Netflix purchased screen rights to Settlers of Catan. Hmmmm.
Netflix has won the rights to the Asmodee board game and plans an array of projects — scripted and unscripted, live-action and animated. The streamer describes the TV and film projects as set in “a place where settlers must navigate bountiful and varied landscapes, shifting alliances and limited resources, while robbers roam the land.”
There better be scene of somebody hoarding all the sheep or someone in dire need of a brick.
Fascinating behind the scenes of how Netfix’s show Adolescence pulled off four one take episodes (steadicam & harness) plus seamlessly attaching a camera to a drone.
Creative destruction is a concept of capitalism, where the business innovations of today, destroy the innovations of yesterday. Netflix is finding out that those red envelopes aren’t enough to keep the lights on forever and is investing heavily in video streaming technologies, lest they become like Kodak.
Kodak just misjudged how fast consumers would give up on film and start snapping up digital cameras. And it misjudged its ability to outrun both trends.
Plus, they had the foresight to get their company name right:
But Reed Hastings, the founder and chief executive, and early employees, recognized that delivery of movies over the Internet would replace the mail carrier soon. They named the company Netflix, not Mailflix or DVDs by Mail.