Playing Squid Game can be fatal, and it making sounds almost as dangerous — at least for your teeth. The creator of Netflix’s South Korean hit series, Hwang Dong-hyuk, laughed as told the BBC he had lost “eight or nine” teeth due to the stress of making Season 1. It had previously been reported he’d…

Why on earth would Player 456 want to stage a comeback? That question will be answered in season 2 of Squid Game, which returns December 26 to Netflix. Lee Jung-jae reprises his role as Seong Gi-hun, aka Player 456, who’s now on a mission to expose the deadly truth of the competition. The…

EXCLUSIVE: While fans of the Netflix series Squid Game still have a couple months to go before the Season 2 premiere, they may be seeing this universe expand in a big way. Sources tell Deadline that a new English-language Squid Game series is in the works at the streamer, with David Fincher coming on to…

Southeast Asia content makers have had it tough in recent times. Not only was the streamer money that briefly flooded the region reduced as global cuts bit, but they've seen demand for Japanese and Korean content reach new heights, while the rise of streaming in India has become a major narrative across…

Netflix dropped a new teaser tonight for Season 2 of Squid Game. The streamer released the clip as part of its Geeked Week event in Atlanta. The clip opens with a clearly tense Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) holding a gun on an approaching masked figure. It quickly shifts to the new participants…

Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk may have been wowed during his tour of the Squid Game: The Challenge set, but he also made a secret cameo in the show itself. Daisy Lilley, director of unscripted series at Netflix in the UK, revealed that Dong-hyuk donned the iconic red uniform of a guard and was…

Gi-hun is back in the game as Netflix unveils the first teaser for the long-awaited sophomore season of Squid Game. Lee Jung-jae reprises his role as the champion and sole survivor from Season 1 in the new 30-second clip, which features a series of faceless players in their green tracksuits, the last…

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It's been three years, are you ready to play again? Squid Game is returning to Netflix for Season 2 on December 26 – a dystopian treat just after Christmas – and the streamer has revealed that its biggest ever show will conclude with its third season. The second season of the Korean drama series…

‘Squid Game’ Driving Rise In Foreign-Language Appetite In English-Speaking Markets — Study Demand for foreign-language content in English-speaking markets has risen by nearly a quarter in the last four years, according to Ampere Analysis, and the likes of Squid Game and Parasite have been named as…

Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk and stars Lee Jung-jae and Wi Ha-joon will head to Italy for this year’s Lucca Comics & Games festival. The trio will meet fans and to news about the highly anticipated second season of the Korean survival thriller on October 31 in the striking Tuscan city of Lucca…

Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline's fortnightly strand in which we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films making noise in their local territories. The industry is as globalized as it's ever been, but breakout hits are appearing in pockets of the world all the time and it can be hard to keep track…