Netflix, the only profitable streamer, will reportedly no longer produce bad, super-expensive blockbusters or bad “auteur” movies.
Netflix’s new head of film, Dan Lin, started work on April 1st. The news is that Netflix is ”no longer just home to big-ticket action movies featuring big-name movie stars.” gray man Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans or red notification With Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot, and Dwayne Johnson.” new york times report.
This also means the end of paying big bucks to attract “auteur filmmakers like Martin Scorsese, Alfonso Cuaron, and Bradley Cooper.” Netflix’s previous pricing structure was unusual.Famous directors and stars earned huge salaries based on slush funds. maybe If this movie were a big hit in theaters, you would earn:
- Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds reportedly earned $20 million each red notification.
- Dwayne Johnson earned $50 million.
- Will Smith earned $20 million bright.
- Adam Sandler signs contract worth four movies $250 million.
- Ryan Reynolds made an additional $27 million from Six Underground.
- Netflix paid $450 million For two people Knives Out
- daniel craig grabbed $One hundred million.
- Mark Wahlberg earned $30 million spencer confidential.
- Netflix paid Jennifer Lawrence $25 million don’t look up. Leonardo DiCaprio was definitely getting paid more than that, maybe twice as much.
It’s silly to pay that kind of money for something that ended up in a pile of forgotten TV movies (which I’ve covered before). And these numbers don’t include Netflix’s trash heap of “author” movies that pissed off hundreds of millions of people…
Beasts of No Nation, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2, The Meyerowitz Stories, Mudbound, The Pale Blue Eye, Mank, All Quiet on the Western Front (2023), Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, BARDO (The False Chronicle of a Handful of Truth), The Blonde, The Irishman, Marriage Story, Rome, The Maestro, The Dog Power”, “The Trial of the Chicago 7”, “The Two Popes”, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”, The Lost Daughter, Hillbilly Elegy, May December, The Killer…
other than Martin Scorsese Irish, not one of those titles has had any cultural staying power. They all disappeared without a trace. It’s my understanding that Netflix was willing to spend billions on star salaries and auteur films that the studios didn’t want as a way to legitimize itself by partnering with big names. But was that juice worth the squeeze? It seems like the studios knew what they were doing and refused to produce these “passion projects.” One commenter said: “Without Netflix, who would finance the worst movies from our favorite filmmakers?”[s]? ”
Three years ago, Netflix announced a new Netflix Original movie every week. Does anyone remember any of these titles?
Lin, the new sheriff overseeing Netflix’s 260 million subscribers, understands there’s a problem when the majority of Netflix’s 10 most popular movies come from other studios. It seems like it is. Therefore, the following will be handled in the future:
[Lin] He wants his team to be more proactive producers, waiting for projects from producers and agents, according to two people familiar with his thinking, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal communications. They hope that they will develop their own materials instead of relying on other materials. It is believed that this approach should allow them to have more say over the quality of the film.
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Netflix recently made a bid for the rights to a short story involving Millie Bobby Brown, star of Netflix’s “Stranger Things” and “Enola Holmes,” according to two people familiar with the matter. It is said that he refused. Additionally, a film adaptation by director Kathryn Bigelow based on David Koepp’s apocalyptic novel “Aurora” is not moving forward. The director left the project several months ago.
My guess, and this is just speculation, is that Netflix is considering the following projects: aurora And think about it this way: You can spend $150 million and tons of time and energy producing it. aurora, That way you’ll get 50 million views. Or! — you can license it from a studio for about $20 million and get 35 million views.
Additionally, movies such as aurora They definitely have a longer shelf life after their theatrical release, as opposed to almost all of these streaming movies getting lost in the tidal wave of streaming menus and never being seen or heard of again.
Hell, in all its theatrical glory, it’s cinematic aurora maybe you can make money more views on the streaming service rather than the streaming service itself producing it. Outlet companies like Netflix and Apple produce so many crappy movies that we expect them to be terrible. And this has nothing to do with being a TV movie. “HBO movie” is the opposite of a derogatory term.
These streaming services saw themselves as new movie studios. isn’t it. Streaming or not, no matter how big your home screen gets, a TV is and always will be a TV.
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