{"id":119732,"date":"2017-08-09T15:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=119732"},"modified":"2017-08-08T14:57:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T12:57:47","slug":"netflix-acquires-comic-book-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/119732-netflix-acquires-comic-book-company","title":{"rendered":"Netflix acquires comic book company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix has announced its first acquisition \u2013 Millarworld. Millarworld is the comic book publishing house founded by Mark Millar, creator of Kick-Ass, Kingsman, and Old Man Logan.<\/p>\n<p>The two companies will\u00a0bring Millarworld\u2019s franchises to life through films, series, and kids\u2019 shows, available on Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>Millarworld will also continue to create and publish new stories and franchises under the Netflix label.<\/p>\n<p>According to a\u00a0statement from Millar, however, the Netflix deal does not include the\u00a0Kingsman\u00a0or\u00a0Kick-Ass properties.<\/p>\n<p>Millar is an alumnus of Marvel, where he developed\u00a0comic books and story arcs that inspired the first Avengers movie, Captain America: Civil War, and Logan.<\/p>\n<p>Since Millarworld was started, the company has published 18 character worlds, of which three \u2013 Wanted, Kick-Ass, and Kingsman \u2013 have yielded theatrical films that have grossed nearly $1 billion in global box office sales.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/220170-netflix-breaks-through-100-million-subscribers.html\">Netflix breaks through 100 million subscribers<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix has announced its first acquisition \u2013 Millarworld.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":88021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8785,10751],"class_list":["post-119732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-comic-books","tag-netflix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}