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EXCLUSIVE: California Gov. Gavin Newsom sees the state as mere days away from new guidelines to further open up from the coronavirus pandemic, but entertainment industry insiders are feeling broadsided by today's announcement. "WTF?" said one top cable executive to Newsom today announcning he would reveal plans on May…

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings’ compensation package totaled $38.58 million for 2019, up from $36.08 million the year before, with option awards totaling $37.4 million. Hastings’ base for the past two years was $700,000. Option awards in 2018 were $33.38 million. Ted Sarandos, chief content officer, saw his base pay rise…

Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos said the streaming giant’s global content machine is not entirely shut down but currently in production in South Korea and Iceland, and that the company can take what it’s learning there around the world as more areas start to open. The situation is fluid, Sarandos said, but “those…

Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos said the company works “pretty far ahead” on delivering new shows so doesn’t expect to see any disruption in programming to the service over the next few months, but may later in the year. “It’s been a massive disruption. Every of one of our productions around the world are…

Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos is heading to Canada's Banff World Media Festival to give a keynote address. Sarandos will speak at the event, which is held at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Alberta, Canada, on Monday June 15. The event runs June 14-17. It comes after last year's event, which saw Jeffrey…

As we close the book on one of the most truncated and stressful Oscar seasons in history, the mindsets of many studio and network executives will soon turn to another case of agita: AMPTP’s upcoming contract negotiations with the WGA and the possibility of a writers strike. Speaking to Deadline on the Oscars red…

Netflix's chief content officer Ted Sarandos accepted the Producers Guild's Milestone Award on Saturday, paying tribute to his late mother in a moving speech at the Hollywood Palladium. "This is the highlight of no night ever, the executive acceptance speech—but thank you so much,” he started, on a night his Netflix…

Filmmakers Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert understand better than most how much things can change in a decade. In 2009 they released their Oscar-nominated documentary short The Last Truck, about the closing of a GM plant in Ohio. In 2019, they returned with American Factory, a feature documenting what happened to…

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings will see his total compensation rise 10% to just shy of $34.7 million in 2020, the company disclosed Monday in an SEC filing. The streaming giant annually provides a look ahead at its executive compensation just before the end of December. In 2018, Hastings earned a total of $31.5 million…

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…