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Netflix’s stream of consciousness

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Netflix on Tuesday announced a five-year, $1 billion online streaming deal with Lionsgate, MGM, and Paramount that will add titles from those studios to Netflix’s expanding online streaming library. The arrangement, according to Netflix, gives the company the rights to stream movies from these studios 90 days after they make their debut on premium and pay-TV services. Get the popcorn ready: Films from these studios will be available starting Sept. 1.                                  


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Wolper: An appreciation 

 “David L. Wolper, who died Tuesday at the age of 82, was television's first marquee producer, a personally embodied brand who in the 1960s and '70s was synonymous with seriousness and quality and scope, though not everything he produced actually fit that description.”

Read more of Robert Lloyd’s tribute in the Los Angeles Times

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