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Netflix debuted a brand new trailer today for the upcoming fourth season of their celebrated original series, Orange Is The New Black. The intense clip lays it all out on the line, showing a now over-populated and for-profit Litchfield Penitentiary with 100 new inmates, new (stricter) guards, and of course, tons of new drama.
Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling) goes head-to-head with Ruiz, Poussey (Samira Wiley) hooks up with Soso, “Red” (Kate Mulgrew) bumps heads with a new guard, and the graceful “Taystee” (Danielle Brooks) scores a new job as Caputo’s sort-of secretary. “Do you know the difference between pain and suffering?” Pennsatucky (Taryn Manning) asks rhetorically in the clip while chaos ensues in the foreground. All new episodes of the highly-anticipated fourth season will premiere on June 17th. The show was renewed for three additional seasons earlier this year, remaining on Netflix until Season 7.
In other news…
Netflix is reportedly threatening to premiere two Relativity Media LLC films titled Masterminds and The Disappointments Room ahead of their theatrical releases. If the upcoming films are released in this fashion, the studio may struggle to recover from its recent declaration of bankruptcy. [Wall Street Journal]
Amazon is reportedly moving in on YouTube’s streaming turf with the introduction of a brand new service dubbed Amazon Video Direct that will enable users to upload and distribute their own free ad-supported or pay-to-watch videos. [Financial Times]
Desperate Housewives alum Ricardo Chavira has been cast in Netflix’s upcoming original pilot Santa Clarita Diet. Starring Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant, the single-camera comedy series will follow a husband-and-wife realtor team in Santa Clarita whose lives get turned upside down after the wife Sheila undergoes a dramatic transformation. [Deadline]
Fans of Netflix’s Grace and Frankie would be the only ones to get this faux advertisement below posted by the platform earlier today promoting a “farm to vagina” personal yam lubricant, which has been a running joke on the show:
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