Having acquired first run rights to original series House of Cards directed by David Fincher and starring Kevin Spacey, Netflix now has designs to license more original programs.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, analysts expect Netflix to spend more than $1 billion in 2011 to acquire content for streaming. Twenty six episodes of House of Cards were commissioned by Netflix at an estimated $100 million.
With 23.6 million subscribers, Netflix has blasted past Showtime and Comcast, and is about 5 million subscribers behind HBO, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Netflix reportedly outbid HBO for House of Cards, after HBO refused to license its content to Netflix for streaming.
For some time Netlix has been eyeing the premium content king; in February 2009 Hacking Netflix published a screenshot of a customer survey asking if they would be willing to pay an additional $9.99 per month for HBO shows.
“We hope over time that HBO and Showtime will let us prove this proposition for them,” Hastings and Wells said. “Content owners that license to Netflix make more money—now and in the future—than content owners who don’t license to Netflix.”
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