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In an appearance Tuesday at the UBS Global TMT Conference in New York, Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos revealed fresh viewership numbers for The Irishman and tackled topics like new competition in streaming. The Martin Scorsese mob epic was watched by 26.4 million subscriber accounts during its first seven days on…

EXCLUSIVE: It’s official. New York's iconic Paris Theatre will remain Manhattan’s last single-screen movie palace for a long time to come. Netflix has confirmed that it has closed an extended lease agreement to keep the theater open. Netflix would not disclose the length of the agreement; Deadline revealed on November…

Netflix has signed a production and distribution agreement with Korean media outfit CJ ENM and its subsidiary Studio Dragon, one of the country's leading series producers. Studio Dragon has credits including the Guardian: The Lonely And Great God, which is one of Korea’s most successful shows of all time. The…

Ted Sarandos, head of content for Netflix, said “nothing” has changed at the streaming giant since the launch of Disney+ on Tuesday. “We’ve been competing with Disney and all these other folks who are coming into this from the beginning,” he said. “For us, nothing really changes. We’ve always been customer-first and…

Netflix head Ted Sarandos will receive the 2020 Milestone Award from The Producers Guild of America, the guild announced today. The award will be handed out at the 31st Annual Producers Guild Awards on Saturday, January 18, 2020 at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles. "Ted continues to push the industry to new…

Fresh off showing the Vanity Fair Summit what journalism actually looks like in her sit-down yesterday with Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, Katie Couric wasted no time Wednesday jumping in with Netflix's Ted Sarandos with the declaration that "the sharks are circling." "We've been competing since Day One," the streamer's…

Manhattan’s Paris Theatre has been given a stay of execution. The last prestige single-screen movie house in New York, which closed in August, will become a home for the Noah Baumbach-directed Netflix film Marriage Story when the picture plays theatrical engagements in a handful of theaters in Los Angeles and New York…

The Netflix management team spent a large portion of their 38-minute “earnings interview” for the third quarter highlighting their aggressive push into the film business and their view of streaming competition. CEO Reed Hastings touted the fourth-quarter slate of films, a nearly billion-dollar array of work from…

Here's looking at you, Ted. Tonight, Brian Grazer told interviewer Ted Sarandos that the key to his success in Hollywood comes down to eye contact: "The WiFi of human connection is looking at somebody." Grazer, partner with Ron Howard in Imagine Film Entertainment, said the eyes have it in conversation with Netflix…

In its most ambitious ever theatrical rollout plan for one of its original productions, Netflix will give The Irishman a 27-day theatrical window before the film makes its streaming service bow November 27. Netflix will launch on November 1 in Los Angeles and New York the epic crime drama that reunites director Martin…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy Award-winning Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have found their new home. Nearly three months after Deadline revealed that Benioff & Weiss were being courted by six studios for an overall global deal to write, produce and direct new series and films, we can reveal that they have…

In a video conference call to discuss Netflix’s decidedly mixed second-quarter results, Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos hit on several hot topics, including viewership data, film talent deals and HBO’s record-setting Emmy haul. Appearing alongside CEO Reed Hastings other members of the streaming giant’s management…