
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