If Hell hasn't frozen over today, it got distinctly colder as Netflix brass promised to start revealing a lot more of their actual viewership. "Over the next several months, we're going to be rolling out more specific and granular data and reporting, Ted Sarandos said on Tuesday following the first quarter earnings…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is in preliminary talks with American Cinematheque to buy the venerable Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. This will become the first brick and mortar movie theater acquisition for Netflix. But sources said it would be wrong to eye this as the start of a move into the operational theater…

The Academy Board of Governors next month will weigh arguments over Oscar eligibility requirements directed toward films released by Netflix, setting a template for others who’ll make feature content for streaming services. Traditionalists like Steven Spielberg have made their feelings clear: they favor more stringent…

"Our success doesn't determine their success," Reed Hastings said Monday about the increased competition for Netflix in cable and from other streamers, both current and to come. "We will make this a better industry if we have better competitors," he CEO added with a smile, hiding battle scars to come. Despite that…

EXCLUSIVE: "Absolutely!" Ted Sarandos said Monday when asked whether his attitude toward the upcoming streaming platforms from Apple, Disney and WarnerMedia is a case of "bring it on." "I have no idea what they're doing until we see it," Netflix's chief content officer told Deadline today of Apple's expected new…

Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos says the uproar over Claire Foy’s salary for The Crown prompted a review by the streaming giant of talent salaries across its original and third-party series as well as a couple of adjustments. Appearing at the Makers Conference in Dana Point, CA, Sarandos noted that Netflix licensed…

EXCLUSIVE: The 2019 Makers Conference is being livestreamed next week but no word yet if it will be on Netflix even though the streamer's Chief Content Officer is now among the luminaries who will be taking the stage in Dana Point, California. Ted Sarandos will be joining John Legend, Aisha Tyler and Rise CEO and…

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos say original programming is starting to overtake acquired fare and its platform has scaled to the point that linear rivals like HBO and Disney are not principal’s main rivals. Those were two of the key takeaways from Netflix’s fourth-quarter earnings…

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos will see their pay packages rise to $31.5 million in 2019. Hastings will collect an annual salary of $700,000 and stock options worth $30.8 million, according to the SEC filing. That’s a increase from his 2018 pay package, when he received options valued…

Ted Sarandos began his entertainment career running video stores and has a well-established passion for film. As Netflix’s head of content, he has spent the past few months green-lighting an array of ambitious feature projects as the streaming giant makes an aggressive push into the movie business. Despite all of…

To the Way brothers, the story of the Rolls Royce-driving Indian guru who moved his sex cult to Oregon, where their search for spiritual enlightenment ended in the largest bioterror attack on American soil was the stuff of documentary gold. But not everyone shared that vision. Director Maclain Way said he shopped the…

In their quarterly video conference moderated by a single Wall Street analyst — in this case, Todd Juenger of Sanford Bernstein — Netflix execs shrugged off the company’s disappointing second-quarter results. “The fundamentals have never been stronger,” CEO Reed Hastings said, citing record levels of viewing and…