Squid Game is the fall's biggest surprise hit, and it's paying major dividends for Netflix. In its third-quarter financial results, the streaming giant reported reaching 214 million subscribers worldwide as its revenue grew 16% year-over-year to $7.5 billion.

Netflix added 4.4 million paid subscribers in that period, which is in large part attributed to the success of Squid Game. According to Netflix, a "mind-boggling" 142 million households have watched the popular Korean drama, which debuted back in September. Now Netflix's "biggest TV show ever," Squid Game is the platform's number one show in 94 countries, and is reportedly worth $900 million to the streaming giant.

Outside of Squid Game, Netflix highlighted Money Heist and Sex Education, which attracted 69 million and 55 million households respectively.

Netflix's success with Squid Game contrasts with the recent controversy over its Dave Chappelle special, which led to internal protests from transgender employees and the dismissal of at least one organizer. Chapelle's special was accused of being harmful and transphobic, leading to criticism from figures such as comedian Hannah Gadsby.

Looking ahead to the rest of the year, Netflix can look forward to the release of The Witcher Season 2, the follow-up to one of the breakout hits of 2019. It's set to premiere on December 17. Netflix also recently acquired the Roald Dahl Story Company, potentially paving the way for shows and movies based around James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and other popular shows.

In the meantime, Netflix says that it's changing how it's reporting viewership data, shifting from total households to hours viewed.

"There is some difference in rankings, as you see below, but we think engagement as measured by hours viewed is a slightly better indicator of the overall success of our titles and member satisfaction," Netflix wrote in its letter to shareholders. "It also matches how outside services measure TV viewing and gives proper credit to rewatching. In addition, we will start to release title metrics more regularly outside of our earnings report so our members and the industry can better measure success in the streaming world."

For more info on what to expect in the world entertainment, check out IGN's Fall TV 2021 Streaming Preview, where we highlight all the biggest shows for the rest of the year.

Kat Bailey is a Senior News Editor at IGN

Marcus Lehto, the co-creator of Halo and the founder of Disintegration studio V1 Interactive, has announced that he has joined EA as a game director.

Hey everyone, I’m very excited to announce that I’ve joined @EA as a Game Director, building a new studio in the Seattle area working on first-person games. I can’t wait to share more about what we’re creating! pic.twitter.com/GnfVFNLSaW

— Marcus Lehto (@game_fabricator) October 19, 2021

Announcing the role on Twitter, Lehto revealed that he is building a new studio in the Seattle area. This new studio will work on "first person games", although it's not clear if these will be original games or new entries in existing EA series (so start your Titanfall 3 prayers now).

"I can't wait to share more about what we're creating!" Lehto concluded.

Lehto is best known for being Bungie's Creative Art Director, a position he held from 1997 to 2012. Having worked on the original Halo: Combat Evolved, he's responsible for the creation of Master Chief. He went on to work on all of Bungie's Halo games. In more recent times, Lehto was the founder of V1 Interactive, which created RTS/FPS hybrid Disintegration. The game sadly proved unpopular and critically unsuccessful, and V1 Interactive eventually shut down. Hopefully he'll have better luck at EA.

Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer.

A Russian film crew have returned safely to Earth after wrapping up scenes for their movie — the first-ever full-length feature film to be shot in space.

NASA announced that Russian actress Yulia Peresild, producer-director Klim Shipenko, and cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy had departed the International Space Station and landed as scheduled on the steppe of Kazakhstan at 12:35 a.m. ET on October 17. As per the tweet below, Novitskiy had been joined by the film crew for 12 days of his six-month space-cation.

Touchdown after 191 days in space for @Novitskiy_ISS and 12 days in space for two Russian filmmakers! More... https://t.co/CrQl3O1BUl pic.twitter.com/kzXlCTr0og

— International Space Station (@Space_Station) October 17, 2021

Peresild and Shipenko were joined by veteran Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov on their outbound trip, taking them from Earth to space. They arrived at the space station on October 5 to shoot scenes for their feature-length film, "Challenge," under the terms of a commercial agreement between Russian space agency Roscosmos and media entities in Moscow.

Now that they're back on terra firma, the space participants will be transported to a recovery staging area in Karaganda, Kazakhstan, before returning by aircraft to their training base in Russia to inevitably continue work on their film, which is said to center around a surgeon who is dispatched to the ISS to save a cosmonaut, per AFP, as reported by The Guardian.

NASA's also working on a movie with Tom Cruise, which will be filmed aboard the International Space Station. Elon Musk's SpaceX is involved with the project, with filmmaker Doug Liman, who previously collaborated with Cruise on Edge of Tomorrow and American Made, attached as the movie's director. However, the crew's scheduled departure hasn't been shared just yet.

Adele Ankers is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.

Microsoft has announced an Xbox Anniversary Celebration to mark 20 years of Xbox. It has also made it clear that no new games will be announced during the show.

Announced on the Xbox Wire blog, the Xbox Anniversary Celebration will take place on November 15, starting at 10am PT / 1am ET / 5pm GMT. "While we won’t announce any new games, this anniversary broadcast will be a special look back at 20 years of Xbox," said Head of Xbox Game Studios, Matt Booty.

The announcement came alongside a roadmap for the next three months of Xbox Game Pass. On October 28, Age of Empires 4 will be released on Game Pass for PC, and it will be followed by Minecraft, which finally lands on Xbox Game Pass for PC on November 2. Forza Horizon 5 drops on November 9, and the GOTY edition of Flight Simulator lands on November 18. Finally, Xbox rounds out the year with Halo Infinite on December 8.

The promise of no announcements means we'll likely not see anything from Fable, which Xbox confusingly seemed to suggest was coming recently. Booty did specify no new game announcements, though, so there may be footage from previously announced games if we're lucky. Just don't get your hopes up too far...

In other Xbox anniversary news, check out the new Adidas sneakers that have been created for Xbox's big birthday.

Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer.

Mel Brooks will write and executive produce a TV series sequel to History of the World Part I. Yes, after all these years, we're finally getting Part II.

Hulu has ordered eight episodes of History of the World Part II, according to Variety. It's described as a variety series, so it's likely to follow the original movie's anthology structure of multiple historical stories. Brooks will write the series with Nick Kroll, Wanda Sykes, Ike Barinholtz, David Stassen, and Kevin Salter.

Filming is expected to begin in spring 2022. No actors or directors have been announced for the series at this time. and Disney's Searchlight Pictures and 20th Television are producing History of the World Part II.

"I can’t wait to once more tell the real truth about all the phony baloney stories the world has been conned into believing are History!” Brooks said, according to Variety.

This is Brooks' first writing project for the screen since his 2015 comedy special Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen. During that time, he performed two nights on Broadway and reworked his Young Frankenstein musical in the UK. Brooks has also been acting in movies like Toy Story 4 and the last two Hotel Transylvania movies.

History of the World Part I was released on June 12, 1981. Unfortunately for History of the World, that was the same day Raiders of the Lost Ark opened in theaters and a week before Superman II. The New York Times said History of the World Part I was "a considerable disappointment to Fox because tracking studies had shown that the movie was eagerly awaited....Then its ticket sales shriveled because of poor word of mouth."

As the world anticipates another history lesson from Brooks, read up on the best comedies on Netflix.

Petey Oneto is a freelance writer for IGN.

Mel Brooks will write and executive produce a TV series sequel to History of the World Part I. Yes, after all these years, we're finally getting Part II.

Hulu has ordered eight episodes of History of the World Part II, according to Variety. It's described as a variety series, so it's likely to follow the original movie's anthology structure of multiple historical stories. Brooks will write the series with Nick Kroll, Wanda Sykes, Ike Barinholtz, David Stassen, and Kevin Salter.

Filming is expected to begin in spring 2022. No actors or directors have been announced for the series at this time. and Disney's Searchlight Pictures and 20th Television are producing History of the World Part II.

"I can’t wait to once more tell the real truth about all the phony baloney stories the world has been conned into believing are History!” Brooks said, according to Variety.

This is Brooks' first writing project for the screen since his 2015 comedy special Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen. During that time, he performed two nights on Broadway and reworked his Young Frankenstein musical in the UK. Brooks has also been acting in movies like Toy Story 4 and the last two Hotel Transylvania movies.

History of the World Part I was released on June 12, 1981. Unfortunately for History of the World, that was the same day Raiders of the Lost Ark opened in theaters and a week before Superman II. The New York Times said History of the World Part I was "a considerable disappointment to Fox because tracking studies had shown that the movie was eagerly awaited....Then its ticket sales shriveled because of poor word of mouth."

As the world anticipates another history lesson from Brooks, read up on the best comedies on Netflix.

Petey Oneto is a freelance writer for IGN.

A John Wick spinoff focused on the fictional assassin hotel The Continental has been in the works for years. And despite being able to choose any other actor to lead the series, The Continental has chosen Mel Gibson to star.

According to Deadline, Gibson — who has a laundry list of controversies ranging from blatant racism to blatant antisemitism — will join Starz’ John Wick spinoff as a new character named Cormac.

Reports say Gibson will have a starring role, though the premise of The Continental is still focused on a young Winston Scott (Ian McShane plays an older version of the character in the John Wick movies) in 1970s New York.

It was announced recently that The Continental would be re-tooled as a three-night limited series event. The 90-minute specials reportedly have a budget that rivals some movies.

On social media, reaction to the news that Gibson will be a lead in the upcoming John Wick spinoff has generally been met negatively.

After recordings of Gibson’s anti-Semitic outbursts during a DUI pullover in 2006 were made public, the Braveheart star was a persona non grata. But that appears to have only been a temporary setback as Gibson has staged something of a comeback both in front of and behind the camera.

It’s unclear if the creatives behind The Continental were hoping to bank on people fondly remembering Gibson for movies like Lethal Weapon; or if they were hoping people wouldn’t remember the time Winona Ryder recalled Gibson calling her an ‘oven-dodger.’

Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor.

A John Wick spinoff focused on the fictional assassin hotel The Continental has been in the works for years. And despite being able to choose any other actor to lead the series, The Continental has chosen Mel Gibson to star.

According to Deadline, Gibson — who has a laundry list of controversies ranging from blatant racism to blatant antisemitism — will join Starz’ John Wick spinoff as a new character named Cormac.

Reports say Gibson will have a starring role, though the premise of The Continental is still focused on a young Winston Scott (Ian McShane plays an older version of the character in the John Wick movies) in 1970s New York.

It was announced recently that The Continental would be re-tooled as a three-night limited series event. The 90-minute specials reportedly have a budget that rivals some movies.

On social media, reaction to the news that Gibson will be a lead in the upcoming John Wick spinoff has generally been met negatively.

After recordings of Gibson’s anti-Semitic outbursts during a DUI pullover in 2006 were made public, the Braveheart star was a persona non grata. But that appears to have only been a temporary setback as Gibson has staged something of a comeback both in front of and behind the camera.

It’s unclear if the creatives behind The Continental were hoping to bank on people fondly remembering Gibson for movies like Lethal Weapon; or if they were hoping people wouldn’t remember the time Winona Ryder recalled Gibson calling her an ‘oven-dodger.’

Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor.

After word spread about an animated Smallville series via an unlikely source, original series stars Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum have confirmed it's in development, and said that it will address questions of where the original characters are now.

Speaking to IGN, Welling explained what had happened when he let slip in a Cameo video that Smallville could return in animated form. It turns out, when he'd asked the recipient to keep it secret, he wasn't joking: "I was being honest with that moment and I was like, 'Literally, don't tell anybody.' And that person posted it 30 seconds later."

Welling made clear that the project is "very real", with Rosenbaum adding, "It's something that we're passionate about. Something we love. Hopefully we're going to obviously share, with Warner Brothers, when the time is right. And hopefully we'll be able to work with them. And that's about all we can say right now."

Asked about what kind of stories the series could tell, the stars were vague, but did make clear that they see a lot of scope to continue naturally from the original series. "There's a lot of stories," explained Rosenbaum. "I mean, honestly, after Smallville ended people had a lot of questions. And who's to say what was happening a few years later? And where did these characters go? And how'd they come back? So there's always a story. There's always a story to be told."

Welling made clear that this would be a story told past the end of Smallville's original run, rather than in the same timeline: "Here we are, 20 years later since it started and one of the most frequent questions is, where do you see your characters now? So that's literally what we'll be addressing."

Smallville ran from 2001 to 2011, using its 10 seasons to tell an extended origin story for Superman, Lex Luthor, and more. After the final episode, Clark Kent had fully embraced his role as Superman, and a flash forward told us that Luthor had been elected President, while Lois and Clark were discussing marriage. It seems safe to say there are story strands for the animated series to pull on.

Smallville: The Complete Series is coming to Blu-ray for the first time ever on October 19th.

Joe Skrebels is IGN's Executive Editor of News. Follow him on Twitter. Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.

After word spread about an animated Smallville series via an unlikely source, original series stars Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum have confirmed it's in development, and said that it will address questions of where the original characters are now.

Speaking to IGN, Welling explained what had happened when he let slip in a Cameo video that Smallville could return in animated form. It turns out, when he'd asked the recipient to keep it secret, he wasn't joking: "I was being honest with that moment and I was like, 'Literally, don't tell anybody.' And that person posted it 30 seconds later."

Welling made clear that the project is "very real", with Rosenbaum adding, "It's something that we're passionate about. Something we love. Hopefully we're going to obviously share, with Warner Brothers, when the time is right. And hopefully we'll be able to work with them. And that's about all we can say right now."

Asked about what kind of stories the series could tell, the stars were vague, but did make clear that they see a lot of scope to continue naturally from the original series. "There's a lot of stories," explained Rosenbaum. "I mean, honestly, after Smallville ended people had a lot of questions. And who's to say what was happening a few years later? And where did these characters go? And how'd they come back? So there's always a story. There's always a story to be told."

Welling made clear that this would be a story told past the end of Smallville's original run, rather than in the same timeline: "Here we are, 20 years later since it started and one of the most frequent questions is, where do you see your characters now? So that's literally what we'll be addressing."

Smallville ran from 2001 to 2011, using its 10 seasons to tell an extended origin story for Superman, Lex Luthor, and more. After the final episode, Clark Kent had fully embraced his role as Superman, and a flash forward told us that Luthor had been elected President, while Lois and Clark were discussing marriage. It seems safe to say there are story strands for the animated series to pull on.

Smallville: The Complete Series is coming to Blu-ray for the first time ever on October 19th.

Joe Skrebels is IGN's Executive Editor of News. Follow him on Twitter. Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.