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International Insider: Netflix Dishes The Data; A Seriesly New Event; Breaking ‘Blitz’
Netflix Data Dump and Ted Sarandos feature in this week's International Insider.
In a fortuitous bit of timing that was probably more execution than luck, the CEO keynoted a Netflix-sponsored RTS London Convention event in the week that the streamer’s latest data dump revealed the Brits have this year, in common parlance, absolutely smashed it. While a Fremantle spokesman said the company simply “understands Nicola’s decision and wishes him best for the future,” an open letter in Italy’s Dagospia, the nation’s equivalent of Drudge Report, said he would not be taking up the role due to “a hostile climate” surrounding his resignation from Cinecittà over the summer. It all feels a bit messy at a company going through constant change, having in the past few weeks merged Thames with Talkback yet again, laid of all staff at labels Euston Films and Undeniable, and lost two of its most senior sales execs, Angela Neillis and Max Bolenius.
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