INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MAY 31: (L-R) Lee Byung Hun, Kang Ae-Sim, Choi Seung-Hyun, Park Sung Hoon and Lee Jung Jae attend Netflix Tudum 2025: The Live Event at The Kia Forum on May 31, 2025 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)


Netflix launched a flurry of bulletins and trailers round high-profile tasks together with “Squid Sport,” “Wednesday,” and “Stranger Issues 5” final night time at its annual Tudum advertising and marketing occasion.

Whereas this yr’s Tudum (named for the sound that performs whenever you open the app) was livestreamed for the primary time on Netflix itself (versus YouTube), The Los Angeles Occasions reviews that 9,500 followers gathered in-person on the Kia Discussion board in Southern California, hoping to see their favourite stars — together with Woman Gaga, who carried out on the occasion and shall be guest-starring on “Wednesday.”

Chief Advertising and marketing Officer Marian Lee boasted that no different studio would have the ability to put “all these followers in a room collectively: WWE followers subsequent to ‘Knives Out’ followers subsequent to Woman Gaga followers for ‘Wednesday.’”

“That’s one thing solely Netflix can do,” Lee mentioned.

As for the bulletins, the most important is perhaps that “Stranger Issues 5” — the nostalgia-driven horror present’s closing season — will air in three elements, beginning on November 26, with the finale launched on New 12 months’s Eve. However I’m most likely most enthusiastic about Guillermo del Toro’s new model of “Frankenstein,” additionally set to launch in November.