Netflix is finally taking a page from the rest of Hollywood
by Alex Cranz from The Verge - All Posts on (#5ZY13)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In Q1 of 2022, it finally happened: Netflix had a bad quarter. It lost over 200,000 subscribers and acknowledged that newer competitors like Disney Plus and HBO Max were effectively putting an end to how the company had been doing business for nearly a decade. Now, Netflix is steering away from the frenetic release pace and midsized films that made it a near-critical darling with a new plan to make bigger movies" at a less gluttonous pace" according to a report from The Hollywood Reporter.
You know, kind of what most of Hollywood is already doing.
A major takeaway from The Hollywood Reporter's piece is that, while it appears Netflix isn't exactly sure what it wants to make, it just wants to make it more thoughtfully than it has for...