Berlin’s Netflix Film MarketFor the last two years, a Netflix panel was the hottest ticket at the Berlinale Series Market Conference.
But the U.S. streaming giant, having made signature buys at Sundance, used to keep a lower acquisition profile at the EFM. No longer.
This was the year when a streamer finally took over the EFM. Netflix bought two of the hottest tickets at Berlin’s EFM stumping up $15 million for North and Latin America on Liam Neeson action pic “The Ice Road,” and $18 million for Colin Firth starrer “Operation Mincemeat,” from See-Saw, the latter a record for a U.S.
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