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Media patriarch John Malone in a rare appearance said he’d pushed DirecTV to buy Netflix when he was chairman of the satellite broadcaster – a position he held from 2008-10. The Liberty Media founder and chairman said he had invited Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings to a Liberty board meeting "and he assured us all…

George Gascón's bid to be Los Angeles County's next District Attorney replacing two-term incumbent Jackie Lacey has all the drama of a Hollywood production, and the challenger has a lot of the industry’s backing to support that idea. Netflix co-CEO Reed Hastings, newly minted Warner Bros TV boss Channing Dungey, FX…

Netflix co-CEOs Reed Hastings and Ted Sarandos tackled a range of topical issues Tuesday as they offered context for their less-than-expected gain in subscribers during the third quarter. During their quarterly earnings interview posted to YouTube, Hastings was asked by moderator and Barclays analyst Kannan…

A Lone Star State grand jury has indicted Netflix over the controversial Cuties film. According to the September 23 indictment out of Tyler County, Texas, the streamer led by Reed Hastings and Ted Sarandos "knowingly promote visual material which depicts the lewd exhibition of the genitals or pubic area of a clothed…

Decision time has arrived: Keep working at home or go back to the office? That choice now confronts millions of employees (and their bosses) around the world. The impact could be profound on business activity, real estate values and the future of city centers. Not to mention marriages. Here are the early results of…

The memoirs and random ruminations of corporate leaders rarely find their way into the public conversation, but rules change when Netflix is involved. Tuesday marked the publication day of Reed Hastings’ book in which the co-CEO warned that no company employee at any level should assume job security. A day later…

In his new book, No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention, Reed Hastings describes himself as a “math wonk” with a “lack of showbiz knowledge.” Even so, the book doesn’t lean too heavily on engineering or MBA talk. Instead, to make its theoretical points, it uses an abundance of Hollywood-flavored…

Netflix founder, chairman and now co-CEO Reed Hastings said Thursday he wants the service “to have so many hits that you know when you come to Netflix you can just go from hit to hit to hit and never have to think about any of those other services.” Speaking on video call for investors, he acknowledged the occasional…

As the world outside North America hesitantly moves back into film and TV production out of the COVID-19 pandemic, Netflix's newly minted co-CEO believes the entertainment industry will never be the same – but things are “ramping up” "I think the safety protocols will become a permanent part of production, which is a…

In a major change to Netflix’s C-suite, content chief Ted Sarandos has been named co-CEO and Chief Product Officer Greg Peters has been named to the additional role of COO. Reed Hastings, who co-founded the company and has served as CEO for most of its 23 years of existence, will be co-CEO with Sarandos, the company…

Duffy, the Welsh singer-songwriter who earlier this year went public with a harrowing story about being kidnapped and raped, has publicly called out Netflix for showing Polish feature film 365 Days, which she says "glamorizes the brutal reality of sex trafficking, kidnapping and rape". The movie, which has been widely…

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has revealed that the company’s 183M subscribers have been indulging in more international content during the coronavirus lockdown. In an audio essay for the BBC, Hasting trumpeted the streamer’s investment in global shows, such as Money Heist, arguing that they “translate across borders…