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The prequels and sequels have taken the studios by storm and are now headed to streaming.
The second season of “Wednesday” was announced by Netflix just weeks after the debut of the first, and it is currently the most watched English-language series on the stream, with more than 250 million views and still in the list of the top 10 most popular titles on Netflix in the first half of 2023. .
At the same time, even before the start of production on the second season, the streamer talked about another show – built around Wednesday’s uncle, Fester, who was played by Fred Armisen in the series. There are no guarantees that the show will ever appear, but Lucas Shaw of Bloomberg assures that Netflix is serious about building on the success of “Wednesday”. The streamer also has a ready partner in Amazon, which acquired the rights to The Addams Family when it bought MGM and produces the show under that label.
After attracting viewers with original series — such as House of Cards or Stranger Things — Netflix is increasingly leaning toward the traditional Hollywood studio strategy of creating prequels, sequels and reboots based on already successful projects. Also worth mentioning here is a potential series from the Escape franchise, as well as two spinoffs for Sharp Visors (one will be set in mid-20th century Boston, while the other will focus on Polly, the matriarch of the Shelby crime clan).
While Netflix isn’t the only streamer on the spin-off craze — HBO is working on a Game of Thrones spin-off, a Sex and the City sequel, TV prequels to Dune and It, and several series based on DC Comics. Showtime is producing spin-offs of Billions, Ray Donovan, and Dexter. And Disney, which gave birth to the idea of ”cinematic universes”, is developing a new version of “The X-Files”, which will be produced by Ryan Coogler, the director of “Black Panther” and “Creed”.
For most of this century, television was where writers went to tell original stories (aside from occasional side projects like Better Call Saul , the prequel to Breaking Bad ), while movie studios spent most of the budgets. to comics, animated films and sequels. But slower growth and higher interest rates have forced both categories of moviemakers to curb spending — and a bet on established titles that don’t require marketing should play a role here.
Netflix for the first time published viewing statistics – more than 93 billion hours for 18,000 films in six months and “Night Agent” among the leaders
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