Netflix er før blevet kritiseret for ikke at placere nok vægt bag produktioner, der ikke nødvendigvis er designet til at appellere bredt, men i stedet er smallere, og måske sågar mere "auteur". Men sådan kommer det altså til at blive ved med at være i fremtiden.
Om ikke andet lader det til at filmdepartementet vil gennemgå store ændringer, der blandet andet betyder at det bliver organiseret efter genre, snarere end budget, og udbetale færre store lønninger til stjerne "upfront".
I en artikel ovre hos New York Times fortæller de om Netflix' nye filmchef Dan Lin, der startede d. 1 april, og allerede nu har foretaget gennemgribende ændringer. Det betyder angiveligt at de vil arbejde mindre med "auteurs", men at de samtidig vil give grønt lys til en bredere skare af film:
"Dan Lin arrived as Netflix's new film chief on April 1, and he has already started making changes. He laid off around 15 people in the creative film executive group, including one vice president and two directors. (Netflix's entire film department is around 150 people.) He reorganized his film department by genre rather than budget level and has indicated that Netflix is no longer only the home of expensive action flicks featuring big movie stars, like "The Gray Man" with Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans or "Red Notice" with Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot and Dwayne Johnson. Rather, Mr. Lin's mandate is to improve the quality of the movies and produce a wider spectrum of films — at different budget levels — the better to appeal to the varied interests of Netflix's 260 million subscribers. He will also be changing the formulas for how talent is paid, meaning no more enormous upfront deals."
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