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Netflix has signed a rich multi-year overall deal with Steve Blackman, executive producer/showrunner of one of the streamer’s most popular original series, The Umbrella Academy. No one would comment but I hear the pact is for four years and in the mid-eight-figure range. Under the deal, Blackman will continue as…

Ritu Arya (Humans), Yusuf Gatewood (Good Omens) and Marin Ireland (Y: The Last Man) have joined the season 2 cast of The Umbrella Academy, Netflix’s live-action superhero series based on the Dark Horse Comics created and written by Gerard Way and illustrated by Gabriel Bá. They will join previously announced returning…

With its complex character and environmental work, The Umbrella Academy brought a long list of challenges for VFX supervisor Everett Burrell. Based on comic books created by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá, the Netflix series centers on a dysfunctional family of adopted sibling superheroes, who reunite following their…

An Emmy winner and three-time nominee, Jeff Russo prizes emotional authenticity in his work above all else. One of the busiest composers working in television today, Russo has always gravitated toward certain kinds of stories—ones that are "told from the heart," whatever their genre may be. Appearing on Production…

For Christopher Hargadon, who designed costumes for The Umbrella Academy, the "diverse and eccentric personalities" present within the show were the key factor, that made it an instant draw. Based on a comic book series created by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá, the Netflix superhero series occupied a stylistic space all…

Netflix has closed a first-look deal with The Umbrella Academy producers Dark Horse Entertainment. Under the pact, Dark Horse will give Netflix a first look at its IP for both film and TV and has started exploring future projects. Dark Horse Entertainment's Mike Richardson, Keith Goldberg and Paul Schwake signed on to…

If Hell hasn't frozen over today, it got distinctly colder as Netflix brass promised to start revealing a lot more of their actual viewership. "Over the next several months, we're going to be rolling out more specific and granular data and reporting, Ted Sarandos said on Tuesday following the first quarter earnings…

Netflix is continuing to shout about some of its successes, handing out some viewing data for titles including The Umbrella Academy, Triple Frontier, The Highwaymen, its Fyre Festival documentary and the David Attenborough-narrated Our Planet. In its first-quarter earnings report Tuesday, the streaming company…

Netflix has ordered a 10-episode second season of The Umbrella Academy, its live-action superhero series based on the Dark Horse Comics created and written by Gerard Way and illustrated by Gabriel Bá. Production will begin this summer in Toronto. Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert…

When Netflix found out that two mega-fans of Umbrella Academy were tying the knot in New York City the streamer found the perfect way to celebrate Their Chemical Romance. A 60-foot black umbrella provided the coolest canopy imaginable for Kat and Ducky when the pair married the afternoon after St. Valentine’s Day in…

The just-released trailer for The Umbrella Academy series shows Netflix is still very much in the superhero business and is, in fact, elevating its ambitions in the sector by taking on the eccentric Dark Horse Comics saga that melds the many interests of its rock-star author, Gerard Way. Way first found fame as the…

Based on the Dark Horse comic book series created and written by Gerard Way and illustrated by Gabriel Bá, Netfilx’s The Umbrella Academy follows a group of “gifted” children adopted by a billionaire who come back home to solve the mystery of their father’s death. Also, the end of the world is imminent. Known only by…