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“The Fall of the House of Usher”: Netflix and Mike Flanagan Developing Series Based on Edgar Allan Poe Stories!
Fresh off “Midnight Mass,” Netflix has announced today they’re reteaming with Mike Flanagan for “The Fall of the House of Usher,” a new series based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe!
The limited series from Intrepid Pictures is “based on multiple works from Poe.”
“The Fall of the House of Usher” marks the fifth series for Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy at Netflix under their Intrepid Pictures overall deal, including: the fan-beloved “The Haunting of” series – “The Haunting of Hill House” and “The Haunting of Bly Manor”; the recently launched and critically-lauded “Midnight Mass,” and the upcoming “The Midnight Club.”
8 episodes have been ordered. Flanagan and Michael Fimognari will each direct four episodes.
Executive producers include Flanagan, Trevor Macy, Emmy Grinwis and Michael Fimognari.
Calling all Crewmates! Paramount+ announced today the surprise premiere of its new original animated series Among Us, which was unveiled live at Summer Game Fest.
Created by Owen Dennis and produced by CBS Studios and Innersloth, all ten episodes of Among Us are now available to stream exclusively on Paramount+.
The series follows “a group of eccentric, monochromatic Crewmates of a ship transporting junk across the galaxy who must root out an Impostor in their midst before they fall victim to its villainous designs.”
It’s based on the globally popular multiplayer social deception game of the same name, which has been brought to life in the brand new trailer below.
Among Us boasts a star-studded voice cast, too:
- Yvette Nicole Brown as “Orange”
- Kimiko Glenn as “Cyan”
- Liv Hewson as “Black”
- Ashley Johnson as “Purple”
- Wayne Knight as “Lime”
- Phil LaMarr as “Brown”
- Randall Park as “Red”
- Dan Stevens as “Blue”
- Debra Wilson as “Yellow” and “Computer”
- Elijah Wood as “Green”
- Patton Oswalt as “White”
Animation studio Titmouse is behind the series.
Among Us became a global sensation in 2020, generating more than 4 billion views on YouTube and over 1.22 billion viewing sessions on Twitch. In October 2020 alone, it ranked #1 on Google Play in 66 countries and #1 on iOS in 55 countries, with Top 100 placements in nearly every market worldwide. The game is available on PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series.
The paranoid phenomenon now heads to Paramount+ in animated series form. Watch the new trailer below as all episodes launch on streaming today.
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