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Netflix's Splinter Cell animated series arrives next month, but there's no sign of a new game
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Netflix’s Splinter Cell animated series arrives next month, but there’s no sign of a new game

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Netflix has released a full trailer for its forthcoming Splinter Cell animated series, ahead of its release next month.


From Derek Kolstad, writer of the John Wick franchise, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Deathwatch will of course follow series protagonist Sam Fisher – here looking a little older and more grizzled, though still with his iconic night-vision goggles.


Liev Schreiber (who’s been in a tonne of films, from Scream to X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Isle of Dogs) provides the voice of Fisher, and the whole thing has been produced by Ubisoft Film & Television.

Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Deathwatch official trailer.Watch on YouTube


The series will be available from 14th October and also stars Kirby Howell-Baptiste (Killing Eve, The Sandman) as new Splinter Cell agent Zinnia McKenna.


News of a Splinter Cell animated series came back in 2020, so this series has been a long time coming. A separate Splinter Cell film was cancelled last year as the production team “just couldn’t get it right”.


October is a busy month for Netflix video game adaptations, as the fourth season of The Witcher also arrives on 30th October. It now stars Liam Hemsworth as Geralt of Rivia, instead of Henry Cavill. Check out a trailer below to see him in action.

The Witcher: Season 4 official teaser.Watch on YouTube


As for new Splinter Cell games, Ubisoft announced a remake of the first game in the series back in 2021, but we’ve heard nothing since.



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Netflix's animated Tomb Raider adaptation reportedly ending after second season
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Netflix’s animated Tomb Raider adaptation reportedly ending after second season

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Netflix’s animated Tomb Raider series seems to be coming to an end.

That’s according to Variety, which reports that the second season of Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft may be its last following its premiere on December 11, 2025.

GamesIndustry.biz has reached out to Netflix for further clarification.

Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft was initially announced in 2021, premiering on October 10, 2024. It was renewed for a second season shortly after.

The animated series isn’t the only recent adaptation of the video game franchise.

Yesterday it was announced that Amazon’s live-action Tomb Raider series will begin production on January 19, 2026, with Sophie Turner as Lara Croft.

The series was greenlit in May 2024, with Phoebe Waller-Bridge at the helm alongside Wayward Pines creator Chad Hodge and Shōgun director Jonathan van Tulleken.



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Second season of Netflix's Tomb Raider adaptation will also be its last
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Second season of Netflix’s Tomb Raider adaptation will also be its last

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The second season of Netflix’s Tomb Raider animated series has landed itself a release date.

Season two of Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft will be available on Netflix on 11th December. This season will be the series’ last, the streaming platform confirmed today.

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“When adventurer Lara Croft discovers a trail of stolen African Orisha masks, she joins forces with her best friend Sam to retrieve the precious artifacts,” reads the season two description. “Lara’s thrilling new adventure takes her around the globe as she delves deeper into the hidden secrets of Orisha history, dodging the machinations of a dangerous and enigmatic billionaire who wants the masks for herself, while discovering these relics contain dark secrets and a power that defies logic. Power that may, in fact, be divine.”

Hayley Atwell returns for the second season as the voice of Lara Croft, as does Earl Baylon as Jonah. Joining the cast this season is Karen Fukuhara, who is known for The Boys and Suicide Squad. Fukuhara will voice Sam, a character first introduced in 2013’s Tomb Raider reboot.

Image credit: Netflix

Elsewhere in Tomb Raider news, earlier this week Sophie Turner was announced as Amazon’s Lara Croft for its own TV series, which is being helmed by Fleabag’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

This is a news-in-brief story. This is part of our vision to bring you all the big news as part of a daily live report.



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KPop Demon Hunters Is Netflix’s Most Popular Movie Of All Time

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After two months on the streaming service, KPop Demon Hunters has officially surpassed Red Notice to become Netflix’s most popular movie ever. Consider the Honmoon sealed, hunters.

The animated musical took the crown on August 26, lapping the Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Ryan Reynolds-led action comedy by six million streams. As of right now, KPop Demon Hunters has been viewed 236 million times, and that’s not even counting its limited-time singalong screenings in movie theaters this past weekend. 

I hadn’t really been paying attention to what the most popular Netflix movies were until the Sony Animation film launched in June, but I was flabbergasted to see Red Notice, a movie with big names and no notable cultural cache, had such a massive gap between it and former runner-up Carry On, another movie I could not identify if you put a gun to my head. I know Don’t Look Up and Bird Box, though, which are also on the top 10 list. Shoutout to the children and families who have had Huntr/x’s tale on loop for the past two months, as you’ve no doubt been instrumental in securing this victory.

As a fan of the film, I’m happy to see KPop Demon Hunters soar, especially as it defies all expectations the companies behind it had for it. It’s such a colossal miscalculation on Sony and Netflix’s parts that they clearly didn’t anticipate this film would become such a cultural juggernaut. A better-prepared company would have dolls of the titular trio in the toy aisle of every store and costumes up for preorder for Halloween, and given the film more time in theaters than a two-day limited run. Nevertheless, it has become a huge hit with viewers of all ages. So long as Netflix lets the team cook and meaningfully continue the story, I can’t wait to see where it goes next.



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K-Pop Demon Hunters becomes Netflix’s most-watched movie ever after theater run rakes in millions

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K-Pop Demon Hunters is now the most-watched movie in Netflix history after its weekend sing-along theatrical run brought in millions of dollars.

The hype around Netflix’s animated action flick K-Pop Demon Hunters has taken over the world ever since its initial release on the streaming platform back in June 2025.

In the mere two months since then, the film has skyrocketed to the top of the charts, both in terms of its musical score (with Huntrix’s ‘Golden’ hitting #1 on the Billboard Hot 100) and on Netflix’s own rankings.

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In late July, the movie became Netflix’s most-watched animated film — and as of August 26, 2025, it’s the most-watched flick on the platform in history at a staggering 236 million views.

K-Pop Demon Hunters takes over Netflix after successful limited-time screenings

With this achievement, it’s surpassed Red Notice, a 2021 action-comedy starring Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds that garnered 230.9 million views in its first 13 weeks on the site and held the title of most-watched for three years until now.

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HUNTER/X’s demon-slaying adventures also came to the silver screen on the weekend of August 23 – 24 in a limited-time sing-along run that raked in an estimated $18-20 million USD, as per the Hollywood Reporter.

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While Netflix doesn’t reveal its official box office earnings to the public, analysts suggest that it likely beat out another big release that week in Weapons, which reportedly garnered $15.4 million that weekend.

The hugely successful sing-along is also available to watch on Netflix as fans eagerly await news of a sequel — something Netflix has already hinted is in the works.

A report from The Wrap says Netflix is in talks to create two more animated movies and even a stage play adaptation, affectionately dubbing the IP its “Frozen or Disney Princesses franchise.”

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Huntrix is stealing the hearts of movie fans and K-Pop stans around the world, even getting parodied on BIGBANG star G-Dragon’s ‘Don’t Laugh’ birthday event and earning a tearful reaction from BTS’s Junkook, who streamed himself watching the movie in a viral broadcast.

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‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Could Sing to Netflix’s First Theatrical Hit

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After growing popularity and fan demand, KPop Demon Hunters came to theaters across North America this weekend. And in what’s surely a shock, the film might manage to take the top spot in the box office and give Netflix something else to brag about.

Per the Hollywood Reporter, the KPop singalong screenings is looking to earn $18-20 million domestic before the weekend is out. That number comes courtesy of exhibition sources and “rival studios,” since Netflix doesn’t report numbers when its movies hit theaters. But should KPop hit that range (or exceeds it), this would mark the first time a movie from the streamer hit #1 on the big screen. Of the big North American theater chains, AMC is the only one not playing it, and around 1,150 of its 1,700 showings sold out earlier in the week.

Netflix has always had a rocky relationship with theaters, which has gained greater scrutiny recently. Earlier in August, Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer announced they were moving to Paramount in April 2026 to make theatrical movies—said to be a huge factor in their decision—and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein will hit the big screen in October. People who’ve watched KPop Demon Hunters at home have come away from it thinking it could’ve been a hit in theaters, and this two-day screening proves them right a little bit. At time of writing, it’s unknown if Netflix will allow for more screenings closer to Oscar season, or even extend it to other countries, but it looks like there’s no stopping KPop Demon Hunters’ momentum for the forseeable future.

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Sam Fisher Returns in Netflix's 'Splinter Cell: Deathwatch' Anime
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Sam Fisher Returns in Netflix’s ‘Splinter Cell: Deathwatch’ Anime

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Fans of stealth video games likely have a soft spot in their hearts for Splinter Cell. Ubisoft’s sub-series of stealth-action games endorsed by Tom Clancy has been MIA for over a decade, even with a remake of the original game on the horizon. After doing guest roles in other Clancy games and in Netflix’s Far Cry anime, series lead Sam Fisher is back in all his shadowy glory in Splinter Cell: Deathwatch.

Developed by John Wick alum Derek Kolstad, the animated series sees Fisher—voiced by Liev Schreiber rather than longtime game actor Michael Ironside—as a field commander for the covert Fourth Echelon unit. Like in the games, Sam is assigned to stop a threat to global security: in this case, the mission is “personal.”

Splinter Cell: Deathwatch deploys on Netflix October 14.

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