Scott Stuber: Last News

Scott Stuber is leaving Netflix. The chairman of Netflix film since 2017, he will be leaving in March to start his own media company.  

George Clooney and Adam Sandler will team up in a new Noah Baumbach movie for Netflix that’s still untitled, Variety has confirmed. Baumbach co-wrote the script with actor Emily Mortimer, who also created the series “Doll and Em.” Baumbach is producing with Amy Pascal and David Heyman. Under his exclusive deal with Netflix, Baumbach has already made “The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected),” in which Sandler also starred, as well as the best picture nominee “Marriage Story,” with Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson, and “White Noise,” adapted from the Don DeLillo novel and starring Drive and Greta Gerwig.

William Earl Netflix film chief Scott Stuber once ran Universal Studios – today he sometimes feels like the operator of “the AMC 6000” given the volume of movies that Netflix produces and acquires. From Greta Gerwig’s plans for Narnia adaptations to wooing Denzel Washington and Steven Spielberg, Stuber shared Netflix’s vision of film’s future in a wide-ranging Q&A with Variety executive editor Brent Lang that was held Nov. 8 as part of Variety’s Business Managers Elite Breakfast presented by City National Bank.

William Earl Variety will host its annual Business Managers Breakfast, presented by City National Bank on Nov. 8 in Los Angeles.

Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor Hollywood is all about sweeping storytelling, and the tale of the Egyptian Theatre is as stirring as any Golden Age epic. Movie stars, earthquakes, dinosaurs, elephants, hidden tunnels — the Hollywood Boulevard movie palace has seen it all. Now the theater’s new owner Netflix, along with partner American Cinematheque, is ready to unspool the next reel of its 101-year long career, with a meticulously-executed rebuild.

Maestro” director and star Bradley Cooper made an inconspicuous appearance at the New York Film Festival premiere, skipping press in solidarity with SAG-AFTRA. As the film focuses on legendary conductor Leonard Bernstein, the starry premiere marked a homecoming of sorts given its location: David Geffen Hall, home of the New York Philharmonic. On Sept.

, a neo-noir film that follows an assassin who finds himself unraveling. Based on the French graphic novel series of the same name by Alexis Nolent (a.k.a Matz) and adapted by screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker, Michael Fassbender stars as the titular mercenary who begins to have a psychological crisis in a world with no moral compass.«Stick to your plan, trust no one,» Fassbender's unnamed assassin tells himself throughout the bloody teaser.

Filmmaker Zack Snyder has affirmed online speculation surrounding his forthcoming Netflix space opera Rebel Moon, confirming that it will be split into two films, with multiple cuts to be released of each installment.

Well, hello Molly Sims! The actress blessed fans with a series of vacation snaps that showed off her bikini body. 

Deadline has confirmed that Netflix film executives Lisa Nishimura and Ian Bricke are exiting the streamer amid a reorganization of the film group. All live action film content will now be overseen by Kira Goldberg, Ori Marmur, and Niija Kuykendall.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Two veteran Netflix creative executives are parting ways with the streamer following a restructuring of the film group. Indie film and documentary features lead Lisa Nishimura and indie film vice president Ian Bricke have both stepped down. The change comes as the result of streamlining under Netflix film head Scott Stuber. All live-action film content will now roll up to Kira Goldberg, Ori Marmur and Niija Kuykendall. “Lisa Nishimura joined Netflix in the DVD days, and as the company moved into streaming, she built our original documentary and stand-up comedy divisions from the ground up, and established Netflix as a powerhouse in both spaces,” Stuber told Variety in a statement of the executive, a fixture in the indie community and on the annual festival circuit.

Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally and Nick Cross has joined the cast of the fourth and final season of Netflix’s superhero drama series The Umbrella Academy.

EXCLUSIVE: Hot on the heels of a Best Animated Feature nomination for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Netflix is back in business with del Toro on another major animated film that he will direct.

Molly Sims may be approaching the big 50 but she still looks like she is in her 30s.This weekend the Vegas actress took to Instagram to show off her incredible figure while on a beach vacation in Mexico.The former Old Navy model was making the most of a tiny black string bikini that highlighted her trim tummy.The 49-year-old star said she was on a Girls Trip with her longtime girlfriends.  'Girls trip: activated. Celebrating our bestie @michellecarlson02 turning 40 forever!! Austin meets Los Angeles and a bit of NYC.

Molly Sims may be approaching the big 50 but she still looks like she is in her 30s.This weekend the Vegas actress took to Instagram to show off her incredible figure while on a beach vacation in Mexico.The former Old Navy model was making the most of a tiny black string bikini that highlighted her trim tummy.The 49-year-old star said she was on a Girls Trip with her longtime girlfriends.  'Girls trip: activated. Celebrating our bestie @michellecarlson02 turning 40 forever!! Austin meets Los Angeles and a bit of NYC.

Molly Sims may be approaching the big 50 but she still looks like she is in her 30s.This weekend the Vegas actress took to Instagram to show off her incredible figure while on a beach vacation in Mexico.The former Old Navy model was making the most of a tiny black string bikini that highlighted her trim tummy.The 49-year-old star said she was on a Girls Trip with her longtime girlfriends.  'Girls trip: activated. Celebrating our bestie @michellecarlson02 turning 40 forever!! Austin meets Los Angeles and a bit of NYC.

Model turned actress turned influencer Molly Sims has showed off her very lean body on social media on Friday.The 49-year-old former Vegas star flashed her tummy and toned arms while in a black lace bra that was semi sheer as well as little undies, stockings and heels as she posed with a creamy light pink cake.The wife of 54-year-old Netflix honcho Scott Stuber was promoting her Valentine's Day Gift Guide for her eponymous website. Lovely and lean: Model turned actress turned website editor Molly Sims has showed off her very lean body on social media on FridayOn Instagram she shared the saucy photos as the leggy wonder added the caption, 'Have your cake and eat it too -My Valentines Day Gift Guide is ON.'She was seen sticking her finger in the cake making the post quite suggestive.  On her website she listed some of the items she was recommending and they don't come cheap.One of the items is a PAT McGRATH LABS MatteTrance Lipstick for $39.

Netflix has a new Co-CEO.

Ben Affleck took a swipe at Netflix's 'assembly line process' of production as he spoke about the launch of his new movie studio with Matt Damon this week.The Oscar-winner, 50 - who is married to Jennifer Lopez, 53 -  spoke of his desire to focus on smaller dramas rather than huge action films, as he questioned Netflix's focus on 'quantity' over quality.Speaking at the New York Times' Dealbook Summit, the actor, who has launched Artists Equity with Damon and RedBird Capital Partners, said: 'If you ask [Netflix co-CEO and chairman] Reed Hastings…he’d say, "Hey, we went for quantity to establish a footprint." 'I’m sure there’s wisdom in that and I’m sure they had a great strategy, but I would have said, "How are we going to make 50 great movies? How is that possible?" There’s no committee big enough. There aren’t enough — you just can’t do it.' Comment: Ben Affleck took a swipe at Netflix's 'assembly line process' of production as he spoke about the launch of his new movie studio with Matt Damon this week (March 2022)'It’s a thing that requires attention and dedication and work and resists the assembly line process. '[Netflix’s head of original films] Scott Stuber is a really talented, smart guy who I really like…but it’s an impossible job.' He continued: 'There’s bigger audience for action movies than there is for small dramas.

Ben Affleck says his newly minted studio Artists Equity, in partnership with Matt Damon, is going for films that are commercial but smart, that acknowledge popular tastes, but that “people remember 20 years later.”