Netflix Stresses Business As Usual But Confusion Remains Over Budgets, Commissioning & Canadian Content – Analysis

Netflix UK this month including a new Resident Evil series – scroll down to see the full list.Aside from the highly anticipated conclusion to Stranger Things season four on July 1, this month sees a live-action Resident Evil series hit the platform on July 14.Created by showrunner Andrew Dabb (Supernatural), Resident Evil stars Lance Reddick (The Wire) as Albert Wesker. The show jumps between two timelines, following Albert’s adopted children Jade (Ella Balinska) and Billie Wesker (Adeline Rudolph) in New Raccoon City, and a decade in the future where Jade is trying to survive the zombie apocalypse.Other new additions include The Gray Man on July 22, directed by Anthony and Joe Russo (Avengers: Endgame).

What does it mean to survive? The mere mention of the word conjures up a flurry of possibilities. Netflix’s new limited series “Keep Breathing” tackles two of the most prominent scenarios — humanity vs.

EXCLUSIVE: Popular Japanese comedian and America’s Got Talent contestant Yuriyan Retriever is to lead Netflix Japan series The Queen of Villains. 

Nick Zano (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow) and Shelley Hennig (Teen Wolf) are set as the leads of Obliterated, Netflix’s hourlong action comedy series from Cobra Kai creators Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg and Josh Heald as well as Sony Pictures Television.

Tehmina Jaffer, most recently president of Business Affairs and Operations at Anonymous Content, has joined Disney Branded Television as EVP Business Affairs. Jaffer succeeds Adina Savin, who has exited after leading the business affairs division for nearly 23 years. The move comes as Ayo Davis, President, Disney Branded Entertainment continues to solidify her senior executive team.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterAnonymous Content’s Tehmina Jaffer has returned to the Disney fold, joining Disney Branded Television as head of business affairs.Jaffer, a former business affairs Disney+ exec, succeeds Adina Savin, who has served as executive vice president of Disney Branded TV’s BA department for 23 years. Savin announced her departure in a memo to staff in early May, citing a desire to focus on personal pursuits.

The Kyle Richards family empire is expanding across reality TV!

Stranger Things 4 Vol.1 anded 102.26M hours viewed in its third full week of release. That was down from 159.2M in the second full week and 335M for the first. Twenty four days in, Duffer Brothers’ hit period series has amassed 883.30 hours viewed and may cross the 900M mark by the end of the 28-day window Netflix uses to measure viewership.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is developing a limited series adaptation of John Steinbeck’s classic novel East of Eden with Zoe Kazan writing and exec producing and Florence Pugh attached to star and co-produce.

EXCLUSIVE: Departing Netflix Director Of UK Scripted Chris Sussman is in talks to exec produce the fourth season of Apple TV+ comedy Trying, Deadline can reveal.

Manori Ravindran International EditorThe moody mountainscape surrounding the Fairmont Banff Springs hotel may have been tailor-made for the British Columbia-shot thriller “Yellowjackets,” which was honored at this week’s Banff World Media Festival, but the real survival drama was raging between Canadian broadcasters and the streaming giants.The tension was palpable among the country’s legacy broadcasters and the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, both of which were prominent at the 43rd edition of the festival. While this fraught dynamic — which has ramped up as the digital platforms launch originals divisions in Canada — is nothing new, relations are coming to a head as the much-ballyhooed Bill C-11, the proposed update to Canada’s dated Broadcasting Act, is fiercely debated in Parliament.

Manori Ravindran International EditorNetflix Canada is open for business, and they don’t need to wait around for their American colleagues to move forward on green lights.That message was loud and clear at the Banff World Media Festival, where the streaming service has  been at the heart of several tense conversations around the country’s rumbling drive to regulate digital platforms.While the three Netflix executives on stage Wednesday didn’t directly address the ongoing regulation drive in the background, what’s abundantly clear is that they’re getting ahead of regulation and pre-emptively moving forward on Canadian originals — before their hand is forced.The panel featured Winnipeg native Tara Woodbury, manager for Canadian series; Danielle Woodrow, director of Canadian series; and Peter Friedlander, head of scripted series for the U.S. and Canada, who was moderating the session.

Lana Condor has unfinished business to take care of in the afterlife on , her upcoming limited series for Netflix.Set over the course of one night, the eight-episode series follows high school senior Erika Vu (Condor), who’s lived her life safely under the radar. With the clock winding down on her high school experience, she -- with the help of her best friend, Gia (Zoe Colletti) — seizes the opportunity to change her narrative and start living an epic life, only to find out the next morning… she’s a motherf**king ghost following a shocking accident," according to the synopsis.With the unexpected change in mortality status, Erika finds herself with a renewed purpose to do the things she never thought she'd ever be capable of doing.

Netflix’s cutbacks have worried some in the industry that the content gold rush is ending. Producers at the “IP IQ” panel, sponsored by Deadline, at the Produced By conference, said there’s no need to worry. Girl From Plainville and The Dropout Executive Producer Liz Hannah, A&E Studios Head Barry Jossen, and UTA partner and Co-head of Media Rights Jason Richman said they don’t anticipate any slowdown in streamers needing content.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorSPOILER WARNING: THIS STORY CONTAINS DISCUSSION OF MAJOR STORYLINES AND SCENES IN “INTERCEPTOR.”First-time director Matthew Reilly admits he never anticipated his feature film debut “Interceptor” to do as well as it has since its release on Netflix earlier this month. The movie, which follows a U.S.

Catherine Tait is unusually open and candid for the head of a major public broadcaster. She’s also not afraid of whimsy — at one point in an exclusive chat with Deadline stopping mid-sentence to exclaim the beauty of a hummingbird that’s flown onto windowsill of her LA hotel room.

Bollywood star Ranveer Singh is heading into the harsh forests of Serbia with adventurer Bear Grylls in an interactive special for Netflix India.

Bob Saget wasn't something that was taken away from us, he was something that was given to us. ' That was the salute from Jim Carrey, 60, in a trailer for a new Netflix special honoring the late comedian, Dirty Daddy: The Bob Saget Tribute.  After the funny man died in January, his friends, including The Mask star, along with John Stamos, Chris Rock, Paul Rodriguez and many others, gathered together at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles to pay tribute.