Manuel 10:06 Wed Jul 1
Netflix
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A bit of a 'have you ever kissed a girl before' thread, but was flicking through the other day and it got me wondering that apart from their own films, what, how or who decides what recent or fairly recent films go on there? Maybe they make a contract with certain film companies or directors?
Also, you get 'new' films appearing, like just recently on my Netflix Fatal Attraction, Grease and Marathon Man have come on, all ancient, so why now?
Just wondering.
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Nagel
10:31 Wed Jul 1
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Any contracts would be with distributors, not directors or production companies.
Netflix have a team of buyers who use data analytics to decide what content to lease. They work it out based on how popular it's likely to be vs how much it costs them. The data includes what's popular on piracy sites as well as their own and other legit sources.
If they're showing more 70s/80s films at the moment then probably there's been an upsurge in an older demographic using Netflix since the lockdown, or more classic films being watched on Kodi maybe, especially as there are fewer new ones out.
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Manuel
10:37 Wed Jul 1
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Nice one, Nags. Thought someone would know :-)
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Mart O
11:09 Wed Jul 1
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What I don't get is why such a variation in the content available in differnt countries ? Sharing recommendations with MATES in various places, there always seems to be rafts of stuff you can get in one place but not another.
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only1billybonds
11:15 Wed Jul 1
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Maer O.
With ya. When i visit Aus every year the Netflix content is very different from here.
Its one fuck of a trip just to watch Gomorrah. :-)
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Nagel
11:26 Wed Jul 1
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A film will usually get made by a film studio but distribution rights are sold separately in different regions/countries. So for Netflix a certain film might be a lot more expensive in a specific country or might not be available at all as exclusive rights have been already sold elsewhere.
Also, I expect that for Netflix each country has its own content budget based on how many subscribers and what they're paying (and how much the distribution companies are charging).
There's a lot less differences between regions than there used to be. Back when it was first available in the UK I used a VPN to change regions all the time as there was loads more on the US, Canada and Brazil sites, but these days I can barely tell them apart whenever I've switched region.
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Mart O
11:30 Wed Jul 1
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Cheers, Nagel.
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Bungo
11:50 Wed Jul 1
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I find it interesting that there is presumably a deal for a particular channel to show a film a number of times in a specific period?
It seems to be on all the time for a while and then either disappears completely or pops up somewhere else.
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Takashi Miike
12:18 Wed Jul 1
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one feature I don't know why they offer is the request a title function (it may have been taken off recently?), each time I've asked for a title be added it has always been declined
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Nagel
12:22 Wed Jul 1
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Miike, it's not like someone actually reads each request individually and ponders whether to go for it or not. It all just gets added to their data algorithms to decide what content to get. Even if loads of people requested something, it might be tied up in an exclusive deal elsewhere.
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w4hammer
12:43 Wed Jul 1
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Fatal Attraction, Grease and Marathon Man
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this normally co-incides with them being on terrestrial - ie. Fatal attraction was on film4 i think the other night - they want to scoop the people who saw it was on and didnt watch as it was half way through , next time they browse through netflix
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Nagel
12:48 Wed Jul 1
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Given that Fatal Attraction isn't even on UK Netflix I don't think that theory holds up. Also, don't you think it takes a while to sort out these content deals? Not like they see that so and so is coming on telly next week, let's quickly buy it up.
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Manuel
1:03 Wed Jul 1
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Yes, fwiw, Fatal Attraction was advertised as 'coming soon' for a few weeks.
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Takashi Miike
1:43 Wed Jul 1
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nagel, yes I thought it might be down to whoever the film is licensed to at the time. there's one recent-ish film (hereditary) on there at the moment that I want to watch. no doubt it will be shite
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Takashi Miike
1:44 Wed Jul 1
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the films I asked for were deliverance & southern comfort. I do like a hillbilly theme :.)
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Swiss.
1:45 Wed Jul 1
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The Irishman and 6 Underground were massive big budgets movies which were hardly in the cinema long. Not sure the later was at all. I heard a rumour they had cash flow problems so not much big budget stuff since. The Witcher maybe.
The Warrior Nun and Cursed coming out this month thoug.
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Cabbage Savage
4:58 Wed Jul 1
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you tube is like free net flix
Bestfilm...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5ZoytMoL8Q
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Bungo
5:32 Wed Jul 1
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Cabbage Savage 4:58 Wed Jul 1
Nice!
How do you feel about Brussel Sprouts?
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Cabbage Savage
5:43 Wed Jul 1
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Bungo 5:32 Wed Jul 1
the midget cabbiges are luxury foods - only eat at Christ Mass
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Bungo
7:07 Wed Jul 1
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Cabbage Savage 5:43 Wed Jul 1
Fair play. Still remember the awesome sprout fight at Christmas lunch at school many years ago. They were so hard it was actually quite dangerous.
Happy days (sort of)!
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