As the world outside North America hesitantly returns to film and television production of the COVID-19 pandemic, Netflix co-CEO believes the entertainment industry will never be the same again, but things are “speeding up “
“I think security protocols will become a permanent part of production, which is a good thing,” Ted Sarandos said today in the second-quarter earnings video conference. “It was remarkable how agile the teams have been … The agile nature of our creatives,” added the Director of Content for the broadcast, which was once the case, of both projects that are restarting internationally and those that are still on hiatus in the United States.
We are “increasing at different pre-production stages” around the world, Sarandos almost always said.
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“Even during the shutdown, we are partially filmed in many programs, so when we can resume them, it is not like starting again from scratch,” said Sarandos about what the next few weeks may or may not have, depending on whether it increases cases of coronavirus. they begin to level out in the United States.
Sending a sparkler but without naming any names, the executive let slip that one of the streamer’s projects will have “a couple of days of filming in Los Angles this week that really excite us, so that’s to come.”
Production in the City of Angels stopped in mid-March when the initial wave of the coronavirus began to spread rapidly, with orders to stay home keeping everyone indoors, many watching Netflix. Despite white paper volumes, state and county guidelines, job conversations, and many sentences and finger crosses, production has not yet adapted and socially distanced study lots remain empty.
Following the surge in subscriber numbers and revenue released today, as well as a drop in stocks, Netflix’s wealth of post-earnings data today included co-CEO Reed Hastings, CFO Spence Neumann, COO and Chief Product. Officer Greg Peters and VP of IR / Corporate Development Spencer Wang, along with Sarandos.
On paper and “outside of North America, India and parts of Brazil,” the transmitter that is now facing internationally “was working normally in terms of our volume,” as Sarandos also said in the videoconference.
“Today, we are slowly resuming production in many parts of the world. We are further in Asia
Pacific (where we never closed entirely in Korea, for example) and now we’re shooting live action series
like season 2 of our Japanese original The Naked Director, “the letter to shareholders that Netflix sent out after the market closed on Thursday.” In EMEA, we are now back in production in many countries, including Germany, France, Spain , Poland, Italy and the United Kingdom, “added the transmitter, somewhat optimistic.
The statements come as US coronavirus cases increase, with production-rich California leaning toward another type of blockade. This is just when studios, unions, networks, streamers and others expected series and movies to anticipate that July would see series and movies returning to work.
“While we recently resumed production of two films in California and two stop-motion animation projects in Oregon and we expect some of our productions in the US to begin this quarter, current infection trends create more uncertainty for our productions in USA ” Declared presentation. “Parts of the world like India and some in Latin America are also more challenging and we hope to restart later in the year in these regions.”
So, on this side of the Pacific and the Atlantic, even though Vancouver production intends to reopen soon, it continues to rush and wait, even on broadcast.
