Netflix has entered into a partnership deal with the iconic filmmaker Steven Spielberg’s global film and television studio, Amblin Partners. Multiple new feature films will be covered under this latest partnership advised to Amblin Partners by CAA.
Amblin Partners has quite a number of credible titles to its credit like Oscar Best Picture Winner ‘Green Book’ and three Oscars, two Golden Globes and more than $385 million worldwide box office collection film ‘1917’. Amblin has previously worked with Netflix on Academy-award nominated film ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ and are currently collaborating on Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein film, ‘Maestro’, which is in pre-production.
Talking about the partnership, Amblin Partners Chairman, Steven Spielberg, commented: “At Amblin, storytelling will forever be at the center of everything we do, and from the minute Ted and I started discussing a partnership, it was abundantly clear that we had an amazing opportunity to tell new stories together and reach audiences in new ways. This new avenue for our films, alongside the stories we continue to tell with our longtime family at Universal and our other partners, will be incredibly fulfilling for me personally since we get to embark on it together with Ted, and I can’t wait to get started with him, Scott, and the entire Netflix team.”
On the other hand, Netflix Co-CEO and Chief Content Officer, Ted Sarandos said, “Steven is a creative visionary and leader and, like so many others around the world, my growing up was shaped by his memorable characters and stories that have been enduring, inspiring and awakening. We cannot wait to get to work with the Amblin team and we are honored and thrilled to be part of this chapter of Steven’s cinematic history.”
Amblin Partners is a film and television production company, led by Steven Spielberg, that develops and produces films using the Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks Pictures banners and includes Amblin Television, a longtime leader in quality programming. The company’s investment partners include Reliance Entertainment, Entertainment One (eOne), Alibaba Pictures and Universal Pictures.