It’s a pretty sweet time to be a top executive in Hollywood.A series of high-profile mergers and acquisitions, and the arrival of some tech giants looking to break into the entertainment business, has put a premium on corporate talent. All industry eyes have turned to Discovery chief David Zaslav to see what he has planned once his company’s merger with WarnerMedia is consummated, and speculation is running rampant about who deep-pocketed streamers Apple and Netflix may be planning to hire.All...
Netflix
Scott
Stuber
VP, Global Film
Stuber scored a major coup in June 2021, when he signed Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment to a multiyear feature deal. It was all the more significant because the director had famously opined that movies debuting on streaming services should be eligible only for Emmys and not Oscars. Spielberg is just the latest in a string of top filmmakers that Stuber lured to the platform with promises of artistic and financial support since joining Netflix in 2017, including Martin Scorsese, Alfonso Cuarón, Zack Snyder and Noah Baumbach. Through his efforts, the streamer more than tripled its feature output to upwards of 70 films a year, including the $200 million action caper “Red Notice,” and landed more Oscar nominations than any other studio in both 2020 and 2021.