EXCLUSIVE: David Zaslav isn’t happy with Netflix. The Warner Bros. Discovery boss has been railing against his rival’s payment terms in a move that could potentially open up a new front in the stre…
Zaslav is understood to have expressed his displeasure to a number of his key Warner Bros. Discovery colleagues over the last few weeks with some business consequences.
For instance, we hear that he instructed his teams to pause selling finished shows to Netflix for a few weeks. “It’s an odd way of looking at it,” one Warner Bros. Discovery insider told Deadline. “It’s obviously the way the industry works and has worked with Netflix. He’s paid big numbers [by Netflix] and the company has been happy with that. It’s like he suddenly discovered what the payment terms were.”
Warner Bros. Discovery also recently secured new payments for a number of its shows from Netflix when it launched its ad-tier, paying the studio for the rights to sell adverts within a number of its shows.The SandmanDespite its hefty budget, one would have expected a relatively straightforward — and quick — deal for the show, which comes from Gaiman, David S. Goyer and Allan Heinberg and is produced by Warner Bros.
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