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Deadline has confirmed that Netflix film executives Lisa Nishimura and Ian Bricke are exiting the streamer amid a reorganization of the film group. All live-action film content now will be overseen by Kira Goldberg, Ori Marmur and Niija Kuykendall. We hear that Netflix will continue to make indie…

EXCLUSIVE: Hot on the heels of a Best Animated Feature nomination for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Netflix is back in business with del Toro on another major animated film that he will direct. Del Toro will adapt The Buried Giant, based on the fantasy novel by Nobel Prize-winning British writer…

Netflix has a new co-CEO. Netflix on Thursday announced that Greg Peters, who was previously COO and head of product, has been promoted to the role, sharing it with Ted Sarandos. It comes as company co-founder Reed Hastings steps down to become Executive Chairman. Related Story Netf…

EXCLUSIVE: Tendo Nagenda is leaving Netflix this week. He’ll exit on September 1, a development that came from a move to simplify the structure of the film team. Under Head of Global Films Scott Stuber, Netflix has been methodically streamlining its executive structure. There will now be one Studio Film team led by…

The British Film Institute (BFI) has added five experienced executives to its Board of Governors. Joining BFI chair Tim Richards, the CEO of cinema chain Vue, are: Monica Chadha, Board advisor and consultant; Elizabeth Karlsen (Carol), producer and co-founder of Number 9 Films; Laura Miele, Executive Vice-President…

EXCLUSIVE: Prolific duo Greg Berlanti & Sarah Schechter have set their Berlanti/Schechter Films banner to an exclusive first-look feature film deal at Netflix. The film pact with Netflix comes two and a half years before Berlanti's mega overall deal with Warner Bros. Television — valued at as much as $400 million — is…

What a difference two years and a global pandemic make. Steven Spielberg, who a couple of years ago was quoted — his camp maintains he never said it or anything he might have said was severely taken out of context — drawing a clear line between theatrically released films and streamer films, has berthed his Amblin…

Netflix’s two top film and TV executives said the streaming service still has plenty of room for progress with diversity, but predicted results in 2020 will likely show improvement over 2019 when all of the numbers are tallied. “I think we are definitely going to improve,” TV chief Bela Bajaria said. “If you think…

USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative released a study today examining the diversity of Netflix’s original content. If anything the study could be summarized by Dr. Stacy L. Smith who said in a video: “Inclusion happens when women are given the keys to the kingdom.” “I rarely have anything positive to say,” said Dr…

When he took on the challenge of building a film program for Netflix three and one-half years ago, over other more traditional studio head jobs, Netflix Head of Original Films Scott Stuber was tasked with elevating the volume of releases, but also to use his relationships with talent to bring them aboard at a time…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline learned this morning that Netflix has closed a long-term pact to be the creative home on the film side for Kevin Hart and his HartBeat Productions. The exclusive partnership calls for Hart to be the star of at least four films he’ll produce, with a first-look film producing deal also part of the…

EXCLUSIVE: This year especially, film holiday bragging rights ought to belong to the streamers, as numerous big pictures fill the holiday corridor gap emptied by the pandemic. Trouble is, most of them resist transparency, even when the news is good. I’m trying to coax out information on a couple of films, but here’s…