Netflix's Okja is the latest victim in their on going battle with same day theater releases. The filmed helmed by the director of Snowpiercer, Bong Joon-Ho, was originally going to be released on the streaming service and in theaters in Korea on June 28th. The largest Korean theater chains, Lotte, Megabox, and CJ CGV have now banned the film from screening entirely, which is a major impact to the box office revenue for the film, considering those three companies control 93% of the countries theaters. This isn't Netflix's first run in with this issue. Last February, AMC and many IMAX screen refused to show Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny, which was ultimately met with low review scores and a low box office gross, most of which came from China. While Okja will be available on Netflix June 28th, movie theater chains are still sending a clear message that they have no interest releasing a film to theaters and streaming services the same day. You can take a look at the trailer below and get excited for this heart warming monster movie.

2017 has not been a great year for the on going conversation of the controversy surrounding Hollywood whitewashing. Last falls Doctor Strange controversy, Matt Damon's commercial failure, The Great wall, Netflix's critically panned Iron Fist series, as well the upcoming Ghost in the Shell film starring Scarlett Johansson, have all been part of a long list of westernization and cultural appropriation in Hollywood and Netflix's upcoming live action adaption has already been met with immediate backlash after it's teaser trailer was released. In the live action Death Note, due out in August, highschool student Light Yagami has now become Seattle resident Light Turner, played by Nat Wolfe while Atlanta and Get Out star, Lakeith Standfield, is set to play L. While it was obvious Netflix aimed at taking some creative liberties, the changes (as indicated from the teaser) are a bit alarming. It's more of transposing the mythology of the famed manga series to a student in Seattle. Either way, it's an important conversation worth having. Death Note is due out of Netflix August 25th, 2017.

Netflix is taking us back to camp, again. After the immensely funny Wet Hot American Summer: First Day At Camp prequel series to the original 201 cult classic, Netflix has now greenlit a sequel series titled Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later. While no casting information has been released, Netflix's series reunited the original cast featuring such recognizable faces as Amy Poehler, Bradley Cooper,  Jeneane Garofalo, Paul Rudd, Molly Shannon, Elizabeth Banks, Ken Marino and plenty of others! One can only hope that everyone will be coming back for this series when it hits Netflix sometimes next year!