Steven Spielberg The production company, Amplblin, has signed an offer with Netflix to create “new feature films per year” for the streaming broadcast service. It’s a bit of a surprising movement, given some of Spielberg’s previous statements on streaming movies.
The agreement covers at least two films a year, depending on the variety. We do not know if Spielberg will eventually lead movies for Netflix. Amblin also has an agreement with Universal. He will produce films for both distributors, so Netflix will not reach his hands on each Spielberg movie has a hand in the manufacture.
“In Amblin, the narration will always be at the center of everything we do and the minute of TED [Sarandos, Co-General Manager of Netflix and Director of Content] and I started discussing a partnership, he has be clearly clear that we had an incredible opportunity to tell new stories together and reaching audiences in new ways, “said Spielberg in a statement.” This new avenue for our films, alongside the stories we continue to tell with our A long-standing family in Universal and our other partners, will be incredibly fulfilled for me personally since we embark with Ted, and I can not wait. To start with him, Scott [Stuber, Netflix’s Head of Global Film] and the whole netflix team. “
Amblin worked with Netflix in the past. He produced the chicago 7 trial, which picked up six Oscar applications this year. They also collaborate on Maestro, a biopic on composer Leonard Bernstein that Bradley Cooper leads and features.
Spielberg once expressed opposition to the diffusion of films eligible for the prices of the Academy. “Once you are engaged in a TV format, you are a television movie,” he said in an interview with 2018. The following year, reports suggest that Spielberg lobbed to block the Streaming movies of the eligibility of the Oscars, but these seemed to be wrong.
Whatever the Spielberg strings on streaming films could have been in the past, the signant and the amblin to a case is a great get for Netflix. Moving strengthens Netflix Netflix designers. The company publishes at least one movie every week this year and he probably sought to maintain this pace. With the competition for intensifying streaming subscribers, having a legendary filmmaker like Spielberg on board is an ace in the hole of Netflix in his battle against the tastes of Disney +, Paramount + and Peacock (who shares a parent company with Universal).