The lead negotiators for SAG-AFTRA and the studios are set to meet later today in what could be the final phase to sealing a new deal and the end to the 117-day actors guild strike.
Netflix’s Skydance Deal Will Help It Satisfy “A Ton Of Appetite” For Animation, Co-CEO Ted Sarandos Says
19.10.2023 - 00:03 / deadline.com
Netflix’s multi-year deal with Skydance Animation, which shifted over from Apple TV+, “helps complement the work that we’re doing” with original animated fare, Co-CEO Ted Sarandos said.
Partnering with third parties across the board “really helps us” to “keep up that scale as we grow,” the exec said on the company’s third-quarter earnings interview. Animation as a subset of the overall content mix has been an increasing priority in recent years, with co-founder and Executive Chairman Reed Hastings first publicly calling attention to it when he was running Netflix as CEO. Alluding to Disney, Hastings said in 2021 that execs were “very fired up about catching them in family animation, maybe eventually passing them, we’ll see.”
Hastings and Sarandos, however, have both conceded that everything in the animation business moves at a more deliberate pace than the rest of their operation. That’s where plugging in Skydance’s pipeline could provide a boost. As Deadline first reported, Skydance and Apple decided to part ways in animation due to strategic differences, with Skydance retaining control of the film Spellbound. It will premiere on Netflix in 2024, followed by Pookoo in 2025.
“It’s a very long cycle of development and production,” Sarandos said. “Sometimes it can take a decade to deliver a really great animated feature film. And as you know, we move pretty fast. … No single company has really launched more than two animated features in the same year.”
Across the entertainment landscape, “there’s a ton of appetite,” Sarandos said. “If you look at the Top 10 features since Nielsen has been tracking movie watching, seven of them are animated features. We’re committed to that part of the business, and we do that through a
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04.11.2023 / 22:35
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04.11.2023 / 21:47
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02.11.2023 / 00:22
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29.10.2023 / 23:59
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29.10.2023 / 23:13
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29.10.2023 / 00:35
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27.10.2023 / 23:43
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26.10.2023 / 01:03
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25.10.2023 / 20:41
SAG-AFTRA Talks: CEOs Offer Improved Deal Terms But Still No Cut of Streaming Revenue
Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer The CEOs of four major entertainment companies offered SAG-AFTRA on Tuesday an improved bonus for the most-watched streaming shows, as well as higher increases in minimum rates. But the studios are still not offering a cut of total streaming revenue, which the actors union has made the centerpiece of its demands to end its 104-day strike. SAG-AFTRA is expected to deliver its response to the studios’ latest proposal today.
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25.10.2023 / 01:47
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19.10.2023 / 03:41
Ted Sarandos Is All “Spin,” Other CEOs “Irresponsible” For Abandoning Talks To End Strike, SAG-AFTRA’s Duncan Crabtree-Ireland Says
EXCLUSIVE: Ted Sarandos may have insisted today that he and other studio CEOs want to end the over three-month long actors strike and “get everyone back to work,” but for SAG-AFTRA’s chief negotiator, the Netflix boss is full of nothing but hot air.
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19.10.2023 / 00:03
Netflix Co-Chief Ted Sarandos Says It Will Soon Be “Much More Common” For Streaming Data To Be “Fully Transparent,” As With Metrics Like Box Office, TV Ratings And Billboard Charts
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19.10.2023 / 00:03
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19.10.2023 / 00:03
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18.10.2023 / 22:25
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18.10.2023 / 21:27
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