NEW YORK (TheStreet)-- This fall,
Netflix (NFLX) will bring its video - streaming service to Japan, where it will also partner with Osaka -
based talent agency Yoshimioto Kogyo to produce local content for Japanese
audiences.
Striped of its international cinema release by Paramount Studios due to worries that it was too cerebral for
audiences, Annihilation (
based on the novel by Jeff VanderMeer) comes to
Netflix on more of a positive wave of critical reaction than the two sci - fi streaming flicks before it, two films which have done a great detriment to
Netflix's standing as a major film studio competitor, only enforcing the notion that the streaming service is becoming a dumping ground for doomed movies.