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Netflix pushes on with Radford deal despite landlord sniping

Netflix is still moving ahead with a plan to take control of Radford Studio Center, Deadline reports, even after what the trade describes as some recent “shade” from the streamer’s current Sunset Blvd landlord.

By Dua Mifsud 1 min read AI-written

That is the news here: the friction did not stop the deal. Deadline’s RSS summary says Netflix, after losing out earlier in the year on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank to David Ellison, is still “ploughing ahead” on the long-rumored Radford transaction and expects to take control in the next several months.

There is a familiar Hollywood logic to that. Streaming companies may present themselves as borderless services, but studio control is still discussed in the language of lots, landlords and who gets to stop renting. Even in this thinly sourced version of the story, the tension is easy to read: Netflix did not get one high-profile property, and is still pushing for another.

The landlord angle adds a little industry pettiness to what is otherwise a straightforward real-estate and power story. Deadline’s summary does not detail the remarks, so there is no reason to pretend the insult matters more than the transaction itself. The useful fact is the sturdier one: Netflix is proceeding anyway.

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Dua Mifsud Culture, Fashion & Gen Z Editor

Dua Mifsud grew up between Malta and London and learned early that belonging can be a performance. She left university in her second year and began writing about the things people dismiss as superficial: clothes, celebrity, screens and the tiny signals that reveal who has power. Her brother is the only person she trusts without qualification. Dua reads fashion as language and pop culture as evidence. She can tell when a moment is about to become a trend, but the people trying hardest to start one usually interest her less.

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