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Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners inks movie manufacturing take care of Netflix 

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By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Celebrated filmmaker Steven Spielberg’s manufacturing outfit Amblin Partners has signed a partnership with streaming large Netflix.

According to Deadline, below the deal the corporate will produce a number of movies for the streamer per 12 months.

The partnership is an addition to the banner’s long-standing output pact with Universal, which is theatrical in nature and was renewed in December.

“At Amblin, storytelling will forever be at the center of everything we do, and from the minute Ted (Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO and chief content officer) and I started discussing a partnership, it was abundantly clear that we had an amazing opportunity to tell new stories together and reach audiences in new ways,” Spielberg in a press release.

“This new avenue for our movies, alongside the tales we proceed to inform with our longtime household at Universal and our different companions, can be extremely fulfilling for me personally since we get to embark on it along with Ted, and I am unable to wait to get began with him, Scott, and the whole Netflix group,” he added.

Sarandos stated working with a “creative visionary” like Spielberg was an enormous honour for Netflix.

The deal comes 4 years after a number of studies claimed that Spielberg had stated as soon as “you commit to a television format, you’re a TV movie” and argued that if it is good, it deserves an Emmy and never Oscars.

He had additionally taken a potshot on the streaming companies by urging administrators to make films for the “big dark theatres”.