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Netflix “in the Sports Business” But Still Not Interested in Live Games
Netflix won’t be live streaming any Formula 1 races, pro tennis tournaments or PGA Tour events anytime soon. But the company does plan to continue leaning into the niche it has carved out with sports-related documentaries like Formula 1: Drive to Survive, Break Point and Full Swing. “We are in the sports business, but we’re […]
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Netflix’s Ted Sarandos: More Streaming Data Transparency Is Coming
After years of keeping viewing data under lock and key, streamers have become a little more open about sharing numbers publicly in the past two years. Netflix’s Ted Sarandos says he expects that trend to continue — and also defended the earlier practice as a part of a “promise” to the company’s creative partners. “We’re heading […]
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Netflix Plans “Substantial Changes” to Executive Pay After Shareholders Rejected CEO Pay Packages
Changes are coming to Netflix’s executive compensation packages. In its Q3 earnings letter, Netflix says that it is planning “substantial changes for 2024” to its CEO and executive pay packages. The promise to investors comes after shareholders rejected the company’s 2022 pay packages in a “Say on Pay” vote over the summer. According to an […]
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Netflix Hikes Prices For Basic and Premium Plans
Netflix will be rolling out price increases for some consumers in the U.S., U.K. and France starting Wednesday. In the U.S., the prices for the basic plan — the lowest tier plan without advertising, which is no longer available to new members — will increase from $9.99 to $11.99, while the premium plan, which allows […]
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Netflix, After Reducing Spend During Strikes, Now Expects Free Cash Flow to Be $6.5B
One week after contract talks between SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers broke down, Netflix leadership gave an update to Wall Street on the status of the talks to resolve a strike that is nearing 100 days and brought most of Hollywood’s production to a halt. “We want nothing more than […]
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‘Bodies’ Review: Netflix’s Sharply Acted Time-Travel Series Does Justice to Its Wild Premise
Four London detectives in four different time periods stumble upon the same mysterious body in a limited series starring Shira Haas ('Unorthodox').
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Sylvester Stallone Gets Personal in Netflix Documentary Trailer
Netflix released a trailer for its upcoming Sylvester Stallone documentary, titled Sly. The project follows the filmmaker’s 50-year career in Hollywood: “From Rocky to Rambo to The Expendables, this retrospective documentary offers an intimate look at the Oscar-nominated actor-writer-director-producer, paralleling his inspirational underdog story with the indelible characters he has brought to life.” The trailer […]
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Netflix to Reopen Hollywood’s Iconic Egyptian Theatre Next Month
Netflix and the American Cinematheque will reopen Hollywood’s iconic The Egyptian Theatre next month after more than three years of renovations and just in time to showcase the streamer’s awards lineup. The historic landmark, built during the silent era, has been dark since movie theaters across the country shuttered in March 2020. Netflix closed a […]
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Heather McMahan Talks New Netflix Special: “I’m Ready for My Melissa-McCarthy-in-‘Bridesmaids’ Moment”
In July 2019, comedian Heather McMahan was at a Lululemon-sponsored Malibu retreat when she got a phone call that changed her life — after a suggestion from Maria Shriver (who followed McMahan, also host of the Absolutely Not podcast, on Instagram), the Today show asked her to join Jenna Bush Hager as a fourth-hour guest co-host. […]
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Fisher Stevens on Getting David Beckham to Talk, That Rolls-Royce Moment and Making Athletes Emotional
Almost two weeks ago, Netflix dropped its Beckham docuseries — giving viewers perhaps the most access ever to the soccer star subject. That has less to do with the project’s four-plus-hour runtime, however, than it does with the fact that David Beckham, for all of his fame, has never been much of a talker. “I don’t […]
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MIPCOM: Global TV Industry Braces for Downturn, Disruption and “Blood in the Water”
Major construction work along Cannes’ famed Croisette has turned this most glamorous of French seaside towns into a chaotic building site. Television executives, in town for the MIPCOM Cannes international TV confab, which runs through Thursday, Oct. 19, have been forced to run a gauntlet of concrete slabs and roped-off danger zones. It’s an apt […]
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Oscar-Winning Duo Behind ‘Two Distant Strangers’ Launch “Unreasnble” New Company (Exclusive)
Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe have found their next act. The Oscar-winning duo behind police brutality short Two Distant Strangers and, more recently, HBO’s BS High, have teamed with Group Nine Studios’ former president Mickey Meyer to launch a new entertainment company titled The Unreasnble. The goal of the full-service media company is to […]
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