Обзор Netflix admits it focused on quantity over quality with original films, but not anymore

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• It’s a common conception that Netflix films have a perceived low-quality bar.
• As it turns out, this is actually true, as the company admitted it had been focused on quantity over quality with its movies.
• However, this will not continue in 2024, with the company planning to halve its film output.

Netflix has released a few critically acclaimed original films. Alfonso Cuarrón’s Roma won three Academy Awards, and Cary Joji Fukunaga’s Beasts of No Nation was one of the most highly regarded films of 2015. However, for every movie that landed with critics and audiences, there were a dozen other films that were flat-out duds. It felt like Netflix was just greenlighting anything and everything and accidentally having a few hits.

Now, we have official confirmation that this is somewhat true. According to a Variety piece on the subject, Netflix’s head of film, Scott Stuber, admitted that the quantity of movies was more important than their quality.