After Disney announced it cancelled the already completed Spiderwick Chronicles TV series a couple months ago, Roku has stepped in to save the series and will stream it next year. The Spiderwick Chronicles is based on the bestselling books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black and is described as a contemporary American gothic coming-of-age story. Disney ordered the […]
Kevin Hart is back in action in Die Hart 2: Die Harter trailer
The Roku Channel has released a poster and trailer for Die Hart 2: Die Harter, the second season of the Kevin Hart-led meta action comedy. Following the events in season one which seen Hart achieve his dream of becoming an action hero, this season sees Hart set out to cement his legacy as the greatest […]
Christoph Waltz oversees another hunt in Most Dangerous Game: New York trailer
Roku has released a trailer and images for the second season of the action thriller series Most Dangerous Game: New York, which sees the return of Christoph Waltz’s hunt organiser Miles Sellars as he finds a new runner for the deadly game – a down on his luck fighter (David Castaneda) who needs to come […]
Kevin Hart’s Die Hart series reworked into movie at Amazon, sequel series in production
Kevin Hart knows the value of his work, so he’s bringing one of his most beloved projects to an even bigger platform. Deadline reports Die Hart, the shortform series that originally aired on Quibi before being acquired by Roku, is being restructured into a film for and will serve as a “condensed version of the […]
Watch Daniel Radcliffe as Weird Al in the trailer for Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Daniel Radcliffe has made some really fun career choices since hanging up his wand (Swiss Army Man, The Lost City), and it appears that he’s onto another winner with Roku’s forthcoming biopic Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. The man who Radcliffe will be portraying took to Twitter to debut a first look at the film, […]
Lionsgate signs streaming deal with Roku for John Wick 4, Borderlands and more
Lionsgate has signed a streaming rights deal with The Roku Channel which will give the studio’s feature films an exclusive run on the free, ad-supported platform after they play on Starz. The multi-year agreement will see the studio’s 2022 theatrical releases receives two separate windows for each film. The first will provide The Roku Channel […]
See Daniel Radcliffe as Weird Al in first image from Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Last month it was announced that Daniel Radcliffe would be taking on the role of “Weird Al” Yankovic in the upcoming Roku feature Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, and now we’ve got our first look at Radcliffe transformed into the Grammy-winning comedy musician and pop culture icon, complete with trademark curls and piano accordion. “Wearing […]
New Japan Pro Wrestling coming to U.S., U.K. and Canada via Roku
For fans of New Japan Pro Wrestling who have wanted it to be more accessible, this news will likely delight you as Variety reports that NJPW will air on the Roku Channel in the U.S., U.K., and Canada. This new television deal comes after the Japanese pro-wrestling company recently expanded its reach in America and […]
Valiant announces Roku limited series from Cullen Bunn and Ramon F. Bachs
Valiant Entertainment has announced that New York Times bestselling writer Cullen Bunn (Punk Mambo) is teaming with artist Ramon F. Bachs (Detective Comics) for the new four-issue miniseries Roku, which follows a former MI6 operative turns contract killer. Check out a first-look preview here… “I wanted this story to show off a dark underbelly of […]
