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Netflix Lands Exclusive Multi-Year Deal with Jaume Collet-Serra

The deal builds on Collet-Serra’s Carry-On success to lock in the director for Netflix’s upscale film slate.

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Overview

  • The pact grants Collet-Serra an exclusive multi-year agreement to direct and produce feature films and series for Netflix.
  • Collet-Serra’s 2024 thriller Carry-On drew 185 million views, making it the streamer’s second-most watched movie and driving the new partnership.
  • The first project under the deal is the psychological thriller An Innocent Girl, which he will helm alongside producers Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter.
  • Netflix rarely offers overall agreements to feature filmmakers, with only a few such deals in place for names like David Fincher and Noah Baumbach.
  • Netflix vice president Doug Belgrad hailed Collet-Serra as one of the most in-demand directors and underscored the company’s strategy to amplify high-stakes storytelling.