https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-10-21/the-new-netflix-movie-strategy-make-better-movies
In the months before Sony planned to release its new animated film Harold and the Purple Crayon, studio executives called their peers at Netflix to see if the streaming service wanted to buy the movie. Sony executives liked the film just fine, but they worried it would fail to break through competing against two other blockbuster animated films, Inside Out 2 and Despicable Me 4, according to people familiar with the matter.
But Netflix wasn’t interested this time, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the talks were confidential.
