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This disastrous adaptation of one of the most beloved series of the 80s was a box office failure. But he’s sweeping in Netflix

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He caught the attention at the time for two very different issues: on the one hand, it is the adaptation, hopeful, of one of the most legendary anime of the eighties, one that, in Spain, in addition, ignited the fondness of Japanese animation as significantly as his contemporaries ‘Dragon Ball’ or ‘Champions’. On the other, it was notorious for his Capital failure: only seven million dollars at the box officea completely improper collection for an adaptation of such a known series. We talk, of course, ‘The Knights of Zodiac’based on the legendary manga of Masami Kurumada and its running anime version, and now it is Available in Netflix. Interestingly, and although the number 1 in films is occupied by the (either very brilliant) ”Electric status‘, has reached a surprising number 2. Once again, films that are shipwrecked in cinemas find their space on the platforms of streamingwhere spectators find it easier to take a risk in search of content. In this new version we will meet Seiya, a teenage conflicting who makes a living fighting for money while looking for her kidnapped sister. When In one of his fights, mystical powers are revealed that he did not know, The young man discovers a world of saints at war, magical training and a reincarnated goddess who asks for her protection. It has a reserved place within the Knights of the Zodiac. The quality of the film was compared at the time with the disastrous adaptation in real image of ‘Dragon Ball’, although ‘The Knights of Zodiac’ is, perhaps, a step above. The sympathetic presence of a couple of stars in low hours (Famke Janssen and Mark Dacascos) and some, despite everything, overwhelming combat choreographies, make the disturbing disturbing in times: between horrendous digital effects and sub -sub -branches of a devastating ramp, a completely unworthy film of the epic touch and the adorable ingenuity of the original mangain. In Xataka | The anime triumphs in Netflix, and the figures sing: the platform is already one of the world’s Japanese animation

A series of 4,000 million dollars

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Within ‘Star Wars‘The’ are so popular yes …? ‘ that the official paths themselves has taken by the franchise. For example, the deviations that were never and that Disney threw in that alternative stories container but outside the canon categorized as ‘legends’. Or all the projects that never came out, among which an ambitious television series, ‘Star Wars: Underworld’, which Lucas had to leave aside for its high cost, but that would have changed the saga forever. A series by George Lucas. According to these new data that producer Rick McCallum has revealed in the podcast ‘Young Indy Chronicles’the creator of the original franchise was developing a series for several years after closing his trilogy of prequels with ‘The revenge of the Sith’. ‘Star Wars: Underworld’ would have elapsed in the time space between the original trilogy and the newly released, serving as a narrative bridge between them. We like thieves. ‘Underworld’ would have been set in the criminal underworld of ‘Star Wars’: smugglers, thieves and hunter would compose the usual fauna of the series. In fact, Indiewire Define what Lucas was trying to do as “‘the soprano’ in ‘Star Wars’”. Interestingly, it is an atmosphere comparable to what tried to develop the commercially failed ‘Star Wars Outlaws‘(Note the similarities in the title, of practically interchangeable meaning) of Ubisoft, a tremendously attractive video game on the role that, however, He has not finished finding his audience. They are 40 million. The main obstacle for the series to move forward was its cost. McCallum comments that he does not imagine how each episode could have been shot for less than 40 million dollars. “Each episode was bigger than movies”, which explains not only the very high budget that each episode would have needed, but the tremendous ambition of demonstrating Lucas, which also knew how to see that television was a good space, still virgin, to tell certain types of stories and give them a very specific structure. “ Complicated scripts. The second great obstacle for the series to become as it was conceived of Lucas were the scripts, which McCallum defines as “absolutely wonderful, complicated, challenging.” And they were to the point that “the ‘Star Wars’ universe would have exploded, and Disney sure would never have offered George to buy the franchise.” An example to get the idea: showrunner of ‘Battlestar Galactica’ was aboard ‘underworld’ as a screenwriter, which makes clear to what extent the series was a darker vision of science fiction that until that moment escaped ‘Star Wars’. Long -term plan. Lucas was serious: he had planned more than one hundred episodes, of which sixty came to have quite final scripts: that is, a plan comparable to the lively ‘clone wars’ of 2008. However, not all ‘underwold’ was lost: indiewire affirms that the basic idea of ​​’Rogue One’ trilogies). ‘Undereworld’ also wanted to explore the origins of Han breath, a concept that ended Become a movie. And, finally, series like ‘The Mandalorian‘ either ‘Andor‘They are in tune with the base of’ underworld ‘. In this very distant galaxy everything is used. ‘Star Wars’, now. Although these elements have ended up arriving at what is ‘Star Wars’ today, there are two completely absent elements of this ‘underworld’ and that are an essential part of the franchise today. On the one hand, nostalgia, winks and dependence on the two original trilogies; And on the other, an absolute escape from any risk of risk, except in extraordinary cases such as ‘Andor’. A diametrically opposite philosophy to which Lucas wanted to rehearse with ‘underworld’. Header | Disney In Xataka | The catastrophe of the ‘Star Wars’ hotel: 3,000 euros per night in an interactive film of 350 million dollars

It is the best series of ‘Star Wars’, and in the face of its second season, Disney has uploaded its first episodes free of free

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It is possibly the best that will give us’Star Wars‘In 2025 (and beyond, possibly), so it has all the meaning that Disney is taking care of this premiere to the extreme of promoting it with a few free episodes. Specifically the first three of the initial season of ‘Andor‘, that You can enjoy free on YouTube (Yes, in original version with subtitles only in English). This arrival has coincided with the premiere of the series in Hulu in the United States, something that does not affect us in Europe but demonstrates that Disney knows what is brought between hands. ‘Andor’ is a series acclaimed by criticism and public, and that has been celebrated to recover the little solemn style and with a mixture of genres (Here, a very curious mixture of prison leaks and robbery film) that has characterized the best moments of the franchise since the late seventies. A gift that helps us to refresh the memory with the history of this rebel to her, set about five years before what we saw in ‘Rogue One’, that is, we are in the early days of that rebel alliance that we would see in the first trilogy of Star Wars, with a series of events that will lead to the theft of the plans of the Death Star. Andor is a thief who will end up becoming a spy and, finally, into a key piece to trigger the rebel movement against the empire. Without a doubt, what makes ‘Andor’ one of the key series of ‘Star Wars’ is introduce ourselves to a series of characters with many gray nuances: Neither heroes nor villains, many believe in the rebel movement, others are ready for their own interests, and we will see how their behaviors and ideals evolve realistically. A characteristic that will undoubtedly remain in the expected second (and last) season of the series, which has already made history within the franchise. Header | Disney In Xataka | Kathleen Kennedy seeks substitute in the front of Lucasfilm: it is the sign that ‘Star Wars’ is going through the greatest bump in its history

movies, series and sports for 10 euros per month

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If you are thinking Movistar Plus+. For alone 9.99 euros A month, you will have cinema, sports and series and, in addition, it allows simultaneous reproduction. If you want to discover what this platform offers, which has no permanence and you can cancel at any time, in addition to play on any devicewe tell you next. Subscription to Movistar Plus+ * Some price may have changed from the last review Cinema In the cinema section, Movistar Plus+ It offers a catalog with more than 2,000 films. In that extensive catalog you can find commercial, independent, Spanish cinema and the best festivals. In addition, you can vision ceremonies such as Oscar awards, Golden Globes or BAFTA. Series With your subscription you will have access to all the original Movistar Plus+series, as well as a large catalog of international series premieres. You will also have access to successful channels such as Warner TV, Calle 13, Axn, Fox, BBC Drama and Cosmo. Soccer If you subscribe to Movistar Plus+ by 9.99 euros A month (the basic price of the subscription), you will enjoy a selection of the best sport such as football, basketball, NBA, rugby, tennis, paddle, NFL and golf. In addition, you will enjoy a game of EA Sports and the best tes of Hypermotion every day. Also, you can also see the best Champions and Premier League game every day. Some gadgets to enjoy Movistar Plus+ on your TV Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K (last generation) * Some price may have changed from the last review Xiaomi TV Box S 2nd Gen – 4K Ultra HD * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Image | Movistar In Xataka | Best smart tv box. Which to buy and 11 set top box recommended from 27 to 214 euros In Xataka | Better televisions in quality Price: which to buy and seven recommended 4K 4K 4K

There are people who never know when to leave a series. Someone has investigated the exact moment to do so

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It has all the meaning of the world that we discuss and reflect tirelessly on what point the series spoils, how the series are not eternal and what methods we can find to anticipate the tragic moment in which our favorite series ceases to be what it was. After all, we invest a lot of time in them: They are hours and hours of our free time, and when they stop liking ourselves, we continue looking for their company in the hope that they will do it again. Sometimes it happens, sometimes not. Daniel Parris’s Newsletter Significant Star It is dedicated to answering these types of questions using thousands of data collected in databases of the most varied. ¿When we stop finding new music? ¿What classic films endure the passage of time? ¿They die more famous now than before? And above all, the essential:People hate as much as it looks like Coldplay? (In this case I can speak for me, and no statistics are needed). In this line of transcendental questions that can be answered with statistics (A fan of statistics assures us, but that’s another issue), it’s’How many episodes of a series have to endure before stopping seeing it?‘Before continuing, it would be necessary to clarify that these data start from the logical fallacy of thinking that a note in IMDB is the mother of the lamb, and a series (or episode) that suspends in IMDB is effectively bad, when there are thousands of variants (Review Bombicscult series to which the well-mal dichotomy does not feel good or, punch, that many times people are wrong) that question this reasoning. But let’s start from there. The average grade as a canon Parris calculations take, for example, to calculate the average grade of all the episodes of a series. Puts the example of ‘Friends‘, which has an average (quite high) note of 8.34. We can say that this is the intermediate quality point: an episode with more note that will have a greater quality than the majority, with less that quality will be lower. There are series whose first episodes are already around this average note (‘Game of Thrones‘, for example), in other cases the series take to find that average note. The aforementioned ‘Friends’, for example, It does not reach that 8.34 to the seventh episode. Well: Parris calculation consists in taking all IMDB series and Compare the note of each episode with this average grade, and the result is a differential. Most of the series, it seems to be, take six or seven episodes to achieve that average quality. It is clearly appreciated in this graphic Image: Stant significant Is it a lot? Is little? Well, it is a considerable amount of hours, but Parris overlooks a very complicated topic to quantify: the last episodes of a series are better/more interesting/more exciting than the former because … This is how stories work! The first episodes always serve to prepare the way and then have interest. The data we can get from this is: do not trust a statesman to make cultural criticism. But let’s continue. After all, as Parris says, the verySeinfeld‘It took 16 episodes in find your Mojo. How much before I take me? But you can go further, and expand the photo: what if we go to the seasons? Practically All series have a time when interest begins to declinewhere they have been elongated beyond the reasonable, where everything that could be counted has been counted and we entered into argumentary arches that are repeated, characters that no longer have grace, loss of originality, skacuartos spirit and other phenomena that can come to load the memory of a series in its entirety because, again Paradigmatic case of ‘Game of Thrones’ It appears, many times from the end is what people remember the most. Let’s look at this new picture: Image: Stant significant Again using that average note as the base of the quality of a series, we have to in most series there is a change between the fifth and sixth season. From there there is no back. Of course, There are variables: In ‘Game of Thrones’ the greatest fall in the valuations with respect to the first is the eighth season, in ‘House of Cards’ the sixth and in ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ the fourth. They are not necessarily the last seasons, but the most disappointing season. There is no clear rule, but a more or less immutable truth: there is no series that can be prolonged indefinitely. Can conclusions based on mathematics from here be drawn? Well yes and no: It seems more or less reasonable to think that no series can survive foreverbut there are some that after a great quality descent recover something from its initial attraction. The advice that can be removed from this data is: there is no unique solution and applicable to all series, but in general, when you start seeing a decline in quality, leave it. In very, very rare occasions things will be like in that wonderful episode eight of the first season. Header | Warner In Xataka | The 17 best streaming series of 2024 and where to see them

The new Spider-Man series arrives at Disney+, but it has something that is raising controversy: its animation style

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Marvel’s new arachnid hero animation series, ‘Your friend and neighbor Spider-Man‘ has arrived at Disney+and raises an interesting point of view, although of course not unpublished in the adaptations of the hero: his first years with the costume, in which he combines work as a photographer of Peter Parker with his care Safeguard your secret identity and, at times, save New York from some cataclysm than another. However, What has caught the attention has not been his argument, but his peculiar aesthetics: appropriate to reflect the comiquero spirit of the series, has a style that reminds of Cel-Shading of the games a few years ago. That is, more than the Cel-Shading Sophisticated titles such as the next ‘Borderlands 4’ or ‘Hi-Fi Rush’, is closer to original experiments with style, such as ‘XIII’ U ‘Okami’. That it does not have to be bad, we are all excited about ‘Jet Set Radio’, but criticisms have already pointed out that it gives a somewhat expired touch to the series. Jeff Trammell, Srie’s screenwriter, defended the style in techradar. He declared that “there is no Spider-Man like ours. I think it is important -Man mixed with others, you think: ‘That is the Spider-Man of’ Your friend and neighbor Spider-Man ‘”. The truth is that this style sometimes leads to something rigid and somewhat artificial environments, But the truth is that it is perfect for action sequencesand transmits purely comic vibrations. Although it is not the only complaint: in the first two episodes that have been seen from the series, the scenarios are somewhat soulless, with empty and grid streets and that remember, again, to video games of a time that was already left behind. It is a shame, although the entire series will have to be seen to calibrate to what extent these problems weigh in the final result. Header | Disney In Xataka | ‘Spider-Man’: Where and in what order to see the films and series of Marvel character

Alejandro Sanz’s documentary series premieres this year in Netflix

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Alejandro Sanz He granted an interview with the television program “El Hormiguero” and He shared details of his documentary series -even without a title -, in which he will reveal aspects of his professional and private life. Will premiere on the platform Netflix. Alejandro Sanz denies rumors on the Treasury with strong message “Soon you will have just recorded and you will begin to be released”Said the Spanish singer. “And the truth is that (I’m) very happy with that, because there are very beautiful things.” He clarified that in the series he will not appear acting, but only being interviewed and narrating his professional achievements. Alejandro Sanz reacts to his girlfriend’s comparisons with Shakira Regarding what it is to have cameras all the time with him and if he limit some things, Sanz said: “I am very good and very collaborative, but sometimes you forget that you carry the microphone and say: ‘The last two hours can you cut them to me? ‘ But nothing happens, I have the last word there for what will come out. ” The 56 -year -old artist, who has previously participated in other documentaries, says that this time he will expose his musical side more: “In other documentaries I have shown an aspect of my life, and in this I want to focus much more on the musical part. In all records, in everything that has happened in each of those albums, in ‘Why those songs?’ ” Alejandro has four children, and in the series aspects of him will be seen as dad: “My relationship with my children, with Alexander in a matter of music. For example, there is a scene where I am composing with him in Miami; I’m teaching him the beat with bulerías, do you know? And that part is very pretty. ” The series of Alejandro Sanz It will be three episodes, and was produced together with Sony Music Vision; is scheduled to be released in Netflix In the second semester of this year. The director is Álvaro Ronknown by television series as “Protected” and “Hernán”. Continue reading: (Tagstotranslate) Alejandro Sanz

The new fever in China is mobile series with one-minute episodes. And they prepare their landing outside Asia

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Who was going to tell us that Quibithat app that around here we welcomed with joy and which presented series divided into short chapters designed to be consumed vertically or horizontally but always operated from the mobile phone, had been visionary. That Jeffrey Katzenberg invention ended up being a fiasco and a waste of money, but perhaps what really happened to him is that he arrived too soon. Or perhaps that can be inferred from the latest fad in the Chinese market that may end up leaving the Asian market soon: microdramas. What does it consist of? These are small fictions, often with romantic content (but, also in Korean style, sometimes with fantastic elements such as vampires in love or time travel), created for mobile consumption (that is, in vertical format) on platforms. that facilitate quick passage from one episode to another, such as TikTok or YouTube (but also in others less known outside Asia, such as Kuaishou, Douyin or Bilibili), and whose episodes last around one or two minutes. Each series contains between 60 and 100 episodes, meaning the total duration of each series is approximately equivalent to that of a movie. The income. We are not talking about a precisely small market. In 2024 this digital subgenre generated 2,000 million dollars, an amount that could double in 2025. According to Chinese media, we could be talking about 2023 gross revenue of $5.2 billion per yearwhich is equivalent to 70% of China’s film market, one of the most important in the world. An example of the numbers that these series manage: one of the most popular, ‘Unparalleled’ may have earned 14 million dollars in just eight days of broadcast. And not only because of the high price of subscriptions to viewing platforms: their viewers are counted in hundreds of millions and there are already brands of cosmetic products with which they establish themselves juicy sponsorships. The secret to such enormous success? Variety, for example, point that if the time of confinement favored the explosion of health services streaming domestic because there was no choice but to be at home, when viewers have gone out again and used public transport, it is the mobile content apps that have skyrocketed their number of users. Behind this content there are mainly two names: on the one hand, Kuiashou, a platform dedicated to short videos that previously fed, like TikTok, on content mainly created by users (and that was the first to adopt the term “microdrama”); and on the other, Douyin, owned by Bytedance, also owner of TikTok. Leap out of Asia. All of this would remain just another format that is only consumed in China if it were not for the fact that microdramas are beginning to expand beyond the borders of the Asian country. In East and Southeast Asia it is beginning to be common and the company Reelshort (behind which is the giant Tencent and Baidu) want to bring microdramas to the United States, where they are starting to gain traction. The stores of Apple and Google apps, with wide penetration outside Asia, have seen applications intended for this type of content downloaded thirty million times in the first quarter of 2024so the foundations are well established. A look at Reelshort. A quick visit to Reelshort It will make it very clear to us what type of content we are talking about. They are series that westernize the Chinese product, as revealed by those titles with an undeniable oriental soap opera flavor: ‘In Love with the Alpha’, ‘The Billionaire’s Contract’ or ‘Fatal Attraction: Mafioso Romance’. All of them are translated and subtitled using AI, and some of them are dubbed with an unmistakable neutral accent, which also gives some clue as to what type of audience the app is aimed at: regular consumers of Latin American soap operas. The relationship with video games. And there is something else: the deep relationship of these products with video games, which starts with the gamification with which many of these programs are presented. Completing tasks such as watching the series gives access to the currency used by each app (which can also be purchased with real money), which allows you to unlock the episodes of the series that are blocked (the “taste” of the five or ten first episodes of each series is free, to hook the viewer). It is not surprising that some of the companies that own these apps (Crazy Maple Studio, owner of Reelshort, for example) are dedicated to the development of mobile games. In Xataka | There are hundreds of Chinese streamers streaming under bridges at night. And there is an explanation

the new generation” takes roll call and introduces us to the new students with a nod to the original series

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The countdown begins! Next February 16, Physics or Chemistry. The new generation, the spin off of the Spanish teen series that marked a before and after in the 2000s, will hit the screens of Atresplayer. Very soon, the halls of the Zurbaran They will be filled with new students, loves, heartbreaks, confrontations, friendships and memories for a lifetime. Antena 3 is already warming up and has released a teaser and a trailer for this long-awaited fiction that, although with a renewed air, preserves the irreverent and daring plots of the original production, but updated to connect with the Generation Z. © Atresmedia In the first video, just over a minute long, the first thing they do is take roll call and introduce us to the students. One by one, we see the new characters that will fill the classrooms of the famous institute, on which their names are superimposed on the screen: Koldo, Dani, Bárbara, Marina, Pelayo, Carlota, Jeremy, Jon, Asia, Iria and Leleplayed by the young actors Kiko Bena, Biel Castaño, Julia Camus, Carla Domínguez, Biel Antón, María Bernardeau, Rocky, Miguel Fernández, Rocío Velayos, Esther Mejorada and Santi Garzozirespectively, will be in charge of bringing us closer to the stories, joys, fears, challenges and challenges that we deal with every day in a time of ups and downs such as adolescence. © Atresmedia In the images we see how each of the boys is illuminated by a different color: yellows, greens, reds, pinks and blues mix in a rainbow that could reflect the diversity and different personalities of the new students, all very different, but with more things in common than they thought. © Atresmedia © Atresmedia But the big moment comes right after, with the wink that the newcomers give to Yoli (Andrea Duro), Paula (Angy García), Ruth (Ursula Corberó), Cabano (Maxi Iglesias) and Fer (Javier Calvo), his predecessors in Zurbarán, and to all the followers of the original series. The new protagonists paraphrase the iconic song of get lost that served as a theme for the mother fiction, which marked an entire generation and still resonates today. Esther Mejorada, who plays Iria, begins to recite the first verses: “I neither hide nor dare,” a phrase that immediately resonates with fans of the series and connects the past with the present of the new production. As the trailer progresses, his companions join in, completing the lyrics until they reach the final chorus: “It’s physics or chemistry.” © Atresmedia © Atresmedia In the second appetizer that Antena 3 has given to fans of the series, the institute reopens its doors and is filled with life. The school, which has more than 20 years of history, remains the same; The only thing that has changed, as a voice-over says, “are their students. This complicated generation who do everything that shouldn’t be done.” All this accompanied by images of the new students, along with their names, so that we become familiar with them. © Atresmedia © Atresmedia In just two minutes, the trailer shows us where the new plots are heading. Young people break the rules and prohibitions imposed by the educational center and live the rebellion of adolescence, experiencing their first times: at parties, in love, in sex, in grief… This new class of students They will face serious problems, in addition to those inherent to age, such as the emotional impact of a traumatic event: the death of Silvia, a Zurbarán colleague. Although they are not all friends, they will be forced to understand each other. © Atresmedia © Atresmedia Furthermore, the DNA of Physics or chemistry remains unchanged, they will once again seek to break taboos, and future viewers will find everything that made the original series great, but without losing the problems that affect young people today. From what we have been able to see, there are many high-voltage scenes, which show the diversity in relationships and the difficulty that some teenagers have in fitting into society because they are considered different. Friendships, fears, doubts and insecurities will also be present this season. © Atresmedia As in the previous preview, they have left the biggest surprise for last: it returns Olympia, the iconic character played by Ana Milan in FoQ, will be in this new stage, although it has not been confirmed if it will be a cameo or if it will be a regular character with a presence in all chapters. In this way, he would join the rest of the teachers trained by Israel Elejalde (Eden), Itziar Miranda (Love is forever), Silma Lopez (Valeria), Cuca Bunting (Without tits there is no paradise), Alex Sie (red eagle) and Anais Tovar, who, With their different ways of seeing life, they will star in stories that will inevitably be intertwined with those of the students. © Atresmedia That’s how it is FoQ. The new generation The plot focuses on the first times of teenagers: the first drunkenness, the first parties, the first ‘I love you’… and the first duel. The new Zurbarán school year begins marked by the loss of a student, which leads the parents’ association, which now runs the center, to make a decision: create a support group for the students. Thus, eight very different young people end up sharing a space in which they will collide completely, but where they will also end up knowing themselves and sharing their desire to live and fall in love.

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