Overview
- The Ben Affleck–Matt Damon venture signed a multi-year first-look production and distribution agreement that covers streaming releases on Netflix.
- Under the pact, Artists Equity leads creative and production from development through final cut on straight-to-streaming titles, with projects routed case by case.
- A separate theatrical partnership with Sony Pictures remains in place, and those films can later reach Netflix through Sony’s pay-1 window.
- The agreement follows the Netflix debut of The Rip on Jan. 16, which the streamer says spent three weeks at No. 1 globally and logged about 112.3 million views over six weeks.
- Netflix plans to release Ben Affleck’s next Artists Equity feature, Animals, later this year, with a cast that includes Affleck, Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson and Steven Yeun.