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Netflix’s rom-com series Nobody Wants This attracted more viewing in its second week, moving up one spot to second overall in Nielsen’s weekly streaming charts.

The series starring Kristen Bell and Adam Brody drew 1.21 billion minutes of watch time for the week of Sept. 30-Oct. 6, a 16 percent improvement on its premiere week. It also moved up one spot in the overall rankings, as the prior week’s second-place title, Inside Out 2, dropped by 50 percent to a still strong 908 million minutes of viewing on Disney+.

Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story finished first overall for the third consecutive week with 1.41 billion minutes of viewing, down about 41 percent week to week. Netflix’s dating show Love Is Blind returned to the charts with a billion-minute week; its seventh season premiered on Oct. 2.

Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power debuted its season two finale on Oct.

La película se proyectó en el Festival de Cine de San Sebastián y también lo hará en el Festival de Cine Europeo de Sevilla. © A Contracorriente Films

Ya se ha publicado el primer tráiler de Los últimos románticos, el segundo largometraje de David Pérez Sañudo (Ane), que tuvo su estreno mundial en el Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián y se proyectará en el Festival de Cine Europeo de Sevilla antes de su estreno en salas.

Basada en la novela homónima de Txani Rodríguez, ganadora del Premio Euskadi de Literatura, Los últimos románticos /Azken erromantikoak sigue a Irune, una mujer insegura, solitaria y con tendencias hipocondríacas que trabaja en una fábrica de papel situada en las afueras de un pueblo industrial. Su vida se limita a un reducido círculo de conocidos: sus compañeros de trabajo, una vecina con la que comparte algo parecido a una amistad y un operador...

Spanish TV fiction continues to reinforce its position at the forefront of global TV, maintaining its edge, its impact on streaming services and overseas reach. Recognizing its merits, Mipcom celebrates Spain as its 2024 Country of Honor. That honor is based on market performance.

Through Oct. 6 this year, seven Spanish titles hit No. 1 on Netflix’s global non-English TV series charts for a total of 15 of 40 weeks, just ahead of South Korea (13). Japan (three) and France (two) trailed well behind.

“Local Spanish TV shows as diverse as ‘Berlin,’ ‘The Asunta Case’ and ‘Raising Voices’ led the way due to their authenticity and quality,” explains Verónica Fernández, Netflix director, series & films in Spain and Portugal.

At Prime Video, the Dopamine-Focus series “Red Queen” debuted Feb. 29 as No. 1 in more than 20 countries, including Spain.

That successful streaming performance extends to Spanish movies. J.A. Bayona’s 2023 multi-award winning “Society of the Snow” is...

Netflix’s true crime offerings have struck again, with The Menendez Brothers documentary currently reigning as the platform’s top series, overtaking The Platform 2. This gripping documentary revisits the infamous 1989 murders of José and Kitty Menendez, committed by their sons, Lyle and Erik, who are now serving life sentences. The series provides a rare look at the brothers as they speak out from behind bars, recounting the crime that shocked America and the trials that followed.

While The Menendez Brothers documentary takes a factual approach, Netflix also offers a dramatized version of the case with Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story. This series, part of the Monster anthology, focuses on the same murders but presents the events through a Rashomon-style lens, showing multiple perspectives with the brothers’ point of view as the central focus. With acclaimed actors Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch playing Lyle and Erik, and...

Both its release date (March 2020) and subject matter conspired to make Spanish thriller The Platform a pandemic mega-hit for Netflix four years ago. The streaming giant will be hoping that this follow-up — which hurls us back into the nightmarish tower-block prison dubbed ‘The Pit’ — might bank similar record-breaking viewing-figure returns. Sadly, on the strength of the film's quality alone, that seems unlikely.

Before we get to the meat of this confounding sequel-or-is-it-a-prequel (more on that confusion in a moment), a brief recap for those who might have missed the first outing. The Pit — also known by its more PR-friendly title ‘The Vertical Self-Management Centre’ — is a 333-floor jail, featuring two cellmates per floor. Once a day, a floating platform containing a vast, medieval-style banquet descends from the very top to the very bottom, stopping briefly at each floor. Inmates are permitted to gorge themselves on as much grub as they can while it's there,...

In the gory thriller The Platform 2, a woman named Perempuán (Milena Smit) fights for her life in a vertical prison that feeds its inmates once a day via a moving concrete table filled with decadent foods … except, there are hundreds of floors and twice as many people living among them. How will they ration? By fairness or by force? Read on to find out what happens in the second installment of The Platform, from director Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia.

The Pit, aka the Vertical Self-Management center, is a vertical prison with 333 levels. People elect to be imprisoned there as penance for their self-proclaimed sins. Before entering, each person must declare what their “I’d eat this everyday if I could” favorite food is. They’re also allowed to bring one item each into the prison. A single moving platform...

Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story. (L to R) Nicholas Chavez as Lyle Menendez, Chloë Sevigny as Kitty Menendez, Javier Bardem as Jose Menendez, Cooper Koch as Erik Menendez in Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story. Cr. Courtesy Of Netflix © 2024 Netflix has released its Top 10 list for the week of September 30th, and it’s a captivating mix of genres that has something for everyone. Romance takes center stage with Nobody Wants This claiming the #1 spot on the English TV list. This charming rom-com starring Kristen Bell and Adam Brody has viewers swooning and rewatching their favorite scenes (especially those kisses!). Meanwhile, Love is Blind Season 7 makes a dramatic entrance at #3, promising even more relationship rollercoaster rides with new episodes dropping October 9th. The true-crime drama Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story grips audiences, landing at #2. The series has even sparked renewed interest in the real-life case,...

Apparently everybody wants “Nobody Wants This.” The Kristen Bell/Adam Brody comedy from creator Erin Foster has knocked out “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” to become the No. 1 English TV program on Netflix for the week of Sept. 13, with 15.9 million views in its second week. “Monsters” continues to be a monster, however, as its 13.1 million views was still good enough to slide into the No. 2 slot.

“Nobody Wants This” debuted last week at No. 2 with 10.3 million views in its first four days of streaming. For “Monsters,” the show continues to dominate the Netflix chart, having spent the previous two weeks at No. 1 (including 19.5 million views last week).

Debuting at No. 3 on the English chart was Season 7 of “Love Is Blind,” coming in with 5.2 million views, while the Season 3 return of coming-of-age drama “Heartstopper” clocked in at No. 4 with 4.5 million views.

Meanwhile, chugging along at an impressive pace is...

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“Nobody Wants This” hasn’t just overtaken viewers’ hearts; it’s overtaken the No. 1 spot on Netflix’s Top 10 most-watched English-language TV shows. The Kristen Bell and Adam Brody romantic comedy surpassed the viewership for “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” in its second week of eligibility.

Overall, the series secured 15.9 million views compared to the 13.1 million views “Monsters” saw during the week of Sept. 30 to Oct. 6. This isn’t the first time these two shows have shared the first and second spots. Last week, their ranking was reversed with Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s “Monsters” scoring 19.5 million views in its second week on the streamer and “Nobody Wants This” seeing 10.3 million views in its first week.

The two current TV powerhouses were followed by the seventh season of “Love Is Blind,...

Audiences can’t get enough of Adam Brody and Kristen Bell in Netflix’s Nobody Wants This.

In its first full week on the streamer, the 10-episode romcom rose to 15.9M views, making it No. 1 in TV and the most-watched English language title of the week. It couldn’t beat The Platform 2, a Spanish thriller, which generated 19.4M views and topped the Non-English film list.

Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story fell to second place during this interval, still tallying 13.1M views, while Love is Blind Season 7 launched with 5.2M views.

Heartstopper also returned to the list with Season 3 amassing 4.5M views, which was good enough for fourth place. The Perfect Couple is also still holding onto a spot at No. 5 with 3.8M views. Meanwhile, Season 4 of Emily in Paris is losing steam, coming in at No. 9 with 2.6M views.

Things were a bit slow on the English films list.

How many times has a forgotten film found success on Netflix? Surely too many to count. The service has proven time and time again that, no matter how bad a movie is, if the public have been given long enough to forget it existed, it will more than likely see a resurgence in interest when fed into the streaming machine. Just take a look at the 2008 Keanu Reeves thriller "Street Kings," which had a renaissance on Netflix back in 2023. Or when Netflix breathed new life into the forgotten Aaron Eckhart-led action thriller "The Bricklayer" this year.

Now, it's Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg's turn. Wahlberg is no stranger to a streaming resurgence, with the actor's "Shooter" making waves on Netflix in 2023. This time, though he's joined by Denzel (who only just found his way into Netflix's top charts last month thanks to "American Gangster") in 2013's buddy cop actioner "2 Guns.

Like the first film in the franchise, The Platform 2 features a twisting, emotionally charged plot that may leave some scratching their heads. 

The Platform 2, streaming on Netflix, centers yet again on The Hole, a vertical prison where food is fed floor-by-floor as it descends from top to bottom on a platform.

That system would work fine if everyone only took their fair share, but one person on the floors above taking too much can lead to those on the lower levels going hungry. 

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Number two film of the summer “Deadpool & Wolverine” (Disney), held back from any home viewing until after its tenth weekend in theaters, took the #1 spot on both iTunes (ranking by transactions) and Fandango (by revenue). But perhaps only for a brief stay.

“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” (Warner Bros.), a major hit though not quite in the same league as the Marvel sequel ($235 million U.S./Canada gross so far versus $634 million; both films still in the top 10) will likely replace it when released Tuesday on PVOD after its fifth weekend. That feels a little early (32 days), more so since Tim Burton’s sequel is still #3, with over $10 million.

But if anything, it appears PVOD release boosts theatrical play as of late, at least in the short term. In any event, with the opening weekend debacle of “Joker: Folie à Deux” (revised downward to $37.8 million), it will provide some immediate cash to the Burbank studio.

Spoilers for "The Platform 2" follow.

Both Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia's "The Platform" and "The Platform 2" take place in the same futuristic prison, and abide by the same rules. The prison is a massive, narrow tower, hundreds of floors high. There is one cell on each floor, each occupied by two cellmates. A massive hole punctures through all the floors, and prisoners can look up and down at one another. Once a day, a floating platform covered with food floats down through all the cells, stopping briefly on each floor. Prisoners on the top can eat however much they like, but the prisoners below get their scraps. 

In "The Platform 2," unlike the first, the prisoners have instigated a strict code of behavior about the food. To make sure everyone is fed, they are all instructed -- on the honor system -- to take only a small amount of food earmarked for them.

Warning: this article contains spoilers for "The Platform 2"

Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia's "The Platform 2" debuted on Netflix on Friday, October 4, and it was a slight improvement over the original. Frustratingly, "The Platform 2" didn't do much to expand on the mythology of the original film, or extend outside the same prison where the first "Platform" takes place, merely telling a very similar story in a slightly more dynamic way. To reiterate the premise: "The Platform 2" takes place in a futuristic, tower-like prison with one cell occupying each floor. There is a table-sized hole in the middle of the floor in every cell, and every day, an antigravity platform festooned with food lowers from the top of the prison all the way down to the bottom. 

Prisoners at the top can eat whatever they like, while down below, they have to feast on table scraps. By the time the...

2019's "The Platform" was a dystopian horror movie that blended "Cube" with "Don Quixote." Described in /Film's review as "a dirty blast," this grim, on-the-nose allegory for social stratification was a hit for Netflix, especially after the pandemic hit and everyone turned to streaming to pass the time. When Netflixers weren't watching Chris Hemsworth punch people in "Extraction," they were watching director Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia's disturbing vision of a vertically-stacked prison where inmates are fed from a single platform that moves downward through the levels. As you can imagine, when the platform hits the lower cells, there isn't much left for the bottom-dwellers, leading the inmates to turn to cannibalism and all-out savagery in the face of their bleak existence.

If that sounds like a grand old time, you might be glad to know that a sequel, or rather, prequel has arrived. "The Platform 2" actually offers a more interesting take on this bizarre premise,...

As The Platform 2 climbs the Netflix charts, it’s reigniting conversations about its intense exploration of class disparity and survival. This gripping sequel builds upon the themes that made the original film a phenomenon, pushing viewers to confront the uncomfortable realities of society’s hierarchies. If you’re intrigued by the psychological tension and moral dilemmas presented in The Platform 2, then you won’t want to miss the eight compelling films below. Each one complements the sequel’s themes, offering a unique lens on human behavior under extreme circumstances, and guaranteeing an enthralling movie night that will keep you thinking long after the credits roll. So without a further delay, let’s have a look at the movies like Netflix’s The Platform 2. 1. Snowpiercer (2013)

Directed by Bong Joon-ho, Snowpiercer plunges viewers into a frozen dystopian future where the remnants of humanity live aboard a train that endlessly circles the globe.

Pumpkin spice season, spooky season … whatever you like to call this time of year, 12-foot skeletons are popping up left and right and Halloween is just around the corner, which means it’s the perfect time of year to watch horror movies. Sometimes you want a Halloween classic, but sometimes, you want something brand new.

Fortunately, October always has a robust lineup new horror movies to stream, and 2024 is no different. In fact, the first week of the month is positively packed with new streaming debuts, from a new spin on Stephen King’s beloved novel “Salem’s Lot” to the body-swap thriller Netflix dropped $17 million to acquire. Here’s your guide to all the new horror movies streaming this week.

“Salem’s Lot” (Max) “Salem’s Lot”

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Release Date: Oct. 3

Stephen King‘s celebrated (and rather lengthy) vampire novel “Salem’s Lot” gets a film adaptation from “Annabelle Comes Home...

Spanish director Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s innovative dystopian thriller The Platform was conceptually intriguing enough to spur a series of discussions involving the philosophical and psychological implications of survival in a vertical prison that imitates the social hierarchy. As a cherry on top, the movie also featured a number of interesting characters as prisoners, all burdened with their sins, having their own personal motivation and ideology—which inevitably evolved over the course of their quest for survival. While the number of key characters has been reduced in the sequel, with a noticeable lack of that x factor in the leads, a different approach to the narrative offers characters a much more varied perspective this time around. Additionally, old cast members reappear in this installment as well in various capacities, much to the delight of fans of the first movie.

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The themes of entrapment and the fight for survival in a manufactured environment have become recurrent narrative tropes in 21st-century cinema. While Vincenzo Natali’s “Cube” (1997) put a sci-fi spin on the survival quest of a group of strangers, the Japanese action thriller “Battle Royale” and similar iterations (including the hit Netflix series “Squid Game”) found grim sociopolitical parallels to our contemporary dog-eat-dog world. The winsome young adult stories like “Hunger Games” and “Maze Runner” put a dystopian cloak to the survival game tales. Then there were also richly allegorical dystopian visions in movies like “The Snowpiercer” and “The Platform.” The latter of the two – from Spanish filmmaker Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia – felt like an assortment of familiar sociopolitical elements ensconced within this familiar narrative, but it offered unique twisty visual delights and an ever-deepening metaphor for social inequality.

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Moreover, “The Platform” accidentally became a movie...

All we could assume before Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s The Platform 2 hit Netflix’s platform was that it’d have that cursed setting in common with the original. But despite having brand new protagonists and antagonists in the form of new inmates in the Pit, The Platform 2 is connected to The Platform in more ways than one. One of the most gnawing questions that The Platform 2 left the viewers to stew in is about the curious case of the kids. And believe it or not, the kids connect the stories of the two films on both a fundamental and a tangible level.

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The Platform 2 started with the kids playing on a strange pyramid-like structure made of stairs and slides. They seemed peaceful and content even though there was not necessarily a meaning or purpose to their game. Much like that, the people in the Pit...

If history is to be followed, then it can be said that in its worst manifestation, order is not much different than chaos, no matter how antithetical these two concepts seem to be, something which director Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia focuses on while taking us back to his dystopian hellscape of a vertical prison in The Platform 2. If the first installment, The Platform, was a commentary on the horrors of social hierarchy, survival, and the dreaded depths of the human nature and psyche, the sequel brings a new threat in the form of organized faith—and how it can push even the question of survival to the backseat when people are misguided enough. It is really commendable how the director has managed to use the same setting to highlight another facet of human existence, that too by developing one of the major themes from the first movie.

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After Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s The Platform released during the pandemic generated significant buzz, the filmmaker along with his team of writers brought back a latest addition to his franchise—The Platform 2. Much like its predecessor (or successor), even this movie left viewers with many unanswered questions. And once again, these particularly shocking events in the narrative sparked significant buzz on Netflix.

Milena Smit as Perempuan in The Platform 2 | image: Netflix

Set in a dystopian world where residents in a tower prison fight to survive, The Platform 2 follows newcomer Perempuan (Milena Smit) on her journey through the nightmarish vertical prison ruled by dictatorship. While things appear a lot different in the latest movie, the shocking incidents, and cannibalism, followed by a bewildering ending, remain the same. So let’s delve deeper into what happens and how the film ends.

What is Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s The Platform 2 About?

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It’s October, officially known as “spooky season,” a term I just realized I’ve seen a lot less this year than in years prior. Maybe it’s a less spooky season than usual? In any case, “spooky season” means the streamers are putting up a lot of original horror movies this week. Max has “‘Salem’s Lot,” the latest adaptation of Stephen King’s vampire classic; Prime Video has “House of Spoils,” a Blumhouse psychological horror thriller starring Ariana DuBose as a Carmy-esque chef who’s either losing her mind or actually haunted; and Hulu has a period horror movie called “Hold Your Breath” starring Sarah Paulson as a mother in Dust Bowl Oklahoma who thinks there are monsters in the dust storms.

But none of those are our top picks this week. That would be “It’s What’s Inside,” a stylish Netflix horror comedy with a “Certified Fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Platform, or the Vertical Self-Management System (Vss), was most likely designed to help people tame the monsters that live inside all of us. But only a few strong-willed individuals are able to survive the devil’s lair, though so far we haven’t come across anyone who had survived the platform’s aftermath, not even the protagonist of the second film, Perempuan. [Spoiler Alert] In The Platform 2’s ending, Trimagasi made Perempuan realize that the inmates weren’t the prisoners of the pit, or The Administration. Instead, they are the prisoners of their own sin, and there isn’t any escape from that. Even though she had made peace with the death of the boy that was killed by her prestigious art, Perempuan wouldn’t be able to bring back what’s lost forever. And the very thought of it would haunt her forever. Yet Perempuan wanted to leave the...

Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia drowns out the social commentary with a lot of noise in The Platform 2. The 2024 follow-up to the director’s then-unique social horror The Platform comes off complicated just for the sake of it. The intentionally trippy ending and the startling appearances of characters from the original are too overwhelming for you to even ponder the philosophical and sociopolitical questions the film wishes to pose. So let’s see if I can make all of that make sense for you.

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We’re back at the vertical hellhole where we followed Goreng’s story back in 2019. The platform that supposedly holds enough food for 666 people is lowered through the hole, and the greed of the ones above leaves nothing for the ones at the bottom. There’s a new set of people this time. And the new set of laws that a...

The Platform 2 ‘Netflix’ Movie Review: The 2019 Spanish dystopian feature debut of director Glader Gatzelu Urrutia is the first installment of this science-fiction franchise that gained unwitting prescience when it landed on Netflix on 3rd March 2020. Smack dab in the middle of the pandemic, the story of prisoners stuck in a pait forced to do anything to survive turned out to be unfortunately too relatable for the people stuck inside their homes during the pandemic, struggling to keep their sanity intact as they were forced to adjust themselves to the new normal.

The first film’s conceit is a vertical prison with one cell per level. Two people per cell. One food platform and two minutes per day to feed from up to down—an endless nightmare trapped in The Pit. It is a movie where the plotting of the film could very easily bog down the potency of the premise,...

The Platform, one of the most-watched non-English Netflix films of all time, took viewers on a disturbing dystopian odyssey through a brutal prison extending over 200 stories underground. In the just-released follow-up The Platform 2, a new inmate leads a rebellion against the Pit’s oppressive food distribution system as a mysterious leader imposes brutal rules for prisoners to abide by — or else. From The Platform director Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, The Platform 2 stars Milena Smit, Hovik Keuchkerian, Natalia Tena, and Óscar Jaenada.

“We started shooting the film full of excitement, eager to expand the universe of The Platform with a plot full of surprises, obstacles, new characters … and old friends,” Gaztelu-Urrutia told Netflix about the sequel. “We want this second installment to be an exciting physical journey that allows us to delve into the darkness, into that place where we are afraid to look.”

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A follow-up to the gory pandemic smash returns to the grim world where prisoners must portion out food or risk death but the novelty has gone

Say this for The Platform 2: it gets right to it. Without so much of a recap of its predecessor – a sci-fi horror parable that became a Netflix hit a few years back – characters are debating philosophies of law and economics inside of 10 minutes. By the 40-minute mark, a major character has already committed self-immolation. It’s remarkably fast-paced for a movie set in a series of unadorned rooms that make up an enormous vertical prison.

The workings of this prison were detailed in the first film, and are easy enough to pick up this time around, even without much newbie-friendly exposition: prisoners, who can opt into the structure called the Pit for punishment or in some other kind of exchange, are randomly...

“The Platform 2” is a movie directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia starring Milena Smit, Hovik Keuchkerian, Natalia Tena y Óscar Jaenada.

Dive into the harrowing depths of “The Platform 2,” a nightmarish odyssey exploring themes of struggle, social justice, and religion across 333 torturous levels. This brutal allegory masterfully portrays life, social stratification, indoctrination, societal norms, and humanity’s ceaseless quest to quell an insatiable hunger. As the much-anticipated sequel to the 2019 Netflix hit, “The Platform 2” loses some of the original’s shock value but compensates with superior technical prowess and a well-crafted script, making it a worthy successor in a genre-defying cinematic landscape.

The film stands out at a technical level, showcasing the director’s adept use of cinematic tools to immerse the audience in a surreal, harrowing nightmare reflective of the human condition.

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The story plunges us into an unsettling experiment where prisoners inhabit various levels of a vertical prison.

The allegorical simplicity of Netflix’s The Platform makes it brilliant—a sequel seems antithetical. Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s The Platform 2 needlessly complicates the original’s food-fighting take on hierarchical class governance. Religious iconography influences heavy-handed zealotry, while callbacks and returning characters feel out of place. Gaztelu-Urrutia’s expansion feels redundant and over-explained,...

It's difficult to ascertain where the quote came from, but someone wiser than myself once said that civilization is only nine meals away from anarchy. That is: if the citizens are starved, en masse, for three full days, governmental systems will collapse. One may be a moral, upstanding citizen, but if starved for three days, food theft becomes an attractive, natural option. Another old saying: If you see someone stealing food at the grocery store, no you didn't.

Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia's "The Platform 2," arriving on Netflix without fanfare on October 4, details the above adage in knuckle crunching detail. This new sequel has the same premise and setting as the first "The Platform," which was consumed voraciously by Netflix subscribers in 2020 right at the start of Covid-related lockdowns. Who would have guessed a bleak, sci-fi story about being trapped inside with limited food would resonate at such a time? "The Platform 2...

The 2019 film “El Hoyo” broke new ground with its unflinching metaphor for inequality. Trapped in a towering prison with cells stacked upon cells, inmates relied on a mysterious platform carrying food to survive each month. But the meager meals dwindled by the time they reached the facility’s lowest depths, leaving those below to unimaginable means to find sustenance. While shocking in premise, it tapped into real social failures that kindled moral outrage.

This setting served as a launchpad for profound questions about humanity. What drives us to turn on one another in dire straits? Can community overcome our base instincts? The film stirred lively debate that a work of fiction rarely achieves. It painted our system’s flaws in stark relief and challenged viewers to envision alternative ways of organizing ourselves.

Naturally, such a thought-provoking premise demanded further exploration. Its director, Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, recognized potential to broaden the story...

Released on Netflix in March of 2020 (unbelievably perfect timing for a movie about people confined to an inescapable prison whose design pits insatiable self-interest against the public good), Spanish filmmaker Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s “The Platform” is an anti-capitalism allegory whose obviousness is its greatest strength. Like so many streaming hits, the genre exercise resonated because its high-concept premise told a compelling story unto itself.

The film’s most and only memorable character is “The Pit” where it takes place, a narrow concrete tower (or “Vertical Self-Management Center”) with a large square hole in the middle of each floor — a hole just large enough to fit the massive smorgasbord of food that’s lowered down the building’s 333 stories each day. The two inmates on the top floor are treated to a royal banquet, but only a few errant scraps remain when the movable feast reaches the 50th level below them...

The Oscar winner presides over a creepy restaurant in a goofy thriller that offers more for fans of cookery shows than those looking for a scare

Thanks to both the low cost and high competition 0f streaming content, the lead-up to Halloween has become increasingly congested in recent years, each platform attempting to outdo the other with scares for all kinds of horror fans. This year, those looking for blood-sucking (Salem’s Lot), reality-shifting (Caddo Lake), body-swapping (It’s What’s Inside), footage-finding (V/H/S: Beyond) and dystopia-sequeling (The Platform 2) will be satiated – while this week, a more unusual horror fan is being targeted. House of Spoils, a low-budget Blumhouse offering for Amazon, is for the one who’s more affected by the fear associated with restaurant-opening, whose idea of a perfect night in involves oscillating between Food Network and Shudder.

It’s not as if food hasn’t long been...

The leaves are changing, the neighborhood decorations are getting spooky, and the air is (hopefully) getting crisper. It’s the Witching Season! And Halloween is finally upon us. Which means, more horror movies! So, with that in mind… here is your guide to seventeen brand new horror movies coming your way this Halloween season by theater, streaming, and video on demand.

Salem’s Lot

On October 3rd, HBO Max will bring us a movie that’s been in development since before vampires even existed, Salem’s Lot. A film so scary, they didn’t want to show it in theaters! They wanted you to watch it in the safety of your own home. Right? I’m sure that’s what’s why. Couldn’t be anything else… The Salem’s Lot trailer proudly boasts that this new iteration comes from the people who brought you the recent It and Conjuring Universe Films and...

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Netflix is ready with an entertainment-packed October this year. The upcoming month will see the return of one of Netflix’s best original films The Platform and also new brilliant movies like Don’t Move and Woman of the Hour. Just like every month, Netflix is ready to overload you with great content. So, we’re here to tell you about the 10 movies coming to Netflix in October 2024.

The Bad Guys: Haunted Heist (October 3)

The Bad Guys: Haunted Heist is an upcoming animated Halloween heist comedy special directed by Kevin Peaty. Based on the 2022 film titled The Bad Guys written by Etan Cohen and the children’s graphic novel by Aaron Blabley, the upcoming Netflix special follows the Bad Guys after they steal from a haunted mansion but when Wolf is haunted by the owner of the mansion they have to return the loot.

"People die if the Law is not upheld." Netflix has revealed the official trailer for the sequel to the hit Spanish lo-fi sci-fi film The Platform from 2019 (it landed on Netflix in 2020) called simply The Platform 2. The first film is one of the best capitalism-is-terrible films of modern times. This continuation is again directed by the same Spanish filmmaker Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia who made the original film (he has been making this in secret for years). As a mysterious leader imposes their rule in the Platform, another resident becomes embroiled in the battle against this controversial method to help fight the brutal feeding system. But when eating from the wrong plate becomes a death sentence, how far would you be willing to go to save your life? Milena Smit and Hovik Keuchkerian star in the second installment of the dystopian sci-fi horror movie, with Óscar Jaenada, Natalia Tena, Bastien Ughetto,...

The Netflix October 2024 originals, movies, and TV series have been revealed and can be viewed below. The streaming service has also announced the list of movies and TV series leaving next month.

The Netflix October 2024 schedule features such titles as The Bad Guys: Haunted Heist, Car Masters: Rust to Riches Season 6, The Diplomat Season 2, Don’t Move, Heartstopper Season 3, Hellbound Season 2, It’s What’s Inside, and The Lincoln Lawyer Season 3.

The Diplomat Season 2

Also coming are Lonely Planet, Love Is Blind Season 7, Outer Banks Season 4, Simone Biles Rising Part 2, Starting 5, Tyler Perry’s Beauty in Black, Unsolved Mysteries Volume 5, and Woman of the Hour.

The October schedule includes comedy specials Ali Wong: Single Lady, Hasan Minhaj: Off With His Head, Rachel Bloom: Death, Let Me Do My Special, Tim Dillon: This Is Your Country, and Tom Papa: Home Free as well.

Netflix October 2024 Schedule

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It's spooky season! And while Netflix gets into the spirit of Halloween and horror in October 2024, the month also sets the stage for the triumphant returns of Four fan-favorite Netflix original series. The fall television season might be in full swing on the small screen, but Netflix has its own full-force lineup of exciting shows, too, on top of movies, docuseries, and more!

Outer Banks season 4 probably ranks as the most popular Netflix original series premiering in October, with Heartstopper season 3, The Lincoln Lawyer season 3, and The Diplomat season 2 also bookending an excellent month of binge-watching. When it comes to Netflix movies in October, the stars are aligning big time for romance, chills, thrills, and big action.

Discover some of the biggest new titles from Netflix's October new releases and check out the full list of all the new movies, shows, documentaries, horror titles, and more coming throughout the month!

Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia brings the highly anticipated sequel The Platform 2 to Netflix on October 4, and the streamer has debuted the bonkers official trailer this afternoon.

Begin the resistance by watching the official trailer for The Platform 2 below.

In Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s sequel, “A mysterious figure has managed to establish a new law in The Platform, but can justice truly be enforced in hell? And who will enforce it?”

Milena Smit and Hovik Keuchkerian star.

The first film is set inside a vertical prison system, where inmates are assigned to a level and forced to ration food from a platform that moves between the floors. Inmates on high floors eat better than those below, and one man tries to effect change so everyone gets enough.

Rafael reviewed The Platform for us at TIFF, raving in his 4.5-star write-up: “The Platform takes full advantage of its isolated setting and small cast...

San Sebastian — At this year’s San Sebastian Festival, Basque cinema brings arguably its strong slate ever, fruits from its fast growing scene.

Among the throng of titles is Andrea Jaurrieta’s “Nina” offering a contemporary, feminist twist on the classic Western, featuring Patricia López Arnaiz as a woman seeking revenge in her coastal hometown. David Pérez Sañudo’s “The Last Romantics” presents a tale of second chances, starring Miren Gaztañaga as a woman confronting her mortality.

The documentary lineup is equally compelling, with Raúl de la Fuente’s “Los Williams” exploring race and identity through Basque soccer stars Iñaki and Nico Williams, and Carmen Chaplin’s “Charlie Chaplin, A Man of the World” providing an unprecedented look at the legendary filmmaker’s Romani heritage.

Here’s the rundown:

Main Competition

“I’m Nevenka,”

Co-written with Isa Campo, Icíar Bollaín dramatizes the harrowing true story of Nevenka Fernández, the first...

Netflix Spain unveiled two new film projects at the San Sebastian International Film Festival that it is producing with Spanish filmmakers and production companies.

Carlos Sedes’ La Viuda Negra (which translates as The Black Widow) is being produced by Ramón Campos’ film and TV outfit Bambú Producciones, whose credits include Cable Girls and Isaki Lacuesta’s One Year, One Night.

The race-against-time thriller is about a body found in a parking lot in Valencia and the unexpected suspect the investigation digs up. It is now in pre-production.

Sedes is best known for TV series Fariña and, more recently, The Asunta Case.

Netflix launched two new film titles and shared details on several projects currently in development at a buzzy showcase this afternoon at the San Sebastian Film Festival.

The streamer announced at the event that it will back two new genre projects, Cortafuego directed by David Victori (Cross The Line), and The Black Widow from filmmaker Carlos Sedes (The Summer We Lived).

The Black Widow will be produced by Ramón Campos, Bambú Producciones. The official synopsis shared by the streamer reads: August 2017. The body of a man appears in a parking lot in Valencia, stabbed seven times. Everything points to a crime of passion. The city’s Homicide Group, led by a veteran inspector, begins an investigation against the clock that soon leads them to a suspect that no one expected: Maje, the young widow, sweet and serene, who had been married to the victim for less than a year.

Cortafuego,...

In its fourth year, Netflix’s Geeked Week returned bigger than ever, with breaking news and special exclusives on more than a dozen series, including Avatar: The Last Airbender, Black Mirror, Wednesday, and Squid Game.

Speaking of Squid Game, upcoming games like Squid Game: Unleashed and Monument Valley 3 were also showcased. Plus, never-before-seen clips and trailers from upcoming movies like Don’t Move, It’s What’s Inside, and The Platform 2 were revealed.

The Geeked Week live show was hosted by Joe Manganiello, who announced that he will play the iconic villain Mr. 0 in the highly anticipated upcoming second season of One Piece alongside Lera Abova (Bumper in Berlin) as Miss All Sunday. Cobra Kai stars Jacob Bertrand and Xolo Maridueña emceed the Fan Zone Pod Stage.

You can watch the full live event in the video provided and we’ve also got a rundown of the announcements below.

Geeked Week Live...

Back in 2020, Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia made his feature directorial debut (after a couple decades of making short films) with the thriller The Platform, which was released through the Netflix streaming service. You can read my very positive review of that film at This Link, but the gist of it is that I was very impressed and was left eager to see what Gaztelu-Urrutia would make next. He was assembling a film called Rich Flu before the strikes last year, but it turns out that the next movie we’ll see from him is a sequel to his debut, The Platform 2. This one will also be heading out into the world courtesy of Netflix – and the streamer will be releasing the film on October 4th, helping kick off the Halloween season. With that date just a couple of weeks away, Netflix has shared a clip from the film, and that can...

Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s The Platform was a massive hit for Netflix back in 2020, and hotly anticipated sequel The Platform 2 is headed to the streaming service on October 4.

Watch the first clip from The Platform 2 below, which features Milena Smit and Hovik Keuchkerian. Netflix previews, “The names of the leading characters have been revealed. Who is Zamiatin? What motivated Perempuán to enter the platform? Find out in this clip.”

In Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s sequel, “A mysterious figure has managed to establish a new law in The Platform, but can justice truly be enforced in hell? And who will enforce it?”

The first film is set inside a vertical prison system, where inmates are assigned to a level and forced to ration food from a platform that moves between the floors. Inmates on high floors eat better than those below, and one man tries to effect change so everyone gets enough.

Horror fanatics, our time has come. With spooky season upon us, Netflix has finally unveiled its complete 2024 Netflix & Chills lineup. We've already looked over the list, and there are so many movies and shows we can't wait to check out.

For example, we'll see the return of the hit Korean thriller series Gyeongseong Creature with its second season at the end of September. Then, in October, Netflix will be releasing a brand new volume of Unsolved Mysteries, the highly anticipated second season of Hellbound, and many new horror films like It's What's Inside, The Platform 2, Time Cut, Don't Move etc. We can also expect some more great content to be released in November.

We don't want you to miss any new releases on Netflix this spooky season. That's why we decided to share the full 2024 Netflix & Chills lineup right below.

Sector 36Release date: Sept. 13, 2024Cast: Vikrant Massey, Deepak Dobriyal,...

"Beyond Fest announces its 2024 festival slate including the World Premiere of Salem’S Lot, a Very Special Screening of Devara: Part 1, International Premiere of Toho’s My Hero Academia: You’Re Next, West Coast Premieres of The Brutalist in 70mm with Brady Corbet, Palme d’Or winner Anora with Sean Baker and Mikey Madison, Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice, Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch, Damien Leone’s Terrifier 3 and in-person event screenings with filmmakers Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Sam Raimi, Tarsem Singh, Jennifer Kent, Guy Maddin, Shane Black, icons Al Pacino, Kyle MacLachlan, Sarah Paulson, Ron Perlman, and a 30th Anniversary Speed reunion with stars Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock and director Jan de Bont."

Los Angeles, CA 12th September 2024 - Beyond Fest, the biggest and highest-attended genre film festival in the US, is excited to announce its complete slate of 2024 programming comprising 82 features, including 16 World Premieres, 4 International Premieres, 1 North American Premiere,...

Ahead of the spooky season, Netflix is assembling a new list of streamable screams. This year’s Netflix & Chills list features everything from vintage horror favorites to spine-tingling series to anticipated horror sequels. Such titles include The Platform 2, the intriguing follow-up to the 2019 Spanish thriller that became a hit for the streamer, Unsolved Mysteries, Volume 5, and Woman of the Hour, the wild based-on-a-true story about the serial killer who went on a dating show. Here’s the full list of the 2024 Netflix & Chills offerings, along with descriptions of the upcoming new originals. September Jaws, Jaws 2, and Jaws 3 – Now on Netflix Ancient Aliens Season 8 – Now on Netflix Fright Fest at Six Flags x Stranger Things – Now Open Sector 36 (India) – September 13 Gyeongseong Creature 2 (Korea) – September 27 Sector 36: “Inspired by true events, several children go missing from a basti (slum) in Sector 36. A determined police officer must now face off with...