Exclusive: Layoffs are underway at Netflix today. About 150 positions out of the streamer’s workforce of 11,000 are being eliminated amid a slowdown in the company’s revenue growth.
They are largely based in the U.S., with a significant portion in creative, across both film and TV, sources said. A number of those laid off are in the executive ranks, including in original content, I hear, with a couple of director-level original series execs rumored to be leaving. There is also rampant rumor that the indie film division will suffer heavy casualties but sources internally say that is not the case.
“As we explained on earnings, our slowing revenue growth means we are also having to slow our cost growth as a company. So sadly, we are letting around 150 employees go today, mostly US-based,” a Netflix spokesperson said in a statement to Deadline. “These changes are primarily driven by business needs rather than individual performance,...
They are largely based in the U.S., with a significant portion in creative, across both film and TV, sources said. A number of those laid off are in the executive ranks, including in original content, I hear, with a couple of director-level original series execs rumored to be leaving. There is also rampant rumor that the indie film division will suffer heavy casualties but sources internally say that is not the case.
“As we explained on earnings, our slowing revenue growth means we are also having to slow our cost growth as a company. So sadly, we are letting around 150 employees go today, mostly US-based,” a Netflix spokesperson said in a statement to Deadline. “These changes are primarily driven by business needs rather than individual performance,...
- 5/17/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
At Cph:Forum, Eurimages Award goes to Maria Back’s Psychosis in Stockholm; 31 projects pitched.
Cph:dox expanded its industry offerings this year by adding a Work-in-Progress session on the eve of its Cph:forum for six Nordic documentaries currently in production or post-production.
Short presentations including footage was shown for projects including:
The Acali Experiment (Swe/Den/Ger/Us), dir Marcus Lindeen, prod Erik Gandini
The story will examine what happened when Mexican anthropologist Santiago Genovés tried a unique experiment in 1973, putting 10 people on a raft for a 101-day voyage to study human behaviour. Lindeen brought the participants together for the first time in 43 years to talk about Genoves’ manipulative behaviour. “I wanted make a reunion and let them talk about their memories of what happened on the raft,” he said. “We let the subjects make a study of the scientist.” The team aims to deliver the film in the autumn.
Contact: gandini@fasad.se
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Cph:dox expanded its industry offerings this year by adding a Work-in-Progress session on the eve of its Cph:forum for six Nordic documentaries currently in production or post-production.
Short presentations including footage was shown for projects including:
The Acali Experiment (Swe/Den/Ger/Us), dir Marcus Lindeen, prod Erik Gandini
The story will examine what happened when Mexican anthropologist Santiago Genovés tried a unique experiment in 1973, putting 10 people on a raft for a 101-day voyage to study human behaviour. Lindeen brought the participants together for the first time in 43 years to talk about Genoves’ manipulative behaviour. “I wanted make a reunion and let them talk about their memories of what happened on the raft,” he said. “We let the subjects make a study of the scientist.” The team aims to deliver the film in the autumn.
Contact: gandini@fasad.se
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- 3/24/2017
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
No clowning around — clown masks are flying off the shelves, as a rash of “creepy” clown sightings and incidents continue to make headlines across the nation. A spokesman for costume retailer Halloween Express told TheWrap on Tuesday that its online clown mask sales have risen approximately 300 percent over last year, with “evil” or “scary” clown masks gaining traction over last year. This Halloween season, Brad Butler of Halloween Express told TheWrap, “evil” or “scary” clown maskes account for eight of the top 10 clown masks being sold, as compared to last season, when they accounted for five of the...
- 10/11/2016
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
The initiative for artist film-makers will grant $40,000 to each project.
Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (Flamin) is to invest $120,000 (£90,000) in three new works by artist filmmakers.
Brad Butler and Karen Mirza, Charlotte Ginsborg, and Uriel Orlow have been commissioned by Flamin Productions, a company which supports and helps the funding of “the most creative and ambitious mid-career artist filmmakers”.
Now in its seventh round, the company has produced films such as Ben Rivers’ award-winning and first feature film Two Years at Sea (2011) and Mark Leckey’s Dream English Kid 1964-1999 Ad, which won the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films.
Brad Butler and Karen Mirza have been greenlit for The Scar. The artists’ work spans filmmaking, installation, drawing, publishing and curating. Their recent exhibitions include the 20th Sydney Biennial (2016), and Mirrorcity at the Hayward (2014).
Filmmaker and Goldsmith graduate Charlotte Ginsborg has seen her films and videos exhibited in renown places such as the Whitechapel and Serpentine...
Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (Flamin) is to invest $120,000 (£90,000) in three new works by artist filmmakers.
Brad Butler and Karen Mirza, Charlotte Ginsborg, and Uriel Orlow have been commissioned by Flamin Productions, a company which supports and helps the funding of “the most creative and ambitious mid-career artist filmmakers”.
Now in its seventh round, the company has produced films such as Ben Rivers’ award-winning and first feature film Two Years at Sea (2011) and Mark Leckey’s Dream English Kid 1964-1999 Ad, which won the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films.
Brad Butler and Karen Mirza have been greenlit for The Scar. The artists’ work spans filmmaking, installation, drawing, publishing and curating. Their recent exhibitions include the 20th Sydney Biennial (2016), and Mirrorcity at the Hayward (2014).
Filmmaker and Goldsmith graduate Charlotte Ginsborg has seen her films and videos exhibited in renown places such as the Whitechapel and Serpentine...
- 8/2/2016
- ScreenDaily
Flamin Productions backs new works from Uriel Orlow, Karen Mirza & Brad Butler and Charlotte Ginsborg.
Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (Flamin) has announced the latest round of Flamin Productions Development Awards for London-based artist filmmakers.
Uriel Orlow, Karen Mirza & Brad Butler and Charlotte Ginsborg will receive funding and bespoke mentoring to develop three new projects:
The King Against Mafavuke Ngcobo
Director Uriel Orlow recently received the Art Prize from the City of Zurich. Set against African landscapes, The King Against Mafavuke Ngcobo will explore medicinal plants as dynamic agents linking nature and humans and raise questions around issues such as the commercialisation of indigenous knowledge.
The Susurluk Scar
Winners of a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Visual Arts 2015, directors Karen Mirza and Brad Butler will explore Turkey’s Susurluk Scandal, which provoked speculation on the close relationship between the Turkish government, the armed forces and organised crime.
Damselfish
Tom Pietas holds the world record for holding...
Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (Flamin) has announced the latest round of Flamin Productions Development Awards for London-based artist filmmakers.
Uriel Orlow, Karen Mirza & Brad Butler and Charlotte Ginsborg will receive funding and bespoke mentoring to develop three new projects:
The King Against Mafavuke Ngcobo
Director Uriel Orlow recently received the Art Prize from the City of Zurich. Set against African landscapes, The King Against Mafavuke Ngcobo will explore medicinal plants as dynamic agents linking nature and humans and raise questions around issues such as the commercialisation of indigenous knowledge.
The Susurluk Scar
Winners of a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Visual Arts 2015, directors Karen Mirza and Brad Butler will explore Turkey’s Susurluk Scandal, which provoked speculation on the close relationship between the Turkish government, the armed forces and organised crime.
Damselfish
Tom Pietas holds the world record for holding...
- 12/17/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Neil Patrick Harris may have already won Halloween, but what are your plans?
The holiday is right around the corner, which means you hopefully have your perfect pop-culture costume all planned out (casting shakeups mean Fifty Shades of Grey just became relevant for another year). But there’s nothing worse than showing up at a Halloween party and discovering that three other people are rocking your creative costume.
EW reached out to a few popular Halloween costume stores to find out what the big sellers have been this year, and it turns out that the person you may see the most Oct.
The holiday is right around the corner, which means you hopefully have your perfect pop-culture costume all planned out (casting shakeups mean Fifty Shades of Grey just became relevant for another year). But there’s nothing worse than showing up at a Halloween party and discovering that three other people are rocking your creative costume.
EW reached out to a few popular Halloween costume stores to find out what the big sellers have been this year, and it turns out that the person you may see the most Oct.
- 10/23/2013
- by Erin Strecker
- EW.com - PopWatch
Neil Patrick Harris may have already won Halloween, but what are your plans?
The holiday is right around the corner, which means you hopefully have your perfect pop-culture costume all planned out (casting shakeups mean Fifty Shades of Grey just became relevant for another year). But there’s nothing worse than showing up at a Halloween party and discovering that three other people are rocking your creative costume.
EW reached out to a few popular Halloween costume stores to find out what the big sellers have been this year, and it turns out that the person you may see the most Oct.
The holiday is right around the corner, which means you hopefully have your perfect pop-culture costume all planned out (casting shakeups mean Fifty Shades of Grey just became relevant for another year). But there’s nothing worse than showing up at a Halloween party and discovering that three other people are rocking your creative costume.
EW reached out to a few popular Halloween costume stores to find out what the big sellers have been this year, and it turns out that the person you may see the most Oct.
- 10/23/2013
- by Erin Strecker
- EW.com - PopWatch
The 24th annual Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival is the largest, most jam-packed edition of Chicago’s long-running avant-garde and experimental media fest ever! Held at the Gene Siskel Film Center on June 21 and at Columbia College on June 22-23, this year’s event features two days and three nights of fantastic experimental work, including both short films and feature-length productions.
Two feature-length films will get two screenings each. First, there’s collage animator Lewis Klahr‘s latest epic work The Pettifogger, a film noir about the year in the life of a ’60s era gambler; and Tributes – Pulse, a collaboration between filmmaker Bill Morrison and Danish composer Simon Christensen. Both films will screen on the 22nd and the 23rd.
Other feature-length works include Wolfgang Lehmann’s experimental nature film Dragonflies With Birds and Snake, Barry Doupé’s computer animated mystery The Colors That Combine to Make White Are Important,...
Two feature-length films will get two screenings each. First, there’s collage animator Lewis Klahr‘s latest epic work The Pettifogger, a film noir about the year in the life of a ’60s era gambler; and Tributes – Pulse, a collaboration between filmmaker Bill Morrison and Danish composer Simon Christensen. Both films will screen on the 22nd and the 23rd.
Other feature-length works include Wolfgang Lehmann’s experimental nature film Dragonflies With Birds and Snake, Barry Doupé’s computer animated mystery The Colors That Combine to Make White Are Important,...
- 6/12/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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