Netflix: How BOOM! Studios Can Capitalize On An Existing Relationship
/This week it was announced that BOOM! Studios has signed a first-look deal with Netflix for film and television rights, which allows Netflix to have the first opportunity to develop any of the publisher's IPs into shows or films. The deal is open to both animated and live-action adaptations and will ostensibly begin after BOOM! Studios' previous deal with Fox expires in Jan. 2021.
The new deal also benefits the creators of BOOM! In an official statement, BOOM! Studios founder and CEO Ross Richie noted that the publisher has a unique partnership model which allows them to not only control the media rights, but to also package its creators with the directors, screenwriters, and producers of future adaptations.