"Ms. Marvel" trailer / Obama narrates "National Parks" / TikTok at Cannes / "Obi-Wan" creative changes

Plus today's calendar, new "Halo" trailer, Netflix stock drop, "Abbott Elementary" renewed, "Cuties" lawsuits, and more

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Disney+ released the first trailer for the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) series "Ms. Marvel." Iman Vellani stars in the series as ordinary New Jersey teen Kamala Khan, a fan of "Captain Marvel" who unexpectedly develops her own superpowers. More: The series co-stars Aramis Knight, Saagar Shaikh, Matt Lintz, Rish Shah, Laurel Marsden, Zenobia Shroff, and Mohan Kapur. "Loki" vet Bisha K. Ali wrote the scripts. Vellani will reprise the role of Khan in the upcoming MCU film "The Marvels," alongside "Captain Marvel" star Brie Larson and "WandaVision" vet Teyonah Parris. The six-episode series debuts on June 8. COLLIDER

Former President Barack Obama will narrate the upcoming Netflix docuseries "Our Great National Parks." The five-part series takes viewers around the world, to wilderness refuges including California's Monterey Bay, Kenya's Tsavo National Park, Indonesia's Gunung Leuser park and the Chilean Patagonia. More: Obama also produced the series through his production banner, Higher Ground. "Blue Planet II" collaborators James Honeyborne and Tonia Davis co-produced with Barack and Michelle Obama. The show will launch on April 13, alongside a new nature protection campaign from the Wildlife Conservation Society and Count Us. DEADLINE

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DAILY CALENDAR TUESDAY, MARCH 15 PHOENIX RISING: Two-part documentary from filmmaker Amy Berg ("The Case Against Adnan Syed") profiling actor and activist Evan Rachel Wood, with a focus on her experiences as a survivor of domestic violence and her decision to come forward and publicly identify her abuser. [HBO Max] HOLY HEIST: Original documentary about the brazen theft of $7.4 million from a Brink's armored car in Rochester, New York, in 1993. The film is partly based on the book "Seven Million: A Cop, A Priest, A Soldier for the IRA and the Still-Unsolved Rochester Brink's Heist" by journalist Gary Craig. [Discovery+] CATHERINE COHEN: THE TWIST...? SHE'S GORGEOUS: Debut Netflix comedy special from the cabaret singer and stand-up, recorded at famed New York venue Joe's Pub. Topics include looking for love, running marathons, and burying people alive. [Netflix] TEAM ZENKO GO: Debut animated series from DreamWorks for young kids about a group of do-gooders who specialize in anonymous acts of kindness around their hometown of Harmony Harbor. [Netflix] ADAM BY EVE: A LIVE IN ANIMATION: Hybrid live-action and animated film from Japan, combining music from singer-songwriter Eve with a story about a high school student searching Tokyo for her missing friend. [Netflix] MARILYN'S EYES (MARILYN HA GLI OCCHI NERI): Comedy-drama feature from Italy about a creative duo (Stefano Accorsi and Miriam Leone) who open a restaurant out of the mental institution where they're both being treated. [Netflix] THE BAY: Mystery-drama series which airs on ITV in the UK, set on England's northwest coast along Morecambe Bay. Season 3 -- which introduces Marsha Thomason as the show's new lead investigator, DS Jenn Townsend -- comes to BritBox today. [BritBox] FAMILY MASSACRE: True crime series from the Oxygen Network examining gruesome stories about multiple murder cases involving members of the same family. Season 1 comes to Peacock today. [Peacock] YOU CAN'T KILL MEME: 2021 "anti-documentary" from filmmaker Hayley Garrigus exploring the use of internet memes to spread political propaganda by the American alt-right, taking particular inspiration from the book "Memetic Magic" by R. Kirk Packwood. [Hulu] VELENO: THE TOWN OF LOST CHILDREN: Docuseries from Italy looking back on an incident in the late 1990s, when an investigation into a supposedly Satanic pedophile cult led to the removal of 16 children from their families and surrounding community. New evidence obtained by filmmaker Ettore Paternò sheds doubt on the original allegations. [AMC+]

TikTok announced an official promotional partnership with the Cannes Film Festival. TikTok users will get to see exclusive behind-the-scenes content from the festival, including red carpet coverage and interviews with film stars and creators. More: The collaboration will also include the #TikTokShortFilm competition, in which one vertical short originally submitted through the app (between 30 seconds and 3 minutes in length) will receive a special award. The #TikTokShortFilm jury will include at least one noted international filmmaker whose name has not yet been announced. TikTok will support the Cannes Film Festival financially as one of the event's official partners. VARIETY

According to The Hollywood Reporter, original plans for the Disney+ "Obi-Wan Kenobi" series included fan-favorite villain Darth Maul. Multiple sources told Hollywood Reporter that actor Ray Park was set to reprise the role of Maul from "The Phantom Menace" before being written out of the series. More: The antagonist role originally intended for Maul was given to other characters, including Darth Vader. According to the report, original plans for the series -- from director Deborah Chow and writer Hossein Amini -- were considered too similar to elements from "The Mandalorian," and were altered based on feedback from that show's creators, Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni. Ultimately, Joby Harold was brought on board as the head "Obi-Wan" writer. A source from Lucasfilm contradicted the account, and told The Reporter there had never been plans to include Darth Maul or Park in the new series. "Obi-Wan Kenobi" hits Disney+ on May 25. HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

Paramount+ released a new "Halo" trailer during a panel at SXSW. The series debuts on March 24. More: The series, based on the popular video game franchise, is set in the 26th Century, during a war between humanity and an alien menace known as The Covenant. Pablo Schreiber stars as Master Chief Spartan John-177, a genetically enhanced super-soldier who leads an elite unit; Natascha McElhone plays scientist Dr. Halsey, who created the "Spartan" program. Kyle Killen ("Fear Street 1994") and Steven Kane ("The Last Ship") serve as showrunners for the series, which was originally developed for Showtime. COLLIDER

Netflix shares dipped by 2% on Monday to around $322 each, a 52-week low. Overall, the streamer's stock is down by more than 50% since it hit $700.99 in mid-November. More: The last time Netflix's stock was valued under $330 was just prior to the pandemic, in March of 2020. As pandemic restrictions lifted, and films returned to movie theaters, Netflix began reporting softer subscriber numbers. The monthly cost for a Netflix subscription jumped across North America in the last year by an average of about $2.

ABC renewed the comedy series "Abbott Elementary" for a second season. The breakout hit was created and written by star Quinta Brunson. More: "Abbott Elementary" is tied with CBS' "Ghosts" as the most popular debut comedy series among the prized 18-49 demographic. The workplace comedy set among the staff at an elementary school borrows the "mockumentary" format of NBC's hit "The Office," and was inspired by Brunson's mother, a retired teacher. Brunson, a veteran of HBO's "A Black Lady Sketch Show," co-stars alongside Janelle James, Tyler James Williams, Lisa Ann Walter, Chris Perfetti, and Sheryl Lee Ralph. This was ABC's first comedy renewal of the 2022-2023 broadcast season; only "Grey's Anatomy" and its spin-off "Station 19" have been re-ordered by the network so far. "Abbott Elementary" episodes currently stream on Hulu in the US. HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

"Cuties" Netflix has accused a Texas prosecutor of overreach in a case involving the controversial 2020 French film "Cuties." Tyler County District Attorney Lucas Babin has charged the streamer with promoting child erotica by distributing the film in the US. More: Babin and Tyler County first charged Netflix in October 2020 for violating a 2017 state law prohibiting "the lewd exhibition" of children; an appeals court in Texas, ruling on an unrelated case, found the statute unconstitutional in 2021. Babin, however, refused to dismiss the indictment, and has filed additional charges against the streamer. Netflix has now petitioned a federal court to force Babin to stop pursuing indictments related to "Cuties." HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

QUICK HITS Discover the world's only community-owned car club.* Amazon debuted some first-look clips from Season 2 of the genre-bending animated series "Undone" at the SXSW Film Festival; Rosa Salazar stars as a Texas woman who unlocks the ability to see through time and space following a near-death experience. Netflix and director Henry Selick ("Coraline") announced the full voice cast for the upcoming stop-motion animated comedy film "Wendell & Wild"; in addition to stars Keegan-Michale Key and Jordan Peele, the cast includes Lyric Ross, Angela Bassett, James Hong, Tamara Smart, Natalie Martinez, and Ving Rhames. Oscar-nominated actor Ciarán Hinds joined the cast of the upcoming Netflix spy drama series "Treason," from "Bridge of Spies" screenwriter Matt Charman. The NBC medical drama series "New Amsterdam" will conclude with an abbreviated 13-episode Season 5; the show was renewed for three seasons back in January 2020. Producer Stephanie Allain -- who made history in 2020 as the first Black woman to produce the Oscars -- signed a multiple-year overall deal to develop original programming for Warner Bros. TV and HBO. "The Blacklist" showrunner John Eisendrath re-upped his deal with Sony Pictures Television for three additional years; Eisendrath will remain on "The Blacklist" and will also develop the procedural drama "Alert" for Fox. Netflix's revival of the Danish political drama series "Borgen" -- titled "Borgen – Power & Glory" -- will debut on April 14 in Nordic markets and on June 2 around the world. *This is sponsored content

Lon Harris is the writer and editor of Inside Streaming and was the very first person to ever write an Inside newsletter. He lives in Los Angeles, California, and also writes about TV and film for Fandom, Screen Junkies, Rotten Tomatoes, Gamma Ray and others. Plus he has a Game of Thrones podcast called "Casterly Talk" and competes on The Movie Trivia Schmoedown as "The Professor." Editor Jonathan Harris is a writer and editor who lives in Los Angeles.

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