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It’s a few days late, but now blind fans of superheroes can enjoy Daredevil too. Netflix has announced that it has added audio descriptions to the Charlie Cox-starring superhero crime drama, reports The Verge. According to the website, the narration track describes, “what is happening on-screen, including physical actions, facial expressions, costumes, settings and scene changes.” The streaming service also said that the audio descriptions, which can be accessed like any other alternate audio track, will be added for its other original series like House of Cards, Orange is the New Black and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt in the coming weeks.
In other news…
With true crime all the rage right now, The Weinstein Company has optioned the TV rights for Truman Capote’s seminal In Cold Blood and plans to turn it into a TV event series. [Deadline]
This year’s slate of summer blockbusters – a list that includeds Avengers: Age of Ultron, Jurassic World and Terminator: Genisys — is expected to bring in a staggering (and record setting) $5 billion. [NYP]
True Blood season one director Cary Fukunaga has signed on to direct the upcoming TV adaptation of Caleb Carr’s novel The Alienist. Set in New York City in 1896, the series will focus on a doctor who, with the aid of a reporter and then-police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt, is on the trail of one of the city’s first serial killers. [Variety]
Check out the trailer for Gored a documentary about Antonio Barrera the most-gored bullfighter in modern history. [Vulture]
