Netflix is gearing up to release as many as 90 original films each year.
Although filmmakers are divided on the streaming service, with some signing sizable production agreements while others balk at such deals, Netflix is committed to its expanding slate of original movies.
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The New York Times confirms the company's film division is intending to release 90 films a year. That includes 20 large-scale features, with budgets ranging from $20 million to $200 million, 35 smaller genre films, with budgets of up to $20 million, and a slew of animated and documentary films.
The news accompanies the release of Roma, the black-and-white period piece by director Alfonso Curaon (Gravity) that a heavy favorite going into awards season. Netflix has committed a major advertising campaign to try and procure an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. No Netflix movie has yet earned such a nomination.
Other big-name directors who have signed on to produce films through Netflix include Martin Scorsese (The Departed), Steven Soderbergh (Unsane), Dee Rees (Mudbound), Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water), Neill Blomkamp (District 9) and Michael Bay (Transformers: The Last Knight).
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