EXCLUSIVE: More Beef may be on the way as Netflix is staying in the Lee Sung Jin business. The streamer has renewed its overall deal with the Emmy-winning Beef creator. The multi-year extension will once again span scripted series and feature film.
News of Lee’s new pact comes ahead of the world premiere for Beef Season 2 tonight at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.
Netflix first signed Lee (aka Sonny Lee) in an overall deal in 2023, following the breakout success of the original Beef installment, which stayed in Netflix’s Global Top 10 for five weeks, reaching the top 10 in 87 countries, while also sweeping all major awards, including the Emmys with eight wins and the Golden Globes with three, capped by Best Limited/Anthology Series trophies.
Since then, Lee has been able to reinvent what had been originally conceived as a one-off limited series with a
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