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The Netflix series Squid Game has released been released and is on track to be one of the streaming services most-watched shows of all time.
In the series, participants are risking their lives while playing mysterious games to win a 45.6 billion won cash prize. It may sound like a reality TV show but it's most definitely a horror/drama and completely binge-worthy either in its original Korean with subtitles or with English overdub. To sum it up, it's kind of "The Hunger Games" meets "Saw".
As you can see from the first few seconds of the trailer part of the story is that the contestants are given a card with a phone number on it to ring when they want to take part in the game and unlike traditional "movie" numbers that start with a 555 and are completely fictional, this made-up number actually rings an unsuspecting owner. A man living in South Korea.
Needless to say, the poor guy has been inundated with calls that may seem like a harmless prank, but he says he is quite distressed by it. So much so he is now in negotiations with Netflix to solve the situation who may need to purchase the number that he has had for his business for over 10 years.
Netflix has also been forced to blur the number out on the show and in trailers.
Regardless, the show is what everyone is talking about and you can binge it now on Netflix. Just remember if you can see the number still.. leave the poor dude alone.
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Adele has teased her first comeback single since her last song “Water Under the Bridge” which was released in 2016. A clip of the new single titled, ‘Easy on Me’ was shared online in a 21-second teaser video giving Adele fans a taste of what’s to come in her new chapter of music.
The black and white clip shows Adele inserting a tape with the label ‘Easy on me’ into her car and then she turns up the volume. The song then starts as the car moves and she moves her hands outside in a waving motion to the music. We then see the back seats of the car filled with sheet music, flying out of the window. The clip then ends on a title scene saying “EASY ON ME, OCTOBER 15.”
The first teaser for @Adele’s “Easy On Me” has now over 10 million views on Twitter and Instagram.
— Adele Stats ³⁰ (@StatsAdele) October 5, 2021
— Across all social media, it surpasses 25 million views in less than 9 hours. pic.twitter.com/ImMPXV3RCx
The anticipation of new music from the 33-year-old was fuelled after projections and billboards of the number “30” were seen across the globe on landmarks such as the Louvre in Paris, the Colosseum in Rome and the Empire State Building in New York. “30” is the suspected title for her upcoming album.
Something is happening. #30 pic.twitter.com/FvD4LNR42a
— Adele Daily ³⁰ (@adeledailynet) October 1, 2021
Sydney, Australia. #Adele30 pic.twitter.com/XuAaX5pzwz
— Adele Daily ³⁰ (@adeledailynet) October 2, 2021
Suspicions of the new album and music also came when Adele’s social media and website graphics were changed to a blurry blue image, a tease for something to come. Her last album “25” was released in 2015 reached number one on Australian charts and produced hits such as, “Hello” and "When We Were Young."
The announcement has excited millions of fans with her Instagram post already receiving over 10 million views (at the time of writing). Spotify even wrote a comment saying, "Brb running behind Adele’s car to catch all the sheet music."
No details have been confirmed for the new album yet but fans will be treated to the first single from Adele in 5 years since 2016, with the release of 'Easy on Me' on October 15, 2021.
Image Credit: (@adele / Youtube)
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Gods Kings Fire Blood. These are the words uttered in this brand new Teaser for the Game of Thrones House of the Dragon teaser.
Set 200 years before the events that took place in Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon centres itself around House Targaryen.
For avid readers, House of the Dragon is based on the George R.R. Martin book Fire & Blood.
Eagle eye viewers of the teaser will see that one of the Targaryiens is Matt Smith of Doctor Who fame.
The series is set to launch with 10 episodes on the HBO Max streaming service in the US and Europe.
In Australia I would hazard a guess it will appear on Binge at a similar time to the US release in 2022.
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A Russian actress and a film director have blasted off for the International Space Station, beating Tom Cruise in the race to shoot the first movie in space.
The Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft is set to dock on Tuesday at the station, which orbits Earth at an altitude of 354km.
Russian state media provided blanket and patriotic coverage in the run-up, with a countdown clock running on Channel One and news anchors framing the development as a significant breakthrough by Russia that the rest of the world is watching closely.
The launch to film the movie The Challenge puts Russia on course to beat the United States in the latest chapter of the space race. Actress Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko will reach the cosmos ahead of Cruise, whose plans to blast off on a SpaceX rocket for an as-yet-untitled Hollywood film were announced by NASA last year.
Russia's own space industry has in recent years been dogged by delays, accidents and corruption scandals, while US-based private firms backed by rich businessmen such as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have developed new spaceships.
Peresild and Shipenko were accompanied at the launch of their 12-day mission by two Russian cosmonauts.
Russian competition with the United States in space was a hallmark of the Cold War. Moscow launched the first satellite and put the first man and woman in space, but NASA beat it to the Moon landing. More recently, they have cooperated aboard the ISS, where cosmonauts and astronauts have lived side by side for decades.
"Space is where we became pioneers and we still maintain a confident lead despite everything," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said after the launch.
"Yes, others are stepping on (our) toes but it is obvious that there is competition in a good sense. For our country, a flight like this, that popularises our achievements and the theme of space in general, is good news."
In the film, Peresild plays a doctor who is asked to travel to the space station to save a cosmonaut's life. Cosmonaut crew members are also set to appear.
Director Klim Shipenko, whose height of 1.9 metres makes the flight in a small capsule especially challenging, has already said he is looking forward to a Mars-based sequel.
The rocket was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome which Russia leases on the steppes of Kazakhstan.
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