Mystery comedy Combined with coming-of-age fabric runs well, as the second season of the Addams Family spin-off series “Wednesday” shows.
On August 6th, the series of cultural director Tim Burton (“Beetlejuice”) went to her second season. So far there has been episode 1 to 4. Part two of the second season (episode 5 to 8) follows on September 3.
In the first eleven days, Netflix already registered 79.1 million calls for the four – 50 million between August 6 and 10 and 29.1 million between August 11 and 17.
The Netflix series “Wednesday” about the daughter of the Addams Family quickly developed into a global pop culture phenomenon after the start in 2022.
The mixture of thriller, fantasy and black humor hit a nerve, especially among the young audience. Netflix gives a whopping 252 million calls for the first 91 online days of the first season.
Jenna Ortega became a world star as a Wednesday
The main actress Jenna Ortega (now 22 years old) became a superstar with the series. The series received two Golden Globes and four Emmys. Ortega received one as the best leading actress.
The series is about Wednesday Addams’ time at the Nevermore Academy, a school for outsiders with special skills.
Wednesday discovered her visual skills in season one and was confronted with a mysterious series of murder. In season two, new mysterious occurrences and dangers lurk. In addition, her brother Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez) is now also NEEMORE students.
Star contingent with Buscemi, Lloyd and Lumley
Wednesday’s parents Morticia and Gomez Addams are embodied by Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzmán. New in season two is Steve Buscemi (“The Big Lebowski”) as an ambitious headmaster.
“Back to the future” star Christopher Lloyd, who played uncle in the two “Addams Family” films in the 1990s, is Professor Orloff-or rather his head. The British icon Joanna Lumley (“absolute fabulous”) plays Wednesday’s rich, sharp -tongued grandmother Hester Frump.
Already 87 years ago, an Addams Family cartoon was published for the first time in the magazine “The New Yorker”. The first series followed in the 1960s, which is now a TV classic.
After various series and films, the Addams tradition is now continuing with “Wednesday” and inspires a new generation. The third season has already been confirmed.
Netflix: Demon hunters crack 200 million marks
The animation musical film “KPOP DEMON HUNTERS”, as a second Netflix film (Netflix), exceeded the 200 million mark. Since the publication (on June 20), the film has (until Sunday, August 17) have been coming to more than 210.5 million so -called views.
If the trendy work continues, it will be the most successful Netflix film next week and get the “Red Notice” action comedy with Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot from 2021, for which 230.9 million calls were once included.
In its leaderboard – for example at “Red Notice” – the streaming service Netflix only refers to the first 91 online days. Netflix does not price long -term calls.
This means that “KPOP Demon Hunters” still has time until 19 September to become the most successful film. In view of the previous numbers from the weekly charts, it is likely that it will be ready in a week.
The weekly charts since the start of “KPOP Demon Hunters”:
* 20.6. until June 22nd: 9.2 million calls
* 23.6. until 29.6.: 24.2 million calls
* 30.6. until July 6th: 22.7 million calls
* 07.7. until July 13th: 24.2 million calls
* 14.7. until July 20: 25.8 million calls
* 21.7. until July 27th: 26.3 million calls
* 28.7. until August 3rd: 26.3 million calls
* 04.8. until 10.8.: 25.9 million calls
* 11.8. until August 17th: 26.0 million calls
The animation fantasy film produced by Sony Pictures Animation is about the K-Pop Girlgroup Huntrix (also Huntr/X written), consisting of Rumi, Mira and Zoey.
The three young women lead a double life as demon hunters. Suddenly they get competition from a boy band, but whose boys are demons.
The hype promoted the film soundtrack with K-pop earworms worldwide in hit parades. The song “Golden”, which is traded as a smash hit in the film, actually became reality. He also took first place in Germany on the single charts.
According to Netflix, Netflix has more than 300 million paying members in over 190 countries.
Tuesday evening, weekly charts are published that record the streaming top-10 for films and series from Monday to Sunday before.
Sandler’s second happy film at Netflix: 90s humor also succeeds in 2025
Nostalgia is always well received by the Netflix audience. Almost 30 years after the first part, Adam Sandler is currently celebrating success with the golf comedy “Happy Gilmore 2”.
Sandler concluded a multi-million dollar deal with Netflix about exclusive films (from this, works such as “Murder Mystery”, “Murder Mystery 2”, “You are not invited to my BAT-MIZWA” or “Spaceman: a short history of the Bohemian space”).
“Happy Gilmore” was a cult in the 90s
With the original film “Happy Gilmore”, Adam Sandler landed one of his first major cinema hits in 1996. The Comedian’s Hollywood career was going well. The film on silliness was not only a success of the cash register, but also developed into a cult phenomenon.
The fact that Sandler (now 58) tried to continue around 29 years later was considered daring. But the sequel “Happy Gilmore 2”, which has been seen at the Netflix streaming service since July 25, was also a success.
More than 100 million calls for “Happy Gilmore 2”
In the meantime, 109.2 million calls have already been raised in just three and a half weeks, as can be seen from the weekly Netflix charts:
* July 25th to July 27th: 46.7 million calls
* July 28 to August 3: 40.8 million calls
* 4th August to August 10: 14.7 million calls
* August 11th to August 17th: 7 million calls
The story of Happy Gilmore is simple. Title hero Happy (Adam Sandler) is an ice hockey player persecuted by the bad luck, who was raised by his grandma.
When his grandmother loses her house because of tax debts, he accidentally discovered his talent for Golf and tries his luck. He wants to buy the family house back with the high prize money, but with his broken and unbridled manner, he tackles everywhere.
In part two is Happy widower, father of five children and has an enormous alcohol problem. But he wants to overcome his trauma, play golf again, not least to enable his only daughter a ballet career.
Slapstick humor and crazy game scenes
“Happy Gilmore” is heartwarming and is considered one of the best films in the career of the former “Saturday Night Live” comedian Adam Sandler-with a curious slapstick humor and coarse sayings, which in contrast to other films of the time are well aged.
Part two – including a guest appearance from Eminem – is very modern and action -packed. The comedy skillfully makes fun of the social media world and gamer scene. The film defends almost conservative traditional sports spirit and family cohesion against aggressive business.
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