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Netflix recently revealed how many of its members checked out The Old Guard, Enola Holmes, Project Power and The Kissing Booth 2 in their first four weeks.

The Old Guard, starring Charlize Theron, was seen by 78 million members in its first four weeks, which is up from Netflix’s estimate of 72 million views from earlier this year. Netflix is still counting a view as only watching two minutes of a movie, because that’s “long enough to indicate the choice was intentional.”

Netflix revealed its top ten biggest movie debuts around the time The Old Guard was released in July. Assuming Netflix isn’t hiding any other impressive viewership numbers, then The Old Guard places as the fifth biggest launch for a Netflix movie with Enola Holmes and Project Power in sixth and seventh.

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Enola Holmes is estimated to “reach” 76 million members over its first four weeks and Project Power was seen by 75 million Netflix members. The Kissing Booth 2 put up 66 million views, which would place it ninth on Netflix’s list of top debuts. The documentary, American Murder: The Family Next Door, was checked out by 50 million Netflix users, which Netflix says is its biggest documentary launch so far.

Netflix also revealed some numbers for its TV shows, according to The Hollywood Reporter. In its four weeks, Ratched was seen by 48 million users, The Umbrella Academy received 43 million views, and Lucifer was viewed by 38 million Netflix users.

Netflix also bragged about its acquisition of Cobra Kai. The first two seasons of the series were released on the service in September 2020 and eclipsed all of Netflix’s original shows of the quarter to reach 50 million viewers in its first four weeks. Netflix announced a season three premiere for Cobra Kai earlier this month and gave the series an early season four renewal.

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Netflix continues to put out big releases in October with The Haunting of Bly Manor, The Trial of the Chicago 7 and Hubie Halloween. IGN’s review of Hubie Halloween calls the Adam Sandler movie “aggressively stupid” but “occasionally endearing.”

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Petey Oneto is a freelance writer for IGN.

Apple TV+ has teamed up with WildBrain, Peanuts Worldwide, and Lee Mendelson Film Productions to become the home for “all things Peanuts,” which includes classics like A Charlie Brown Christmas and new original series and specials.

The second season of the Daytime Emmy-nominated Snoopy in Space series will be part of the new Peanuts content coming to Apple TV+ alongside “a slate of brand-new specials that will find the Peanuts gang marking Mother’s Day, Earth Day, New Year’s Eve, and Back to School.”

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Apple TV+ subscribers will also be treated to the previously announced The Snoopy Show, a new Peanuts 70th anniversary documentary, and the Daytime Emmy Award-winning Peanuts in Space: Secrets of Apollo 10.

Those looking for the Peanuts classics will soon find such films as A Charlie Brown Christmas (December 4), Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (November 18), and It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (October 19) on Apple TV+.

Yet there is also good news for those who are not subscribed to Apple TV+, as these favorites will be free to all who use the app for a short time.

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The previously mentioned Halloween special will be available for free from October 30-November 1, the Thanksgiving special will be available for free from November 25-27, and the Christmas special will be available for free from December 11-13.

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Get Out’s Daniel Kaluuya is set to produce a live-action Barney movie with Mattel, and the premise appears to be a bit “heartbreaking.”

Speaking to EW, Kaluuya brought up how Barney, everyone’s favorite purple dinosaur, taught us “I love you, you love me. Won’t you say you love me too?” However, what happens when “that isn’t true?”

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“Barney taught us, ‘I love you, you love me. Won’t you say you love me too?’ That’s one of the first songs I remember, and what happens when that isn’t true? I thought that was really heartbreaking,” Kaluuya said. “I have no idea why but it feels like that makes sense. It feels like there’s something unexpected that can be poignant but optimistic. Especially at this time now, I think that’s really, really needed.”

Barney & Friends was a children’s show that aired from 1992-2009 and starred Barney, a purple Tyrannosaurus Rex, and his friends Baby Bop, B.J., Riff, and more. The show was set to return in 2017, but there has been little to no word of it since then.

Kaluuya was also speaking to EW about his upcoming film Judas and the Black Messiah, which is set to be released in theaters in 2021 and is looking to “show the ‘full picture’ of the Black Panthers.”

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Of all the unfortunate TV cancelations we’ve seen in 2020, the cancelation of the already-confirmed GLOW Season 4 has stood out as one of the most egregious. But as beloved as the show was, it wasn’t perfect–and steps were being made to fix some of the show’s representation issues in Season 4.

A statement has been shared on Instagram by Sunita Mani, who played wrestler Arthie Premkumar on the show. It details how the series’ POC cast members came together to write a letter to the show’s creators and executive producers asking for the show to do better with how it handles racial issues and representation.

“Since season 1, the show has planted racial stereotyping into our character’s existence, yet our storylines are relegated to the sidelines in dealing with this conflict or have left us feeling like checked-boxes on a list,” the letter reads. It notes that, while the show is celebrated for its diversity, the writer’s room was entirely white.

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Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is currently streaming the video game Among Us with popular streamers Pokimane, HasanAbi, Jacksepticeye, and others, and the stream is pulling in some big numbers.

AOC’s livestream alone reached a peak of around 430,000 concurrent viewers, which makes it close to the biggest Twitch livestream in history. Combining that with the streaming figures for Pokimane, HasanAbi, Jacksepticeye, Moist, and Dr Lupo, the number climbs significantly higher. Another US representative, Ilhan Omar, is taking part in the livestream event as well.

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Control: Ultimate Edition is available now on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, but Xbox players are finding that the game requires a one-time connection to the internet to activate. While it’s not unusual for a new game to require updates, patches, or downloads, Control: Ultimate Edition is a collection of already released material–and the PS4 version can be played offline.

505 Games has cleared this up on their support website, explaining that the Xbox One disc for Control: Ultimate Edition does not contain the full game, because it could not fit on a single disc.

“We have used Xbox intelligent delivery to provide some content on the disc and the rest via download,” the page explains. “On PlayStation 4, this isn’t the case as Control Ultimate Edition fits on a single disc, due to compression and other variables.”

Intelligent delivery is an Xbox system that allows players to only install the parts of a game that they want. You’re prompted to download the rest of Control after reaching the maintenance elevator near the game’s opening.

However, while the Xbox version will only need to go online once, TheGamer reports that this download also performs a one-time DRM check. This will not happen in the PS4 version.

The Ultimate Edition of Control is the only one that will give you access to a free next-gen upgrade. 505 Games has previously said that it was not possible to upgrade players who bought Control and the DLC separately–however, an incident where Xbox One players were briefly upgraded to the Ultimate Edition has given us reason to be skeptical.

Control: Ultimate Edition features both DLC packs for the game, The Foundation and AWE.

When watching the original The Fast and the Furious back in 2001, no one could’ve guessed what kind of mileage Vin Diesel would get out of the series. But the longest quarter-mile in movies had to end eventually, and it will end with the eleventh Fast & Furious film. Justin Lin is in talks to direct the final two installments, according to a report from Deadline, ending the core series of Universal’s most successful franchise ever.

Lin is currently in post-production on F9, which Universal recently delayed even further into 2021, which means these films are nowhere near even starting. Lin has worked on the series on and off since 2006, when he directed The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. Since then, he’s also directed Fast & Furious, Fast Five, Fast & Furious 6, and of course F9.

F9 is set to continue the events of Fate of the Furious, with Charlize Theron once again playing villainous hacker Cipher. The movie also adds John Cena as Dom Toretto’s never-mentioned brother (what happened to “family,” Dom?) and Helen Mirren as Magdalene Shaw. Series stalwarts like Diesel, Ludacris, and others return, along with Sung Kang as Han. We still don’t know how Han is alive, although we have some theories. F9 is set to hit theaters–we hope–on May 28, 2021.

Following a small delay, the first public beta test for Halo 4 through The Master Chief Collection is beginning now. Invitations are going out now, community manager John Junyszek said on Twitter by way of emojis.

Microsoft uses the term “flight” for its beta tests, which explains the airplane emoji in the tweet.

Unlike previous Halo beta tests, every eligible Halo Insider member is being invited into the Halo 4 test. If you didn’t get an invite right away, keep checking your email, as invites are rolling out in waves. This beta test includes portions of both the campaign and multiplayer.

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