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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
Entertainment
Asharq Al-Awsat

How Netflix Plans to Find its Inner ‘Star Wars’

The Netflix logo. Reuters

Netflix broke Hollywood's rules to create a $82 billion global streaming colossus that the rest of the entertainment industry rushed to copy. But as growth slows, it is looking backwards for a way forward, borrowing a page from Walt Disney's playbook.

The company that changed the way we watch television and movies aims to emulate the success of Mickey Mouse and "Star Wars," by trying to build brands that traverse film, television, games and consumer products, executives told Reuters in recent interviews.

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