Nolte: Netflix Will Make Fewer Lousy, Super-Expensive ‘Auteur’ Movies

Nolte: Netflix Will Make Fewer Lousy, Super-Expensive ‘Auteur’ Movies


Netflix, the only streamer making a profit, will reportedly no longer make lousy, super-expensive blockbusters or lousy “auteur” movies.

Netflix’s new film chief, Dan Lin, started work on April 1. The news is that Netflix is “no longer only the home of expensive action flicks featuring big movie stars, like The Gray Man with Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans or Red Notice with Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot, and Dwayne Johnson,” the New York Times reported.

This also marks the end of paying top dollar to lure “auteur filmmakers like Martin Scorsese, Alfonso Cuarón and Bradley Cooper.” The previous Netflix pay structure was nuts. Name directors and stars earned huge salaries based on the back-end money they might have earned had the movie been a big

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