Netflix Animation Division Gets Gutted

[Immortal Weapon]

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...220251819.html

This hurts. Animation hands down the best thing about Netflix for me. Moving away from creator driven work is going to hurt way more. Using Boss Baby as the model moving forward? I want to cry.

[choptop]

What does this mean?

[BeastieRunner]

It doesn't sound as bad as the headline.

However, it sounds like while the focus will shift to "established" properties with more advertising and merch rights, it will be at the cost of the avante garde animation.

Bone and a bunch of Dahl stuff got canned.

But Netflix Family is disputing some of the cancelled projects already.

Netflix had a historic run of profits followed by the biggest subscription drop during the current streamer wars. I suspect this is just the beginning of the creative purge and not even the biggest.

Didn't think Netflix would be the first one to buckle.

[j9ac9k]

Didn't think Netflix would be the first one to buckle.

I'm surprised as well, but in retrospect, Disney and HBO have solid franchises to build on. Marvel, Star Wars, the DC stable, etc. Netflix doesn't have anything like that or an identity with its original programming the way HBO does. It will be interesting to see how they restructure/rebrand.

[Frontier]

I was really looking forward to finally getting a proper Bone adaption or the Roald Dahl animated universe .

[hyped78]

After the dismal Netflix results in Q1, I have a feeling a lot of projects/ series are going to get cancelled to save money and heads will roll

[Frobisher]

After the dismal Netflix results in Q1, I have a feeling a lot of projects/ series are going to get cancelled to save money and heads will roll

That's not going to work. Netflix is a shark - it has to keep swimming or it dies.

I'm not sure anything is going to work when they're $15 billion in the hole and they can never ever stop generating content.

[hyped78]

That's not going to work. Netflix is a shark - it has to keep swimming or it dies.

I'm not sure anything is going to work when they're $15 billion in the hole and they can never ever stop generating content.

They talked about cracking down on password sharing and introducing advertising, but all of a sudden there's a perfect storm of 1) People having less money due to inflation and tax hikes, 2) People spending less time at home due to the end of Covid restrictions, 3) Fierce competition from other streaming services, which wasn't the case some years ago, 4) Netflix has lost a lot of non original content, 5) And, in my opinion, a lot of new original Netflix content is poor, mainly their original movies.

But I guess, at the same time, they need to slash costs, which means getting rid of less promising projects.

[Username taken]

Interestingly I was actually talking to my wife about canceling my Netflix subscription.

It just doesn’t seem worth it now because the recent price increase has really made me question the content I am paying for.

I only kept my subscription because my kids watch a couple of programs on there. There’s really too much streaming right now and if the companies can’t provide premium content at a reasonable price, then they should be prepared to struggle.

[Kirby101]

Raising prices while eliminating content does not sound like a winning plan.

[Immortal Weapon]

Raising prices while eliminating content does not sound like a winning plan.

They're thinking about putting ads on the lower sub plans and cracking down harder on account sharing. They are doing everything they can to further lose subs

[useridgoeshere]

I cancelled Netflix last year because we just weren’t watching it. We didn’t love their original content enough for the price.

I do plan to rejoin in June for Umbrella Academy but then I’ll likely cancel again.

One thing they could do is distribute episodes weekly like the others are. Binging was revolutionary, but I think the negatives outweigh the positives.

[Mark Trail]

Right or wrong, that "Cuties" controversy didn't help either.

[hyped78]

Interestingly, HBO/HBO Max have announced +3 million subscribers added during the last quarter, up to 76.8 million subscribers now.

I have to say I do agree with Netflix cracking down on password sharing - they've said they estimate ~100 million households watch Netflix without paying for it.

[Username taken]

Raising prices while eliminating content does not sound like a winning plan.

This basically.