It will need a lot of good material and fast, which is why it pounced on Kate.
Netflix did a similar deal with the upcoming fantasy procedural film Bright, which it spent some $90 million on.
According to Deadline, this likely won’t be the last of these kinds of deals that we hear about from Netflix.
For the kind of film output Netflix wants, the streaming service will need to build up its backlog of development projects, something it doesn’t really have with so few years in the movie-making business.