Netflix Replaces Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria With Peter Rice
A new content chief and a 6% staff cut land on the same day, which means the executive who signs off on Netflix's anime partnerships now answers to a different boss.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
Netflix has replaced Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria with Peter Rice, a former Disney and Fox executive. The company also laid off about 1,000 employees, roughly 6% of its staff, including executives from the unscripted casting and development team. The change comes after co-founder Reed Hastings left the company in June, and months after Netflix formed a partnership with anime studio MAPPA in April.
Peter Rice arrives from Disney and Fox, and the layoffs reach into unscripted casting and development, a division that sits some distance from the anime licensing deals Netflix has been signing. The April MAPPA partnership made Netflix the exclusive streamer for a number of future MAPPA originals, with the two companies working together from story development through merchandise. Similar alliances with NAZ and Science SARU were announced in 2022, following earlier deals with Production I.G, Wit Studio, BONES, Anima, Sublimation, and david production. Reed Hastings left the company in June. Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos remain co-CEOs.
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- Anime News Network News Netflix Replaces Chief Content Officer, Lays Off About 1,000 Employees