As Peter Rice Replaces Bela Bajaria at Netflix, Will Mike And/Or Pam Replace Dan Lin? It Depends on Theatrical...

Happy Tuesday, folks!

Especially if you’re A24, which saw its $7 million documentary, You Can See Everything, gross $15 million at the domestic box office en route to launching hundreds of thinkpieces. I fully expect the film to gross $100 million when all is said and done, though I’ll save the debate about a Best Picture nomination for my next newsletter.

The same goes for Wildwood, which I saw last night. Both movies — one documentary, one animated — have been tipped as unlikely Best Picture contenders, and I’ll have more to say on both fronts soon. I’ll also share my thoughts on Animals, The Beast, Crawlers, The Disciple: A Wu-Tang Fable, Street Fighter, Union County, and V/H/S/Mixtape. You’ll just have to wait a little while longer…

On the news front, I’m hearing that Amazon MGM has completed the testing process for James Bond, and while I haven’t heard much, I do know that Jacob Elordi and Jack Lowden were part of it. I fully expect the studio and director Denis Villeneuve (who loves his young movie stars) to choose Elordi, as the internet has suspected from the very beginning. Stay tuned, as we may get word about 007 very, very soon…

But first, I will ask you to read a 57th Netflix column this week, as The New Netflix demands our full attention now that Bela Bajaria and Dan Lin have been dismissed, and new content chief Peter Rice searches for a new film chief. On the TV side, it sounds like he’s sticking with Jinny Howe, who spent the weekend getting Ted Sarandos to sign off on a two-season order for a new A24 series starring Gwyneth Paltrow titled The Apology, which actually sounds pretty good.

There is much to discuss about Netflix — nearly 4,000 words worth — so premium subscribers may now enter the Sneider-Verse to read more…

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