Ted Sarandos, Co-CEO of Netflix, met Donald Trump in December on the Mar-A-Lago-Compound of the then President-Elect in Florida. But according to Sarandos ‘Talk Shop’ not.
The Netflix -Baas, who spoke on Friday at the Paley Media Council event “Beyond the Stream: A Conversation with Ted Sarandos” in New York City, said it was the first time he met Trump. “We had a nice long dinner together,” he said.
Asked by Interviewer Ben Smith, editor -in -chief of Semafor, or Trump tried to sell Sarandos on the documentary with his third wife, Melania – the rights to which Amazon was taken over – Sarandos said, no, Trump didn’t. Is Trump a fan of Netflix? “He said Melania and [son] Barron were big fans, “said Sarandos.
In the meantime, Smith continued, “had Amazon paid too much” for the Melania Doc? (Amazon is Reportedly The $ 40 million shining for the film and docu series about the First Lady.) Sarandos said he didn’t know. “I didn’t see it,” said the Netflix chef.
The conversation with Sarandos came a day after the exit of Amazon MGM Studios head Jennifer Salke. Smith asked the Netflix -Exec “What’s Going Fal” near Amazon. Sarandos replied: “I really don’t pay that much attention to them.” He added: “I don’t want pejorative or snotty about it” – according to Sarandos he is too busy with everything at Netflix to follow rivals closely. He said he tells his team: ‘If you look over your shoulder [at a competitor] You are going to stumble. “
Asked if Netflix is shifting his content strategy with Trump’s second term, Sarandos said it is not: “We will program exactly the same.” With regard to ‘The Apprentice’, the film about the early years of Trump as a real estate management in New York that many distributors have passed on, Sarandos said: “I thought it was a good film, but there are 10,000 films that were submitted to Sundance every year.” The decision to acquire a project, he said, is “real costs compared to the public.”
At another point in the discussion, Sarandos said that he will remain in his decision to collaborate with comedian Dave Chappelle, who was criticized for his anti-translat comments in his Netflix-up special “The Closer”-a controversy that included a strike by the company’s own employees. He also defended Netflix’s decision to order three specials from Tony Hinchcliffe, the comedian whose badly received joke about Puerto Ricans in Trump Rally last fall a media -fire storm.
“There are never easy phone calls. But it is rooted in principles of freedom of expression and freedom of expression,” said Sarandos.
He compared Chappelle with bordering comedians Lenny Bruce, George Carlin and Richard Pryor. “He is clearly in that class … the best that ever did this work,” said Sarandos. “It is not to be denied that he is one of the greatest comedians of our time.”
According to Sarandos, stand-up comedians “need a safe place to try things out” and said it is an “art form that is determined by the public.” The Exec said, “You can’t say,” That’s not funny “if 18,000 people laugh about it. You can say that it insults you, it hurts you, but you can’t say it’s not funny.”
Sarandos worked at Netflix for 25 years – in fact he noted that the anniversary date of his accession to the company was March 27.
During the wide convo, Sarandos covered the familiar soil. He repeated that Netflix is not interested in sports rights in the entire season but he is Bullish at special events such as the NFL games in Christmas Day that flowed worldwide and repeated that he does not want to become a Disney CEO. Sarandos also spoke about the transition from Netflix from DVD to streaming, reminding that at a given moment, top managers no longer invite the invite of the DVD team for business meetings.
Moreover, Sarandos said that if he had to do it again, he would close a deal for the film ‘Emilia Pérez’, whose star, Karla Sofía Gascón, fired over her former racist and offensive tweets. He called the film “Visually Stunning” and “Dare” – “All things you want a movie.”
Netflix is nowadays at the top of the game. For Q4 of 2024, Netflix Boffo results in results, which resulted in various upgrades from Wall Street analysts in stock and led one to Opine: “This is what winning looks like.”
The company acquired 18.9 million net new global subscribers, about the expectations of the double analysts, reached 301.6 million. It also announced price increases in the US and other important markets, including its entry level supported by the advertisement, which demonstrates the price force. Netflix increased its prospects for 2025 for turnover between $ 43.5 billion and $ 44.5 billion ($ 500 million of the earlier prediction) and was aimed at an operational margin of 29%, one percentage point of the previous prediction.
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