[steveBK123]

This is why I think maybe NFLX wins in the mid term .. they have perfected the art of churning out mid content with no name actors.

Meanwhile the newer streamers are all licensing expensive / paying big name actors / etc to try to create prestige content no one actually pays a premium to watch.

[brandall10]

Oof... I guess NFLX knows their business better than anybody, but I'm one of those that killed my sub a year back due to this.

It seems there are quite a few of us, but we may be less in number than those who are just looking for any random thing that 'fits' them according to an algorithm, quality be damned.

All this said... what did they pay Will Smith again for that horrible sci-fi schlock? I see it's $20M, and supposedly it was going to be $35M for the aborted sequel.

[steveBK123]

I think NFLX tried the big budget all-star thing and gave up on it earlier than the rest. That Will Smith sci-fi thing was 7 years ago.

None of the rest took note of that..

[brandall10]

As noted above though, the sequel was in the works and he was slated to be paid nearly double for that effort.

This is a fairly isolated case though.

[PKop]

I think there's a significant number of people cancelling

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38846097

[steveBK123]

Nonetheless, NFLX is the only streamer actually making money. The rest are losing money to the tune of Billions per year.

[nozzlegear]

I don't know if I'm the only one who finds it odd to see people use stock market identifiers instead of company names in normal conversation, but seeing NFLX instead of Netflix made me think the NFL [1] had expanded their own streaming game and was getting into content creation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League

[skeeter2020]

...or small market "prestige" products with once-were actors