Having too much to watch is a bad problem to have, but Netflix wouldn’t let us think that.
The rise of streaming has led some creatives to feel the pressure of creating art that doesn’t get recognized for its greatness. The flood of content is overwhelming and has led audiences to fall into a doom scroll on streaming services’ home pages, with the service promoting media that fits your specific interest and burying new movies and originals that seemingly don’t align with your tastes.
With the launch of Artists Equity, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, along with Red Capital Partners, hope to create a production model that reflects the problems of Netflix’s endless stream of new and old media.
At The New York Times’ DealBook Summit on Nov. 30, Variety reported that Affleck said that Netflix operates similarly to an “assembly line” in how it produces such a massive output that eventually fades into its overstuffed library.
Author: Alyssa Miller
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
