Netflix just got real. The streaming giant has announced Netflix House, a free, immersive, story-driven experience that brings audiences’ favorite Netflix films and TV shows to life year-round.
Netflix House will open in King of Prussia, Philadelphia, on November 12. It will also open at Galleria Dallas in Dallas on December 11.
A Las Vegas Netflix House is expected in 2027.
Such IPs on display at the Netflix Houses include Wednesday, Squid Game, ONE PIECE, Stranger Things, KPop Demon Hunters, Love is Blind, Sakamoto Days, and A Knives Out Mystery franchise.
Netflix House has plenty of fun, interactive activities inspired by some of the company’s most popular franchises for fans to enjoy, including Squid Game‘s “Red Light, Green Light” and a journey through the haunted Creel House from Stranger Things. Netflix Houses will also include VR games, mini-golf, and theater screenings.
Both Netflix Houses will also offer food, drinks, and exclusive merchandise at their NETFLIX BITES restaurants. The locations in Philadelphia and Dallas are also hiring, which will bring more job opportunities to the local communities.
“Finally, a place where the Netflix story you can’t get enough of becomes something real that you can play, shop, and taste,” said Marian Lee, Netflix’s chief marketing officer. “This is fandom coming to life, where you can actually step inside the worlds you’ve been watching and loving for years — whether going on an epic adventure with the Straw Hats, taking a journey into Hawkins, Indiana, or grabbing a cocktail inspired by your latest obsession. With fresh experiences dropping regularly, there’s always a new reason to come back.”
Tickets for the paid experiences at the Netflix House in Philadelphia will go on sale on October 17, while tickets for the Dallas location will be available on November 18. Customers can sign up for the waitlists for early access on netflixhouse.com.
China just gave Hollywood a cautionary tale about AI filmmaking. Sanxingdui: Future Past, billed as the country's first fully AI-generated movie, hit theaters on October 23 and bombed at the box office.
According to Futurism, the film's reported $1.5 million production budget landed on more than 10,000 screens. Yet it pulled in only about $181,000, averaging roughly $20 per screen, making the budget difficult to recover.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
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YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?