Julia Alexander

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Decoder with Nilay Patel · Netflix is eating Hollywood — because it has to · 29 Jan 2026 podcast

And I think where you see David Ellison really coming in and saying, well, here's how we're going to build on

What David Zaslav is doing and do it in a more helpful way is, of course, the other big debate at the center of this, which is theatrical and who is more committed to the theatrical release.

And in Hollywood, like to the rest of the world, that might not matter much just based on the data of how little we are going to movie theaters.

But to Hollywood, that is the central debate.

It's certainly the nostalgic factor.

I mean, it's a group of creatives built on nostalgia.

I do think we have a lot of sentiment analysis data looking at this over the past few years that movies released in theaters are more memorable to audiences.

I mean, a big part of that is the marketing push that accompanies it.

And so people are just more aware of it.

But we see that engagement from theatrical releases on streaming is also much higher than streaming originals.

And so to your point about money and why Hollywood would be interested in this, it's really hard to build yourself to be the next big Leonardo DiCaprio or Scarlett Johansson if you're not

in theaters.

And so I think this component of we have a nostalgic love for movie theaters, we want these more communal events, but we also don't want to be relegated to Netflix slop in an era of AI slop is a big reason why

I think you saw parts of Hollywood look at Paramount and David Ellison originally as the savior of Hollywood.

And I think now, once people have started doing the math on it and realized that that would mean Paramount had to release a movie almost every other week, which is an impossible load for a company like that to do.

And precedent, by the way, from the Disney-Fox deal tells us that that never was going to happen, as we've seen kind of happen with Fox Searchlight films going direct-to-consumer for a lot of them.

I think it was worked out in Netflix's favor in saying, like, we're still committed.

Even if they're not, it's giving Hollywood enough time to kind of process what may or may not happen, knowing that Paramount is a little bit less likely to kind of come through.

Yeah.

There is no difference.

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