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Netflix Launching The Magic Order Comic Book

Mark Millar today revealed The Magic Order as the first franchise he will create as part of the recent acquisition of Millarworld by Netflix, the world’s leading Internet entertainment service. The Magic Order will appear as a comic-book written by Millar with Marvel superstar Olivier Coipel ( Thor, The Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man) selected as artist for the first volume. This series will be six issues long and the first will be released in Spring 2018. The Magic Order will be available for sale in print format through comic stores and other retail outlets and will also be available for digital purchase.

We live in a world where we’ve never seen a monster and these people are the reason we sleep safely in our beds. Magic meets the mob in The Magic Order, as five families of magicians sworn to protect our world for generations must battle an enemy who’s picking them off one by one. By day they live among us as our neighbors, friends and co-workers, but by night they are the sorcerers, magicians and wizards that protect us from the forces of darkness...unless the darkness gets them first.

“We wanted to make a splash with our first book for Netflix and this is it. I love dark fantasy and there’s an enormous gap in the market for something like this. Netflix hiring Olivier has also made me the happiest guy alive. I’ve been after him for almost ten years so to finally have our names in the same book is an absolute honor” said Millar, President and Chief Creative Officer, Millarworld, a subsidiary of Netflix.

Counterpart - Official Trailer Released (STARZ)

STARZ announced today that the 10-episode first season of new Original series Counterpart will premiere on Sunday, January 21st , 2018 at 8PM ET/PT. Academy Award-winner J.K. Simmons stars in two roles in this spy thriller from creator Justin Marks and MRC, and executive producers Gilbert Films and Anonymous Content. The official trailer provides the first look into a captivating world of espionage, intrigue, and government conspiracies.

Counterpart is about a mysterious world hidden beneath the surface of our everyday existence. Howard Silk (J.K. Simmons) is a lowly cog in the bureaucratic machinery of a Berlin-based United Nations spy agency. When Howard discovers that his organization safeguards the secret of a crossing into a parallel dimension, he is thrust into a shadow world of intrigue, danger, and double cross… where the only man he can trust is his near-identical counterpart from this parallel world. The show explores themes of identity, fate and lost love, posing the eternal question, “what if our lives could have been different?”

Counterpart also features Olivia Williams (The Sixth Sense, Hyde Park on Hudson, Manhattan) as Emily Burton Silk; Harry Lloyd (The Theory of Everything, Jane Eyre, Manhattan) as Peter Quayle,; Nicholas Pinnock (Captain America: The First Avenger, Marcella) as Ian Shaw; Nazanin Boniadi (Homeland, Ben-Hur, Hotel Mumbai) as Clare; Sara Serraiocco (Salvo, Cloro, Worldly Girl) as Baldwin,; and Ulrich Thomsen (The Blacklist, Banshee) as Aldrich. Academy Award nominee Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game) directed the first episode.

Created, written, and executive produced by Marks (The Jungle Book), Counterpart is executive produced by Marks, Gary Gilbert (La La Land) with Gilbert Films, Jordan Horowitz (La La Land), Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game), as well as Keith Redmon (The Revenant) and Bard Dorros (Spotlight) with Anonymous Content. Amy Berg also served as Executive Producer on the first season. Production on the first season began in Los Angeles in 2016, and wrapped in Berlin earlier this year.

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The Orville Renewed For Second Season (FOX)

(L-R): Penny Johnson Jerald, Mark Jackson, Seth MacFarlane, Peter Macon, Scott Grimes, Adrienne Palicki, J Lee and Halston Sage in The Orville. Photo copyright of FOX.

FOX has renewed The Orville, the space adventure series created by and starring Seth MacFarlane, for a second season, it was announced today by Michael Thorn, President, Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company.

“Once again Seth has struck a powerful chord with viewers,” said Thorn. “He has delivered a series full of optimism, drama and his trademark humor. We want to thank him and the rest of the talented cast, as well as the producers and crew, for an incredible first season. We can’t wait to see where The Orville travels in the second.”

In tonight’s all-new episode of The Orville, Into the Fold, airing 9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT, on FOX, Ed (MacFarlane) and the crew set out to save Dr. Finn (Penny Johnson Jerald), her two sons (guest stars Kai Wener and BJ Tanner) and Isaac (Mark Jackson) after their shuttle gets thrown into uncharted space and they crash-land on a moon that is light years from The Orville.

With more than 14 million viewers across platforms, The Orville’s series premiere marks FOX’s most watched and highest-rated series launch since the 2015 debut of Empire. The Orville ranks among the Top Three new dramas of the Fall season, averaging a 2.5/9 Live + 7 Day rating, a +67% lift from Live + Same Day, and more than 10 million multi-platform viewers, +108% vs. Live + Same Day.

The Orville is produced by 20th Century Fox Television. The series was created and written by Seth MacFarlane. MacFarlane, Brannon Braga (Terra Nova), David A. Goodman (Family Guy), Jason Clark (Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, Ted) and Liz Heldens (Mercy, Deception) serve as executive producers on the series. Jon Favreau (The Jungle Book, Iron Man) directed the series premiere episode. “Like” The Orville on Facebook at facebook.com/TheOrville/ . Follow the series on Twitter @TheOrville and join the discussion using #TheOrville. See photos and videos on Instagram by following @TheOrville.

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