Following last week's announcement of the third season of "Love Death Machine" on May 22, another piece of news came out of Netflix's animation industry. However, the news this time was not a good thing: Netflix's animation production work braked sharply, several executives were fired, and a large number of highly anticipated works were canceled.
According to TheWrap, the departures include Phil Linda, creative leader and development director of the original animation. Among the unproduced animations are the long-awaited Jeff Smith comic "Bones" by fans, and Lauren Faust's "Toil and Trouble". In addition, Roald Dahl's "Stupid Couple" animation project was also canceled, although it is said that the work may be changed to a live-action film.
In fact, in addition to European and American animation, many Japanese animations have also been greatly affected. At present, the Japanese animation funded and produced by Netflix includes "Extreme Master Fu Dao", "Fist Wish Asura", "The Valkyrie of the End" and so on. At a time when animation production is slowing down, it is also unknown whether these works can still be released.
However, for the Japanese animation industry, Netflix's dilemma may be mixed. Because in Japan, Netflix is both the god of wealth of the producer and the broom star of the investor. Netflix animation production is usually directly funded by the director and studio, after the completion of the animation online their own streaming media. Although this production model allows the producer to get more profits, it also breaks the original "production committee" system in Japan.
Netflix's sharp cuts to the animation industry are said to have been affected by the loss of subscribers. Netflix lost at least 200,000 users in the first quarter of this year, which also caused its stock price to fall sharply. Dominique Bissignano, executive producer of World Centaur, said: "Netflix is proud of its data," but that seems to be a lot of the problem. When it comes to the threat of cancellation or cancellation, several creators, including Elizabeth Ito, director of the anime City of the Dead, have expressed dissatisfaction with Netflix's use of "fake data": that is, to justify the cancellation of underfunded or critically acclaimed projects, Netflix uses manipulated data.
Overall, Netflix's cuts to the animation industry don't seem to be optimistic. Whether such an operation can save a certain situation is probably yet to be tested by time and the audience.
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